3 Years of Service
It does feel like "all you can eat" is the restaurant's attempt at gambling.There have been a few attempts at "all you can eat" restaurants in my town. I went once with some friends to one of them an ate 8 pizzas for 9€ aprox. And that's what I ate, A friend ate a whole tray of shrimp(23€/kg) and small lobsters(15€/kg) and the others did not fall behind. I guess the idea was to make a profit from the drinks(under 15c/unit provider to 2€/unit customer). It did not go well
The one that lasted the longest as such closed after 4 months, the rest reinvented themselves as "all you can eat" one day a week from 8AM-11AM and normal restaurant/buffet the rest of the time or similar patterns.
The closest one I know of is 1 hour in car away if you take the highway, 3 hours through the old road, which in Europe's distance is VERY FAR AWAY.
They're hoping that for each grandkid that eats everything in sight, that there's a crowd of grandmas and grampas that pay full price and eat 2 toasts.
I've rarely seen "all you can eat" stay for more than a few years. Some... but rare.
Fair enough, so let me rephrase the discussion.No, that is a cult. truth and facts doesn't change only our perception of them
What is the predictor of behaviour? Not SHOULD as a predictor... IS...
I'll use myself as an example to make sure I'm downgrading the intensity. (my point is to go hmm and think, not pick a fight).
So, what is the predictor of me being punched in the nose:
The Truth or Fact of whether or not I slept with the neighbour's wife? (as if I've got that kinda game... anyways... that was a tangent)
The Belief of whether or not I slept with the neighbour's wife?
SHOULD Facts matter doesn't factor into it... thought it... should... (ba-doom tch... setting the tone here)
The predictor of fist meets my face is the BELIEF that the neighbour thinks I've slept with his wife.
NOW... if there was a way to make Truth and Fact matter... I'd love to hear it. I'd be all for it.
But, to go back to your example, they may be cults, but that doesn't change the pain they inflict on my nose...
(Again, I hope this wasn't too harsh... It was meant as an intellectual exercise... hard to convey emotions through text when you're me).