High School me would have made them regret this system. I was skinny as hell but could consume VAST QUANTITIES
11 year old me, too. I grew 6" in about 4 months but I only weighed about 60lbs when I was done because I was super tiny to start. My mom said our food bill roughly doubled that summer because I was eating about 4 servings at every meal. Could've fit my scrawny ass in that 100% off section probably and then gone ham on a buffet.
When I was 14, I grew 10" that year. At the end of the year I was 6'0 tall and weighed 145lbs.
We did a Calorie counting unit in PE that year in school. I was eating on average 6,000 calories per day across 8 meals.
Puberty is fuckin wild. I wish I could still eat like that.
Its insane how little I eat now compared to then.
My two boys are 14 and 19. The food bill has been stupid high for way too long.
My wife and I combined don't eat as much as one of them.
Me in college. About 5'11", 135lbs, all tone all the time from climbing and biking several hours every day. I spent a lot of time just trying to eat enough food to keep up
7 plates in I would have made a masscre of the general Tso's chicken. It doesn't matter where anyone comes from... They all serve it at the buffet
Exactly this. My ex-wife was 5’2”, 94 pounds with clothes on. She got us banned from our favorite Chinese buffet restaurant. Her diet was "anything not nailed down." Lots of good reasons why she's an ex, but I do miss how she could pack away food.
I like how this kind of implies that they want you at the 20-30% discount mark. Too fat? Stop eating. Too skinny? Please, gorge yourself on the house!
At 20-30% off you are paying only 70-80% markup. The 10% off guy is getting 90% markup. No restaurant would create something like this if they weren't marking up the menu to start with.
You don't think about how much extra you are paying because you are too busy thinking about the discount you got squeezing yourself through a sign.
so kids eat 50% off and babies are free?
Sounds like a good deal for kids but I could never eat a baby even it was free.
Try them with rice.
5/7
I feel like growing teenagers are a massive exploit here.
It's always free to eat the babies.
I don't know where you are from It costs money to get good baby where I am.
As sad as it is to say, I've seen lots of kids who would only be able to go through the 20, maybe 30 :(
I've always felt it should be only fair if airlines gave a combined body weight + baggage weight allowance instead of only bags.
imagine if tickets were priced by the lb/kilograms
I can just see the travel tips article telling you to go donate blood and take diuretics before you get weighed for your ticket
I can see a class action lawsuit if they ever switch to that. And I imagine there wouldn't be that risk if airlines had priced their tickets based on weight from the very start back in the Roaring Twenties.
I dunno. I'm 75kg and could out eat a truck driver in a pie eating contest.
I totally read that as you could eat out a truck driver
Be sure and tell em Large Marge sent ya.
Thin people can actually eat more in a single meal than fat people because their stomach is of equal size, but fat people's stomach has to push against a fat layer that thin people don't have- or at least have a lot less of. It's why thin people are generally better at winning eating contests.
https://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2003-11/why-do-thin-guys-always-seem-win-eating-contests/
So kids get food for free
Which is not totally uncommon at some buffets
I think I could get a 30% discount.
I wanna see the 2D person who can get the 100% discount, though.
They probably SHOULD be eating all they can
There are totally people that skinny, but it's unhealthy, which is why they're giving away the food to them for free
Not sure if this is a good idea, watching the big eaters on You Tube they all seem to be fairly fit. See Matt Stoney, Leah Shutkever, Joel Haver, Mom v Food, Beard meats food, Raina Huang, Max v Food and Katina Eats Kilos.
The only 'larger' eater would be Katina's SO Randy Santel, and I think he's slimmer than the guy in the photo; although probably taller!
Joel Haver, the comedy skit dude?
I think he meant Joel Hanson. Him and beard both wear size medium t-shirts and will ruin your profitability for the day in one meal. If you treat them with respect though you'll get it back and more through free advertising.
Quick edit to add, heavy guys can never outeat the skinny pros. You get a fat belt that won't let your stomach stretch. It's very real.
Kinda unfair for some woman I'd imagine.
Yeah, everytime I see this all I can think is that even when I was a skinny teenager I was a 32E. I wouldn't have fit in any of those.
Just stand with one boob on each side of the measuring stick.
So they are overpriced and as "fat guy" you are sponsoring "skinny" ones.
Meanwhile skinny people sponsor fatter ones on a regular buffet… Not sure that’s much better.
The assumption is a fst person will eat more. So them paying more balances it out.
I will break that thing trying to get through the 100%
Well, that's not embarrassing at all . . .
Personally from my experience Really skinny people can eat a shit ton and have a hard time putting on weight making them need to eat more
Insane. Smaller guys go all out. Big guys go to the buffet between first and third lunch.
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