Sign on the door of the local Chinese buffet

[elizilla]

"No outside food or drink!"

Because it's bad for profits, if people bring their own food to an all-you-can-eat buffet?

Comments

[bikergeek.livejournal.com]

I would suspect there are legal liability issues involved in the event someone gets sick from something they brought in with them rather than something the restaurant served.

[elizilla]

Or it's because of liquor licenses, they can't let people BYOB. But I still think it's funny to worry about people bringing their own food to an all-you-can-eat place. The non-buffet restaurants in my neighborhood don't generally have signs prohibiting outside food - it's kinda assumed. I wonder what happened, or what the person who posted that sign really fears?

[tanac.livejournal.com]

Or local health codes forbid it - I know they do here in NC.

[dagibbs.livejournal.com]

That's usually the case.

[schmi.livejournal.com]

Hehe... could be that they're not always a buffet and the sign applies for then?

[tlatoani.livejournal.com]

If you're talking about a buffet in Ypsi, as far as I know all of them also have a menu. And they also may not want a situation where one person at the table orders the buffet, and everyone else brings McDonald's.

Nobody bothers to come up with a sign like that until they have a problem they think requires it.