Oldeagle66
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Seems pretty basic and simple to me. Fix your own salad. But to people with a little greed and that freebie mentality, it could mean free everything as long as you can eat.
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If you saw a sign "Help Yourself" on a restaurant salad bar, how would you interpret it?
- Thread starter debodun
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A ?? you were trained for tougher stuff than givin up so quick
Dave03
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According to Google, S.I.T.T. stands for Story-Informed Trauma Therapy.
Somehow, I don't think that's what it means here, though.
Somehow, I don't think that's what it means here, though.
CallMeKate
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When talking about asthma it means Single Inhaler Triple Therapy. "Games" have to make sense, and people have to choose to play... I'm passing on this one 'cause I don't give a hoot.
Dave03
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Yea, I kinda figured if a person has to look up what it means, this game isn't for them. LOL.
Knight
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Not true! I give up when there is no hope of solving something like S.I.T.T. that has multiple explanations that don't fit this thread topic. Could it be you don't know what S.I.T.T. means?
jujube
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The only thing that comes to mind is "Sh!t in the Trough"......which would mean overdo something to the point that it becomes unavailable to everyone else. You sh!t in the trough, nobody can use it.
jimintoronto
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I guess you never served in the Military, did you? The standard in The Canadian Forces food service is....Eat as much as you want, BUT EAT EVERYTHING THAT YOU TAKE. And there is usually a Corporal watching when you bring back your food plates and bowls, to enforce that regulation about not wasting food.
One of the most popular buffet places in Toronto is The Mandarin, with over 30 locations. It is a buffet service, where you pay a flat rate of $29 for lunch, or $35 for supper. They have dozens of food selections, and you can "refill " as many times as you want. The wait staff are only there to bring drinks, and to clear your used dishes away. A typical Mandarin location seats 500 people, and they "turn over a table " about once each hour during the 11 hours they are open each day of the week.
The secret? Most people stop at 2 plates. The most costly 3 items on their menu, in terms of what the item costs the management to buy and prepare, are the standing rib roasts, the shrimp, and the Lobster. Vegetables, lentils, rice, and pasta are cheap to buy and serve, and if the kitchen is producing hundreds of small pastries a day, they are also cheap to make. Chicken and pork and lamb are used in many of the hot pot recipes.
Flarbalard
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It didn't occur to me to google it. I guess I just lack ambition.
MACKTEXAS
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Yes, Jim - the foods you mentioned sound wonderful, and we have some buffets like that in the nearest large city to me. They're quite popular, just not something for me, and one plate of food is all I want wherever I go.
almost there closest so far - can give you honor points?
jujube
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I'll take any points I can get.
that sounds like an All you can eat type buffet.
that is different t o a salad bar where people just get a side plate of salad to go with main meal they ordered.
only one word out there well done jubes!! word association sometimes helps unless ya a knight of course?
always pays to go back to the future - check the title??
If you saw a sign "Help Yourself" on a restaurant salad bar, how would you interpret it?
lt does sound like take all you want but by the time you ordered your meal it should have been clarified by the wait
person by then who noticed what was going and why wasn't that notice torn down? Salad bar is salad bar and never
meant to replace an entire meal.
person by then who noticed what was going and why wasn't that notice torn down? Salad bar is salad bar and never
meant to replace an entire meal.
Knight
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Been there seen those. Ordered our meals then went to help ourselves. Didn't interpret the sign to mean pig out on the salad bar.
Knight
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We've been to buffets where people have loaded their plates with more than any human should eat. Ate some & went back for more. We've been to restaurants where you order your meal then self serve your salad. Could never imagine being asked by a restaurant manager to "Make that you last trip!" Those restaurants didn't charge for the salad bar.
This 1st. sentence of the op reminded me of that/
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"To me that means "Take all you want." and I went multiple times"
To me multiple trips sounds like the salad bar was going to be the meal. That's why I asked if a meal was ordered. Never got a reply.
I do remember some restaurants did have "all you can eat" salad bars... and they were a hit back in the 80s, or thereabouts.
I believe Olive Garden was one of the ones that set it up for yuppie type women especially. I think that it included soup, breadsticks and salad, all you can eat... but they mainly drew the lunch crowd, and so folks typically didn't stay long.
Being a country boy type with a military training on eating all I could, I'd go out with some friends, and we would try to make the manager cry, on purpose.
I believe Olive Garden was one of the ones that set it up for yuppie type women especially. I think that it included soup, breadsticks and salad, all you can eat... but they mainly drew the lunch crowd, and so folks typically didn't stay long.
Being a country boy type with a military training on eating all I could, I'd go out with some friends, and we would try to make the manager cry, on purpose.
lt does sound like take all you want but by the time you ordered your meal it should have been clarified by the wait
person by then who noticed what was going and why wasn't that notice torn down? Salad bar is salad bar and never
meant to replace an entire meal.
I dont think the sign needed to be taken down - most people know Help yourself on a salad bar doesn't meant have multiple trips of plates
Places here usually have on the menu something like - salad bar free with main meals.
Often there is an option to have just salad bar as your meal and the menu will give a price for that too, usually around the price of entrees. - and usually give you a full size plate then rather than the smaller plates provided at the salad bar
January, thank you. That's very helpful.