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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,036 posts)
Wed Sep 19, 2018, 03:09 PM Sep 2018

Athlete Banned From All-you-can-eat Restaurant After Downing 100 Plates of Sushi

Jaroslav Bobrowski knows a good deal when he sees one. Accordingly, an all-you-can-eat offer at one sushi restaurant is no longer available to him.

The triathlete follows a special diet in which he fasts for 20-hour periods. So when he does sit down for dinner, he tries to make up for lost time.

But after devouring a staggering 100 plates at the Running Sushi restaurant in Landshut, Germany, as part of its $26 buffet deal, the restaurant declared him persona non grata.

"When I went to the checkout, I wanted to tip, but the waiter did not want to accept that. I'm banned from now on because I'm eating too much. I was stunned," the 30-year-old Iron Man competitor said.

https://www.newsweek.com/athlete-banned-all-you-can-eat-restaurant-after-downing-100-plates-sushi-1123313

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Athlete Banned From All-you-can-eat Restaurant After Downing 100 Plates of Sushi (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 2018 OP
Funny! thbobby Sep 2018 #1
No, that is very sad. Blue_true Sep 2018 #42
Seems like "Running Sushi" could make an advertisement from this. JustABozoOnThisBus Sep 2018 #2
i'd never heard of an all-you-can-eat restaurant that served sushi unblock Sep 2018 #3
I've known a few sushi places that have all-you-can-eat lunch deals fishwax Sep 2018 #4
can't imagine that around here unless it's at least $75. unblock Sep 2018 #5
We have a local Chinese place that has some out exboyfil Sep 2018 #8
There are quite a few in and around New York City PJMcK Sep 2018 #47
I had a boyfriend in New Orleans kskiska Sep 2018 #6
You really do not want cheap Sushi. GulfCoast66 Sep 2018 #7
I would of banned him also. Unreasonable. Nt USALiberal Sep 2018 #9
I agree. There is a limit between common sense and greed. This guy was looking for a cheap meal GemDigger Sep 2018 #30
He likely cheat and shortchange as much as he can get away with. Blue_true Sep 2018 #43
'Tis no man, 'tis a remorseless eating machine Brother Buzz Sep 2018 #10
That man ate all our shrimp and two plastic lobsters! Initech Sep 2018 #12
And then he raided the tropical fish tank! Hortensis Sep 2018 #25
"YOU GO NOW!" Iggo Sep 2018 #11
NO SUSHI FOR YOU! jcgoldie Sep 2018 #13
This message was self-deleted by its author Iggo Sep 2018 #16
You eat too much chicken! LakeSuperiorView Sep 2018 #19
you here four hour! KayF Sep 2018 #24
You Scare My Wife. TheOther95Percent Sep 2018 #31
You eat more rice!!!! RhodeIslandOne Sep 2018 #48
First thing I thought of too! Bayard Sep 2018 #33
I really miss that guy. Iggo Sep 2018 #37
And then what happened when you didn't find one? Initech Sep 2018 #14
There's something fishy about this story. Voltaire2 Sep 2018 #15
They were just carping about his eating habits ProudLib72 Sep 2018 #17
Hmmm...let me mullet over and I'll get back to you Docreed2003 Sep 2018 #32
I'd like to read salmore about it. RhodeIslandOne Sep 2018 #49
have a memory of after a game my kids hockey team took down a buffet hard dembotoz Sep 2018 #18
We like eating at a buffet, not for quantity, but variety instead, and don't eat too much, ... SWBTATTReg Sep 2018 #20
Abuse it? Adrahil Sep 2018 #23
Really? Drahthaardogs Sep 2018 #39
Exactly. And anyone should see what you see. nt Blue_true Sep 2018 #44
Tsk, tsk, no shame. oasis Sep 2018 #21
Some are on the thread celebrating the guy. That is disgusting. nt Blue_true Sep 2018 #46
How can you eat too much when it's all you can eat? Solly Mack Sep 2018 #22
lol loll lol JHan Sep 2018 #26
12 plates of crab legs is my record underpants Sep 2018 #27
To conform with truth in advertising laws, they'll have to change their slogan DFW Sep 2018 #28
Wonder if the restaurant takes mug shots and posts them democratisphere Sep 2018 #29
I was cut off at an all-you-can-eat sushi place a long time ago. aikoaiko Sep 2018 #34
Bobrowski had been a regular guest dalton99a Sep 2018 #35
I'm Not Getting Something Here ProfessorGAC Sep 2018 #36
File that under "health and fitness nuts can be wacky." FSogol Sep 2018 #40
This Was In Germany ProfessorGAC Sep 2018 #41
it's called "intermittent fasting" eShirl Sep 2018 #45
100 plates of sushi?! smirkymonkey Sep 2018 #38

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
42. No, that is very sad.
Wed Sep 19, 2018, 07:07 PM
Sep 2018

Sad that a person would be that thoughtless and immoral. The restaurant did the right thing.

JustABozoOnThisBus

(23,350 posts)
2. Seems like "Running Sushi" could make an advertisement from this.
Wed Sep 19, 2018, 03:21 PM
Sep 2018

Herr Bobrowski, forget the check: can you just look into this camera and belch?

And come back any time!

unblock

(52,256 posts)
3. i'd never heard of an all-you-can-eat restaurant that served sushi
Wed Sep 19, 2018, 03:23 PM
Sep 2018

that's just asking for trouble, even if someone ate far fewer than 100 plates of it....

fishwax

(29,149 posts)
4. I've known a few sushi places that have all-you-can-eat lunch deals
Wed Sep 19, 2018, 03:25 PM
Sep 2018

They were, from my perspective, quite a good deal.

unblock

(52,256 posts)
5. can't imagine that around here unless it's at least $75.
Wed Sep 19, 2018, 03:28 PM
Sep 2018

even then it's asking for trouble.

maybe at the end of a slow week and all the fish is about to go bad....

exboyfil

(17,863 posts)
8. We have a local Chinese place that has some out
Wed Sep 19, 2018, 03:50 PM
Sep 2018

on its buffet. I am not a sushi eater, but my perception is that it is not very good.

Occasionally I scored all you can eat crab legs, but that deal doesn't come up anymore. Red Lobster got into trouble with a similar proposal years ago.


http://theweek.com/speedreads/567777/endless-crab-could-have-bankrupted-red-lobster


Red Lobster's tactical error was underestimating just how many times customers would request another crab plate during a single visit. "It wasn't the second helping [of crab], it was the third that hurt,” said Joe Lee, CEO of parent company Darden Restaurants, on a call with investors. "And the fourth," said Red Lobster president Dick Rivera.

PJMcK

(22,037 posts)
47. There are quite a few in and around New York City
Wed Sep 19, 2018, 08:41 PM
Sep 2018

They usually have a rule that you have to eat all of the rice, not just the fish.

kskiska

(27,045 posts)
6. I had a boyfriend in New Orleans
Wed Sep 19, 2018, 03:36 PM
Sep 2018

who was told not to come back to an all-you-can-eat salad bar because he took too much.

GemDigger

(4,305 posts)
30. I agree. There is a limit between common sense and greed. This guy was looking for a cheap meal
Wed Sep 19, 2018, 05:36 PM
Sep 2018

who took advantage of it. I wonder if he does that often …..

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
43. He likely cheat and shortchange as much as he can get away with.
Wed Sep 19, 2018, 07:12 PM
Sep 2018

I despise people like him, the cheap meal, cheap deal types. All they give a shit about is getting as much as they can get for as little as they can pay.

I honestly don't go to all you can eat places because I am a very normal eater who stops at one serving. I have been in them by accident or with groups, but I only took one serving because that is how I eat.

Response to jcgoldie (Reply #13)

KayF

(1,345 posts)
24. you here four hour!
Wed Sep 19, 2018, 05:16 PM
Sep 2018

I had a supervisor who told us that when it was time for our lunch break.

TheOther95Percent

(1,035 posts)
31. You Scare My Wife.
Wed Sep 19, 2018, 06:07 PM
Sep 2018

When I was a waitress back in the day, 3 NFL players came in and ordered 10 entrees. Finished every bite.

Initech

(100,081 posts)
14. And then what happened when you didn't find one?
Wed Sep 19, 2018, 04:15 PM
Sep 2018

We went fishing!

Your honor does this sound like the actions of a man who had all he could eat?



dembotoz

(16,808 posts)
18. have a memory of after a game my kids hockey team took down a buffet hard
Wed Sep 19, 2018, 04:31 PM
Sep 2018

damn some of those kids could eat.
there were parents there too so i doubt they lost too much money....but damn

SWBTATTReg

(22,143 posts)
20. We like eating at a buffet, not for quantity, but variety instead, and don't eat too much, ...
Wed Sep 19, 2018, 04:58 PM
Sep 2018

2 plates at the most for me, maybe 3 for other. Thing is, is if too many eat too much such as this one guy did (100), he's kind of taking the buffet from the rest of us, that is, some places can't stay in business and support this kind of customer, and the rest of us don't have a buffet to go to anymore.

That's the issue I have w/ 'eat all you want'...some abuse it.

 

Adrahil

(13,340 posts)
23. Abuse it?
Wed Sep 19, 2018, 05:12 PM
Sep 2018

I dunno man. If they don't really mean it, don't advertise it.

I mean, how many people are gonna eat that much... not bloody many.


Drahthaardogs

(6,843 posts)
39. Really?
Wed Sep 19, 2018, 06:43 PM
Sep 2018

This guy thinks this is okay? In Korea, most places put a 90 minute rule on all you can eat.

He made a fucking glutton of himself. Why do we always have to play on technicalities?

Solly Mack

(90,773 posts)
22. How can you eat too much when it's all you can eat?
Wed Sep 19, 2018, 05:01 PM
Sep 2018

They should change their deal to - All we say you can eat.

underpants

(182,834 posts)
27. 12 plates of crab legs is my record
Wed Sep 19, 2018, 05:22 PM
Sep 2018

And I mean piled up plates. Buffet in Myrtle Beach a few years ago. I think it was 12, might have been 15. It got to the point that I could tell everyone at the table was tired of watching me eat.

When I'm in really good shape I can down food like you would believe.

DFW

(54,410 posts)
28. To conform with truth in advertising laws, they'll have to change their slogan
Wed Sep 19, 2018, 05:25 PM
Sep 2018

"All we think you have any business eating"

We once ate at a famous (locally, anyway) all you can eat Sunday brunch in a small town in Maine that had assembly line freshly made crepes, 5 different kinds of bread, 10 different kinds of cake, salads, fruits, various kinds of meat and sausages, about 5 different kinds of fish and UNLIMITED lobster (!!!!!). All drinks, hot and cold, included. Any place else, we would have expected a $150 per person bill. Nope: $26.95 per person.

They told us when we got there (we were there for a ship christening, knew nothing about the brunch) to reserve well in advance for the Sunday brunch. HUH? What brunch? They said, oh you aren't here for that? Most people come for that. We found out why. I'll bet even Jaroslav Bobrowski would have walked out of there without even raising an eyebrow (and full!).

democratisphere

(17,235 posts)
29. Wonder if the restaurant takes mug shots and posts them
Wed Sep 19, 2018, 05:26 PM
Sep 2018

conspicuously at the entrance as "Most Unwanted Customers".

aikoaiko

(34,172 posts)
34. I was cut off at an all-you-can-eat sushi place a long time ago.
Wed Sep 19, 2018, 06:27 PM
Sep 2018


I think I offended the sushi master by devouring so much sushi.

dalton99a

(81,526 posts)
35. Bobrowski had been a regular guest
Wed Sep 19, 2018, 06:28 PM
Sep 2018
Bobrowski had been a regular guest at Running Sushi, also eating generous portions of sushi, though it was not until his last and hungriest visit that the restaurant drew the line, reported Stern.

https://www.thelocal.de/20180914/german-triathlete-banned-from-all-you-can-eat-sushi-restaurant-for-eating-too-much

ProfessorGAC

(65,078 posts)
36. I'm Not Getting Something Here
Wed Sep 19, 2018, 06:30 PM
Sep 2018

He fasts for 20 hours then overloads?
20 hours is a fast???
I'd bet everybody here has gone 20 hours without food, were highly physically active, then just ate normally.
Those numbers don't seem right.

FSogol

(45,491 posts)
40. File that under "health and fitness nuts can be wacky."
Wed Sep 19, 2018, 06:45 PM
Sep 2018

Someone is always bypassing common sense to exaggerate something in America.

eShirl

(18,494 posts)
45. it's called "intermittent fasting"
Wed Sep 19, 2018, 07:16 PM
Sep 2018

you just do all your eating for the day within a time window

20/4 is rather on the extreme end

(I do 16/8, was surprised how easy it was to get used to)

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
38. 100 plates of sushi?!
Wed Sep 19, 2018, 06:39 PM
Sep 2018

I like sushi, but that's pretty gluttonous. I think about the maximum I could down would be 5 plates and that would be if I was starving.

It doesn't sound healthy to fast and binge like that.

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