Brighton restaurant bans diners for eating too much (From The Argus)
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Brighton restaurant bans diners for eating too much
11:30am Tuesday 2nd October 2012 in News By Bill Gardner
Andy Miles, left, and George Dalmon
Two hungry diners have been banned for life from an all-you-can-eat restaurant – for scoffing too much food.
George Dalmon and Andy Miles were told never to come back to Gobi in Middle Street, Brighton, after wolfing down five stir-fry bowls each during a marathon munching session.
The restaurant’s manager angrily accused the pair of “eating him out of business” and claimed they had “destroyed” the buffet station in a frantic rush to gobble everything on the menu.
But ex-rugby player Mr Dalmon, 26, said Gobi should stick to its promise and allow people to eat as much as they want.
He said: “They’ve only got small bowls and you can’t get enough in there so we always go back for more. It’s an all-you-can-eat place so we love it.
“We’ve been eating there for a couple of years but suddenly the owner came to our table in front of all the customers and went absolutely mental. He told us we were eating him out of business and said we were a couple of pigs. I asked him if he was joking but he told us we were banned for life. I couldn’t believe it.”
On its website, the restaurant promises customers they can create their “own individual meal – and eat all you like”.
But Gobi’s manager, who did not wish to be named, admitted he had told the “greedy” pair never to come back and said Tuesday night had been “the final straw”.
He said: “Basically they just come in and pig out. We have put up with them for two years but I’ve had enough.
“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.”
The manager complained the pair would only ever drink water rather than ordering drinks and claimed they would never pay the optional service charge.
He said: “We are not a charity. We are a business. It’s our restaurant and we can tell people not to come back if we don’t want them to.”
Comments(132)
Jeffery687
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11:57am Tue 2 Oct 12
A price is a price. And a deal is a deal. If its ruining your business don't offer it
Therapist
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11:58am Tue 2 Oct 12
Fight_Back
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12:10pm Tue 2 Oct 12
billy goat-gruff
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12:15pm Tue 2 Oct 12
pithound
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12:25pm Tue 2 Oct 12
Alan G Skinner
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12:29pm Tue 2 Oct 12
Crystal Ball
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12:31pm Tue 2 Oct 12
Archie Bun
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12:35pm Tue 2 Oct 12
pperrin
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12:40pm Tue 2 Oct 12
They owner has simply and reasonably said he will not take these two on as customers again.
It is a shame such offers get abused - we all end up with petty rules/regs about 'only so many bowls'' etc and the innocent start feeling guilty instead of relaxed.
MrHove
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12:40pm Tue 2 Oct 12
The manager complained that these two having been doing this for a while? surely that means then that they have been regular customers and have probably therefore paid some of the owners bills?? In this day and age this is the kind of story that puts potential customers off going to these establishments and this could be a bad move by the manager, perhaps sometimes a quiet word in one's ear is better then having a go at someone and therefore leading to a story like this being created.
Alan G Skinner
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12:48pm Tue 2 Oct 12
pperrin wrote:How can you abuse an "all you can eat" policy. If you eat everything you select, you are in no way abusing the policy.
The restaurant have totally honoured their agreement - customers get all they can eat. They owner has simply and reasonably said he will not take these two on as customers again. It is a shame such offers get abused - we all end up with petty rules/regs about 'only so many bowls'' etc and the innocent start feeling guilty instead of relaxed.
pithound
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12:50pm Tue 2 Oct 12
pperrin wrote:Pretzel logic. I hope you never become a legislator.
The restaurant have totally honoured their agreement - customers get all they can eat.
They owner has simply and reasonably said he will not take these two on as customers again.
It is a shame such offers get abused - we all end up with petty rules/regs about 'only so many bowls'' etc and the innocent start feeling guilty instead of relaxed.
Hoarder12345444
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12:57pm Tue 2 Oct 12
spa301 wrote:I don't see they have done anything wrong at all. What a vile manager to tell that to them. They paid for their meals and eat all they can, what's the problem? I would have walked out without paying, disgusting way to treat customers. I sure as hell won't be going there, looks awful anyway. Yes they ate a lot but so what, they are big lads and paid their way, as for not paying for drinks, and the service charge, why should they pay for it??
This pair sound like a right couple of selfish gluttons. These offers, whilst generally good value, are not there to be taken advantage of too the degree this pair seem to have done. Their behaviour spoils it for the rest. No drinks ordered or optional service charge given, for over 2 years......and they feel hard done by!! They sicken me!!
great advert for the guys business!!!
PaulOckenden
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1:05pm Tue 2 Oct 12
BIGWILLYSTYLE
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1:12pm Tue 2 Oct 12
PaulOckenden wrote:a small sign above the door saying "reduced salt" will probably be enough to convince these 2 they don't belong, no need for the expense of new doors
Perhaps the restaurant should just fit a narrower door.
Goldenwight
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1:18pm Tue 2 Oct 12
So I can go to this restaurant and stuff myself stupid for two years without leaving a tip before they will finally lose their tolerance with my behaviour and greed- all the better.
wippasnapper
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1:19pm Tue 2 Oct 12
wippasnapper
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1:22pm Tue 2 Oct 12
scottishb;ue
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1:23pm Tue 2 Oct 12
F in L
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1:33pm Tue 2 Oct 12
"That's all folks!"
Jimmy Stewart's Imaginary Rabbit
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1:38pm Tue 2 Oct 12
But yeah, it's the fault of the restaurant. You can't offer 'All You Can Eat' and then ban people with healthy appetites. That's having your cake and eating it, or rather, not letting other people eat it.
portsladesurlamer
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1:43pm Tue 2 Oct 12
graham_Seagull
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1:51pm Tue 2 Oct 12
Hoarder12345444 wrote:The diners have lost any remaining dignity they may have had by going to the Argus. Pitiful.
spa301 wrote:I don't see they have done anything wrong at all. What a vile manager to tell that to them. They paid for their meals and eat all they can, what's the problem? I would have walked out without paying, disgusting way to treat customers. I sure as hell won't be going there, looks awful anyway. Yes they ate a lot but so what, they are big lads and paid their way, as for not paying for drinks, and the service charge, why should they pay for it??
This pair sound like a right couple of selfish gluttons. These offers, whilst generally good value, are not there to be taken advantage of too the degree this pair seem to have done. Their behaviour spoils it for the rest. No drinks ordered or optional service charge given, for over 2 years......and they feel hard done by!! They sicken me!!
great advert for the guys business!!!
Andy R
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1:55pm Tue 2 Oct 12
PorkBoat
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2:04pm Tue 2 Oct 12
Old Ale Man
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2:29pm Tue 2 Oct 12
Well done to the manager enough is enough.I bet all you that support them are fatties too!!!!!
It was a case of ban them or put up the prices to cover the extra costs those greedies p**s could have put on everyone else.
Gary Manilow
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2:38pm Tue 2 Oct 12
Lionel Hutz: Now, Mrs. Simpson, tell the court in your own words what happened after you and your husband were ejected out of the restaurant.
Marge: Well, we pretty much went straight home.
Lionel Hutz: Mrs. Simpson, remember that you are under oath.
Marge: We drove around until three in the morning looking for another open all-you-can-eat seafood restaurant.
Lionel Hutz: And when you couldn't find one?
Marge: We... went... fishing.
Lionel Hutz: Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, do these sound like the actions of a man whose had ALL he could eat?
Jury: No, no.
Man in Jury: No, that couldn't've been me.
AngelicDevil
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2:54pm Tue 2 Oct 12
Should have let them continue to eat themselves into early graves.
oh dear
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3:13pm Tue 2 Oct 12
getThisCoalitionOut
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3:15pm Tue 2 Oct 12
And charging a "service charge" in a buffet restaurant is another way of getting the public to pay your waiters bills for you - obviously a very bad owner here too.
I will never visit this restaurant. Thank you to these two for letting the rest of us know just how vile this man really is.
Dalmon123
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3:29pm Tue 2 Oct 12
like at gobe in brighton! Last week!.. now I have been looking at some of the comments and some of you just don't get it at all!, it's not about being greedy at all and we was not, the bows are very small so u can only get just a mouth full into them any way!, the point is it says eat as much as u like, me and my friend like to try things on the menu as it says you can make up any thing you wish to try, so like lots of others that's what we do!. We are not pigs at all and we was not trying to eat every thing! On the menu ,and we have payed a tip b4 , it's just a few times we have been in there one of the bosses was very rude and took such a long time getting are drinks and did not even say hello to us so why should we leve a tip for a rude **** bag like that!, and then to come over and call us pigs and say never come back agen but making sure he said it after we payed the bill!. No one should be treated in that way at all we have been going there for some time paying for what we have had, and then he treats us like **** its not on! To make ppl feel like that,
thay have been greedy pigs. and We did not do any thing wrong!....so thats why we called the argous so every one know's what a rude man he is and how he treats paying customers!!.
johnboy1000
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3:32pm Tue 2 Oct 12
service in an effort to be a bit different in a City filled with eating places. Are these two holding out their hands in an effort to look like the starving occupants of Oliver Twist's Workhouse "Please Sir, I want some more?". If so a touch of a reality check would do some good as it would to those who think the behaviour described is reasonable!
graham_Seagull
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3:46pm Tue 2 Oct 12
Dalmon123 wrote:...and you relied on the Argus to present your case? The Argus? reknowned for rubbish journalists unable to spell?
Hello there , I'm George, one of the guys what got told never to come back to the eat as much as you
like at gobe in brighton! Last week!.. now I have been looking at some of the comments and some of you just don't get it at all!, it's not about being greedy at all and we was not, the bows are very small so u can only get just a mouth full into them any way!, the point is it says eat as much as u like, me and my friend like to try things on the menu as it says you can make up any thing you wish to try, so like lots of others that's what we do!. We are not pigs at all and we was not trying to eat every thing! On the menu ,and we have payed a tip b4 , it's just a few times we have been in there one of the bosses was very rude and took such a long time getting are drinks and did not even say hello to us so why should we leve a tip for a rude **** bag like that!, and then to come over and call us pigs and say never come back agen but making sure he said it after we payed the bill!. No one should be treated in that way at all we have been going there for some time paying for what we have had, and then he treats us like **** its not on! To make ppl feel like that,
thay have been greedy pigs. and We did not do any thing wrong!....so thats why we called the argous so every one know's what a rude man he is and how he treats paying customers!!.
Seriously?
getThisCoalitionOut
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3:57pm Tue 2 Oct 12
Even more reason to totally avoid!
kraftwerker
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4:19pm Tue 2 Oct 12
mustaphaLeeko
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4:26pm Tue 2 Oct 12
Well done to the restauranter for flipping, all you can eat deals have always been for sensible eaters who may have a couple of bowls, but not people who appear to just wolf down all the food like starved animals!
I for one shall happily eat there as I'm not a greedy pig like some! lol.
tom servo
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4:30pm Tue 2 Oct 12
Dalmon123 wrote:Hello George, I think you're quite right to expose this place. While you are at it which school did you go to when you were young? I think they need to be exposed too as your grammar is appalling.
Hello there , I'm George, one of the guys what got told never to come back to the eat as much as you
like at gobe in brighton! Last week!.. now I have been looking at some of the comments and some of you just don't get it at all!, it's not about being greedy at all and we was not, the bows are very small so u can only get just a mouth full into them any way!, the point is it says eat as much as u like, me and my friend like to try things on the menu as it says you can make up any thing you wish to try, so like lots of others that's what we do!. We are not pigs at all and we was not trying to eat every thing! On the menu ,and we have payed a tip b4 , it's just a few times we have been in there one of the bosses was very rude and took such a long time getting are drinks and did not even say hello to us so why should we leve a tip for a rude **** bag like that!, and then to come over and call us pigs and say never come back agen but making sure he said it after we payed the bill!. No one should be treated in that way at all we have been going there for some time paying for what we have had, and then he treats us like **** its not on! To make ppl feel like that,
thay have been greedy pigs. and We did not do any thing wrong!....so thats why we called the argous so every one know's what a rude man he is and how he treats paying customers!!.
tom servo
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4:34pm Tue 2 Oct 12
bluemonday
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4:45pm Tue 2 Oct 12
kraftwerker
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4:46pm Tue 2 Oct 12
tom servo
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4:46pm Tue 2 Oct 12
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tooned_in
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4:47pm Tue 2 Oct 12
kraftwerker
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4:54pm Tue 2 Oct 12
MrHove
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5:02pm Tue 2 Oct 12
Also, why are people complaining that they went to the Argus? this newspaper/website has been set up to report local news and this news is relevant to Brighton and Hove.
I stand by the fact that the Mangaer was bang out of line with this and I hope it does create a loss of trade for him - perhaps then he will learn to appreciate customers who are willing to spend money in his establishment.
The two guys deserve praise for going to the Argus with this story as I will now never go to this place as do not feel my money would be appreciated (I would also be worried that I would be eating too much as the bowls are half the size of a normal cereal bowl)
As for the guys only drinking water, whats wrong with that and I also agree with the comments about how the "manager" can justify charging a service charge when there isnt really a table service.....
PorkBoat
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5:18pm Tue 2 Oct 12
Old Ale Man wrote:Its an ALL YOU CAN EAT restaurant, you moron. That means you go in and you have ALL YOU CAN EAT. The manager, and you are 100% wrong.
I know them their the ones that eat all the pies and them fatties won't make old bones greedy p**s never do.
Well done to the manager enough is enough.I bet all you that support them are fatties too!!!!!
It was a case of ban them or put up the prices to cover the extra costs those greedies p**s could have put on everyone else.
PorkBoat
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5:19pm Tue 2 Oct 12
getThisCoalitionOut wrote:Totally agree.
What a disgusting manager and an appalling lack of manners - to speak to any customer in this way shows he should not be the manager of any place that has customers. He doesn't know how to run a restaurant obviously.
And charging a "service charge" in a buffet restaurant is another way of getting the public to pay your waiters bills for you - obviously a very bad owner here too.
I will never visit this restaurant. Thank you to these two for letting the rest of us know just how vile this man really is.
a person
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5:36pm Tue 2 Oct 12
I have eaten at Harvester and I find the size of the bowls way to small .
It is not about wanting loads more as you can go to the counter all you want.
It is about not wanting my salad squashed into a small bowl ,
especially if you want a couple of rolls with it.
I do not see what is wrong with not giving a tip.
After all you do not tip a shop assistant /bus driver /ect .yet you still get a good service from them.
It is up to the manager to pay his staff a decent wage not the customers.
Although if that is the way the manager speaks to the customers I wonder if he treats his staff any better.
Tom V
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5:55pm Tue 2 Oct 12
I'll check out Gobi now as it sounds really good. I bet if you treat the manager and staff with courtesy, you get the same in return.
bluemonday
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6:13pm Tue 2 Oct 12
Tom V wrote:no you won't,you'll get the same as everybody else,just don't ask for more or they'll throw you out
For someone to be thrown out of a restaurant where they were a regular shows that they were not easy customers - no tipping and only ordering free water reflects that. The person cooking the stir fry in front of you is the one who would benefit from the tips and, after cooking so many bowls for these two demanding diners, definitely deserves something. I'll check out Gobi now as it sounds really good. I bet if you treat the manager and staff with courtesy, you get the same in return.
RogerLFC
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6:13pm Tue 2 Oct 12
tengri
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6:22pm Tue 2 Oct 12
oh dear
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6:53pm Tue 2 Oct 12
Fight_Back
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7:39pm Tue 2 Oct 12
oh dear wrote:Exactly the opposite for me - if that's how he treats his paying customers I certainly won't be bothering to eat there.
Surely going to the press has just raised the profile of this restaurant and is more likely to improve their custom overall as a result?! I'd forgotten it was there and now work are planning on a trip! And its in the national news!
bogs
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7:50pm Tue 2 Oct 12
'Which one?
Maxwell's Ghost
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7:58pm Tue 2 Oct 12
Revolting.
qm
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7:59pm Tue 2 Oct 12
plantwoman
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8:02pm Tue 2 Oct 12
Sussex jim
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8:26pm Tue 2 Oct 12
What is not acceptable is those customers who fill their plate up and then leave food because they are full.
And then the drinks. Most restaurants jack up the price of these as well; way above pub prices. And why add a "service charge" which is optional? The customer can always leave a tip.
Thank goodness for the carveries. All you can eat, and normally cheap beer, with no fuss if you just want water.
Old Ale Man
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8:54pm Tue 2 Oct 12
Fight_Back wrote:I will be eating there, happy in the knowledge those 2 fat greedy *i** wont be there in my facce shovelling food down their neck like there's no tomorrow.
oh dear wrote: Surely going to the press has just raised the profile of this restaurant and is more likely to improve their custom overall as a result?! I'd forgotten it was there and now work are planning on a trip! And its in the national news!Exactly the opposite for me - if that's how he treats his paying customers I certainly won't be bothering to eat there.
pebble counter
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9:17pm Tue 2 Oct 12
Barquentine
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9:21pm Tue 2 Oct 12
hubby
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9:22pm Tue 2 Oct 12
Crystal Ball wrote:Just one wafer thin mint?
Remember Mr Creosote?
My favourite Argus story for ages!
Fat B'strds.
tengri
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9:55pm Tue 2 Oct 12
oh dear wrote:You would think so but very quiet in there tonight. At least there will be some happy Argus readers if the place fails.
Surely going to the press has just raised the profile of this restaurant and is more likely to improve their custom overall as a result?! I'd forgotten it was there and now work are planning on a trip! And its in the national news!
John Steed
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10:15pm Tue 2 Oct 12
Maxwell's Ghost
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10:21pm Tue 2 Oct 12
No wonder these two take comfort in a bowl of noodles because I can't see anyone offering them a canoodle.
SirLancelot
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11:25pm Tue 2 Oct 12
Lofaplace
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11:36pm Tue 2 Oct 12
Maxwell's Ghost wrote:I have it on good authority they inspect each others.......
According to that great British institution The Sun newspaper, one in three British men are now so fat they can't see their dic*s. Here are two examples.
No wonder these two take comfort in a bowl of noodles because I can't see anyone offering them a canoodle.
Lofaplace
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11:52pm Tue 2 Oct 12
luaprelkniw
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2:09am Wed 3 Oct 12
tonybee
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2:26am Wed 3 Oct 12
Stomachs stapled
Why should a couple of obese idiots
spoil it for the rest of us ?
tonybee
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2:26am Wed 3 Oct 12
Stomachs stapled
Why should a couple of obese idiots
spoil it for the rest of us ?
Old Ladys Gin
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3:55am Wed 3 Oct 12
As someone who lives in two countries I find the UK attitude to tipping odd to say the least, and service charges as well.
If someone gives you a bill you pay the bill and that's it. There should be no tipping and no service charges.
You don't tip a bus driver, then why tip a taxi driver?
It's the customer who should be rewarded for giving their custom not the waiter/barman or taxi driver for simply doing their job.
OK fine if the bill is 19,90 I wouldn't expect the change but no service is worth ten percent or more.
boo2005
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4:31am Wed 3 Oct 12
this sort is the selfish scrounger of society, to grab what they can get, at little or no cost to themselves!
it's one of the lowest forms of human behavior!
boo2005
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4:56am Wed 3 Oct 12
graham_Seagull wrote:'graham_Seagull', your composition about the affairs tells a real story, and from what I've read of yours and the Argus heading, I'm on the side of this restaurant!
Dalmon123 wrote:...and you relied on the Argus to present your case? The Argus? reknowned for rubbish journalists unable to spell?
Hello there , I'm George, one of the guys what got told never to come back to the eat as much as you
like at gobe in brighton! Last week!.. now I have been looking at some of the comments and some of you just don't get it at all!, it's not about being greedy at all and we was not, the bows are very small so u can only get just a mouth full into them any way!, the point is it says eat as much as u like, me and my friend like to try things on the menu as it says you can make up any thing you wish to try, so like lots of others that's what we do!. We are not pigs at all and we was not trying to eat every thing! On the menu ,and we have payed a tip b4 , it's just a few times we have been in there one of the bosses was very rude and took such a long time getting are drinks and did not even say hello to us so why should we leve a tip for a rude **** bag like that!, and then to come over and call us pigs and say never come back agen but making sure he said it after we payed the bill!. No one should be treated in that way at all we have been going there for some time paying for what we have had, and then he treats us like **** its not on! To make ppl feel like that,
thay have been greedy pigs. and We did not do any thing wrong!....so thats why we called the argous so every one know's what a rude man he is and how he treats paying customers!!.
Seriously?
Maxwell's Ghost
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6:34am Wed 3 Oct 12
One small bowl of this type of food is probably your whole days calorie intake.
Also having lived in south east Asia, the bowls are tiny, tiny because what goes in them is high in calories and energy and they only eat more if they use more calories.
However, the cultural difference about food in the western world is that we eat even when we don't need the calories because we are a nation of gluttons.
George, you are young, your life is ahead of you, keep the small bowl and learn to eat properly.
Do you need more bowls of food or just want it?
davyboy
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7:15am Wed 3 Oct 12
graham_Seagull
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8:25am Wed 3 Oct 12
boo2005 wrote:I'm not sure what you mean....pray explain?
graham_Seagull wrote:'graham_Seagull', your composition about the affairs tells a real story, and from what I've read of yours and the Argus heading, I'm on the side of this restaurant!
Dalmon123 wrote:...and you relied on the Argus to present your case? The Argus? reknowned for rubbish journalists unable to spell?
Hello there , I'm George, one of the guys what got told never to come back to the eat as much as you
like at gobe in brighton! Last week!.. now I have been looking at some of the comments and some of you just don't get it at all!, it's not about being greedy at all and we was not, the bows are very small so u can only get just a mouth full into them any way!, the point is it says eat as much as u like, me and my friend like to try things on the menu as it says you can make up any thing you wish to try, so like lots of others that's what we do!. We are not pigs at all and we was not trying to eat every thing! On the menu ,and we have payed a tip b4 , it's just a few times we have been in there one of the bosses was very rude and took such a long time getting are drinks and did not even say hello to us so why should we leve a tip for a rude **** bag like that!, and then to come over and call us pigs and say never come back agen but making sure he said it after we payed the bill!. No one should be treated in that way at all we have been going there for some time paying for what we have had, and then he treats us like **** its not on! To make ppl feel like that,
thay have been greedy pigs. and We did not do any thing wrong!....so thats why we called the argous so every one know's what a rude man he is and how he treats paying customers!!.
Seriously?
For the record, I'm not on the side of the restaurant (probably underwhleming customer service) nor on the side of the 'customers' in this case (lack of dignity is pretty clear on their part).
It's a rather sad commentary on the state of the Nation.
Fairfax Sakes
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8:44am Wed 3 Oct 12
F in L
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9:31am Wed 3 Oct 12
I am sure the two gluttons will find another place to stuff your bovine faces.
I often wonder, "What would Jesus do?" .....If you answer .....
"walk into a bar and only order water"
You are funny, but you are missing the point"
Bless you x
Nosfaratu
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10:24am Wed 3 Oct 12
Amazing, 80+ comments on a story of so little value. It will be on TV next.
gusset snatcher
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10:50am Wed 3 Oct 12
Number Six
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11:39am Wed 3 Oct 12
Nosfaratu wrote:Don't know about TV but it's on Jeremy Vine. I suppose with the money from the Argus and now this they'll be able to afford a proper restaurant, not one that caters to the greedy and the tightfisted
I actually prefer 'Cafe Rouge' !
Amazing, 80+ comments on a story of so little value. It will be on TV next.
Godsboy1800
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12:55pm Wed 3 Oct 12
When 2 people rob the all you can eat bar to the point others have to wait to get food, losing 2 ungrateful customers is not worth losing all the one's that have to wait because they are takeing all the food at once.Taking to much is only a part of what these 2 are abusing, give the manager a break, he would not be in business if he were unhospitable.
Look at the picture of them holding out thier hands, they have no respect for themselfs, and I'm sure no one else.
davidbrianjones
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1:02pm Wed 3 Oct 12
1) an "optional service charge" , particularly one where the manager gets cross if you never pay it, is a sign of a restaurant which wants to rip off its customers. A fair honest establishment just lets its customers tip the waiter if they wish - and for whatever reason. It certainly does not put the customer under any kind of pressure.
2) Good, fair restaurants such as many Indian restaurants in Brighton and Hove and for example Food for Friends in the lanes have been going for DECADES. Those who really have to count every penny either have the wrong food concept, or are just plain unfriendly - as indeed this one seems to be.
I like to try out the many eateries in Brighton but I shall be avoiding this one. Rudeness to cutomers - whatever they have done - is completely wrong, and will lead to you going bust at some time.
davidbrianjones
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1:13pm Wed 3 Oct 12
1) Regarding the rudeness:
"Need to learn appropriate manner when dealing with customers. Manager is rude, rude, rude."
and
2) regarding "all you can eat" ....
"After two or three trips to the food counter, over to the frying plate area, and then back, you start to lag a bit. The bowls hold about as much food as a big teacup, and even though we were there early evening, with only about 10 other diners in the place, the queues got longer and longer. We had about three little bowlfuls and gave up.
Not as much all you can eat as all you can queue! "
Stu
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1:51pm Wed 3 Oct 12
Number Six
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2:05pm Wed 3 Oct 12
Cabin fever
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2:40pm Wed 3 Oct 12
tom servo wrote:Is that the reason you left out the apostrophe in 'can't', and the commas in your other post?
Sorry... that was mean. It cant be easy to type with sausage fingers.
Those in glass houses...
Is the food in this place any good?
Barquentine
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3:13pm Wed 3 Oct 12
Fairfax Sakes
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4:33pm Wed 3 Oct 12
Godsboy1800 wrote:Yeah, and I hate all those cheapskates hanging around Bargain Booze. All they seem to be interested in is getting bargains on buying booze.
I have been in resturant management for over 20 years, I took a lot of abuse from a small percent of customers to make money, as I am sure so has this manager.
When 2 people rob the all you can eat bar to the point others have to wait to get food, losing 2 ungrateful customers is not worth losing all the one's that have to wait because they are takeing all the food at once.Taking to much is only a part of what these 2 are abusing, give the manager a break, he would not be in business if he were unhospitable.
Look at the picture of them holding out thier hands, they have no respect for themselfs, and I'm sure no one else.
Ever heard of "target market"??
F in L
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4:54pm Wed 3 Oct 12
Cabin fever wrote:I have not heard of the expression "Those in glass houses... Is the food in this place any good?" However I am sure it means something to somebody.
tom servo wrote:Is that the reason you left out the apostrophe in 'can't', and the commas in your other post?
Sorry... that was mean. It cant be easy to type with sausage fingers.
Those in glass houses...
Is the food in this place any good?
I think that bovine featured twosome may well up being known as the Gobi Fat B'stards
BrightonBenson
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6:20pm Wed 3 Oct 12
It's obviously their attitude and behavior at the buffet. Pushing others out the way. One only has to look at them in that stupid photo to realise what a pair of buffoons we are dealing with here.
And the half hearted attempt to defend themselves with their comments here is laughable also. Talk about terrible English language skills showing you up to be a moron.
Glad that this is being picked up nationally and the two rude, delusional morons are being laughed at rather than supported.
I for one will be eating in Gobi next time I'm in Brighton to show my approval.
And I will make sure to eat five bowls in their honour!
Nathan_Adler
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6:49pm Wed 3 Oct 12
Seems like a revolting pig of a man.
Learn some table manners!!!
davidbrianjones
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7:14pm Wed 3 Oct 12
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davidbrianjones
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7:17pm Wed 3 Oct 12
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davidbrianjones
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7:17pm Wed 3 Oct 12
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davidbrianjones
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7:22pm Wed 3 Oct 12
"all you can eat Buffet
not mean all day buffet
you no come stay 4 hour
you eat - you go home"
hahaha!!!!! (found it on Google with
"all you can eat funny"
farang
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7:38pm Wed 3 Oct 12
The manager should be the one being shown the door for his stupid incompetence!
My advice guys is don't bother with this place anymore.
mrbones69
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8:42pm Wed 3 Oct 12
Saamie
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8:55pm Wed 3 Oct 12
goonergirl23
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11:33pm Wed 3 Oct 12
KarenT
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1:50am Thu 4 Oct 12
farang
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7:00am Thu 4 Oct 12
goonergirl23 wrote:wholeheartedly agree
See, I cant understand what these guys have done wrong. They went to a restaurant that says you can eat as much as you like for £12, so they did, what wrong with that? Trouble is these restaurants want it all ways dont they? they are banking on people only having one meal of noodles for £12 and ordering drinks which bump the bill up, well tough, the boys played you at your own game, good on ya lads and I would complain further as they have advertised 'all you can eat'.
Cabin fever
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7:16am Thu 4 Oct 12
F in L wrote:Your attempt at humour is admirable. Unfortunately the fact that the two parts you highlight are separated by a line, and the second starts with a capital letter indicates that they are not linked.
Cabin fever wrote:I have not heard of the expression "Those in glass houses... Is the food in this place any good?" However I am sure it means something to somebody.
tom servo wrote:Is that the reason you left out the apostrophe in 'can't', and the commas in your other post?
Sorry... that was mean. It cant be easy to type with sausage fingers.
Those in glass houses...
Is the food in this place any good?
I think that bovine featured twosome may well up being known as the Gobi Fat B'stards
Also:
"I think that bovine featured twosome may well up being known as the Gobi Fat B'stards"
People in glass houses...
JGEvans
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11:03am Thu 4 Oct 12
Feel so sorry for the manager (although they'll probably experience a surge in business). The issue is their behaviour not the amount they eat. I usually have about seven bowls there - they are tiny little breakfast bowls.
These two allegedly mess up the whole buffet area and push in the queues.
Of course they're within their rights to not order drinks, as is the manager to refuse them service. If they like it there enough to keep returning over a two year period why wouldn't they want to support the place by tipping etc. - they would've befriended the manager and probably become his favourite customers.
runnergirl
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12:43pm Thu 4 Oct 12
kfirette
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1:12pm Thu 4 Oct 12
kfirette
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1:12pm Thu 4 Oct 12
J2R2RJ
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1:29pm Thu 4 Oct 12
It is not the amount they eat but the manner they behave which matters to most customers, and these two push other customers out of the way - which George Dalmon is probably used to when playing a game of rugby, but there is no need to behave in a macho manner when having a meal. This would be my key factor for banning them.
This is the first time I have heard of any action like this against such customers and I admire the management for standing firm with these two ‘filthy pigs’.
After all, it is the management’s discretion as to whether someone can be served, and not a right to demand being served.
Woteva_29
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2:11pm Thu 4 Oct 12
May be the manager should consider charging by the bowl - because it is pretty obvious that this is not an all you can eat buffet.
Why the hell should people have to pay service charge when they are getting up and putting together their own meal. I always feel pressurised to give a good tip even when I feel that the service was rubbish.
This manager is very lucky that the two lads only went to the Argus, because if it was me that had been verbally assaulted by him I have would have put the buffet over his head!
I could understand the managers reaction if they were wasting food. But if your going to say your an all you can eat buffet then you need to honour that.
farang
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3:07pm Thu 4 Oct 12
Funnily enough the restaurants catch line is "a restaurant experience like no other" and the menu clearly states "eat all you like". Too right!, they charge a fortune for drinks and the food. eg if you had just one glass of wine it would bump up the bill to nearly £16 so obviously the service charge is hidden in that price.
It may well be good quality but an 'a la carte' menu would be about the same price so the gaff is clearly a rip-off.
As an afterthought, of course any publicity is good publicity and I believe that is what this story is - viral marketing.
Thumper Hove
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4:06pm Thu 4 Oct 12
These two greedy morons deserved to be banned - they should have been brought up by their parents better and behaved with dignity in a restaurant, rather than pushing everyone out of the way in order to get as much of the food as possible.
I also love how morbidly obese people now call themselves "ex rugby players"....that is not an excuse to be fat.
F in L
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4:29pm Thu 4 Oct 12
Thumper Hove wrote:EXACTLY.......
"All you can Eat" is an offer, not a challenge.
These two greedy morons deserved to be banned - they should have been brought up by their parents better and behaved with dignity in a restaurant, rather than pushing everyone out of the way in order to get as much of the food as possible.
I also love how morbidly obese people now call themselves "ex rugby players"....that is not an excuse to be fat.
Headline 'Brighton restaurant bans diners for eating too much'
They missed out the words ...'like oafish Pigs.'
Ex rugby players...Hmmm Which team ? When? I am an Ex Rugby Player having played for my School, this does not entitle me to become;
a)FAT
b)OAFISH
c)UNCOUTH
I am gald that at least with their well publicised porky features, that other Restraunteurs and diners alike will easily recognise them. If I was either of them I would not take a canoe trip anytime soon particularly .Georgie Dalmon......."I bet you can squeal like a pig. Let's squeal. Squeal now. Squeal. Squeal.'...and Andy Miles..." He has a purty mouth'
Farouche
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7:23pm Thu 4 Oct 12
Don't they get the enormous humiliation they should experience at being exposed in this way. Thank God I don't know people like that...
Farouche
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4:47pm Fri 5 Oct 12
Paulie Walnuts wrote:You tell it how it is, Paulie! Nice one!
You can just tell by looking at them they sit at home all day playing on their consoles eating junk food, not cleaning up after themselves, and only going out and 'socialising' when there's an 'all you can eat' offer on.
You disgusting fat lard-ridden gluttonites.
vogon1
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6:27pm Fri 5 Oct 12
2. Don't bleat to the local press about someone screwing you over. Most of us get screwed over by someone every single day. Most of us don't call the local hack about it - we just deal with it.
3. This article, although fascinating, is not newsworthy.
Farouche
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6:37pm Fri 5 Oct 12
vogon1 wrote:I agree the article is end-of-the-line and meretricious, but it did get on the BBC national news too. The obsession with trivia and ephemera must surely be nothing new to you?
1. The offer is ' all you can eat '. Don't make the offer and then bleat about someone taking advantage of it.
2. Don't bleat to the local press about someone screwing you over. Most of us get screwed over by someone every single day. Most of us don't call the local hack about it - we just deal with it.
3. This article, although fascinating, is not newsworthy.
ParkerP
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9:33pm Fri 5 Oct 12
The manager plainly demonstrates his poor judgement and awful manners in calling out these guys, loudly and in front of other customers, to announce that he's not pleased at their taking his offer at face value and are no longer welcome so what's the point of defending him? Right, there is none. That means those who are defending the restaurant or manager are falt-out idiots or they have some kind of hidden agenda.
Perhaps if it was two, bony old women who got turned away you'd be all up in arms but since it's, for you, conveniently two big guys you see a chance to chastise them for how much they weigh. I'd bet half of you crazy sods are just as big or bigger.
I'll bet there aren't many people looking forward to an experience like those two guys had so the restaurant is living on borrowed time.
By the way, the story's made it's way to the Huffington Post which means it's out of your **** hands now. Let the US be the final judge as usual, ok?
ParkerP
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9:36pm Fri 5 Oct 12
Capt. Sensiblé
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11:34pm Fri 5 Oct 12
ParkerP wrote:Peter Westgate accuses the pair of 'eating him out of business' yet lives in a high-value property opposite Cardinal Newman school (public information) and can afford to leave his restaurant to go on holiday? Sounds like he is the one who is greedy.
Hello there. USA finally checking in on this topic. Don't get your knickers is a bunch but a lot of you chiming in on this seem to have missed a point that's plain as night and day. Manager of an all-you-can-eat restaurant tells two patrons they they can't have all they can eat, ergo, ipso facto, the manager is at fault and that's the end of the story.
The manager plainly demonstrates his poor judgement and awful manners in calling out these guys, loudly and in front of other customers, to announce that he's not pleased at their taking his offer at face value and are no longer welcome so what's the point of defending him? Right, there is none. That means those who are defending the restaurant or manager are falt-out idiots or they have some kind of hidden agenda.
Perhaps if it was two, bony old women who got turned away you'd be all up in arms but since it's, for you, conveniently two big guys you see a chance to chastise them for how much they weigh. I'd bet half of you crazy sods are just as big or bigger.
I'll bet there aren't many people looking forward to an experience like those two guys had so the restaurant is living on borrowed time.
By the way, the story's made it's way to the Huffington Post which means it's out of your **** hands now. Let the US be the final judge as usual, ok?
However, I don't think either of the chaps in the article are in danger of dying of starvation.
I'd call it a no-score draw and leave it at that - everyone in this article is a loser.
gnarlychaos
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12:20am Sat 6 Oct 12
F in L wrote:LoL
AND......, as Porky Pig once said
"That's all folks!"
I.d of given him a tip.
A straight **** off.
gheese77
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10:35am Sat 6 Oct 12
Farouche
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11:43am Sat 6 Oct 12
Barquentine
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3:30pm Sat 6 Oct 12
Barquentine
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3:32pm Sat 6 Oct 12
runnergirl
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5:07pm Sat 6 Oct 12
Paulie Walnuts wrote:Well, you sound like a fine-looking kind of guy. Why don't you send in a photo of your svelte self so we can all agree what healthy-looking specimen you are? At least no-one will then lower themselves to your current level and hurl insults at you.
You can just tell by looking at them they sit at home all day playing on their consoles eating junk food, not cleaning up after themselves, and only going out and 'socialising' when there's an 'all you can eat' offer on.
You disgusting fat lard-ridden gluttonites.
boundsgreenboyz
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10:22am Sun 7 Oct 12
Number Six
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6:43pm Sun 7 Oct 12
F in L
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12:35am Mon 8 Oct 12
F in L
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12:35am Mon 8 Oct 12
Woteva_29
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1:59pm Mon 8 Oct 12
runnergirl wrote:Was thinking exactly the same as that runnergirl. Nice one! :)
Paulie Walnuts wrote:Well, you sound like a fine-looking kind of guy. Why don't you send in a photo of your svelte self so we can all agree what healthy-looking specimen you are? At least no-one will then lower themselves to your current level and hurl insults at you.
You can just tell by looking at them they sit at home all day playing on their consoles eating junk food, not cleaning up after themselves, and only going out and 'socialising' when there's an 'all you can eat' offer on.
You disgusting fat lard-ridden gluttonites.
spa301 says...
11:45am Tue 2 Oct 12
These offers, whilst generally good value, are not there to be taken advantage of too the degree this pair seem to have done. Their behaviour spoils it for the rest. No drinks ordered or optional service charge given, for over 2 years......and they feel hard done by!! They sicken me!!