35 Of The Nastiest Things That Have Actually Happened At Different All-You-Can-Eat Buffets

Bon appetit is now Bye appetite

Chelsi

• Published in Interesting
• June 17, 2022

Working in the food service industry is not a job for everyone. They don't earn enough wages to deal with everything that they have to go through on a daily basis.

Reading some of the horror stories they shared online has been really eye-opening. Just when we think we can't go any lower, we prove ourselves wrong.

People in the food service industry do not deserve the kind of treatment they receive from the rest of us. They are only trying to make a living but some of us treat them worse than the gum we stick underneath the table.

They get yelled at and they have to rely on tips to afford basic necessities. Some customers expect them to bend over backward to accommodate every silly request they can think of.

The cliché that customers are always right needs to be retired and forgotten. It just contributes to the lifetime's worth of horror stories food service workers are capable of sharing.

Some of these stories came to light in a Reddit forum. Someone asked all-you-can-eat buffet workers to reveal some of the worst things they have seen other people do at their restaurants.

If you think eating dry cereal and then chugging milk to wash it down is barbaric, then these stories will change your mind. Guess what people will do to chocolate fountains when given free rein over them?

Here is the question that launched what can only be described as the Sloppy Horror Show:

1. An amateur competitive eater determined to get banned from all buffets in his area

2. If you think double-dipping is bad then we fervently hope you never come across this person

3. Were they green, had turtle shells, and named after famous painters?

4. Eat until you have no stomach acid left. What a bargain!

5. Those cinnamon rolls must have been real good

6. This can't be good

Ah, the Andy Dwyer method

7. That's the best part!

8. Mean Girls prequel

9. Don't worry dear, she just had nails done

10. The Mystery Meat on Tuesday is no longer unidentified

11. We finally found the cost-cutting solution that allows them to offer a lot of fried "chicken"

12. The pastry section seems relatively calm

The steak section isn't doing a lot of cooking and the salad bar is a one-way ticket to the ER

13. People loooooove their crab legs...

... so much so that they're willing to literally flip a table when it runs out

14. Can you do the math on how many pizzas it took before his guts went nuclear?

15. I found a new fear

16. People who overestimate how much food they can take and use "sneaky" ways to cover up their food waste

17. We only take Visa or Mastercard. Also, kids.

18. So far nothing unusual...

... and that is just disgusting

19. That place is nice unless you mind a little spit in your soup

20. Did the plate not offer enough surface area for his chicken wings?

21. That's where all the flavor lives

22. Did the old man eat all of the "guacamole"?

23. Red Lobster shrimp induced heart attack

24. So, so fresh

25. Don't know which is better: trash salad or moldy fruit bowl?

26. That's a move that will land you your own cooking show

27. Eureka! An all-ranch restaurant! A mix of random food and unlimited ranch on tap!

28. That pony behaved better than the other half of people in this list

29. Should be glad the baby wasn't drenched in ranch yet

30. Maybe he was his mom's food tester

31. That's why they call him Mash Mouth back in high school

32. It's the only way to ensure the entire strawberry was covered in chocolate

33. Breaking news: we are now fasting for a whole week

34. Don't worry, you can still have all of the meat. I'm only eating the skin. I am that selfless. You're welcome.

35. That's what we call sh*t and run

Suffice to say, we are not planning to eat at any buffet in the foreseeable future. This disgusting list could also potentially stop us from eating ever again.

I feel a little better about myself knowing that I am none of the people above. Don't eat at any sketchy buffets and do a perimeter check; if you see a guy scooping out chicken wings and using his shirt as a plate, run away as fast as you can.

Chelsi