Pizza Hut Buffet

So you can buy a buffet and get the kids one free? I know there last one excluded the adults buffets which seemed silly! Planning to go in the holidays

Brilliant! 👏 Staff don't care quite as much as the high and mighty self righteous posters on here think they do! In fact thinking about it a lot of staff in chain restaurants expect you to have a discount code of some sort and quite often suggest to download one before paying! Or they suggest, as in this instance, ways to order that will get you most value for money.

Glad you had a good time though! 😁

Buy food for your daughter and you have a glass of coke. You're really over thinking it.

Tbf the most annoying thing about this thread is that I kind of know, deep down, that you’re right.

Still seems kind of different. But I guess it’s not.

I still don’t like the tone the initial respondents adopted towards OP. Not really necessary.

Bloody hell do Pizza Hut charge £18 for a pizza? And people pay it?

Mind blown.

What you are suggesting is quite rude op. I’m gobsmacked you can’t see that! Most of the pizzas start around £18 so I’m not sure you’re going to get better value by opting out of the buffet, but do that instead of stealing pizza if that makes you feel better.

“The train will be going to Manchester whether I buy a ticket or not and there are loads of empty seats which wouldn’t be generating any money anyway so there won’t be any actual real impact on the company, I’m just going to travel without paying.”

It’s just bonkers logic!

Or even "I saw when booking that there were plenty of empty seats, so I've brought my friend along to share my ticket as you'll be showing the film anyway so it won't cost you any more."

But that’s not the situation we’re discussing 🤷‍♀️We’re specifically discussing the actual, material impact of someone who doesn’t want much to eat actually picking up a slice or two from another small eater’s place. If you really really think that has the same impact on the company as someone pocketing goods off the shelf, then we’re never going to resolve this.

that's very different though. you paid an adult fee, and had a child too small to really take advantage of the child rate. I'm sure most reasonable places will let a toddler pick at an adults buffet meal.
but paying for a child and an adult eating from it is very different.

If half of buffet patrons pay, instead of ALL buffet patrons, but 100 percent eat, that definitely has "actual, real impact on the company."

It's rather baffling that anyone is confused by this.

Well, no, the cinema analogy doesn’t work. If you share a film, as it were, you both get a whole film, whether or not you liked it. Not the case with a pizza.

Theres no grey area with a movie seat; you take up one space and you pay for it. If a non-paying person is taking up a seat, that could mean a loss to the cinema.

In a restaurant, your party might take up a whole table, but one individual’s presence doesn’t alter how many other tables of people can attend.

Neither is OP’s scenario the same as shoplifting.

Someone eating a slice of pizza off someone else’s plate might make no difference at all to the restaurant’s stock or takings, if that pizza was going to go in the bin. It might make some difference in some circumstances - but it’s by no means a set certainty. If someone takes something from a supermarket shelf, that’s always a definite, quantifiable loss. That’s the difference.

We’re not talking philosophically here or about moral right or wrong; I mean actual, real impact on the company. If you can’t see it’s different I doubt your comprehension skills.

No that cinema analogy works fine. What is absurd is your argument. There's no nuance needed here. The buffet price is in black and white charged Per Person. What is so difficult to understand about this?

But you go ahead and write to Pizza Hut what you've written here. I'm sure you'll make them see sense.

I mean, I'm going back to late 80s, early 90s here. if you were having a takeaway, you could get different sized salad bar containers, which you had to be able to get the lid on, a bit like the Morrisons salad bar now. maybe they have a takeaway version of the buffet, where they DO have a set amount of container volume you can fill.

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Look, I didn't comment on the moral aspect of it, did I. I simply said, it's not the same in terms of tangible, quantifiable LOSS. And it's not, I stand by that.

I'm not going over it again, I'm bored 😂

I mean, it's not GREAT, but this thread has made me rather fancy it. there's better pizzas all over the place, but I used to LOVE their salad bar. even if my salad was mostly layers of potato salad with those bacon breadcrumbs and croutons, back in the day. I could be tempted.

It doesn't have to be exactly the same act as shoplifting to be equally criminal and wrong.

Someone trying to feed two people for the price of one buffet is stealing, period.

Sad how many people justify thieving and cheating.

@ComtesseDeSpair

It’s a reasonably daft argument.

Again, happy to agree to disagree 😅

It's obviously not daft to me - to me it's logical and explains clearly why shoplifting is not even in the same league and a silly comparison.

and then they complain it costs as much as it does....

right. I have a small appetite. I am unlikely to get my moneys worth from a buffet, so rarely have one. that said, if I'm out with my husband and my friend, who both eat SO much they definitely get their moneys worth, I'll justify it, as I know they're making up for what I can't eat, and we have a nice time. I do enjoy a buffet, because I like a little bit of lots of things, rather than lots of one or two. but I know that quantity wise, I'm definitely not eating the cost worth. and also, my husband will probably finish off anything off my plate too, which is fine, if we've both paid for the buffet.
at our local Chinese, they will charge a small fee if you leave much uneaten, and you definitely can't take it home (otherwise everyone would reload with another meals worth to take away for the next day) and that seems perfectly justified to me.

People keep coming up with these analogies that don’t work. You can’t share a film in the same way as you share a pizza, obviously.

You’re right that OP can’t share the pizza in the way she wanted. You’re right she was planning to do something against the rules.

But as another poster said, it’s quite absurd to accuse OP of stealing when she could pay for a pizza to share, for a cheaper price, and get the same amount of food. Yes, it’s against the rules, but it’s definitely not the same as nicking stuff out of the restaurant kitchen. Those who keep blindly insisting it is don’t seem to be capable of any sort of nuance.

The cost of the buffet is for access, not dependent upon the amount of food that one does or does not consume.

Same as a ticket at a cinema: You pay whether or not you stay for the entire film. You don't say "Oh I'm going to leave 30 minutes before the end, so my child and I can just share the same ticket." Or worse, "I don't care for this film but my kid wants to see it, so I'll just pay for her and sit next her not enjoying the film at all."

If you want to access a seat in the cinema, you pay the stated ticket price. If you want to access the all-you-can-eat buffet, whether for half a slice of pizza or five pounds of food, you pay the stated price.

If you don't like the price, you go elsewhere.

But Jane wanted some pizza and if bob hadn't left any she'd have had to buy one 😅

It’s a reasonably daft argument. The restaurant would be in the same position on one single occasion where Bob had a slice of pizza left which would either go in the bin or in Jane’s gob, yes; but as soon as every customer worked out they could get a two for the price of one deal on the buffet by having one person pay for it and everyone else tucking into their “leftovers” free of charge, they’d very soon be in an entirely different position.