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Timster96 wrote:

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Big E Sports wrote:

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I am torn. While disgusted by this example of unabashed gluttony, the fact is they advertise "all you can eat". If you need a disclaimer, put a disclaimer.....for example *up to 12 pieces. At that point, you've laid out clear ground rules that won't upset the other 99% of your customers that couldn't possibly eat that much. A low risk, easy fix. Or, if he's a decent enough customer to have an open tab, it seems like this could easily be solved with an arrangement with the restaurant. If he's planning on coming in, give the restaurant 24 hours notice to stock up for him and everyone else. If not, thaw out the regular quantity for that day and life goes on. 

I can dig what you're saying and it makes some sense to add small print, but isn't some kind of limit implied?  I mean, the restaurant is going to close at some point and you can't stay and keep eating after close, even if you "can" still eat more.  Even in a place that never closes, they don't have infinity fish, so even if you're sitting there with a bottomless colostomy bag and can eat and shit for days on end, it isn't really false advertising to say that we're talking about one meal, right?    I think once reasonable people recognize that there is always going to be a limit to "all you can eat," I don't think any consumer protection agency or court is going to find that it is false advertising to limit "all you can eat" to something that is way, way beyond the norm and affects only one extraordinary gluttonous individual - who may have been sharing his plate with another person in violation of the rules.