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 !

@PointyHonk
We only had one course, so no clearing of plates. If we'd had more courses yes I imagine that would be the case.

@AllHisCaterpillarFriends

That's stealing. You are a thief.

Where does it stop?

2 slices of pizza and a couple of cards at the self checkout? I'd say the only logical next step is selling hard drugs at the primary school gates.

If I was in the company of someone and they did this I would be absolutely mortified. Please don’t cause embarrassment for your DD in front of her friends. Pay your way or don’t have any food and just order yourself a drink. Other parents will judge you (as they have here), it’s all very cringe.

Kids eat free from today in the spooky half term buffet deal, so you would pay £15.99 for you and she eats free.

@Spudthespanner
I'm neither tense nor easily embarrassed.

I just believe if you eat at a restaurant you should pay for it - does that not make sense to you?

Luckily most people seem to agree with paying for what you consume.

You crack on though if you won't pay for a slice of pizza.

You are paying for her.
You are not paying for you. * *

Yup it's not acceptable to take buffet food away. Buy your own pizza and take any remaining home, sure, no problem. But buffet, nah sorry. Else everyone would be getting tomorrow's lunch out of it.

It’s not my own personal definition, I wouldn’t be so arrogant.
But since you ask, the definition in law is to “dishonestly appropriate property, belonging to another, with the intention to permanently deprive the other of said property “

The OP would’ve paid for the pizza for her child, therefore no dishonesty here. At the point OP pays for the pizza for her child, it is effectively hers, if her child eats half of it she can either choose to eat the rest herself, put it in the bin, or wipe her arse with it if she so chooses.

No, I know you didn't.
It was more in case the comment encouraged the OP to steal.

But I have paid. If you want to get political. It's paid for. By ME. I'm not making a 5 year old pay for herself and scrounging off of her plate.
Forgive me for being naive and thinking this wouldn't be a problem.
It appears I was incredibly wrong, and have now started pizzagate #2

Quantity is irrelevant, it's still theft.

Come on, OP. That's really tight.

I really don't think £12 for pizza, salad, pasta, ice cream and drinks is bad for a child at all.

If you don't want to eat, don't but you will look an absolute cheapskate if you then use your kid to get free pizza for yourself.

You could pay for the buffet for DD and order yourself a salad and make sure you don't absentmindedly help yourself off her plate!

Thank you so much ! :)

There is dishonesty.
She has paid to allow child access to buffet food. She has not paid to allow herself access to buffet food.

Don't be so obtuse. Scanning more items than you've paid for is definitely theft. Petty theft but still theft. 2 slices of pizza when it's payment per head. Again theft.

Honestly I dismay.

@Spudthespanner you've given me a good laugh there, why are people so uptight 🤣 x

Please don’t do this to your daughter in front of her friends. You don’t want them all laughing at her when they are in school and the other parents stopping inviting her because of her embarrassing tight mum. Just don’t do it to her.

If a few adults, maybe suggest you adults share a couple of pizzas and split the cost?

it does add up quite quickly when you eat out and hard to say so sometimes

You will have paid the fee which allows your child to access the buffet food.
You will not have paid the fee which allows you to access the food.

This happened at my son’s birthday meal last year. I paid for about 12 children to have the buffet and parents had the option to either pay for the buffet for themselves, order off the menu or skip completely. But one mum did just keep taking slices off her DDs plate and even wrapped some up in her handbag to take home and honestly it was a bit embarrassing. I’d understand a bit more if she’d had to pay for her DD and wanted to get her money’s worth…but it was my money’s worth!

I’ve not done not at the buffet but my dc love a Pizza Hut. I do not. They order kids meals I think they are £7 for a little kids and then order small pizza, salad, ice cream factory and a drink. I get a coffee and nibble leftover pizza as I have no shame.

On that basis you can go into theme parks for free because you have paid for your child’s ticket. After all, you’ve paid for her to be able to go on any ride, so anything you go on is just the ride she didn’t fancy, right?

You'll not catch me in a Pizza Hut one way or the other. But if OP eats a slice or two of her child's pizza I doubt she's doomed to eternal damnation for it.

I couldn't give a fuck either way if she eats some of it or doesn't.

Nobody is uptight.
You're a thief.