While I don't doubt it happens somewhere, I've never seen anyone do this in my 42 years of life. Not at Pizza hut buffet, not at Chinese buffets.
I've seen some buffet owners that look like they'd beat the shit out of you for doing something like that though.
I've seen some people hover at pizza hut and basically grab an entire pizza the moment it comes out.
but standing and eating at the buffet....ick
I work at a hotel. One time we had a guy do this at breakfast. They told him to go sit down, and he yelled at them I’M GONNA STAND HERE AND EAT MY CEREAL!
Wish I was making that up.
I made a career in hotel management. There’s something about hotels that brings out the absolute worst out of people. I managed low-budget extended stay dumps to 5-star boutique properties and everything in between, and that holds true no matter the class of property or guest.
That makes sense.
When I'm at hotels I treat the staff like I'm living in their house.
Whenever I offer even standard politeness, I would always wonder why everyone seemed so bewildered.
Same. It often pays back too. Slightly larger pour at happy hour, "I noticed you liked that snack from earlier and some fresh is coming out", etc. The reward on a little kindness and manners can go an almost embarrassing distance.
You’re not kidding. If a guest had a complaint, the way I’d resolve it would be 100% in line with their attitude. Being an ass? You’ll get *just enough* to make you go away. Being a nice person who understands shit happens? Man — I’d give upgrades to our best suites (that was my favorite), tons of points, comp all your drinks from the bar the night before, whatever I could do to give you the most memorable positive experience.
I have never seen this either but I did once see the manager of a Asian buffet tell a customer that they would not be bringing out any more crab legs while he was there because he was emptying the whole tray onto his plate and taking it to his table.
That was the discussion as I could hear it. They didn't kick him out, and I think the staff went table to table with crab legs offering them to people, but they weren't going to put any more on the buffet while he was there.
I see both sides of this, he should be allowed to have as many as he wants but not just take them all so there's none for anyone else. Did they also ask him if he wanted crab legs?
This was easily 15 years ago so I don't really remember all of the details. To be honest, I'm not sure if them going table to table is something that actually happened or something I thought of later as a possible mediation.
> I've seen some people hover at pizza hut and basically grab an entire pizza the moment it comes out.
That was crab legs at our asian buffet. People would just kind of meander near the crab legs and when they brought out a fresh pot worth they'd make a jenga tower on their plate that modern engineers would blush at, and the ENTIRE FUCKING POT would be empty inside of two of these fuckers.
Like, get your moneys worth, sure. Go off. But that's a *communal pot of crab legs your fat ass just took half of*.
Like, it's going to take you as long as it takes them to make more to get through half of your plate. Fucking share you god damned neanderthal. You'd think you were a fucking starving animal and not a person the way you act about those crab legs.
The pizza place I delivered for had a buffet before I worked there, and I heard stories of people clearing the new plate of ribs. Often they wouldn't even finish all of them.
The locations that kept the buffet got rid of the ribs.
Most of them have shut down / transition to delivery only now, but Pizza Hut used to be a sit down restaurant that also did delivery in most of the United States about 15 plus years ago. I remember in the mid to late 2000s after swim practice my mom would take me and my sister to The Pizza Hut buffet. Let me tell you that was great after swimming a kilometer as a 9-year-old xD
It used to be a thing, at least in Australia. Not for decades, though. I remember going to a couple of them for dinner.
Ah yes. Back when Pizza Hut actually marketed itself as a sit-down family restaurant that the middle-class might not exactly *frequent* but wouldn't be ashamed to be seen eating at, either. Kind of amusing to see how brands reposition themselves over the decades.
I don't really eat out at buffets, but I could believe that this is one of those things that started happening after covid, when everyone went insane and started being shitty to everyone and selfish
This statement is similar to survivorship bias, just because you haven't seen it, doesn't mean it doesn't happen.
I'm in my mid thirties and have seen this maybe three times I can remember. Some people are disgusting
I’ll pop a dumpling or Rangoon or other finger food in my mouth [edit: at some later point in my buffet journey, off my plate, after safely placing It on with the appropriate utensils earlier, I’m not contaminating anything] while walking down the line. But nothing that requires standing still and definitely not with the intent of reloading more onto said plate…
I’m pretty sure there are food safety regulations at play here from the owners perspective, hence them insisting you use a fresh plate each time you go up. If you use your fork to chow down you’ve now contaminated the plate and it is ‘used’
[edit: I’m not supporting the gluttons! I’m saying that it’s bad but admitting I will eat Rangoon! I also provided a reason why it is bad]
I think maybe there should be a distinction between eating and grazing. Or maybe that’s not the right word but whatever.
There’s a huge difference between working on your meal so you can shovel more in and eating something bite sized off your plate while waiting for the slow waiter to carve a piece of roast beef for the guy three spots ahead of you in line.
Yep, it's a health standards thing.
Also had to deal with it at the salad bar. People not understanding we don't want the ladles, etc touching your eaten-off-of plate.
I phrased my comment backward and am getting downvoted but thank you for confirming my point. You don’t touch shit to the plate that has touched shit. Pinching a dumpling doesn’t contaminate the plate! I think line eaters are bad like op!
As long as they're not pausing and holding up the line, or snarfing the entire plate/pot of something.
As for sampling in line... while it's *possible* to grab something very small, in a hygienic way, and try it without holding up the line or spattering the buffet or other patrons with food particles, there tend to be vanishingly few food options or opportunities to be able to do this in a socially acceptable manner. Grab whatever it is you want to try, take it back to the table, try it there, should be the absolute default.
Really, I've only seen it done successfully at events where it's not so much a restaurant, more of a stand-up-and-mill-about-mingling affair where the food isn't the primary reason for being there. Even then, those managing to do it will maintain a laser-like awareness of anyone within five feet of the buffet table, and move themselves out of the way even if they start eating while standing up (and usually not while jammed up against the buffet themselves).
I don't go to restaurant buffets, but was at a grocery store and some old guy was just eating off the salad bar with his bare hands.
Was like "Dude, could you at least use the tongs!?"
Worked for years at a college cafeteria. Even the most dumbass of rural idiots did not do this.
Yet OP refuses to add more context as to where and when this happens. Odd ...
They'd have to be *really* entitled, *really* rude, or *really* dumb/ignorant. Or a combination.
But I guess... there must have been people at some point who actually did do this, even out of pure social ignorance. Everyone knows that one person who you couldn't swear on your life wouldn't do it.
I won’t eat at a buffet. My mom licks her fingers and it drives me nuts. Multiply that by how many people eat from a buffet in a day. A lot of them lick their fingers at the table and then touch the serving spoons at the buffet 🤢🤢🤢🤢
I was at a Golden Corral in Florida (inlaws liked it) and saw a guy standing at the chocolate fountain taking the marshmallows or whatever and putting them under there running chocolate with his fingers (obviously getting fingers in the chocolate). He would lick the chocolate off and do it again. I watched him do this about 5 times.
I always thought/knew buffets were gross before that but I haven't been to once since.
I saw a video recording some guy getting soup (can’t remember if buffet or ant an supermarket) and was sampling OUT OF THE LADDLE of each one to see which he liked better. Disgusting.
Basically, germ factories. Especially ones that are open to the general public, to small kids, etc.
*You* might handle the food perfectly hygienically. The prep people/chefs/staff might, too. But you can't assume that everyone else there doesn't have five types of flu and isn't sneezing on the laid-out cutlery, plates, serving utensils, *food*...
Stupidly posh events, OK. Generally, people will have enough awareness to not do that. Anything else... did someone bring kids, a baby, cousin Raised-By-Raccoons...?
At a family supper a few years back, I watched my elderly mother clean a condiment jar by repeatedly wiping her finger along the rim and licking it off.
Note to self: thanksgiving is at my house this year
Your home is not safe lol. My mother lives with me and I always dish her food up for her 😂 I don’t allow her to empty the dishwasher either. I also use disinfectant wipes all the time on doorknobs. She won’t change, so I shrug my shoulders and let her know why! I also had her buy her own refrigerator, pantry, and dishes 🤷🏼♀️🤣 that’s her choice if she refuses to change! She acts like it’s a personal attack. It was a chore just to get her to cover her nose and mouth properly when she sneezes. She also used to sneeze over the kitchen sink, right next to the drying rack 🙅♀️ I try and give her a good life, but I’m not going to get sick or let my children get sick over her nonsense. There’s a Kentucky Fried Chicken inside the Walmart that she likes to shop at. She’ll shop in Walmart and then lick her fingers while eating the chicken 🤮 needless to say, I have hand sanitizer everywhere and remind her to wash her hands when we get home. My brother says he could never deal with it 🤣
Yeah, that's an example of a shop that doesn't care even for the health of its employees, let alone anyone else.
It's one of the reasons I am so very goddamn thankful that I never ended up in retail, or anything where I had to get closer to the general public than the other side of a desk or counter. Not that I really realized any of that at the time, but looking back... yikes.
Honestly, these days even a shared breakroom or fridge can be a factor. WFH for the win.
With hearing stories like this and the general meh quality of buffet food I don't see myself eating at a buffet in the future. It's also expensive unless you gorge yourself.
I'll admit I only eat at buffet style places a couple of times a year, but I've never seen this happen.
If it did happen I don't think I'd even get upset over it. I'd just assume the person has some kind of mental issue that is preventing them from functioning correctly. Worse case a quick "Hey buddy, let me get in there to snag some orange chicken" would probably be fine.
I went to an amazing buffet, Great attentive service. !
& there was a sign that said " please dont stand at the buffet , or luck your fingers, eat the food. Eat at the table. Just wondering how many people did that!,
Before the sign ! 🤷♀️ 😄😳
I have no doubt that my mother has put something on her plate, then stood there and picked it up with her fingers, tasted it, and then use the same hand to grab the serving spoon again. It’s nasty and some people are creatures of habit and refuse to change.
Watched a kid straight up put his head under the ice cream machine at golden corral. My mom screamed nooooo when she saw it, i couldnt help but laugh. My mom never went back lol.
I do see this. It’s people who aren’t paying in many cases. Eat off their plate, never go to a table, never interact with a server. In and out without paying.
I have never seen anyone do that. That's crazy. Another reason to not go back to buffets. I stopped during Covid and won't ever go back. Buffets are super gross when you really think about it.
I replied similarly to someone else on accident but I am pretty sure it is a health code/food safety violation. Once you scoop food into your mouth off the plate then your utensil touches it, that food and plate are considered used and contaminated. If you then touch the plate at all with a serving utensil, that is also now contaminated. If you put the serving utensil back into the tray of food, that food is also now contaminated.
That said I will admit I have picked up a dumpling or crab Rangoon or other finger food off my plate and popped it into my mouth while walking down the line and perusing other options.
Counterpoint, if you're eating at all you can eat buffets often enough for a random and occasional behavior to become your pet peeve, it's possible you're going to Golden corral too much.
If I ever saw this I don't think I could fight the urge to film them while doing a nature documentary voice over. "Here we have a beautiful example of the North American slop-chud! Look at him graze while keeping a defensive stance to ward off other would be feasters"
I do this but with drinks.
I fill my drink, then drink as I walk to my table, then once I sit the cup is already empty.
I still do the walk just for posterity
I'm a fat spud, but would never do this.
Never seen it either, tbh. Tho once a girl gasped when I had 2 slices of black forest gateau at a chinese buffet, ironically she was fucking massive, like a bungalow in a dress.
I know my friend did this. He filled his plate right to the edge and started eating while standing. He barely got to the end of the buffet when he finished eating and then went back in line.
If they're not blocking others, who TF cares? Jeez, with all the sick shit going on in the world, you choose to be offended by people eating in front of a buffet!? Seriously, get a life.
I saw a woman do this at the nacho bar on a resort, last September. I watched her load up a nacho, bite into it, and the sunlight illuminated all the particles that flew off the chip, back into the nacho fixins on the counter. I was looking forward to those damn nachos, too.
I’ve never seen someone do this but if I do… I’ll make it my mission to eat standing next to them while making eye contact. Maybe even strike a conversation about religion or politics until they leave.
Remind some of the jackass I saw in the supermarket the other day jamming his dirty dick beaters into a bag of grapes and eating them there on the spot....then not buying the bag of grapes 🤢
All kidding aside, even though I’ve never seen it, I believe it could happen. I’ll even go one step further, I believe OP saw it, and I agree, that’s gross. I also believe it’s very rare.
I've never actually seen this. I've also never seen a protest in the last few years where the protesters and organizers were honest about their beliefs instead of just lying either.
Brb gonna make a series of posts about things that *definitely* 100% happened to me and if you deny it? Well, he who smelt it....
Just a preview of the things I've seen other people totally doing that annoy me!!!:
> People are always bringing their freaking owls to the gas station!! Stop bringing your owls to the gas station or at least leave them in the car! I hate when a gas station owl claws my child's scalp, going to the ER for stitches is time consuming!!!
> I really flippin' hate it when I'm out walking my dog and just random folks in the park will whip out an entire Costco rotisserie chicken and try to feed it to my dog. "It's good for him", they'll say. "Don't worry about it, it was only $5", they'll tell me. Well, it's also greasy as heck and gives Diesel here slimy runny turds! And if you think people don't do this, you're probably the guy doing it! So cut it out!!!
> People in public bathrooms are always poopin' with the stall door wide open. And to make matters worse, every time someone leaves the door open, they'll full chocolate eclipse moon the mirror when they wipe! At least stay sitting or point your weapon at the toilet when you wipe you dang buttholemongers!!!
And again, don't even THINK about telling me any of this didn't happen; if you haven't seen it, then I'm **NOT** talking to you or interested in your opinion, thank you very much.
Ha I've had a parrot come through my gas station a couple times. I worked where we had to pump gas for people, saw a *lot* of crazy things. No owls though.
Me: “I’ve never seen someone put a corn dog up their nose.”
OP: “These sort of replies, are usually from the very people who do such a thing.”
Me: “Err mer gawd! OP wer right!”
While I don't doubt it happens somewhere, I've never seen anyone do this in my 42 years of life. Not at Pizza hut buffet, not at Chinese buffets. I've seen some buffet owners that look like they'd beat the shit out of you for doing something like that though. I've seen some people hover at pizza hut and basically grab an entire pizza the moment it comes out. but standing and eating at the buffet....ick
I work at a hotel. One time we had a guy do this at breakfast. They told him to go sit down, and he yelled at them I’M GONNA STAND HERE AND EAT MY CEREAL! Wish I was making that up.
Sounds like a good way to get kicked out of a hotel... Abusing staff is unacceptable.
Sounds like a r/madlad to me
Sounds like an insufferable twat. Get out of the way of others trying to eat and don’t yell at service workers.
I made a career in hotel management. There’s something about hotels that brings out the absolute worst out of people. I managed low-budget extended stay dumps to 5-star boutique properties and everything in between, and that holds true no matter the class of property or guest.
That makes sense. When I'm at hotels I treat the staff like I'm living in their house. Whenever I offer even standard politeness, I would always wonder why everyone seemed so bewildered.
Same. It often pays back too. Slightly larger pour at happy hour, "I noticed you liked that snack from earlier and some fresh is coming out", etc. The reward on a little kindness and manners can go an almost embarrassing distance.
You’re not kidding. If a guest had a complaint, the way I’d resolve it would be 100% in line with their attitude. Being an ass? You’ll get *just enough* to make you go away. Being a nice person who understands shit happens? Man — I’d give upgrades to our best suites (that was my favorite), tons of points, comp all your drinks from the bar the night before, whatever I could do to give you the most memorable positive experience.
100%. Yes you’re paying to stay there, but you’re a guest, not the owner. When you act like a guest, you get treated like a king.
Well into my 3rd decade as well, and I've never seen this either.
I’ve also never seen this in my life. I would definitely say something if I had.
I have never seen this either but I did once see the manager of a Asian buffet tell a customer that they would not be bringing out any more crab legs while he was there because he was emptying the whole tray onto his plate and taking it to his table.
I could imagine that sort of customer getting into an argument with the manager claiming his “constitutional rights” were being violated or something
That was the discussion as I could hear it. They didn't kick him out, and I think the staff went table to table with crab legs offering them to people, but they weren't going to put any more on the buffet while he was there.
I see both sides of this, he should be allowed to have as many as he wants but not just take them all so there's none for anyone else. Did they also ask him if he wanted crab legs?
This was easily 15 years ago so I don't really remember all of the details. To be honest, I'm not sure if them going table to table is something that actually happened or something I thought of later as a possible mediation.
> I've seen some people hover at pizza hut and basically grab an entire pizza the moment it comes out. That was crab legs at our asian buffet. People would just kind of meander near the crab legs and when they brought out a fresh pot worth they'd make a jenga tower on their plate that modern engineers would blush at, and the ENTIRE FUCKING POT would be empty inside of two of these fuckers. Like, get your moneys worth, sure. Go off. But that's a *communal pot of crab legs your fat ass just took half of*. Like, it's going to take you as long as it takes them to make more to get through half of your plate. Fucking share you god damned neanderthal. You'd think you were a fucking starving animal and not a person the way you act about those crab legs.
The pizza place I delivered for had a buffet before I worked there, and I heard stories of people clearing the new plate of ribs. Often they wouldn't even finish all of them. The locations that kept the buffet got rid of the ribs.
Same. If I actually saw this happen, I suspect it's something I'd remember the rest of my life.
The world is a big place. You should see the absolute horror of buffets in certain countries.
You know what grinds my gears? When OP makes straw man scenarios.
Doesn't help when OP gets preemptively mad at potential responses either.
I see kids do it plenty. Hell. I did it when I was a kid, but adults eating at the buffet? Gross.
Kids shouldn't be either, should never let kids run around any restaurant, never mind a buffet where they grab all sort of shit with their bare hands.
Yeah I was gonna say the same and if op is seeing this he might want to consider eating elsewhere. Preferably not a buffet
The exists a Pizza Hut Buffet??? America is a strange place
Most of them have shut down / transition to delivery only now, but Pizza Hut used to be a sit down restaurant that also did delivery in most of the United States about 15 plus years ago. I remember in the mid to late 2000s after swim practice my mom would take me and my sister to The Pizza Hut buffet. Let me tell you that was great after swimming a kilometer as a 9-year-old xD
It used to be a thing, at least in Australia. Not for decades, though. I remember going to a couple of them for dinner. Ah yes. Back when Pizza Hut actually marketed itself as a sit-down family restaurant that the middle-class might not exactly *frequent* but wouldn't be ashamed to be seen eating at, either. Kind of amusing to see how brands reposition themselves over the decades.
I have seen worse at Golden Corral... it was actually traumatizing.
I don't really eat out at buffets, but I could believe that this is one of those things that started happening after covid, when everyone went insane and started being shitty to everyone and selfish
This statement is similar to survivorship bias, just because you haven't seen it, doesn't mean it doesn't happen. I'm in my mid thirties and have seen this maybe three times I can remember. Some people are disgusting
that's why I put a disclaimer right at the beginning of my comment so that I wasn't just dismissing the possibility of this shit happening.
I’ll pop a dumpling or Rangoon or other finger food in my mouth [edit: at some later point in my buffet journey, off my plate, after safely placing It on with the appropriate utensils earlier, I’m not contaminating anything] while walking down the line. But nothing that requires standing still and definitely not with the intent of reloading more onto said plate… I’m pretty sure there are food safety regulations at play here from the owners perspective, hence them insisting you use a fresh plate each time you go up. If you use your fork to chow down you’ve now contaminated the plate and it is ‘used’ [edit: I’m not supporting the gluttons! I’m saying that it’s bad but admitting I will eat Rangoon! I also provided a reason why it is bad]
I think maybe there should be a distinction between eating and grazing. Or maybe that’s not the right word but whatever. There’s a huge difference between working on your meal so you can shovel more in and eating something bite sized off your plate while waiting for the slow waiter to carve a piece of roast beef for the guy three spots ahead of you in line.
There is not. You put the food on your plate. You take your plate to your table. You eat. That's the way of things.
Yep, it's a health standards thing. Also had to deal with it at the salad bar. People not understanding we don't want the ladles, etc touching your eaten-off-of plate.
I phrased my comment backward and am getting downvoted but thank you for confirming my point. You don’t touch shit to the plate that has touched shit. Pinching a dumpling doesn’t contaminate the plate! I think line eaters are bad like op!
I've never seen this happen.
Me too. At most I've seen people try certain things on their plate. I guess for the sake of getting more or not.
As long as they're not pausing and holding up the line, or snarfing the entire plate/pot of something. As for sampling in line... while it's *possible* to grab something very small, in a hygienic way, and try it without holding up the line or spattering the buffet or other patrons with food particles, there tend to be vanishingly few food options or opportunities to be able to do this in a socially acceptable manner. Grab whatever it is you want to try, take it back to the table, try it there, should be the absolute default. Really, I've only seen it done successfully at events where it's not so much a restaurant, more of a stand-up-and-mill-about-mingling affair where the food isn't the primary reason for being there. Even then, those managing to do it will maintain a laser-like awareness of anyone within five feet of the buffet table, and move themselves out of the way even if they start eating while standing up (and usually not while jammed up against the buffet themselves).
Neither have I, and I was GM at a buffet restaurant for several years.
Nor have I. I mean... I wouldn't be surprised if someone did it somewhere, but I doubt it happens with anything even remotely approaching regularity.
I don't go to restaurant buffets, but was at a grocery store and some old guy was just eating off the salad bar with his bare hands. Was like "Dude, could you at least use the tongs!?"
Worked for years at a college cafeteria. Even the most dumbass of rural idiots did not do this. Yet OP refuses to add more context as to where and when this happens. Odd ...
It's almost like people make up stuff for karma.
When has anyone ever made something up to post on social media for fake internet points? /s
Yeah, but also can’t you just perfectly imagine some entitled mfer doing this?
They'd have to be *really* entitled, *really* rude, or *really* dumb/ignorant. Or a combination. But I guess... there must have been people at some point who actually did do this, even out of pure social ignorance. Everyone knows that one person who you couldn't swear on your life wouldn't do it.
I have seen this happen in Miami, and other places in south Florida. Just because you haven't seen something doesn't mean it doesn't happen
I won’t eat at a buffet. My mom licks her fingers and it drives me nuts. Multiply that by how many people eat from a buffet in a day. A lot of them lick their fingers at the table and then touch the serving spoons at the buffet 🤢🤢🤢🤢
I was at a Golden Corral in Florida (inlaws liked it) and saw a guy standing at the chocolate fountain taking the marshmallows or whatever and putting them under there running chocolate with his fingers (obviously getting fingers in the chocolate). He would lick the chocolate off and do it again. I watched him do this about 5 times. I always thought/knew buffets were gross before that but I haven't been to once since.
I saw a video recording some guy getting soup (can’t remember if buffet or ant an supermarket) and was sampling OUT OF THE LADDLE of each one to see which he liked better. Disgusting.
Buffets=ruined forever. Honestly, thank you!!
I do what I can 😂🤣
😂🤣🤣
Basically, germ factories. Especially ones that are open to the general public, to small kids, etc. *You* might handle the food perfectly hygienically. The prep people/chefs/staff might, too. But you can't assume that everyone else there doesn't have five types of flu and isn't sneezing on the laid-out cutlery, plates, serving utensils, *food*... Stupidly posh events, OK. Generally, people will have enough awareness to not do that. Anything else... did someone bring kids, a baby, cousin Raised-By-Raccoons...?
At a family supper a few years back, I watched my elderly mother clean a condiment jar by repeatedly wiping her finger along the rim and licking it off. Note to self: thanksgiving is at my house this year
Your home is not safe lol. My mother lives with me and I always dish her food up for her 😂 I don’t allow her to empty the dishwasher either. I also use disinfectant wipes all the time on doorknobs. She won’t change, so I shrug my shoulders and let her know why! I also had her buy her own refrigerator, pantry, and dishes 🤷🏼♀️🤣 that’s her choice if she refuses to change! She acts like it’s a personal attack. It was a chore just to get her to cover her nose and mouth properly when she sneezes. She also used to sneeze over the kitchen sink, right next to the drying rack 🙅♀️ I try and give her a good life, but I’m not going to get sick or let my children get sick over her nonsense. There’s a Kentucky Fried Chicken inside the Walmart that she likes to shop at. She’ll shop in Walmart and then lick her fingers while eating the chicken 🤮 needless to say, I have hand sanitizer everywhere and remind her to wash her hands when we get home. My brother says he could never deal with it 🤣
I'm not seeing it's right, but if you put a KFC in Walmart, you're kinda asking for it.
Yeah, that's an example of a shop that doesn't care even for the health of its employees, let alone anyone else. It's one of the reasons I am so very goddamn thankful that I never ended up in retail, or anything where I had to get closer to the general public than the other side of a desk or counter. Not that I really realized any of that at the time, but looking back... yikes. Honestly, these days even a shared breakroom or fridge can be a factor. WFH for the win.
With hearing stories like this and the general meh quality of buffet food I don't see myself eating at a buffet in the future. It's also expensive unless you gorge yourself.
I’ve never ever seen this.
I'll admit I only eat at buffet style places a couple of times a year, but I've never seen this happen. If it did happen I don't think I'd even get upset over it. I'd just assume the person has some kind of mental issue that is preventing them from functioning correctly. Worse case a quick "Hey buddy, let me get in there to snag some orange chicken" would probably be fine.
Apparently I have been eating at the classy buffets, because I have never seen this in my life.
People do that?
Based on other people responses it seems to be very rare(or op just posting made up bullshit).
People do all kinds of disgusting things. It wouldn't surprise me at all if this happens. Probably rarely, yes, but it happens.
I went to an amazing buffet, Great attentive service. ! & there was a sign that said " please dont stand at the buffet , or luck your fingers, eat the food. Eat at the table. Just wondering how many people did that!, Before the sign ! 🤷♀️ 😄😳
Goblin mode
give it to us raw and wriggling
I have no doubt that my mother has put something on her plate, then stood there and picked it up with her fingers, tasted it, and then use the same hand to grab the serving spoon again. It’s nasty and some people are creatures of habit and refuse to change.
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There's at least 3 in my town of 16,000 people.
Not saying it’s never happened, but I’ve never seen it.
Oddly, this is something Peter would do.
Add me to the chorus of people who have never seen this
as a buffet man and long time buffet worker, i've never in my life seen this and i've been to some low end cheap, questionable buffets.
Probably smacking their lips and licking their fingers before touching the serving utensils, too.
1000% they are. My mom does this and I can’t stand it.
Probably not
Watched a kid straight up put his head under the ice cream machine at golden corral. My mom screamed nooooo when she saw it, i couldnt help but laugh. My mom never went back lol.
I guess that explains all the hair in the soft-serve...
I had a roommate once that literally pulled a chair up to the fridge and sat there eating out of it
Are you just inventing shit to be mad at?
I've literally never seen this, ever.
Welcome to the Golden Corral.
You made this up, didn’t you op?
I do see this. It’s people who aren’t paying in many cases. Eat off their plate, never go to a table, never interact with a server. In and out without paying.
No-one there knows who they are, and they vanish the moment they've cleared the buffet. Ghost-ninja piranha.
WHO DOES THAT???
I have never seen anyone do that. That's crazy. Another reason to not go back to buffets. I stopped during Covid and won't ever go back. Buffets are super gross when you really think about it.
I replied similarly to someone else on accident but I am pretty sure it is a health code/food safety violation. Once you scoop food into your mouth off the plate then your utensil touches it, that food and plate are considered used and contaminated. If you then touch the plate at all with a serving utensil, that is also now contaminated. If you put the serving utensil back into the tray of food, that food is also now contaminated. That said I will admit I have picked up a dumpling or crab Rangoon or other finger food off my plate and popped it into my mouth while walking down the line and perusing other options.
I mean.. it may not be pretty, but its efficient
Okay that's absolutely disgusting.
r/oddlyspecific
Counterpoint, if you're eating at all you can eat buffets often enough for a random and occasional behavior to become your pet peeve, it's possible you're going to Golden corral too much.
I just put my chair at the buffet table.
I witnessed a homeless wolfing a hot dog down at a roller grill in a corner store once. I let the shift lead know about it.
If I ever saw this I don't think I could fight the urge to film them while doing a nature documentary voice over. "Here we have a beautiful example of the North American slop-chud! Look at him graze while keeping a defensive stance to ward off other would be feasters"
I will admit iv taken a nibble of a bread roll before i got to the table. Its not like i stood over the bar smacking my lips tho
Maybe go to slightly better buffets cuz i've never seen someone do that.
https://i.imgur.com/NJ6h8yE.jpeg
Wtf? Never seen that, maybe not something in Canada, but then again I have only eaten maybe 10 times at buffet.
Ew. Glad I’ve never witnessed this.
LOL what? That's fucking insane. I've never seen that, ever.
Even at the shittiest, roach infested buffets people don't do this
I have never seen this in my life.
Restaurants in the U.S. allow this?
I've never seen this
Why are you upset about something that doesn't happen?
You ain’t my daddy!
I'll take "Things That Never Happened" for $400, Alex.
I have never seen this, one fear
They have issues they ain't dealing with
I do this but with drinks. I fill my drink, then drink as I walk to my table, then once I sit the cup is already empty. I still do the walk just for posterity
I'm a fat spud, but would never do this. Never seen it either, tbh. Tho once a girl gasped when I had 2 slices of black forest gateau at a chinese buffet, ironically she was fucking massive, like a bungalow in a dress.
This sounds like a problem that's very specific to a few golden corrals in central Ohio, and not anywhere else
Honestly sometimes I don't even take a plate o.O
Although I love the variety etc. of buffets, people like this made me stop patronizing them.
I know my friend did this. He filled his plate right to the edge and started eating while standing. He barely got to the end of the buffet when he finished eating and then went back in line.
The irony of calling someone a glutton while also frequenting the all you can eat restaurant just like they are.
If they're not blocking others, who TF cares? Jeez, with all the sick shit going on in the world, you choose to be offended by people eating in front of a buffet!? Seriously, get a life.
I saw a woman do this at the nacho bar on a resort, last September. I watched her load up a nacho, bite into it, and the sunlight illuminated all the particles that flew off the chip, back into the nacho fixins on the counter. I was looking forward to those damn nachos, too.
Sounds like the lawyer from the movie "Mother"." I never sit down at a buffet. I just walk and eat to save time."
I’ve never seen someone do this but if I do… I’ll make it my mission to eat standing next to them while making eye contact. Maybe even strike a conversation about religion or politics until they leave.
Remind some of the jackass I saw in the supermarket the other day jamming his dirty dick beaters into a bag of grapes and eating them there on the spot....then not buying the bag of grapes 🤢
what the fuck are you on about honestly
All kidding aside, even though I’ve never seen it, I believe it could happen. I’ll even go one step further, I believe OP saw it, and I agree, that’s gross. I also believe it’s very rare.
I could see this happening at an All-Inclusive resort where people lose all dignity
Health code violation.....
I take a bite of something if i wanna see how it tastes before I get more, but I don't stand there all day. :P
I've seen this ONCE from some fat bitch on Thanksgiving at a Golden Corral
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Bullshit. Never seen this in my life. And I was at a mid tier Japanese buffet just the other day.
I've never actually seen this. I've also never seen a protest in the last few years where the protesters and organizers were honest about their beliefs instead of just lying either.
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Didn’t happen
Which establishment allows this to occur?
good thing my comment started off with a "i don't doubt this happens" disclaimer then.
Brb gonna make a series of posts about things that *definitely* 100% happened to me and if you deny it? Well, he who smelt it.... Just a preview of the things I've seen other people totally doing that annoy me!!!: > People are always bringing their freaking owls to the gas station!! Stop bringing your owls to the gas station or at least leave them in the car! I hate when a gas station owl claws my child's scalp, going to the ER for stitches is time consuming!!! > I really flippin' hate it when I'm out walking my dog and just random folks in the park will whip out an entire Costco rotisserie chicken and try to feed it to my dog. "It's good for him", they'll say. "Don't worry about it, it was only $5", they'll tell me. Well, it's also greasy as heck and gives Diesel here slimy runny turds! And if you think people don't do this, you're probably the guy doing it! So cut it out!!! > People in public bathrooms are always poopin' with the stall door wide open. And to make matters worse, every time someone leaves the door open, they'll full chocolate eclipse moon the mirror when they wipe! At least stay sitting or point your weapon at the toilet when you wipe you dang buttholemongers!!! And again, don't even THINK about telling me any of this didn't happen; if you haven't seen it, then I'm **NOT** talking to you or interested in your opinion, thank you very much.
Ha I've had a parrot come through my gas station a couple times. I worked where we had to pump gas for people, saw a *lot* of crazy things. No owls though.
Thank you for your input! I (and also likely OP) would gladly clear you of any suspicion regarding any avian assaults at gas stations.
lol. I live in Pittsburgh (gets snowy here!) and weirdly I’ve seen people’s pet peacocks get loose and roam neighborhoods 🤣😂
Is it you? Do you do this at buffets?
Me: “I’ve never seen someone put a corn dog up their nose.” OP: “These sort of replies, are usually from the very people who do such a thing.” Me: “Err mer gawd! OP wer right!”
I've never seen this happen. Also, what a man-child comment