14 DAY TRIAL // British restaurant Gobi in Brighton, Sussex, banned patrons George Dalmon and Andy Miles for life. It appears the 26- and 25-year-old men were abusing the all-you-can eat promotion at said eatery.
The restaurant advertised its buffet deal consisting of "the finest meats, seafood and fresh vegetables," which clients could enjoy by paying a singular fee. For £12 (about $20), they could get a taste of every meal on the buffet's menu.
This marketing strategy proved counter-productive when the two young men started attending the restaurant daily, sometimes several times per day.
Mongolian Barbecue restaurant reps have explained their decision by describing the men's eating habits.
"Basically they just come in and pig out," one manager said.
For the last two years, the two had been purchasing the same $20 all-you-can-eat package, that they would drink with water. They had never left tips of any kind, managing to produce anger amongst staff members and managers.
"We have put up with them for two years but I've had enough," the Gobi spokesman explains.
The manager at Gobi explained that he was recording a loss each time Dalmon and Miles would step foot in his diner, the Huffington Post reports.
"We are not a charity, we're a business. It's our restaurant and we can tell people not to come back if we don't want them to."
He didn't just let the men off with a slap on the wrist, he labeled them "a couple of pigs," and shared his opinion of them with representatives of the British press.
The all-you-can-eat business plan is apparently based on the assumption that people will never actually consume all the food they are physically able to, however enticing the offer, but limit themselves to a small, reasonable amount that would make restaurant owners a profit.