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Gobi restaurant in Brighton, England offers all-you-can-eat Mongolian Barbecue for just £12 (or about $19). Well, unless your name is either George Dalmon or Andy Miles. Why? Because George and Andy have been going there for years, eating five plates a sitting. The owner finally had enough and banned them for life. What's so wrong with a couple of big dudes being friends and stuffing their faces? Let's hear both sides of the story.

What does "All you can eat" mean? It means "ALL YOU CAN EAT"! (stole)

5 Plates? Sissies.

 Jihadin wrote:

Gobi restaurant in Brighton, England offers all-you-can-eat Mongolian Barbecue for just £12 (or about $19). Well, unless your name is either George Dalmon or Andy Miles. Why? Because George and Andy have been going there for years, eating five plates a sitting. The owner finally had enough and banned them for life. What's so wrong with a couple of big dudes being friends and stuffing their faces? Let's hear both sides of the story.

What does "All you can eat" mean? It means "ALL YOU CAN EAT"! (stole)

Life imitating art?

Gobi Manager wrote:They spoil everything and they are in such a hurry to beat everyone to the food. We are supposed to be a buffet but they eat everything out of the bowls before people can get there.

We just can’t keep doing this.

Apparently for this restaurant / buffet "All you can eat!" was written on the sign as "All you can eat . . .". No one bothered to ask what the ellipses omitted. Turns out (in the restaurant's back room under the bag of uncooked noodles) is the rest of the sign: "All you can eat -- so long as you don't eat more than the $20 you have paid for the food!". This was quickly followed by various bureaucratic definitions of the "cost of food" and what "food" and "eat" mean along with various penalties for breaching the otherwise unknowingly signed contract. This is akin to a retail store banning someone because they browse too much without buying (costs to keep the place open after all).

Watch, those two will probably have been eating the amount of food that would have been otherwise thrown out at the end of each day.

EDIT (above post): For eating 5 plates of food each sitting for multiple years they are comparatively "skinny".

I know when I was in school, prior to a football game, myself and round abouts half the team went to an "all you can eat" chinese buffet in town... We also got kicked out for eating too much. Then again, when your entire offensive and defensive line is eating its hard NOT to eat the restaurant dry of food.

Is "tipping" done in UK?

 Jihadin wrote:
Is "tipping" done in UK?

No, it's just a city in China.

 Jihadin wrote:
Is "tipping" done in UK?

Depends where you are, it's not as common as in america, and not where you serve yourself.

 Manchu wrote:

Gobi Manager wrote:They spoil everything and they are in such a hurry to beat everyone to the food. We are supposed to be a buffet but they eat everything out of the bowls before people can get there.

We just can’t keep doing this.

I read the BBC report on thee guys the other day. Both are supposed to be in their twenties! I was thinking mid thirties!

The owner has done them a favour. They can now push the old uns out the way at the fresh fruit and veg Isle at their local supermarket.

On the other hand, If they stay in the restaurant all day they aren't breaking their license conditions hanging around outside the school gates.

BAH.... I have been banned from such places before.... at least one for life.(I understand my photo is still on the wall in one place.)
BIG DEAL. find another place. or make arrangements, like I did, to pay extra.
Of course those were my younger days, and I was known to spend @2 hours just eating.... 7-10 plates average.

I think we can all agree that all you can eat is one of the best inventions, ever.

I saw the original article (A photo of it) and it seemed they just pigged out and didn't but anything else and were behaving like pigs, At Least according to the owner. And restaurants do reserve the right to refuse service so I think it was fair

Yup, the Restraunt is well within their rights to do this, of course people could possably sue them for false advertising. "I was expecting 'All you can eat' and its clearly not that"

I must say those guys are doing a decent job of working off those 5 plates a day.


And seriously, food is cheap. These guys couldn't possably be hurting profit margins.

Wish Golden Corral here in the states would take up that policy, there's some people in there who do NOT need to be eating all they can eat.

 KalashnikovMarine wrote:
Wish Golden Corral here in the states would take up that policy, there's some people in there who do NOT need to be eating all they can eat.

Maybe they need to install narrow doors. If you pay the price of the meal and can still fit through the doors, its all you can eat.

While I agree that they should be able to make such calls, I think saying someone is eating too much at an all you can eat location is stupid. They should either just charge them extra or take the buffet sign down.

Now if they're just being social pariahs then I can see why the manager wouldn't want them there.

WEll it says all you can eat. The store owner said seven plates is all they can eat. Whats the problem?

Hanith wrote:
For eating 5 plates of food each sitting for multiple years they are comparatively "skinny".

God Bless America!



Compared to what? That one kid is a right fat bastard!

 Albatross wrote:

Hanith wrote:
For eating 5 plates of food each sitting for multiple years they are comparatively "skinny".

God Bless America!



Compared to what? That one kid is a right fat bastard!

Thats just chubby. We've got plenty of people much more overweight then that guy.

I've seen 5th graders fatter then that guy.

 Necroshea wrote:

Now if they're just being social pariahs then I can see why the manager wouldn't want them there.

Yeah, if they're eating out of buffet dishes then they're a health risk. I'm somewhat surprised that hasn't been the main point of note on the part of the restaurant.

 Grey Templar wrote:

 KalashnikovMarine wrote:
Wish Golden Corral here in the states would take up that policy, there's some people in there who do NOT need to be eating all they can eat.

Maybe they need to install narrow doors. If you pay the price of the meal and can still fit through the doors, its all you can eat.

Someone might get trapped inside!

It is like UNLIMITED INTERNETS... subject to fair usage policies which means you can only go on the internet for 20 seconds once a month

So basically the sign needs to be "All you can eat*" instead of "All you can eat"?

Thought this was going to be about Von Miller's Eat Greedy sack dance.

I've been banned from 4 all-you-can-drink in 2 hours places in Japan. 1 in Tokyo, 2 in Kanagawa and 1 in Kyushu. One for breaking more than 4 glasses ( a bit sloppy, I'll admit) and the other 3 for being able to hammer back 12+ drinks for $15. ( I guess 12+ drinks and 4+ glasses at the one)

I'm still the drinking champion in Omura, Nagasaki, for drinking 36 cans of beer in 5 and a half hours (My eyes looked like cherry tomatoes set into my eye sockets by the end of that bender). I got that 'belt' over 7 years ago. I could still walk out to the car, but passed out once I got in. Super hangover though. I think I stayed in bed for like 19 hours after that.

Now that I'm a born again Christian (just kidding), now that I got old and smartened up, benders and gluttony are terrible things. Looking at the picture of the two poor 15 stone victims, the owner did them a favour. I blame the victims. Cue the Gailbraithe.

 Khornholio wrote:

I'm still the drinking champion in Omura, Nagasaki, for drinking 36 cans of beer in 5 and a half hours (My eyes looked like cherry tomatoes set into my eye sockets by the end of that bender). I got that 'belt' over 7 years ago. I could still walk out to the car, but passed out once I got in. Super hangover though. I think I stayed in bed for like 19 hours after that.

The pint cans or the little coke sized ones? If its the former you are some kind of god amongst men (but with a liver the size and texture of a walnut).

We need to start issuing unicycles to people.

That would have been one of the most one sided fights ever.

 Albatross wrote:

Compared to what? That one kid is a right fat bastard!

You don't know what fat is until you browse through a Mid-Western Wal-Mart around 7:00 pm. Or go anywhere before noon on Black Friday (and manage to survive traffic).

Caution, the following adhere to stereotypes and are both funny and nauseating at the same time.


This guy isn't fat; he just gives no feths. I give him


Only in America. . . can being a fat slob be considered a physical disability warranting handicap parking and social security. Sometimes I hate my fellow civilians.