Today at CiCi's Pizza I saw a women eat ...

[dejr_8]

just the cheese and toppings off of about a dozen and a half slices of pizza! She had a huge stack of "naked" slices sitting on her table.

I saw that she also had two salad plates so I am assuming that she is doing some sort of a low carb diet.

But still, wow I would never do that.

 

[momof1princess]

i am a gastric bypass patient (5 years out, minus 190 pounds) and i have done this, but not with SO MANY slices of pizza-i'm allowed very little bread. i eat the toppings off maybe 3-4 slices, along with a small salad. goodness, that's a LOT of cheese and toppings. i hope it didn't make her dump (gb term, you don't wanna know what it means, lol).

 

[Jeafl]

Seems extremely wasteful to me. It makes me wonder how much longer Cici's will be able the $5.00 buffet.

If she was on some kind of diet, it seems like there may have been a more appropriate place she could have gone for lunch.

 

[Imzadi]

Sounds like she just wanted the cheese, toppings and the tomato sauce. I don't have a problem with that, except it IS a lot of cheese - however, I wouldn't do it in public.

 

[luv2nascar]

hangs head in shame at the waste... but I don't eat the crust at Cicis. Too much bread for me.

 

[Jennasis]

Why does anyone care what someone else eats? She paid for it.

 

[npmommie]

I don't care what anyone else eats, she paid what they charge for it. what if she ate the entire 12 slices? or just the part with cheese and sauce and left the crust? the dough is the cheapest part of that meal.
I am sure lots of people come in there and eat 8-10-12 slices of pizza, so what is the difference if she only ate the cheese off hers

 

[momof1princess]

Seems extremely wasteful to me. It makes me wonder how much longer Cici's will be able the $5.00 buffet.

If she was on some kind of diet, it seems like there may have been a more appropriate place she could have gone for lunch.

perhaps the woman mentioned in the OP is like me-has a permanent dietary restriction and just wanted to be able to eat with everyone else and feel somewhat normal for a change?

 

[Angelhalo]

Why does anyone care what someone else eats? She paid for it.

Agreed. I am on low carb and I have done it before. I also have lost 22 pounds and paid for my meal so other people should mind their own business. I usually bring the crusts home to the doggy.

perhaps the woman mentioned in the OP is like me-has a permanent dietary restriction and just wanted to be able to eat with everyone else and feel somewhat normal for a change?

Exactly and besides what are there laws now that people can only eat at certain places because some busybody might not approve of them eating at certain restaurants???

 

[disykat]

Why does anyone care what someone else eats? She paid for it.

Actually, she paid for what she ATE. At buffets, the assumption is you are going to just take what you can actually eat. I understand why she ate the way she did, it just wasn't "fair" to the establishment IMO.

 

[Angelhalo]

Actually, she paid for what she ATE. At buffets, the assumption is you are going to just take what you can actually eat. I understand why she ate the way she did, it just wasn't "fair" to the establishment IMO.

The establishment isn't losing anything. If she paid, then she is taking the same amount of slices as some other people or more than some who only take a couple of slices whether she eats the crust or not. In someone else's belly or left on the plate, the amount of pizza is gone. They lose nothing. It all equals out in the end. Plus having worked in food service myself, its true what a previous poster said about the crust being the cheapest part.

 

[Jeafl]

I don't really care what people eat. I've done the low-carb thing at one point in my life and I know how hard it is to find things to eat while out. My point was that I highly doubt that CiCi's counts on any one person eating 18 pieces of pizza. If they did, surely their price would be more than $5.00 a person. If everyone ate 18 pieces of pizza they would have to raise thier prices for everyone.

Of course the argument could be made that some people only eat 2 or 3 slices of pizza. I guess it could balance out.

 

[sbell111]

Why does anyone care what someone else eats? She paid for it.

Agreed. People need to butt out of other people's lives.

 

[Free4Life11]

That's pretty strange and that's a lot of pizza to eat in one sitting!

 

[Purseval]

I did that once when I was 10 or 11, ate the tops off of every piece of pizza and left the rest. One night it made me sick and I threw up in my bed. The sight of all of those undigested cheeseballs was so bad it was over 20 years before I ever ate another slice of pizza again.

 

[happygirl]

Not a big deal to me.

 

[TeresaBelle]

I Cici's!

 

[disykat]

The establishment isn't losing anything. If she paid, then she is taking the same amount of slices as some other people or more than some who only take a couple of slices whether she eats the crust or not. In someone else's belly or left on the plate, the amount of pizza is gone. They lose nothing. It all equals out in the end. Plus having worked in food service myself, its true what a previous poster said about the crust being the cheapest part.

So, using your reasoning, it would be okay if every customer loaded up plates of food and left them uneaten on the table?

 

[IngridRalph]

My daughter has always done this since she was a baby. Now that she has been diagnosed with celiac it makes a lot sense. Maybe the diner can't eat wheat?

~Ingrid

 

[LisaNJ25]

I don't see a problem at all.