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Pizza Hut Buffet

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IAKnowyou · 14/10/2024 17:46

Posting here to hopefully get some quick answers.

So I will be going to Pizza Hut for the buffet, at the weekend with my child for one of her friend's parties.
There's a few of us going, and I've had a look online and at weekends it is 15.99 per adult and 10.99 for children !
I am absolutely not going to eat 15.99 worth of pizza! And I doubt my child will eat £11 worth.
Would I be unreasonable to just pay for my child and maybe have a slice of pizza or 2?
I know they charge different per head to stop this. But how do they police this ??
It's not a huge deal, but I would definitely like to know before I go, and like to know if other people do this or not ?
Thanks !

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LuckySantangelo35 · 14/10/2024 20:43

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@Ufcears

yeah I think Op ordering a pizza for her and her daughter to share is the best option.

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IAKnowyou · 14/10/2024 20:43

@zeitweilig you can go if you like. You've added way more than needed, especially if you're not enjoying it anymore.

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dreamer24 · 14/10/2024 20:43

IAKnowyou · 14/10/2024 20:40

@Differentstarts again, you don't have to join in if you do not wish.
If you've given your view, and now are not enjoying the thread, feel free to leave it and find one that takes your fancy. I won't hold you hostage. (Awkward)

Yes. It does make me wonder why people declare threads cringey / embarrassing and yet... remain on them to announce this? Surely just ... leave? 🤷‍♀️

zeitweilig · 14/10/2024 20:42

IAKnowyou · 14/10/2024 20:36

@zeitweilig who have I insulted, besides calling you a fun sponge ...?
It's nice to have a bit of banter. I didn't expect to be shot down for asking if I'd be thrown out for having a slice or 2 of pizza 😂
Now I know how awfully unreasonable I have been to think this, I am having a laugh.

Sure.
Just stop.

TwigletsAndRadishes · 14/10/2024 20:42

The buffet has a decent salad bar but the pizza is pretty terrible, mostly thick, soggy bread base and hardly any toppings. I went last year for the first time in donkey's years and it was terrible. They were REALLY slow at bringing out fresh pizzas. Most of the time there was only a margarita or a vegetarian one available, dried up and luke warm. When they eventually brought a pepperoni or meat pizza out it was gone in a flash, then no more appeared for ages.

If everyone else is having the buffet then let your DD have the buffet. It will be weird for her to order separately. You can just order a small pizza for yourself from the menu. It will be a better pizza, but you won't have any salad and you'll probably only save yourself about 5 quid anyway because you'll have to order a separate drink.

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IAKnowyou · 14/10/2024 20:41

@IcedPurple can you tell me the cringiest part you've read ? I'm intrigued

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Differentstarts · 14/10/2024 20:39

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My toes are curling with the sheer cringe of it all.

SouthLondonMum22 · 14/10/2024 20:40

dreamer24 · 14/10/2024 20:37

Yes. I am aware that was the original question posed by the OP.

However, I posed my own related, and as yet unanswered to a satisfactory degree, question.

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Why would someone go to a buffet and not pay though? Other than to hopefully get some free food.

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IAKnowyou · 14/10/2024 20:40

@Differentstarts again, you don't have to join in if you do not wish.
If you've given your view, and now are not enjoying the thread, feel free to leave it and find one that takes your fancy. I won't hold you hostage. (Awkward)

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LuckySantangelo35 · 14/10/2024 20:40

Waffle19 · 14/10/2024 18:10

Why would you eat only a slice or two? Just go and do it probably or don’t go if it’s too expensive.

@Waffle19

because a couple of slices are ample for a lot of people for a lunch? Plenty of calories. Not everyone wants to feel uncomfortably full after eating at a buffet

zeitweilig · 14/10/2024 20:40

IAKnowyou · 14/10/2024 20:31

@makemeanoffericantrefuse I don't think I have been rude to @zeitweilig I've just given back what they've dished out, or asked reasonable questions.
It's no secret that they won't engage in a lighthearted joke about this !

I didn't 'dish anything out' though.
There was no 'good joke' because mentioning the gestapo isn't remotely funny. 🫣

narns · 14/10/2024 20:40

Hmm well I think it probably does fall within the legal definition of theft but I don't think it's a big deal within the context to be honest! DH and I go sometimes with our toddler (17 months although we haven't been for a couple of months). We never buy the child's buffet for her because she hardly eats any of it! We give her little bits of ours to keep her busy but she has her lunch before we go.

We pay at the table on their website before we are given salad bowls etc and no one has ever approached us at the end to say that we also have to pay for a child's buffet! If they did we'd obviously pay it, but it seems a bit steep for crusts and cucumber 😂

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surreygirl1987 · 14/10/2024 20:38

Agree. The attempts at humour are awkward.

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IAKnowyou · 14/10/2024 20:39

@surreygirl1987 maybe awkward to you. But you don't have to join in

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surreygirl1987 · 14/10/2024 20:38

zeitweilig · 14/10/2024 20:32

You asked if it was OK to steal food.
You didn't like the honest answers.
You've insulted people.
You're attempting to turn the thread into some sort of banter to divert from the original content.
It's laughable, but not in a humorous sense.

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Agree. The attempts at humour are awkward.

Healingsfall · 14/10/2024 20:37

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Yes! And have a picture wall of shame so future eaters know exactly who these people are! Smiling optional 😅

dreamer24 · 14/10/2024 20:37

SpiggingBelgium · 14/10/2024 20:33

However, my question is, if for example OP ordered nothing for herself and just a buffet for her child, and at the end of the meal her child said to her: "mum I've put too many slices of pizza on my plate - I can't eat them all, I'm full". Is it then OK for OP to eat the remaining pizza slices that would be otherwise destined for the bin? Or would that be equally "stealing" and OP should let it be put in the bin? Just curious ...

The issue isn’t with eating her child’s leftovers. It’s with not paying for a meal of your own and then inventing “leftovers” so you can get something to eat for free.

Yes. I am aware that was the original question posed by the OP.

However, I posed my own related, and as yet unanswered to a satisfactory degree, question.

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IAKnowyou · 14/10/2024 20:36

@zeitweilig who have I insulted, besides calling you a fun sponge ...?
It's nice to have a bit of banter. I didn't expect to be shot down for asking if I'd be thrown out for having a slice or 2 of pizza 😂
Now I know how awfully unreasonable I have been to think this, I am having a laugh.

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surreygirl1987 · 14/10/2024 20:36

IAKnowyou · 14/10/2024 17:55

Steal pizza ?? Jesus Christ 😂

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But that is what you're suggesting... 🙈

dreamer24 · 14/10/2024 20:35

Healingsfall · 14/10/2024 20:33

Maybe they should sit non eaters on a different colour chair, maybe bright yellow, so then they know when to press the alarm if even so much as a crumb goes in their mouth 😆 The chair could have a big red light which flashes when the alarm goes off!

I am literally praying so hard that this is a joke but I can't tell anymore 🤣🤣

Ufcears · 14/10/2024 20:35

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IAKnowyou · 14/10/2024 20:35

Healingsfall · 14/10/2024 20:33

Maybe they should sit non eaters on a different colour chair, maybe bright yellow, so then they know when to press the alarm if even so much as a crumb goes in their mouth 😆 The chair could have a big red light which flashes when the alarm goes off!

Love this idea. It would really deter me from regularly stealing from my local Pizza Hut

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zeitweilig · 14/10/2024 20:33

WimbyAce · 14/10/2024 20:32

Honestly when people are clearly stealing from supermarkets in full view I could not get my knickers in a twist about a couple of slices of manky overpriced pizza.

Nobody has 'their knickers in a twist'. We answered why it's stealing.

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IAKnowyou · 14/10/2024 20:33

@Tink3rbell30 that sounds like a better idea to me. Money saving and all that. Just call me Martin Lewis.

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