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 !

@AllHisCaterpillarFriends But surely as long as one person is eating it's okay, or if 2 people are sharing?
It's not like you're walking into an establishment and using their facilities but not purchasing a single thing. Or using their tables and chairs but bringing your own food from home or another place.
It doesn't even compare to a charity, as at least one person will be paying for something.

Just for clarity, it wasn't that specific restaurant (if only my parents did live in Cornwall 😀) but one local to her, where there was no caveat given on the website, just the policy that people would be charged for unfinished food. And I did point out to her that they'd be unlikely to enforce it on a frail elderly woman, but she was having none of it. We went elsewhere.

Thank you. It’s remarkable the amount of people who will fall over themselves to be spiteful on here that I would bet my last pound wouldn’t say remotely anything of the sort in real life and would just put their head down and stay quiet just as the OP who I quoted admitted they would. Speaks more of their own character than the person they’re tearing apart anyway but are still adamant that their opinion is gospel. Good to see the OP isn’t suffering any fools on here at any rate.

Real life isn’t AIBU though. Opinions are asked for and asked for knowing full well that people don’t generally hold back here. We’re also strangers on the internet, not family or friends.

If my friend asked my opinion about going to a Pizza Hut buffet but only paying for her child in hopes that she could eat a slice or two, I’d advise against it and likely wouldn’t go with her. If it happened when we were there, I wouldn’t make a scene, especially if it was someone’s birthday but I definitely wouldn’t be eating out with them again and would distance myself.

I agree. Making your child excluded because one is too cheap to buy a buffet is cringe-worthy.
@IAKnowyou Let your poor daughter get the buffet like the other kids and get yourself a personal sized pizza or a salad. I mean, REALLY? 🙄

@AnnoyedAsAllHeck I did not suggest this, nor will I be doing this. I commented back to a PP that it was a good idea, which it is. But I won't be doing it. I'll be using the discount code if I am able to.
One should read the thread, or more of it, before saying silly things like "your poor daughter"
The whole reason I'm paying prices I'm not happy with is so she's NOT excluded. Thank you.

BUT, it's not silly. People who steal, whether at a grocery store, Pizza Hut or anywhere else, causes prices to go higher for the honest people out there.

No one is holding a weapon to your head and forcing you to pay the price Pizza Hut is asking. No one is forcing you to go to the party. You are making a choice and that choice has a price attached to it.

You might be trying to be "funny" now, but you want(ed) to let a store lose money because you deem the price too high.

What if your employer came to you and said you don't really do enough for the wage we pay you, so we are going to pay you half of what we were. You'd rightfully be pissed off. You'd leave for another job.

@AnnoyedAsAllHeck well actually in that (highly unlikely) scenario , the thing I'd be looking at first is why my employer thinks I'm not doing enough for the wage they pay me, and start with making improvements in that area first.

You still don't have to get the buffet yourself. Personally, I would get a small or personal pizza (if they have that in the UK), because $15.99 is more than I pay for a whole large pizza with a lot of toppings. That, and buffets are overpriced for everyone to balance out the one-trippers to the hoover-appetites.

You are correct and I apologize. Should have read all of your posts first by updating the page.

Just saw this and thought of this thread. Apologies if already posted! I haven't caught up since earlier!

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If we where going out for lunch and they wasn't hungry and wasn't planning on eating I'd expect them to tell me beforehand so that we can change plans. Why are you going out for meals and not eating?

No. I don’t think a small family business would do this sort of shenanigans.

Yes, that’s it really. People fall over themselves to be spiteful on here. I’ve already said loads of times that I fully accept that OP can’t rightfully do what she’d originally planned - but still people are desperate to browbeat me and others into agreeing that her plan was exactly the same as stealing. It’s quite clearly not.

Those posters are desperate to do away with any sense of nuance- because if it’s exactly the same as stealing, then they are vindicated in their attack on OP.

Exactly, I couldn’t agree more. It’s utter madness that you’d only ever find on here because people like that are few and far between in reality. The ones that are like that are just your typical nasty, bitch behind your back bully types which no one cares a toss for their opinion anyway. Even they know they’re full of shit.

Try it. If the 16year old spotty waiter busts you just pay up and then go eat your weight in pizza.

Probably the best answer I've gotten from this whole thread I think 🤣

Classy.

If bob’s wife eats in the restaurant without paying, the restaurant loses the net value of her meal. They have had someone taking up space and not eating so there was also the opportunity cost of someone paying for food and the actual cost of keeping a restaurant open and staffed for someone whose who isn’t eating.

They also have to cook more to replace the food bob took so the two slices his wife ate may well end up in the bin anyway.

Look at it from a business perspective rather than a single table and you’ll see that the business does lose a net value.

@StormingNorman
Sorry but I still don't see the logic. My point was that Bob could have chosen to eat 17 slices by himself, couldn't he? He's put that many on his plate. He's just left 2 as he couldn't finish them. The restaurant are losing those slices anyway, whether Bon eats them, Jane eats them, or the are binned.

I also don't follow the Jane is taking the space of another paying customer logic - what if Bob had attended the restaurant alone? And was seated alone, for the same length of time? Are you saying the restaurant would have seated another paying customer at the table across from him? I have never ever seen this happen for solo restaurant diners.

Bob shouldn't have taken more than he can eat.

The fact they were going to be thrown away is irrelevant, the point is that Jane didnt pay

I think we all get it. OP was wrong to think she could legitimately do this.

But I’m interested to know whether those who keep going over the rules and restrictions of the deal really think sharing one small-to-average buffet portion is exactly the same as nicking stuff off the shelf. I know they’ll say it is, but I wonder if they really think that 🤷‍♀️

No they don't. They just want to be self righteous online. One admitted they'd never say it someone's face and have scuttled off since being called out.

@ThornVampire
No of course he shouldn't, but we've all put buffet food on our plates thinking we will eat it and then we are too full. So in the scenario I've described, my point was, it makes no tangible difference Pizza Hut as those slices are gone anyway. I was illustrating how this is not the same as shoplifting something, where there is a clear tangible, quantifiable loss to the company (ie the value of the item stolen).

The "but Jane is taking a paying customer's place" argument makes absolutely no sense when you consider the fact that Bob could easily have occupied a table for two by himself as a solo diner - the other chair still cannot be used by another paying customer until Bob has left, unless restaurants seat random strangers at tables with solo diners? I've never seen this happen personally (because it's ludicrous). Therefore, whether Jane sits with Bob, whether she eats or not, they are in the same situation they'd have been in if Bob dined solo and ate all 17 pieces by himself.

Yes - its fine for one time, but the problem happens when Jane says to Bob, well get 2 more than you think you'll eat, and I will have them for free.

Then Bob starts getting 19 slices Jane is eating for free every week, and they are chucking out 2 still

So now instead of just 2 slices being discarded and not eaten, Jane keeps coming back every week