Tackiest thing ever seen at a Disney Buffet

[jann1033]

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.

nothing against seniors since i am rapidly getting there but i wonder if this is part of'losing it',as in mentally a little,,my own parents can afford to live a good lifestyle but pull stuff like this sometimes..don't know if that age group is just replacing being thrifty with being cheap to the point of fanatical ? i mean some "fixed incomes" are as good or better than working class incomes

 

[lauralana9]

I once saw a woman take a cup of chicken noodle soup and pour a bit directly on a table for her child to eat/play with. I just don't get it, sure they wipe those tables down.... With the same towel that has been there since the people on the luch shift left and changed it.....

Bean

 

[Goofymum]

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"?

That is too funny!

 

[Flair]

bumping up
7 days till DISNEY !!

 

[Mickey1122]

I can understand swiping a couple of cookies for later, but duffle bags of fruit? If one of the kids wanted a small snack later, I can understand, but they don't need that much.

 

[ENSOCK]

My dad still talks about the time at a pizza hut buffet he saw a family with a mother and about 4 kids. They would go to the buffet load up plates and bring them back to the table, only eating the toppings off and leaving the crusts. He said they must have had at enough for at least 10 pizzas on the table.
As far as the guy eating the shrimp, as long as he was eating it and not putting it in his pockets or wife's purse, the waiter should have left him alone. We have a friend who eats so much you wonder where he puts it all. Fried chicken is a 12 piece by himself just for a snack. Worst yet he is not overweight.

 

[smellyann]

Oh, God, why am I still reading this? I guess for the same reason that when I was a teenager and babysitting little kids, I SWORE I would never eat with my own kids, but now somehow I can not only do that but share

 

[AlwaysEeyore]

I am so sorry I started reading this thread. I have almost all buffet ADR's for our trip in August. Isn't there an old saying "You have to eat a pound of dirt before you die" Do you think you need a gallon of other peoples saliva before you die too?

The worst thing my family has ever done is my Mom really liked the soup spoons at Denny's so we all ordered soup so she could have a full set of spoons to take home.

 

[Amyrlin]

I have not seen any really bad things, mostly kids making a mess without their parents batting an eyelid.

 

[sha_lyn]

not at WDW but at a local seafood buffet.
Little girl around 3 or so at the dessert table sticking her finger in the frosting of all the slices of cake.

 

[manning]

We have a friend who eats so much you wonder where he puts it all. Fried chicken is a 12 piece by himself just for a snack. Worst yet he is not overweight.

Now there is a guy I can learn to hate. I just think about eating and gain 3 pounds.

 

[swimmom]

This thread just reinforces my long held dislike of buffets. I'm no Howard Hughes but the thought of hundreds of sweaty/dirty people hovering over my b/l/d - ugh!!! My poor children have had countless visits to Disney and only experienced one character meal -

To add to the list... The only buffet (Breakfastosauras at the Ak three or four years ago) I've been to at Disney a gentlemen stopped the server on his way out of the kitchen and requested (and received) the entire breakfast quiche that was being placed on the steamer table!!

 

[Barbers2005]

Not at a buffet, but at the food court at Pop Century...My FIL came down to the bus stop one morning with a bag stuffed with saltines (20 or so packets of crackers). I kind of laughed and asked where all the crackers came from (thinking he had packed them) and he gave me a funny smile. As soon as he turned away, my SIL said that they went to the food court to get some coffee and he dumped the entire bowl of crackers at the soup station into his bag. Needless to say, I was pretty embarrassed...especially when I found out he did it two more times during the trip.

 

[jezebella]

Also not at a buffet....but I have been guilty of snatching a handful of the wet wipes at Sunshine Seasons and using them in the park during the day...I just can't figure out why they serve them there and not at turkey leg carts--

 

[Belle Amy]

Dinner at Boma last year, we were sitting next to a table with a mother and father and their two children. The father helped himself to quite a few plates (which I have no issue with, my DF is a vacuum) but every time he would run out of prime rib, he would send his 5 year old daughter up to the buffet to get him more. She was so tiny and we were pretty far away from the buffet. She'd wander up to the buffet by herself and come back with a helping of prime rib. The father would start eating it, and send her back for more. Must have done this 5 or 6 times.

We were torn between laughter and concern. The cook must have thought she was one hungry little girl.

 

[nikandboys]

Not WDW, but at a local Japanese restaurant where they cook the fook for you at the table, we were seated across from a group of people including a dad and son. Dad must not see the son very often, because he asked him if he had lost any teeth yet. The boy replied no, but one is loose. Dad said show me. The kid shows him and dad rips the kids tooth out of his noggin, starts bleeding every where. The kid is crying and dad is laughing. Mind you this is a nice restaurant and we were there for our Anneversary. Poor Kid.

 

[Torjohnson]

Ok, not at disney world, but in Reno 15 years ago. I must set the stage by saying that my wife and I are not tiny people, but we live in Northern California in a very health concious county...health food, massages, hot tubs, all pretty common. We walked by a prime rib carving table and we heard a man say " Can you give me some more fat?". The carver looked up "What?". "More fat" the man demanded." Just cut me off a big hunk of fat and put it on my plate. We joke about it to this day.

 

[babywewe]

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.

hence why its no longer group seating.

 

[DisneyMommyMichelle]

Non-Disney. In fact this just happened last week at a fancy restaurant. We went out for my DM b-day for brunch. It was a brunch buffet and where the food line is, there it is ceramic tile (easier to clean i'm sure!!! ) well i am walking throught the line when this father and his baby daughter get in line behind me (they are with a big group of people) he puts his baby down on the floor and lets her CRAWL around while people are carrying plates of food, HOT soup and the like all around her!!!!! NOT TO MENTION there is a small (not deep at all) pond in the area (what if she had gotten close enough to pull herself up on it??) he was oblivious to her taking off and just grabbed his food..THEN went and dropped off his plate at his table and THEN sent his DW (i'm assuming wife not sure) to go and get the baby?!?!! Why didn't they just leave her in the high chair to begin with!!

The poor kids pants were just filthy and who knows what kind of germs she had on her hands.....