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This is the legendary tale of "Big" Bill Wisth, a 6-foot-6, 350-pound man from Wisconsin who took "All You Can Eat" as a personal challenge and a legal contract.

In 2012, Wisth made national headlines when he staged a one-man protest outside Chuck’s Place in Thiensville, Wisconsin.

Wisth had visited the restaurant for their Friday night fish fry. After he had consumed 12 pieces of breaded cod, the restaurant staff informed him they were running low on fish and needed to save some for other customers. They "cut him off," but offered him more pieces of a different type of fish to go, but Wisth wasn't having it. Wisth was so offended by the perceived breach of contract that he actually called the police to report the restaurant. Unsurprisingly, the police declined to arrest the chef for "running out of fish."

Undeterred, Wisth returned the following week with a handmade sign and began pacing the sidewalk in front of the establishment, accusing them of "False Advertising."

The owners claimed they didn't just stop serving him; they actually gave him a total of 20 pieces (including the to-go pieces) and a pizza, that he had shared with his friend (against their no-sharing policy on the all you can eat). They also claim that and that he had been a "problem customer" in the past, and sometimes had to run a tab because he couldn't afford the bill, but they let him keep eating at the resturant anyways.

In the end the protest seemed to have actually helped Chuck's with free advertising and folks coming out to support them, and Big Bill recieved a lifetime ban from the resturant.

Couple links to articles and videos on the event, Pretty funny.

https://milwaukeerecord.com/food-drink/170-consecutive-friday-night-fish-frys-and-counting-chucks-place/

https://archive.jsonline.com/news/ozwash/all-you-can-eat-meets-its-match-6k5f4fm-151966785.html

This is the legendary tale of "Big" Bill Wisth, a 6-foot-6, 350-pound man from Wisconsin who took "All You Can Eat" as a personal challenge and a legal contract. In 2012, Wisth made national headlines when he staged a one-man protest outside Chuck’s Place in Thiensville, Wisconsin. Wisth had visited the restaurant for their Friday night fish fry. After he had consumed 12 pieces of breaded cod, the restaurant staff informed him they were running low on fish and needed to save some for other customers. They "cut him off," but offered him more pieces of a different type of fish to go, but Wisth wasn't having it. Wisth was so offended by the perceived breach of contract that he actually called the police to report the restaurant. Unsurprisingly, the police declined to arrest the chef for "running out of fish." Undeterred, Wisth returned the following week with a handmade sign and began pacing the sidewalk in front of the establishment, accusing them of "False Advertising." The owners claimed they didn't just stop serving him; they actually gave him a total of 20 pieces (including the to-go pieces) and a pizza, that he had shared with his friend (against their no-sharing policy on the all you can eat). They also claim that and that he had been a "problem customer" in the past, and sometimes had to run a tab because he couldn't afford the bill, but they let him keep eating at the resturant anyways. In the end the protest seemed to have actually helped Chuck's with free advertising and folks coming out to support them, and Big Bill recieved a lifetime ban from the resturant. Couple links to articles and videos on the event, Pretty funny. https://milwaukeerecord.com/food-drink/170-consecutive-friday-night-fish-frys-and-counting-chucks-place/ https://archive.jsonline.com/news/ozwash/all-you-can-eat-meets-its-match-6k5f4fm-151966785.html
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When I was a young man in the Army stationed in Germany, there was an "all you can eat" sushi place. It didn't advertise itself as all you can eat per se. At least back then, all you can eat was a purely American concept. But you paid one price, the chefs would make sushi and put it on little plates on a conveyer belt that went around the resturant, and you just took whatever you wanted. Most Germans would eat like 5-6 plates (like 10-12 pieces of sushi) and be done. As young American men who were always working out and pretty aggressive personality types my friends and I would go eat like a couple dozen plates each, with occassionally someone in our group "going for the record" (a record for our group) that I think eventually got into like the 60s for number of plates.

Eventually the resturant changed to having a "German price" as normal and an "American price" where you would be charged per plate instead of a flat fee. We were of course unhappy and complained among ourselves that that couldn't be legal, but were like, "Well I don't think anyone is going to take our complaint seriously so I guess we have to find a new lunch spot, boys."