Pizza Hut Buffet

[IAKnowyou]

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 !

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.

That sounds amazing !! Another night of scrounging sorted 😂

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.

It's wrong because she hasn't paid for the food she's eating.

Pizza Hut is a business. If you want to eat their food, you pay. Her daughter is getting the child's rate because it's assumed she'll eat less, not because an adult is too mean to pay for her own food and wants to sneak in a few slices on the sly.

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.

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!

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

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

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

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

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

@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.

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.

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

Agree. The attempts at humour are awkward.

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

This

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 😂

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

@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

@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)

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

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