Tackiest thing ever seen at a Disney Buffet

[bdg100]

This topic came up on the Budget Board as a tangent to a different discussion. But, what is the the tackiest or worst thing you have ever seen patrons do at a Disney Buffet. Mine is this. Several years ago my family and I were at Chef Mickey's. A family of ten or twelve, (actually several families but obviously all related) ate off of the buffet, met the characters and promptly filled three duffle bags with fresh fruit. All of them, kids included would go to the buffet take, and I mean it, a piece of fruit and "Mom" would put it in one of the duffle bags. I was stunned. I considered confronting them directly, instead I told on them. I talked to the manager who shrugged his shoulders and did nothing. He told me that I would be amazed at what people do at these places. Go ahead, amaze me. Please share the worst cases of abuse that you have observed.

 

[littleshamrock]

Yeah, while not in WDW, I've seen people do this at buffets. I love how they're bold as brass doing it too.

 

[mickeyfan2]

On our first trip to WDW as a married couple we wne to the Biergarten (when it was group seating). We sat opposite an older couple from Long Island. They delivered us 4 pretzels as appetizers, the LI Women opened her purse and put all 4 in. Two of them were for us. Then our meal arrives and I head cheese on my plate. I swapped with DH and he ate most of the stuff, but not the head cheese. When DH was done the LI Women took his plate and cleaned it off into her purse. We were horrified. She told us that her husband gets hungry at night and she needs stuff to feed him. We still joke about them after all of these years.

 

[magicmouse2]

Tackiest thing would have to be DH going for his 5th plateful of food

 

[bdg100]

Tackiest thing would have to be DH going for his 5th plateful of food

You are not my wife using a different screen name are you?

 

[goofydad621]

But I grew up in a large family owned restauarant business in New Hampshire. Ny father was know for the buffets as I got older and ran the business more i was amazed at what people would do. People from all walks of like, Ther would be older ldaies with baggies in there hand bags feeling them with fried haddock and roast beef. Fried chicken was another favorite take home item. The tables all had nice baskets on them with the suger packets and Sweet n low packets and they would take all the packets and sometimes the baskets as well. Very nice tall amber salt and pepper shakers and they would take those.
My father had to put on a sign that if you were caught taking food out during a buffet menu you would be charged double and asked to leave.

It does amaze me

 

[Pixiedust34]

On our first trip to WDW as a married couple we wne to the Biergarten (when it was group seating). We sat opposite an older couple from Long Island. They delivered us 4 pretzels as appetizers, the LI Women opened her purse and put all 4 in. Two of them were for us. Then our meal arrives and I head cheese on my plate. I swapped with DH and he ate most of the stuff, but not the head cheese. When DH was done the LI Women took his plate and cleaned it off into her purse. We were horrified. She told us that her husband gets hungry at night and she needs stuff to feed him. We still joke about them after all of these years.

 

[katiesmom2]

Slightly OT, but we went to Club 33 at Disney Land (a private club above Pirates of the Carribean, where people/companies pay a lot of money for membership) with some friends of ours. Myself and a woman from our group went to the restroom together. On the backs of the toilets, they had baskets of tampons. This woman joked with me about taking some as she opened her purse and dumped all of the tampons (probably 20 or more) into her purse.

She walked around for the rest of the day with a purse full of tampons!

 

[Angela Kay]

This wasn't at WDW...but a local buffet. My MIL was getting ready to fly to Oregon and decided she needed candy for the flight from the dessert bar. She started filling her purse with gummy bears...and I mean filling! After dinner she asked for a cup of coffee. When the waiter brought it to her he said, "would you like me to just dump it in your purse"?

 

[kkaisu]

Well not at Disney but the first time I went to a buffet with my EX-MIL and ex, she not only took home food but get this...SHE TOOK HOME THE SILVERWARE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My ex was mortified and he is a diagnosed kleptomaniac(hmmmm I wonder why )

According to my DD14 she still does this so my DD will not pick a buffet to go out to dinner to anymore.

 

[Kath2003]

When I was at school they used to charge you 5p for a sachet of ketchup so a load of kids used to go and steal a load from McDonalds instead

Also, at University there are signs all over the campus cafe's saying "Please do not "borrow" cutlery and plates for the year". Supposedly they run short on knives, forks, plates etc. the whole year and then in the last week of term when everyone's packing to go home they all reappear

 

[vicb]

This wasn't at WDW...but a local buffet. My MIL was getting ready to fly to Oregon and decided she needed candy for the flight from the dessert bar. She started filling her purse with gummy bears...and I mean filling! After dinner she asked for a cup of coffee. When the waiter brought it to her he said, "would you like me to just dump it in your purse"?

too funny that waiter!

 

[jjjbennett]

When we were eating breakfast a Chef Mickey's I watched another family wander into the seating area. It was a man and women and 2 kids.

They must have gone right past the hostess unnoticed and seemed confused. They finally decided to have a seat at the table that was across from us. The family that had been eating there had just exited a few moments before and the leftovers from their breakfast was on the plates and table.

This family sat down and simply began to pick the food off of the dirty plates and eat it. I was watching in amazement. I know that many cultures converge at WDW so I'm assuming that they simply were out of the their element and had no understanding of the buffet set up. But it was strange to think that they would consume already eaten pastries and bacon.

The servers were huddled a bit away and began to furitively talk about what to do and asking if that was the same family that was there before. They finally went over and began to clear the table and try to explain to the family how the buffet worked and they should help themselves to fresh food from the buffet table.

 

[mommystieg]

The person in front of me taking the serving spoon and sniffing it and then putting it back If you're not sure you will like something, put a little scoop on your plate and try it. If you don't like it, you don't have to eat it.

 

[DisneyDotty]

This thread is like a train wreck--I know I should look away, but I'm strangely fascinated...

How about the little kid who picks his nose, then uses same hand to handle food on buffet--putting some of the food on his plate, and some back on the buffet?

I cannot stomach buffets anymore. Which is why I need several glasses of wine before I'll join the line at Boma's!

 

[lucyanna girl]

Not at WDW, but, DH and I went to Las Vegas with some casual friends. They were VERY well to do. At every buffet we went to, (and they wanted a buffet every meal- yuk) she would fill up her large hand bag with desserts! I was so amazed and sooo embarrassed. We never went anywhere with them again.

 

[bgdiznee]

I am always amazed at how "ignorant" the public is when it comes to safe food handling. We had an airport lay-over on one occassion and were trying to get a quick hamburger from the BK kiosk. The set up was all the sandwiches were prefixed and wrapped and ready for the customer to choose, pickup and pay. A young women ( old enough to know better) was standing there unwrapping each selection (to determind the toppings I guess ) actually opened the bun took a look, decided no and rewrapped the sandwich I couldn't believe it. I told her to stop and got the manager to come over. She was unable to believe this was unsanitary,thought I was being rude. The only conclusion I can come to for all this yecky activity is bad hometraining

 

[Castillo Mom]

We were at a local buffet recently and were seated near the restroom area. For a good 10-15 minutes we could hear screaming from two little girls. Apparently they were playing around and patrons were coming in and out of the ladies room looking stunned as there seemed to be no parents around. A while later the girls went up to the drink dipsenser and started playing with the ICEE machine and had made a disgusting mess. Then one of them opened wide while the other girl pressed the button on the ICEE machine so it would pour into her mouth. Yuck! Again, no parents to be found. I must've had a horrified look on my face because my son turned around to look at what I was gaping at and then said, " Oh no." He knows how I feel about unattended children at restaurants. I politely went up to them asked them to go find their parents and ask for help. Well, it seems the parents were within viewing distance of their kids because the father immediately came up and asked what the problem was. I pointed to the mess the girls had made, and although maybe I shouldn't have, I suggested that he may want to monitor the activities of his children a bit more. To that he replied that since I don't work there I shouldn't say anything. Again, maybe I was wrong but I found the behaviour disgusting and and very unappetizing.

 

[maddhatir]

This wasn't at WDW...but a local buffet. My MIL was getting ready to fly to Oregon and decided she needed candy for the flight from the dessert bar. She started filling her purse with gummy bears...and I mean filling! After dinner she asked for a cup of coffee. When the waiter brought it to her he said, "would you like me to just dump it in your purse"?

SNAGGED!

 

[LibertyLover]

I never fail to be amazed at the brazeness of some guests. A week or so ago my DH, DSD25, DD3 and I were having breakfast at Kona. At a table nearby the hostess seated 2 women and a child of roughly the same age as my daughter, so 3 or 4. The women looked at the menu and when the server came to take their order, they asked if they could get the child a doughnut. The server politely explained that Kona did not have doughnuts, but the coffee bar did. Much discussion ensued after the server left with their order about how to get the kid a doughnut. Finally one of the woman left the table and walked off. When she came back a few minutes later, it was with a bowl of cereal, some breakfast pastries and a banana, apparently from the Ohana character buffet. I'm still wondering how the one managed it.