All these food buffets have a time limit now, like 90mins.
If you think about this, scientifically, then that really does not meet the legal definition of all you can eat.
All you can eat means exactly that. It means all that you can possibly eat. But putting a time limit in the buffet, we are limiting people to what they can potentially eat.
From a legal standpoint, they need to change the name to "all you can eat in 90mins"
If you think about this, scientifically, then that really does not meet the legal definition of all you can eat.
It isn’t “all you can eat” it’s “all you care to eat”, always has been.
Can you point me to the legal definition of “all you can eat?” I did not know it was a officially defined.
I’m cracking myself up imagining someone going into an “all you can eat” buffet and being told they’ve violated rules. The person says “no, all you can eat is defined by X. I’m legally entitled to my 4th slice of chocolate cake dipped in gravy” to which the waiter responds “At the federal level it may be defined that way but the constitution allows the states to legislate over many things, and here in New Jersey there is a dessert limit. Youre actually pretty lucky…step on over to New York and there is a soda limit too”
All these food buffets have a time limit now, like 90mins.
If you think about this, scientifically, then that really does not meet the legal definition of all you can eat.
All you can eat means exactly that. It means all that you can possibly eat. But putting a time limit in the buffet, we are limiting people to what they can potentially eat.
From a legal standpoint, they need to change the name to "all you can eat in 90mins"
You know that "unlimited data" isn't truly unlimited, right? There's a reasonable use clause that is in the small print.
“you see in Idaho there is actually a minimum amount of potatoes one must eat. You know, farm subsidies and all. The town of Rexburg actually has separate minimums of scalloped, boiled, and mashed; some consider this to be a ‘blue law’ other are less forgiving”
All these food buffets have a time limit now, like 90mins.
If you think about this, scientifically, then that really does not meet the legal definition of all you can eat.
All you can eat means exactly that. It means all that you can possibly eat. But putting a time limit in the buffet, we are limiting people to what they can potentially eat.
From a legal standpoint, they need to change the name to "all you can eat in 90mins"
That's weird, I just ate at a buffet for three hours last week. The month before I ate at a buffet for almost four hours. What chains are imposing these time limits? How are they imposing these rules?
All these food buffets have a time limit now, like 90mins.
If you think about this, scientifically, then that really does not meet the legal definition of all you can eat.
All you can eat means exactly that. It means all that you can possibly eat. But putting a time limit in the buffet, we are limiting people to what they can potentially eat.
From a legal standpoint, they need to change the name to "all you can eat in 90mins"
You should hire Lionel Hutz as an attorney. Be careful, you may get what you wish for and turn into Bottomless Pete!
The Simpsons, Season 4, Episode 8, Fox TV, 1992. Homer and Marge go to The Frying Dutchman restaurant for an "all you can eat" seafood buffet, (though Marge...
Football roomies in college went to an all you can eat fish and fries. After an hour the manager put their money on the table and told them to never come back.
Better yet, brother-in-law used to go to smorga-bobs for lunch then hide out in the rest room between servings and end up getting lunch and dinner all you can eat for the price of just lunch.
About 15 years ago, Darden Restaurants, missed quarterly earnings badly due to mis-pricing a all you can eat crab legs offer. What made it strange was this management mistake only occurred in Raleigh/Durham area. The CEO was angry as he had to explain why 5-10 restaurants caused the earnings miss. I think the regional guy was fired.
“According to buffet law, most strip clubs are all you can eat. A feast for your eyes if you will. The famous case of Melenotte vs Goldstein established this in LA and it was soon a nationwide statute.”
”Maritime law holds while you are in the line. A man once stayed in a buffet line for 46 hours to avoid having to register his car. He was also able to seize his sister in law’s rental property under similar, yet immensely more complex, circumstances”
”It’s not so much a ‘wild west’ with buffet regulations. More like a hundred years’ war if it had happened between amphibious semetic civilizations off of the Andalusian coast”
If you think about this, scientifically, then that really does not meet the legal definition of all you can eat.
It isn’t “all you can eat” it’s “all you care to eat”, always has been.
Can you point me to the legal definition of “all you can eat?” I did not know it was a officially defined.
I’m cracking myself up imagining someone going into an “all you can eat” buffet and being told they’ve violated rules. The person says “no, all you can eat is defined by X. I’m legally entitled to my 4th slice of chocolate cake dipped in gravy” to which the waiter responds “At the federal level it may be defined that way but the constitution allows the states to legislate over many things, and here in New Jersey there is a dessert limit. Youre actually pretty lucky…step on over to New York and there is a soda limit too”
I don't always agree with coach Gonzalez from NM but he said nothing incorrect here. In the US, all-you-can-eat doesn't mean "three pieces of cake," it means ALL you can eat
It isn’t “all you can eat” it’s “all you care to eat”, always has been.
Can you point me to the legal definition of “all you can eat?” I did not know it was a officially defined.
I’m cracking myself up imagining someone going into an “all you can eat” buffet and being told they’ve violated rules. The person says “no, all you can eat is defined by X. I’m legally entitled to my 4th slice of chocolate cake dipped in gravy” to which the waiter responds “At the federal level it may be defined that way but the constitution allows the states to legislate over many things, and here in New Jersey there is a dessert limit. Youre actually pretty lucky…step on over to New York and there is a soda limit too”
I don't always agree with coach Gonzalez from NM but he said nothing incorrect here. In the US, all-you-can-eat doesn't mean "three pieces of cake," it means ALL you can eat
I did a small amount of research into this question. First, consider what happens when you enter a restaurant: You sit down at the table and order. By placing an order you (legally speaking) enter into a contract with the restaurant: “I pay you and you give me these dishes/drinks”. If one party does not hold up their end then (in principle) it is reasonable to say that the contract is broken. If you give me the wrong dish I don’t have to pay for it, If I dine and dash I can’t come back and try to start a new contract.
Same deal when you enter an all-you-can-eat joint: I pay you X and I can scoop slop from the trough onto my plate (Larry David’s phrasing, not mine). I’m sure contract law varies from state to state, but generally speaking for a contract to be valid both parties must enter in good faith. Going in to an all you can eat joint and staying all day is not in good faith - how would you feel if the buffet stopped refilling the food? Or someone at the next table put food on his plate and threw it out?
So by going and staying all day you are entering the contract in bad faith. These sorts of things didn’t have to be said years ago because we lived in a society with rules. Now they have to be spelled out clause by clause because many people don’t understand that there reasonable expectations that people have of each other when entering a contract.
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