Tackiest thing ever seen at a Disney Buffet

[PoohHappens]

This is a really funny, although sometimes disgusting, thread. I have two male cousins who are known for being up to no good. On the all you can eat steak night at the local steak house they invited some girls who were just friends, provided them foil for their purses, had them order second they wouldn't eat and had them place whole steaks in their handbags. This was several years ago and still cracks me up to this day. And ya wonder why they were just friends??????

 

[paras4ri]

I think I saw the most disgusting thing at a buffet on Wife Swap last night. A kid who was no more than 12 must have eaten several pounds of breakfast meats (he had about 8 sausages along with many other items).....and finished it off with a towering bowl of soft serve ice cream.

 

[Kayleebug]

When I was on a cruise, an older lady that was seated with us for dinner whipped out her fork, stuck it down the back of her shirt, started scratching her back with it, and then used it again to eat. I thought I was going to gag.

 

[Dustmouse]

Not at WDW and not at a buffet..but as a server one of the worst things I saw was a mom letting her 9-10 yr old son lick the inside lid of a ketchup bottle and then SHE put the lid back on the bottle!!! Disgusting! I went straight to the table, picked up the bottle and dumped it right in the trash..not a word to either of them, but I made sure the trash can I used was within their line of sight.

OK, that one got me.....

 

[patsal]

Not at a buffett, but I have to laugh at my last Olive Garden experience. DH could only see me giggle and roll my eyes since he was seated facing me and I was able to see the people across from us. You know how they "give" a wine taste, well the waiter was new and filling the "taste" up half full. First the two ladies wanted to try a red and white that would "go with their dinner", they enjoyed them and then the guys ordered their "tastes". I thought that it was funny until the girls ordered another round of tastes because the first set were not sweet enough for them--I thought that was odd until the one male said to everyone at the table we do this all the time--you can get like four free glasses of wine with dinner this way At this point I started laughing and DH wanted to know what I was laughing at--told him he'd have to wait until we got to the car. Meanwhile my DS gets in the car and says--hey did you see those people with all the wine glasses!
Well, at least we know why OG charges so much for inexpensive wine!

 

[julesc]

Thank yall so much for the great stories. I will never eat a buffet again!

 

[TiggerTails57]

Not Disney my local Mall........I work for See's Candies just over Christmas Holidays. We hand out LOTS of samples of this wonderful candy!
Some people can't even wait till we wrap the sample in tissue paper and stick their 'dirty' hands in the box and just GRAB!! We take great delight, to see the look on their greedy faces when we toss the WHOLE BOX in the trash!!!

 

[manning]

poetic justice. I didn't see it but my aunt told the story.

She watched as a woman made the round of the buffet table with a BIG hand bag and was stuffing food into it. Yes, her bag with whatever ladies put into it, not an empty one. Well the manager was watching her (he said he had noticed her on previous visits) and when she got to the end he went up to her and advised her she forgot desert and dumped into her bag a bowl of chocolate pudding. She told him she was NEVER coming back to THIS restaurant, in which he said "is that a promise?"

She said the highlight was the applause as the woman left.

 

[Ava]

I once saw an older woman putting shrimp into her handbag at a buffet in Atlantic City. I'm hoping she at least had some kind of container in there that she was putting the shrimp in because if not... EW.

I've always wondered why people feel that it is ok to take bags full of food from a buffet. They have to know it's wrong, yet so many people have the audacity to do so anyway. WHY?

 

[DisneyGirl4188]

I have a few (none from WDW).

Another Olive Garden tale: DH and I were there for lunch. You know how they give you all you can eat salad or soup? Well, the couple next to us ordered two bowls of salad. The woman said that she wanted cheese, but not on the salad. She proceeded to have the server grate cheese in her salad bowl until it was HEAPING, at which point she asked for another bowl to eat her salad in. Her husband said he really liked OG's olives and asked for a bowl of them! They would then eat their olives or cheeses with their hands (the woman never did put the cheese on her salad).

I used to work part-time at a grocery store. This woman came in with what looked like an oxygen pack (like a bag to carry an oxygen tank in) started towards the meat case. She was back there a bit, then started to leave without buying anything. One of the workers from back there came running up and stopped her. Come to find out, she had stuffed packages of steak in the bag!! Apparently, they had suspected her of doing it previously, but were never able to catch her.

A Chinese buffet place offers iced tea. The do not have a pitcher or dispenser, but put it in 5 gallon bucket and use a cup to get it out!

 

[jen0610]

OK, it didn't happen at WDW and it wasn't done by a customer, but it is the GROSSEST thing I have ever seen at a buffet.

At Golden Corral and the "cook" was trying to get the frozen premade mac and cheese out of the package. Out it popped and landed on the floor. Now, does he pick it up and throw it out....Nope, no way, no how. He actually put in the silver serving pan and stacked it to the side and started to open the next box.

Thankfully a manager was walking right past me. I stopped him and told him what happened. The lady in front of me and the guy behind me, confirmed what I saw. The manager when and had the "cook" throw that batch out. The lady said she was so shocked, she didn't see the manager, otherwise she would have gotten ahold of one and she wouldn't have been as nice about pointing the oopsie as I was. Needless to say, we don't eat the mac and cheese at Golden Corral any more.

 

[Crazy Hakim]

snip Needless to say, we don't eat the mac and cheese at Golden Corral any more.

You think that is the only item that they can drop onto the floor?????????

 

[MaryKatesMom]

My husband and I were at a restaurant in outside Atlanta years ago for a Sunday breakfast buffet. I was nine months pregnant, very hungry and as a 5'9" blond, a hard to miss person. Just to stand out a little more we had stopped at a place where we were the only white people and not nearly as nicely dressed as the people that were coming in from church.

As I walked around the buffett I couldn't find the tongs for the watermelon. A very nice waitress seeing my confusion (I thought) walks up to me and asks me what I'm having. Turning around, still looking confused, I say "Watermelon". Well, a big portion of the restaurant knew she was asking about the sex of the baby not my breakfast but seeing my stomach which DID look like a watermelon caused a big portion of the restaurant to break out into laughter, myself included.

All these years later I still remember it.

 

[MaryKatesMom]

I just remembered another one that happened just recently at my local Wegman's (a grocery store). On Tuesday's the chain gives a 5 or 10 % discount for the grey set. There are buses of people who shop on that day, so I usually avoid Tuesday's but I needed to be there that day. I decided I needed a quick lunch and was getting something from the chinese buffet.

At first I thought I saw a woman touching the chicken then moving away. But then she came back and I watched closely while she picked up a piece of chicken with her hands, broke it in half put one half in her pocket and the other one back.

If the store wasn't so busy, I would have gotten the manager.

 

[Everett3]

What a wonderful experience reading all the messages! This could be a documentary and an educational and very funny one as well--I have one. We (seniors) travel, and it amazes us that a vew fellow travelers will make sandwiches with the breakfast buffet to have for lunch while the rest of the group has a group lunch. They have no idea how much they miss. These are people who can afford travel but to safe a dollar will sacrafice the ability to mix with other travlers. And yes we have seen the plastic baggies for the extra potatoes.
One who took extra Olive Garden bread sticks and put them in his pocket and probably ruined his jacket was one of my fav.

 

[Lizzybee]

What a wonderful experience reading all the messages! This could be a documentary and an educational and very funny one as well--I have one. We (seniors) travel, and it amazes us that a vew fellow travelers will make sandwiches with the breakfast buffet to have for lunch while the rest of the group has a group lunch. They have no idea how much they miss. These are people who can afford travel but to safe a dollar will sacrafice the ability to mix with other travlers. And yes we have seen the plastic baggies for the extra potatoes.
One who took extra Olive Garden bread sticks and put them in his pocket and probably ruined his jacket was one of my fav.

The really sad thing about shoving Olive Garden breadsticks in a coat pocket is that they will gladly give you a bag for the left over breadsticks on your table, they actually have a specific bag designed for it.

 

[Amphigorey]

The watermelon story cracked me up!

 

[susan1]

hi
again not disney but... we went to cici's by downtown disney, renowned for its very reasonable pizza and pasta buffet $3.99} we were sitting opposite a very upmarket couple who had arrived in a b.mw. convertible brand new top of the range. they bot took out their brief cases and filled them with the equivelent of three good meals. they even filled flasks with coffee and then thermal cups. how can you cheat a place that gives such good value for money? perhaps that is how they fund their high living life style.

 

[Disney_Mama]

I love reading this tread......I showed it to my DH and now he can understand more why I am on the computer so much. The only thing that I have seen that is close to the topic....In Canada we have a chain of stores called the Bulk Barn. All Items are in bulk barels. You take the amount you want and the cashier weighs is. There where a bunch of kids in the candy section having a bit. If they enjoyed it the finished it...but if they did not it went back into the barrel. I told the manager and the kids where removed from the store.

 

[Jen D]

Not Disney my local Mall........I work for See's Candies just over Christmas Holidays.

See's candies..... Mmmmmmmmmmm, butterscotch lollipops.....

Sorry, what were we talking about?