Is sharing food in a restaurant unfair.

md23040 · 11-09-2017 07:58PM

I was recently in an all you can eat Chinese buffets and four over sized female Romany folk took their seats, and one proceeded alone to the buffet and brought a plate of food to the table that resembled Mount Everest, the skill to balance the mound of chicken balls, curry, chow mien was quite astounding and all for under a tenner. As she sat down the three mates whipped out their knives of forks and got stuck in. After a bit of animosity between the waiting staff and the group they ordered a load of booze plus bizzare combinations like sirloin steak, chips and curry sauce.

As they had no intention of paying I finished up before chaos ensued. On leaving the restaurant four drunk, brogue talking hubbies were making there way up the street.

God help that place after that, what was an inevitable slow motion crash. Hope these same folk visit the OP's restaurant as it seems they deserve their patronage.

Billy86 · 11-09-2017 08:04PM

I think something like an all you can eat has a fair exception rule, should be pay €XX at the door to gain entry type of thing in my opinion. Bit different to a restaurant where you'd have to go back into the kitchen and cook it all yourself to pull that kind of trick.

kurtainsider · 11-09-2017 08:23PM

seamus wrote: »

Standard business practices.

From a restaurant's point of view it's three people. It's 3 seats occupied, 3 sets of cutlery and dishes to be washed, 3 glasses of water, 3 places to be wiped and set, 3 people to be waited on.

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Seamus. Again I can't agree with you. If the proprietor laments having to wash an extra set of cutlery (at zero additional cost) or wipe down an additional place setting can you just imagine what he/she's up to in the kitchen!

Erik Shin · 11-09-2017 08:27PM

kurtainsider wrote: »

Seamus. Again I can't agree with you. If the proprietor laments having to wash an extra set of cutlery (at zero additional cost) or wipe down an additional place setting can you just imagine what he/she's up to in the kitchen!

Hopefully hocking in your mushroom soup!

EPAndlee · 11-09-2017 08:32PM

GLaDOS wrote: »

That's pretty bizzare, especially as sharing pizza would be fairly common.

What kind of a sick individual shares a pizza! Pizzas are for one people

Billy86 · 11-09-2017 08:33PM

EPAndlee wrote: »

What kind of a sick individual shares a pizza! Pizzas are for one people

I is the one peoples!

Erik Shin · 11-09-2017 08:35PM

Billy86 wrote: »

I is the one peoples!

You probably likes pineapple.... you disgust us all !!!

blueser · 11-09-2017 08:35PM

EPAndlee wrote: »

What kind of a sick individual shares a pizza! Pizzas are for one people

LeBash · 11-09-2017 08:41PM

seamus wrote: »

I've definitely heard of restaurants being like this. Doesn't this go back to the whole "four tourists buying a pint and sharing it for an hour" story?

Ultimately where a restaurant sits someone at a table, they expect that person is going to buy something. Two people sharing a single meal are eating into profit margins, which are very tight as it is. So much so that if two people were to share a pizza, it might actually be costing the restaurant money for those people to be sitting there.

The margin on pizza must be bingo numbers. It's bread(probably bought frozen) some tomato sauce, a little cheese and a bit of meet and veg (probably enough to make a half decent sandwich) then they charge 20 quid for it in a lot of places. Then they hairy ape ya for a drink on top.

Abu94 · 11-09-2017 08:45PM

Another fake thread, he honest op, you just made this all up for attention.

lazybones32 · 11-09-2017 08:46PM

Erik Shin wrote: »

And you can be knicked for that don't forget, people seem to think businesses are there to entertain muppets

No, you can't. No contract has been made. If you pick up a bottle of coke in a shop you are not obliged to purchase and the shop isn't required to sell it to you.

Erik Shin · 11-09-2017 08:57PM

lazybones32 wrote: »

No, you can't. No contract has been made. If you pick up a bottle of coke in a shop you are not obliged to purchase and the shop isn't required to sell it to you.

Inaccurate analogy I'm afraid

Billy86 · 11-09-2017 09:09PM

Erik Shin wrote: »

You probably likes pineapple.... you disgust us all !!!

Pineapple AND mushroom... on the same pizza! :pac:

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 11-09-2017 09:10PM

Ffs what's so wrong with two kids sharing an adult sized pizza? If she had one child with her presumably they'd have been seated at the same table.

Billy86 · 11-09-2017 09:11PM

LeBash wrote: »

The margin on pizza must be bingo numbers. It's bread(probably bought frozen) some tomato sauce, a little cheese and a bit of meet and veg (probably enough to make a half decent sandwich) then they charge 20 quid for it in a lot of places. Then they hairy ape ya for a drink on top.

Pretty much, I made a batch of pizzas a while ago and while there was the cheat that the toppings beyond sauce and cheese were 'whatever is left over in the fridge' I think I costed them out to about 80c each at roughly 12" per pizza. Making them on a larger scale would reduce that again significantly, though of course then there are overheads like electricity, staff, rent etc to factor in.

lazybones32 · 11-09-2017 09:27PM

Erik Shin wrote: »

Inaccurate analogy I'm afraid

Contract law.

Academic · 11-09-2017 10:47PM

I would have walked out, but I'd make it clear to the waitress that I understood that it wasn't her fault. Being on the wait staff is a lousy enough job as it is without taking any additional grief from customers for things beyond their control.

robindch · 12-09-2017 12:19AM

Benjamin Green Salesclerk wrote: »

A friend of mine was in a restaurant with her two kids recently and because the pizzas were really big (and quite expensive) she ordered one between the two children. The waitress refused, and said she had to order a meal for each person at the table.

Can I order from the kids' menu?
Oh, you don't have one?
Right, that case, I'll have one adult pizza cut into two smallish pieces - don't want to make my childers obese. Chuck the rest in the doggy bag.
Oh, you can't do that?
Grand, bye.

Jayop · 12-09-2017 12:51AM

Billy86 wrote: »

Pretty much, I made a batch of pizzas a while ago and while there was the cheat that the toppings beyond sauce and cheese were 'whatever is left over in the fridge' I think I costed them out to about 80c each at roughly 12" per pizza. Making them on a larger scale would reduce that again significantly, though of course then there are overheads like electricity, staff, rent etc to factor in.

You must have used the absolute cheapest rank mega bucket cheddar because there's no way you made pizza even on an industrial scale with quality ingredients especially the cheese for 80c each. It's simply not possible.

SnakePlissken · 12-09-2017 08:10AM

robindch wrote: »

Benjamin Green Salesclerk wrote: »

A friend of mine was in a restaurant with her two kids recently and because the pizzas were really big (and quite expensive) she ordered one between the two children. The waitress refused, and said she had to order a meal for each person at the table.

Can I order from the kids' menu?
Oh, you don't have one?
Right, that case, I'll have one adult pizza cut into two smallish pieces - don't want to make my childers obese. Chuck the rest in the doggy bag.
Oh, you can't do that?
Grand, bye.

I'd have to bar you from my establishment for using the word; Childers.

Wildcard7 · 12-09-2017 08:35AM

Jayop wrote: »

I agree that ordering and leaving would be a dick move, but the cost price of three pizzas would be a lot less than a damming TripAdvisor review.

You mean it could actually lead to management/owners noticing and rethinking their business practice?

myshirt · 12-09-2017 08:41AM

I am with the restaurant on this. I put this type of behaviour in the same category as those who ask for half mash half chips when the option is one or the other; people who bring their own food into the cinema; people who order a miwadi and sit and watch the match in a pub; or people who go half coke half diet coke because they are on a diet.

Wildcard7 · 12-09-2017 08:43AM

lazybones32 wrote: »

No, you can't. No contract has been made. If you pick up a bottle of coke in a shop you are not obliged to purchase and the shop isn't required to sell it to you.

I'm afraid if you render the bottle of coke unusable by opening it, that's a slightly different story. Of course you still don't have to buy it at that stage, noone can make you buy something that you don't want to buy. You can just pay for the damage caused and leave the damaged goods behind.

You don't need a contract to get in a situation where you owe someone money. If I throw your window in with a football I can't wriggle out saying "well we don't have a contract, so pay for your own bloody window".

Just out of interest to see how that twisted mind of yours works: At what point do you reckon a contract is made?

a) When you order your food
b) When your food arrives
c) When you take the first bite
d) When they take away your plate
e) When you leave
f) When you grace them with the courtesy of actually paying for your meal
g) When you walk out
h) Up to 30 days after
i) (Your own option here)

suicide_circus · 12-09-2017 08:43AM

LeBash wrote: »

The margin on pizza must be bingo numbers. It's bread(probably bought frozen) some tomato sauce, a little cheese and a bit of meet and veg (probably enough to make a half decent sandwich) then they charge 20 quid for it in a lot of places. Then they hairy ape ya for a drink on top.

Please don't make Cockney rhythming slag references to rape. This condones rape and makes victims less likely to report rape

12-09-2017 08:44AM

I'm with op on it, pretty crazy carry on from the restaurant.

Also i really want pizza now

OldMrBrennan83 · 12-09-2017 08:44AM

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Jayop · 12-09-2017 08:47AM

Wildcard7 wrote: »

You mean it could actually lead to management/owners noticing and rethinking their business practice?

I'm generally not an advocate of negative trip advisor reviews unless absolutely necessary but in this instance it could be justified.

sbsquarepants · 12-09-2017 08:57AM

Deleted User wrote: »

we both started sucking on a long piece , so we ended up kissing.

True story.

We all experiment Conor - there's no harm in it:D

Winterlong · 12-09-2017 09:28AM

Thread inspired me to have a lovely big pizza last night.
I did not share.

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