11 year old me, too. I grew 6" in about 4 months but I only weighed about 60lbs when I was done because I was super tiny to start. My mom said our food bill roughly doubled that summer because I was eating about 4 servings at every meal. Could've fit my scrawny ass in that 100% off section probably and then gone ham on a buffet.

Me in college. About 5'11", 135lbs, all tone all the time from climbing and biking several hours every day. I spent a lot of time just trying to eat enough food to keep up

Exactly this. My ex-wife was 5’2”, 94 pounds with clothes on. She got us banned from our favorite Chinese buffet restaurant. Her diet was "anything not nailed down." Lots of good reasons why she's an ex, but I do miss how she could pack away food.

COME BACK, SHORTER!

At 20-30% off you are paying only 70-80% markup. The 10% off guy is getting 90% markup. No restaurant would create something like this if they weren't marking up the menu to start with.

You don't think about how much extra you are paying because you are too busy thinking about the discount you got squeezing yourself through a sign.

Sounds like a good deal for kids but I could never eat a baby even it was free.

It's always free to eat the babies.

I feel like growing teenagers are a massive exploit here.

As sad as it is to say, I've seen lots of kids who would only be able to go through the 20, maybe 30 :(

imagine if tickets were priced by the lb/kilograms

I totally read that as you could eat out a truck driver

Thin people can actually eat more in a single meal than fat people because their stomach is of equal size, but fat people's stomach has to push against a fat layer that thin people don't have- or at least have a lot less of. It's why thin people are generally better at winning eating contests.

https://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2003-11/why-do-thin-guys-always-seem-win-eating-contests/

Which is not totally uncommon at some buffets

They probably SHOULD be eating all they can

Joel Haver, the comedy skit dude?

Yeah, everytime I see this all I can think is that even when I was a skinny teenager I was a 32E. I wouldn't have fit in any of those.

Meanwhile skinny people sponsor fatter ones on a regular buffet… Not sure that’s much better.

The assumption is a fst person will eat more. So them paying more balances it out.