You Pay Now! [Culture]

A family was kicked out of a Chinese buffet for wasting food--making repeat trips to the buffet while throwing away plates of uneaten food from previous trips.

"They told us we are not welcome there anymore," said Dershem, a repeat customer at the Dragon House buffet. "We waste too much food. But the buffet is all you can eat. And you know kids. They won't always eat everything and they want something else."

Dershem said she paid her $5.95 fee on Saturday but was abruptly told to leave after eating one plate of food.

Employees said they had been watching her family on previous trips to the restaurant and were fed up with her habits.

"They just take one bite and throw it away," said cashier Lin Huyen. "They take four egg rolls and crab ragoon, take one bite of egg roll and throw the whole plate. That is wasting food."

I'm with the Chinese place on this one, although, to be honest, I won't go to cheap buffet restaurants. Too dodgy.