MGM Vegas resorts now charging $25 to get plates and napkins with room service

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Credit to Vital Vegas for writing a good article about this one.

Note that there is no fee-free option. You are either paying $10 for "eco-friendly" containers (basically to-go boxes and plastic forks), or $25 for a traditional room service setup of trays, silverware, plates. etc.

I imagine that this is probably replacing whatever delivery fee they had before, so it's probably not as bad as it appears, but still obnoxious.

At MGM Grand, that fee was $9.50, according to this menu I found online. So, yeah, this sucks, as now you're paying $15 more to get the same thing.


I don't know why the bean counters at these casinos don't realize how angry this gets people. This is much worse than just a service fee. It really does make it appear they are charging $25 for the usage of plates and silverware.

This is even worse when the meal isn't particularly expensive (by room service standards), such as a couple wanting to order breakfast. Who's gonna do it now, with that $25 fee?

Idiotic. Vegas is upcharging their way out of viability.

I do have an amusing story regarding room service charges for plates, dating back to 2013.

It was my first New Years Eve as a Seven Stars member, and I got both myself and my parents comp rooms in the Augustus Tower of Caesars, overlooking the strip and fireworks.

We went to dinner that night at a Caesars owned restaurant, and after dinner, ordered several slices of cake to take to-go. Our plan was to eat the cake in the room as we waited for the New Years fireworks.

Well, we got back to the room, and realized we had no silverware nor plates -- just several slices of cake.

I called room service and asked for some plates and silverware.

"That will be a $30 plateage fee", I was told.

Plateage?!

Plateage?!

I had never heard that term before, but it was super obnoxious, and I was really annoyed. I argued with them, stating that I was a Seven Stars member who had just dined in one of their own restaurants, and we simply need plates and forks to eat the cake we bought from them! I asked if they could make an exception to the "plateage" policy. After some weak arguing back and forth, they agreed to bring up the plates and silverware complimentary. I tipped the runner something, but I don't remember how much. Not $30.

Anyway, that 2013 plateage reminds me of this new MGM policy. Except this one is worse, because at least I was asking room service to give me something free. Here you're charged $25 for plates to eat your room service food!

remember when Las Vegas casinos used to make their money from gambling? From the house edge that they had on every game. Casino restaurants, almost gave away the food to keep gamblers in the casino. THAT is what Las Vegas was....the gambling capitol of the world. People came here to gamble and casino made money from gambling.

What non gambling type business school brainiac decides Las Vegas should be about retail space and celebrity restaurants, and resort fees, and every other nickel and dime fee instead of gambling? :confused: Why are there 2 outlet malls in Las Vegas? Are people really flying thousands of miles to Las Vegas to go to an outlet mall, just like they have 5 miles from their home. I don't get it.

I moved to Vegas in 2009. My first trip was probably 2005, 2006. Bring back THAT Las Vegas, or even earlier, before my time, that was about gambling!!! That is what Las Vegas is supposed to be.

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Originally Posted by kewlJ

remember when Las Vegas casinos used to make their money from gambling?

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Those days of yore were pre-corporate, when those who owned the casinos (crooks) were satisfied with the reported income PLUS the skim.

I suppose it would be tougher if not impossible to skim restaurant, clubbing and event income today.

It is ridiculous to charge $25 for plates, napkins, and silverware.. I'd imagine many people will just go to the local store and buy plates, napkins, and silveware for about $15 at the most.

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Originally Posted by Tasha

It is ridiculous to charge $25 for plates, napkins, and silverware.. I'd imagine many people will just go to the local store and buy plates, napkins, and silveware for about $15 at the most.

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What local store moron? Since you know so much about Vegas, what local stores?

Yes there are Walgreens and CVS stores on the strip but NO ONE ordering room service is leaving their room, walking through the hotel and down the strip to save a couple bucks to buy plates and such.

You truly get dumber by the day and that imagination gets you in trouble.

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Originally Posted by kewlJ

remember when Las Vegas casinos used to make their money from gambling? From the house edge that they had on every game. Casino restaurants, almost gave away the food to keep gamblers in the casino. THAT is what Las Vegas was....the gambling capitol of the world. People came here to gamble and casino made money from gambling.

What non gambling type business school brainiac decides Las Vegas should be about retail space and celebrity restaurants, and resort fees, and every other nickel and dime fee instead of gambling? :confused: Why are there 2 outlet malls in Las Vegas? Are people really flying thousands of miles to Las Vegas to go to an outlet mall, just like they have 5 miles from their home. I don't get it.

I moved to Vegas in 2009. My first trip was probably 2005, 2006. Bring back THAT Las Vegas, or even earlier, before my time, that was about gambling!!! That is what Las Vegas is supposed to be.

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Someone has to pay for all the money they keep handing MDawg! He single handily is responsible for all the additional fees in Vegas since he embarked on his “Adventure” winning millions a year from them while they slap him hi fives and comp him tickets to anything he wants.

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Originally Posted by kewlJ

remember when Las Vegas casinos used to make their money from gambling? From the house edge that they had on every game. Casino restaurants, almost gave away the food to keep gamblers in the casino. THAT is what Las Vegas was....the gambling capitol of the world. People came here to gamble and casino made money from gambling.

What non gambling type business school brainiac decides Las Vegas should be about retail space and celebrity restaurants, and resort fees, and every other nickel and dime fee instead of gambling? :confused: Why are there 2 outlet malls in Las Vegas? Are people really flying thousands of miles to Las Vegas to go to an outlet mall, just like they have 5 miles from their home. I don't get it.

I moved to Vegas in 2009. My first trip was probably 2005, 2006. Bring back THAT Las Vegas, or even earlier, before my time, that was about gambling!!! That is what Las Vegas is supposed to be.

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Someone has to pay for all the money they keep handing MDawg! He single handily is responsible for all the additional fees in Vegas since he embarked on his “Adventure” winning millions a year from them while they slap him hi fives and comp him tickets to anything he wants.

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Wait, wait…Rob believes him so it must be true!!

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Originally Posted by Tasha

It is ridiculous to charge $25 for plates, napkins, and silverware.. I'd imagine many people will just go to the local store and buy plates, napkins, and silveware for about $15 at the most.

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Tasha, the food has to be delivered to your room in or on some type of receptacles. You can either pay $10 for crappy ones or $25 for nicer ones. If you have your own plates and flatware with you in the hotel room, you could opt for the cheaper service and then re-plate your food when it gets to your room. But for a savings of a mere $15 it is probably not worth it for most people.

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Originally Posted by Tasha

It is ridiculous to charge $25 for plates, napkins, and silverware.. I'd imagine many people will just go to the local store and buy plates, napkins, and silveware for about $15 at the most.

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Better yet, buy a hot plate & some ingredients too and just cook the meal in your room.

We actually do travel with an electronic hot plate and teflon pan always have, but use it just to heat up leftovers. We already request and get at least two refrigerators in the suite already anyway to store Kombuchas, wellness shots, soy milk, yoghurt, berries and such.

One thing I will make in the room is instant oatmeal and add to it fresh blueberries or other berries, using our boiler which we use for tea or whatever health concoction my wife is into lately. When I am in a hurry I will skip breakfast, so having an option like that without having to wait for room service is nice.

My wife doesn't like to see anyone in the room when she is there, resents the intrusion, so she'd rather eat leftovers than have to deal with a room service waiter. So she actually welcomes the "Express service" that Venetian/Palazzo and Cosmo have been doing for some time, where they bring the food up in a bag versus tablecloth and silverware service, that minimal intrusion she doesn't mind.

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Originally Posted by MDawg

UNKewlJ got no drip. So how would she know about anything to do with any of this?

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Originally Posted by DGenBen

Better yet, buy a hot plate & some ingredients too and just cook the meal in your room.

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Or get a freebee at an LV soup kitchen...you know, like you do in Miami.

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Originally Posted by MDawg

We actually do travel with an electronic hot plate and teflon pan always have, but use it just to heat up leftovers. We already request and get at least two refrigerators in the suite already anyway to store Kombuchas, wellness shots, soy milk, yoghurt, berries and such.

One thing I will make in the room is instant oatmeal and add to it fresh blueberries or other berries, using our boiler which we use for tea or whatever health concoction my wife is into lately. When I am in a hurry I will skip breakfast, so having an option like that without having to wait for room service is nice.

My wife doesn't like to see anyone in the room when she is there, resents the intrusion, so she'd rather eat leftovers than have to deal with a room service waiter. So she actually welcomes the "Express service" that Venetian/Palazzo and Cosmo have been doing for some time, where they bring the food up in a bag versus tablecloth and silverware service, that minimal intrusion she doesn't mind.

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Actually this is good advice.

Something all people who gamble a lot whether APs, or recs, or Degens have in common is that they usually eat a lot of unhealthy shit.

With a little advance planning you can get around this.

The thing that bothers me the most is that all the garbage for the to go order is considered "eco-friendly".

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Originally Posted by MDawg

We actually do travel with an electronic hot plate and teflon pan always have, but use it just to heat up leftovers. We already request and get at least two refrigerators in the suite already anyway to store Kombuchas, wellness shots, soy milk, yoghurt, berries and such.

One thing I will make in the room is instant oatmeal and add to it fresh blueberries or other berries, using our boiler which we use for tea or whatever health concoction my wife is into lately. When I am in a hurry I will skip breakfast, so having an option like that without having to wait for room service is nice.

My wife doesn't like to see anyone in the room when she is there, resents the intrusion, so she'd rather eat leftovers than have to deal with a room service waiter. So she actually welcomes the "Express service" that Venetian/Palazzo and Cosmo have been doing for some time, where they bring the food up in a bag versus tablecloth and silverware service, that minimal intrusion she doesn't mind.

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She doesn’t seem to mind anyone in the room while you’re downstairs dropping more of your sheikh daddy’s money…or so we’ve heard :o

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Originally Posted by Tasha

It is ridiculous to charge $25 for plates, napkins, and silverware.. I'd imagine many people will just go to the local store and buy plates, napkins, and silveware for about $15 at the most.

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What local store moron? Since you know so much about Vegas, what local stores?

Yes there are Walgreens and CVS stores on the strip but NO ONE ordering room service is leaving their room, walking through the hotel and down the strip to save a couple bucks to buy plates and such.

You truly get dumber by the day and that imagination gets you in trouble.

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Have you not seen any episodes of extreme cheapskates show? Plenty of people will walk down the strip to save a couple of dollars.

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Originally Posted by Tasha

Have you not seen any episodes of extreme cheapskates show? Plenty of people will walk down the strip to save a couple of dollars.

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Gee I must have missed the show where people ordering room service on the strip left the casino to walk down the strip to buy utensils and plates at CVS for room service to use to plate and deliver their hideously overpriced meal.

Can you find it on YouTube and post a link?

That way I too can save a couple of dollars...if I ever return to sin city, which is increasingly unlikely given how it is morphing.

I am confused. Who are these people that travel to Las Vegas for a 3, 4, 5 day stay and eat macaroni and cheese cooked in their hotel room on a hotplate and served on paper plates? Normal people come to Vegas for a stay, they include eating out at restaurants as part of their expenses.

What other thrifty tricks are these people doing? Instead of paying for bags on the airplane do the dress in 4 layers of the clothes they plan to wear everyday? That type of thing? Are there tips on this somewhere? "Visiting Vegas on the cheap" or something?

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Originally Posted by Tasha

Have you not seen any episodes of extreme cheapskates show? Plenty of people will walk down the strip to save a couple of dollars.

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Gee I must have missed the show where people ordering room service on the strip left the casino to walk down the strip to buy utensils and plates at CVS for room service to use to plate and deliver their hideously overpriced meal.

Can you find it on YouTube and post a link?

That way I too can save a couple of dollars...if I ever return to sin city, which is increasingly unlikely given how it is morphing.

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Extreme cheapskates didn't have an episode about people walking down the strip to save a couple of dollars on napkins, plates, and silverware, but there are Extreme cheapskates. I saw an Extreme Cheapskates episode where a woman brought a cup of microwave rice to a fancy restaurant and asked just for water . That's Extreme Cheapskate. I could see her walking down the strip to save on napkins, plates, and silverware.

Wouldn't an extreme cheapskate pick someplace to stay off-Strip?

Karen, I think you indirectly hit on a way to fund your casino gambling if you ever make it to sin city.

Find a spot on the a sky bridge on the strip, say the one between MGM and NYNY.

Sell paper plates and plastic cutlery to those extreme cheapskates who'd prefer to buy their own: save them the walk to CVS by having it available almost at their finger tips.

As a side hustle you can always offer crotch shots to conventioneers and Arabs in sin city to sin; I'd suggest you offer to blow them but hey, you say you're asexual: but maybe you could still offer them a hand job?

I mean, an autistic gamblin' ghetto girl's gotta do and that begging shtick of yours would go over in LV like a lead balloon.

Hey I stayed at a Day's Inn and kind of liked it. I got free bowls and silverware from the lobby and I paid $150 a night staying 5 miles from a casino I didn't care about being on vacation. Hotels are supposed to have guests and mine was a Day's in Hotel.

Not Vegas. Vegas just has too many people.

As long as the foreigners keep flocking to the LV Strip, the foolish fees will keep being created and increased. Any American who doesn't get full RFB at these places and STILL can't stop coming, is as dumb as a bag of sand.

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Originally Posted by Rob.Singer

As long as the foreigners keep flocking to the LV Strip, the foolish fees will keep being created and increased. Any American who doesn't get full RFB at these places and STILL can't stop coming, is as dumb as a bag of sand.

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Awhile back LV had a very hot, profitable club scene on the strip, not quite rivaling Ibiza but close.

How are things these days for the clubbers?

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Originally Posted by Tasha

Have you not seen any episodes of extreme cheapskates show? Plenty of people will walk down the strip to save a couple of dollars.

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Gee I must have missed the show where people ordering room service on the strip left the casino to walk down the strip to buy utensils and plates at CVS for room service to use to plate and deliver their hideously overpriced meal.

Can you find it on YouTube and post a link?

That way I too can save a couple of dollars...if I ever return to sin city, which is increasingly unlikely given how it is morphing.

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You almost sound as if you don’t believe that someone who decides to order expensive room service because they want to relax in their room & have their meal brought up to them to avoid the hustle & bustle of going out to eat, with the walking around, and the getting dressed & the waiting at the restaurant wouldn’t also be willing to get dressed, walk far away around the crowded strip to wait in line at a store to buy some plates to lug back up to the room to save a few bucks?

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Originally Posted by Rob.Singer

Any American who doesn't get full RFB at these places and STILL can't stop coming, is as dumb as a bag of sand.

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Maybe they don’t come as much at home as they do in Las Vegas.

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Any American who doesn't get full RFB at these places and STILL can't stop coming, is as dumb as a bag of sand.

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Maybe they don’t come as much at home as they do in Las Vegas.

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LOL. Or as often.


If someone wants to charge you $25 for utensils, I have a solution. Just go out in the hall, find a nice spot on the floor in full view of a security camera, and sit down with your plate of food and start eating without using your hands. Wait to take really big mouthfuls until some well-dressed folks are walking by. Wipe your chin on the corridor rug.

Eventually someone will bring you free utensils.

Reminds me of my old high school cross-country team eating at the Mountain City Diner after a nice 7 AM six-mile run. We were sweat-soaked teens in shorts and T-shirts, so we made sure to cap our morning meal with slices of lemon meringue pie, which we ate without using our hands. Good capper to a public meal. Endeared the North Schuylkill cross-country team to the other patrons.

Do what I do when I hed off for an overnight jaunt to Chinook Winds casino: pack a few paper plates, napkins and plastic cutlery in my overnight bag.

Typically I have dinner away from the casino, eat moderately and bring left overs back and pop them in the refrigerator.

Later in the evening I nuke the leftovers in the room and use the plates etc. to serve / consume them.

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The thing that bothers me the most is that all the garbage for the to go order is considered "eco-friendly".

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Yes, I laughed at that, too.

Hotels love using fake environmentalism to charge/save money.

Reminds me of the signs in the room asking you to reuse your towels several times, in order to save wildlife from all the detergent runoff. These messages are usually on some kind of paper sign with pictures of cute bunnies or dolphins.

My response: Pass some of the savings along to me, and I'll be glad to reuse the towel "to save the environment". Otherwise fuck you.

Anyway the real problem here is that you don't necessarily remember being charged high food prices on your vacation, but something like a $25 silverware fee sticks in your head, because it's just so out of the norm and obnoxious.

That's why this is so dumb.

The last thing you want is for the tourists to refuse to come back to lose their money gambling because they remember being angry at a $25 silverware fee.

Vegas got away with the resort and parking fees, so now they think they can just put fees wherever they want, and nothing will happen.

Wasn't there a bill being floated last year or so which would prohibit all the additional fees, including resort fees and parking fees? Must have died with a new administration and/or congress.

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Wasn't there a bill being floated last year or so which would prohibit all the additional fees, including resort fees and parking fees? Must have died with a new administration and/or congress.

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No, it just required to disclose them up front when displaying a price, and only mandatory fees (such as resort fees).

No disclosure is required for fees for optional services such as parking, room service, etc.

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Wasn't there a bill being floated last year

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UNKewlJ gets no comps, UNKewlJ got no drip, has no credit cards couldn't stay in a hotel room if she wanted to. When she is in a hotel room it's as a male prostitute where a John pays for the room (and blackens her eye if he doesn't like her service) which is why she's unaware of anything to do with fees at a hotel and what eventually appears on the folio.

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Why isn't this retard pretending to be a high roller?

Couldn't you just order the meal in the restaurant and say something like,"You know what? I changed my mind. Can I have the meal to go instead? And then take the food up to your room instead? I didn't see anything like,"Food is not allowed to be carried out of restaurant," thing. A guy said he was at an all you can eat breakfast and after breakfast, he left with a banana in his hand and Security nearly tackled him and then yelled at him for leaving the buffet with the banana..

But I'm pretty sure you can just ask for to go plates and take that up to your room and have free plates, napkins, and silverware.

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Originally Posted by Tasha

Couldn't you just order the meal in the restaurant and say something like,"You know what? I changed my mind. Can I have the meal to go instead? And then take the food up to your room instead? I didn't see anything like,"Food is not allowed to be carried out of restaurant," thing. A guy said he was at an all you can eat breakfast and after breakfast, he left with a banana in his hand and Security nearly tackled him and then yelled at him for leaving the buffet with the banana..

But I'm pretty sure you can just ask for to go plates and take that up to your room and have free plates, napkins, and silverware.

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Karen, haven't you ever gotten buzzed while gambling and then returned to your room at the casino to have sex to take advantage of the gambling high? Then after building the beast with two backs haven't you ordered strawberries, cream and champagne from room service so as not to spoil the moment?

Of course you haven't, you're a ghetto dwelling asexual...what am I saying?

BTW, there's a thing called "Fast Food" today where they actually let you buy it there and leave without being tackled by burly security guards: hell, there's even a Church's Chicken near you.

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Originally Posted by Tasha

Couldn't you just order the meal in the restaurant and say something like,"You know what? I changed my mind. Can I have the meal to go instead? And then take the food up to your room instead? I didn't see anything like,"Food is not allowed to be carried out of restaurant," thing. A guy said he was at an all you can eat breakfast and after breakfast, he left with a banana in his hand and Security nearly tackled him and then yelled at him for leaving the buffet with the banana..

But I'm pretty sure you can just ask for to go plates and take that up to your room and have free plates, napkins, and silverware.

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Karen, haven't you ever gotten buzzed while gambling and then returned to your room at the casino to have sex to take advantage of the gambling high? Then after building the beast with two backs haven't you ordered strawberries, cream and champagne from room service so as not to spoil the moment?

Of course you haven't, you're a ghetto dwelling asexual...what am I saying?

BTW, there's a thing called "Fast Food" today where they actually let you buy it there and leave without being tackled by burly security guards: hell, there's even a Church's Chicken near you.

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I know you're insulting me, but I REALLY think the Security guards overreacted to a banana being taken out of the dining room after the guest was done with his buffet. It wasn't like it was a cash box or anything like that.

Holy shit, I looked up,"Can you leave a buffet with a banana?

And got these results.

https://www.google.com/search?q=can+...obile&ie=UTF-8

:eek: I stand corrected. Apparently, leaving a buffet with a banana is a huge no no. :eek:

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I know you're insulting me, but I REALLY think the Security guards overreacted to a banana being taken out of the dining room after the guest was done with his buffet. It wasn't like it was a cash box or anything like that.

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No, I'm trying to EDUCATE you as to how the world works.

Buffets do NOT allow patrons to leave with food, unless it is a box of take out without first being seated.

There are no exceptions for bananas, nor olives, nor pats of butter.

What, you think it's OK for you to stuff a few rolls into that hideous handbag after dining at Circus Circus buffet?

Today it's rolls, tomorrow you'll pilfer fried chicken and then steak, crab legs and eclairs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jLgn7Kz4Us

Buffets and AYCE places like Korean barbecue simply have to enforce the rule against carrying anything out, so as to prevent abuse. Can't stop a flood unless you stop any potential leak with a consistent even handed policy.

It's actually especially evident why, at a Korean Barbecue, otherwise what's to stop people from ordering tons of extra raw meat at the end of the meal and just carrying it out in ice chests.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlQXQQWAOxQ

One man desperate for a bit of fuel is pathetic. Five million people desperate for fuel will destroy a city.

Thank you, counselor.

Alright Karen, you heard it from your good "casino friend" as well as from me, your "Torquemada."

Has this wisdom percolated into that nappy noggin yet?

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Couldn't you just order the meal in the restaurant and say something like,"You know what? I changed my mind. Can I have the meal to go instead? And then take the food up to your room instead? I didn't see anything like,"Food is not allowed to be carried out of restaurant," thing. A guy said he was at an all you can eat breakfast and after breakfast, he left with a banana in his hand and Security nearly tackled him and then yelled at him for leaving the buffet with the banana..

But I'm pretty sure you can just ask for to go plates and take that up to your room and have free plates, napkins, and silverware.

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That guy should have sneaked the banana under one of his folds of flesh. I take it as a given that someone at a Vegas buffet has mantits.

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Originally Posted by Tasha

I know you're insulting me, but I REALLY think the Security guards overreacted to a banana being taken out of the dining room after the guest was done with his buffet. It wasn't like it was a cash box or anything like that.

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No, I'm trying to EDUCATE you as to how the world works.

Buffets do NOT allow patrons to leave with food, unless it is a box of take out without first being seated.

There are no exceptions for bananas, nor olives, nor pats of butter.

What, you think it's OK for you to stuff a few rolls into that hideous handbag after dining at Circus Circus buffet?

Today it's rolls, tomorrow you'll pilfer fried chicken and then steak, crab legs and eclairs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jLgn7Kz4Us

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Mr. V, I was actually editing my post with the newfound knowledge that leaving a buffet with a banana is generally considered a huge no no when you posted your post about leaving a buffet with food being a huge no no. I actually started to post about my newfound knowledge about leaving buffet with food being a huge no no, but my phone did a sudden and unexpected shutdown and reset on its own and I had to wait for the phone to be back up and running and then I finished editing the post. By the time my edit went through, your post was already done.

Thanks for clarifying that faux pas, Karen: you're back in my good graces now.

I will walk out of a buffet with small items like fruit or cookies. I won't typically take any of their plates or silverware. Though I probably should if these places are going to hit me with plateage fees.

I have never attempted (and will never attempt) to take hot food or anything substantial out of a buffet.

In general, I don't even like buffets, as they substitute quantity for quality.

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I will walk out of a buffet with small items like fruit or cookies. I won't typically take any of their plates or silverware. Though I probably should if these places are going to hit me with plateage fees.

I have never attempted (and will never attempt) to take hot food or anything substantial out of a buffet.

In general, I don't even like buffets, as they substitute quantity for quality.

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Yep, I was surprised the Security Guards nearly tackled the guy and ended up yelling at him over a banana after a buffet, but according to Google, taking ANY food out of a buffet, even something as relatively small as a single banana is considered theft like if you were to go to a grocery store and walk out with a banana without paying for it.

I didn't know that taking food like banana out of a buffet was considered theft. I could see taking a full plate of food like pancakes, sausage, and eggs out of the buffet would be considered theft, but I didn't think taking a single banana out of the buffet would be considered theft as well.

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Originally Posted by Tasha

A guy said he was at an all you can eat breakfast and after breakfast, he left with a banana in his hand and Security nearly tackled him and then yelled at him for leaving the buffet with the banana..

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Where is the source for this?

There are so many times that you mention "a guy" or "girl" saying this or that, or a casino having done this or that, when it turns out that the actual story doesn't even resemble what you claim.

I suggest sticking to posting URLs only and quoting directly from the source.

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Originally Posted by Tasha

A guy said he was at an all you can eat breakfast and after breakfast, he left with a banana in his hand and Security nearly tackled him and then yelled at him for leaving the buffet with the banana..

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Where is the source for this?

There are so many times that you mention "a guy" or "girl" saying this or that, or a casino having done this or that, when it turns out that the actual story doesn't even resemble what you claim.

I suggest sticking to posting URLs only and quoting directly from the source.

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What are you the forum police? Her gibberish is about as believable as yours. Concentrate on flight schedules to see what planes you can hijack….assfuck

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Originally Posted by Dan Druff

I will walk out of a buffet with small items like fruit or cookies. I won't typically take any of their plates or silverware. Though I probably should if these places are going to hit me with plateage fees.

I have never attempted (and will never attempt) to take hot food or anything substantial out of a buffet.

In general, I don't even like buffets, as they substitute quantity for quality.

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Sure but you didn't get tackled nor did anyone else. For fruit I imagine you just walk out with it openly in your hand. Maybe you put the cookies away, or at least wrap them in napkins. Little things like that they aren't going to enforce especially if you just paid almost $100. for the buffet. But the primary deterrence I suppose is that it is against policy and the knowledge that it is not allowed.

How about this one: going to the buffet with someone who doesn't eat. I've done that before, with a friend of mine who just isn't into eating. Period. Sat at the buffet and told the server that he might have some dessert but otherwise isn't going to eat, and the server not caring. I could have gotten the comp or done the room charge for any number of people, but why? if someone is not even going to eat. Most of the time though that friend of mine gets bored watching me eat and gets up to go gamble anyway.

I'd agree with you that a foodstuff at a good restaurant is going to be superior to the identical item at a buffet, for example lobster, crab legs, steak. Fish especially is usually going to be lower quality at the buffet than in a restaurant.

At a high end restaurant the crab legs or lobster are going to be good enough to warrant eating every bit, while at a buffet might just crack the leg open, pull at each end, and leave whatever remains inside alone. Everyone is different though, women in general or at least the girls I know aren't big eaters. My wife and others like her just don't like the idea of wasting food, and barely eat at all. I try to take very small portions of whatever I am taking and try to eat it all, but I'll go through a dozen plates of food at a buffet I exercise hard all the time and burn it up. But in general if you are not a big eater buffets aren't for you.

There are some high quality buffets in Vegas such as at Wynn, or Cosmo. No they're not serving A5 Wagyu, but a lot of their dishes are innovative or just plain good.

The inexpensive Vegas buffets seem to be gone, but when they were around, especially with player card discounts, I'd imagine a local would rather eat at one of those and just pick and choose a few items and leave quickly, versus eat at a fast food place, where the price might have actually been comparable. I don't think there is such a buffet around these days, the last would have been something like for example Palace Station Buffet? Over at GVR, the former buffet was converted into the new high limit.

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I will walk out of a buffet with small items like fruit or cookies. I won't typically take any of their plates or silverware. Though I probably should if these places are going to hit me with plateage fees.

I have never attempted (and will never attempt) to take hot food or anything substantial out of a buffet.

In general, I don't even like buffets, as they substitute quantity for quality.

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Yep, I was surprised the Security Guards nearly tackled the guy and ended up yelling at him over a banana after a buffet, but according to Google, taking ANY food out of a buffet, even something as relatively small as a single banana is considered theft like if you were to go to a grocery store and walk out with a banana without paying for it.

I didn't know that taking food like banana out of a buffet was considered theft. I could see taking a full plate of food like pancakes, sausage, and eggs out of the buffet would be considered theft, but I didn't think taking a single banana out of the buffet would be considered theft as well.

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The real problem with trying to sneak pancakes out of the buffet is that the syrup makes a huge mess in your purse.

The guy REALLY did say that Security nearly tackled him and then told him off for leaving with a banana in his hand after a buffet! I'm REALLY telling the truth!

To anyone who thinks I am lying about the guy who said he left the buffet with a banana in his hand and Security nearly tackled him and then told him off,

https://www.quora.com/Do-owners-of-b...sneak-out-food

Read them and weep at Posters who said they witnessed similar things. Read in particular about the reply about the buffet guest who got cussed out for doing exactly what the guy I mentioned did.

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To anyone who thinks I am lying about the guy who said he left the buffet with a banana in his hand and Security nearly tackled him and then told him off,

https://www.quora.com/Do-owners-of-b...sneak-out-food

Read them and weep at Posters who said they witnessed similar things. Read in particular about the reply about the buffet guest who got cussed out for doing exactly what the guy I mentioned did.

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Are you using “Read them and weep” in the correct context here?

In the history of your "A guy did this" "A guy did that" "A guy said this" "A guy said that" or "This happened at the casino" not once has, upon checking, whatever you claimed happened or was said even remotely resembled the actual statements made or events.

Let's just chalk it up to a memory that rivals that of AxelWolf's.

While of course this was written about UNKewlJ

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Maybe I can step in here and help,

It Never Happened.

You're welcome....

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in this and countless other instances it applies to you as well.

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In the history of your "A guy did this" "A guy did that" "A guy said this" "A guy said that" or "This happened at the casino" not once has, upon checking, whatever you claimed happened or was said even remotely resembled the actual statements made or events.

Let's just chalk it up to a memory that rivals that of AxelWolf's.

While of course this was written about UNKewlJ

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Maybe I can step in here and help,

It Never Happened.

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in this and countless other instances it applies to you as well.

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I will walk out of a buffet with small items like fruit or cookies. I won't typically take any of their plates or silverware. Though I probably should if these places are going to hit me with plateage fees.

I have never attempted (and will never attempt) to take hot food or anything substantial out of a buffet.

In general, I don't even like buffets, as they substitute quantity for quality.

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Yep, I was surprised the Security Guards nearly tackled the guy and ended up yelling at him over a banana after a buffet, but according to Google, taking ANY food out of a buffet, even something as relatively small as a single banana is considered theft like if you were to go to a grocery store and walk out with a banana without paying for it.

I didn't know that taking food like banana out of a buffet was considered theft. I could see taking a full plate of food like pancakes, sausage, and eggs out of the buffet would be considered theft, but I didn't think taking a single banana out of the buffet would be considered theft as well.

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This is why it is called privilege or "white privilege".

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I will walk out of a buffet with small items like fruit or cookies. I won't typically take any of their plates or silverware. Though I probably should if these places are going to hit me with plateage fees.

I have never attempted (and will never attempt) to take hot food or anything substantial out of a buffet.

In general, I don't even like buffets, as they substitute quantity for quality.

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Yep, I was surprised the Security Guards nearly tackled the guy and ended up yelling at him over a banana after a buffet, but according to Google, taking ANY food out of a buffet, even something as relatively small as a single banana is considered theft like if you were to go to a grocery store and walk out with a banana without paying for it.

I didn't know that taking food like banana out of a buffet was considered theft. I could see taking a full plate of food like pancakes, sausage, and eggs out of the buffet would be considered theft, but I didn't think taking a single banana out of the buffet would be considered theft as well.

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This is why it is called privilege or "white privilege".

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What privilege? The guy almost got tackled by Security and got yelled at over a banana being taken out of a buffet. :confused:

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Yep, I was surprised the Security Guards nearly tackled the guy and ended up yelling at him over a banana after a buffet, but according to Google, taking ANY food out of a buffet, even something as relatively small as a single banana is considered theft like if you were to go to a grocery store and walk out with a banana without paying for it.

I didn't know that taking food like banana out of a buffet was considered theft. I could see taking a full plate of food like pancakes, sausage, and eggs out of the buffet would be considered theft, but I didn't think taking a single banana out of the buffet would be considered theft as well.

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This is why it is called privilege or "white privilege".

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What privilege? The guy almost got tackled by Security and got yelled at over a banana being taken out of a buffet. :confused:

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Was going to BS, but taking a banana can be white privilege and his was revoked.