Outrage
HOUMA, La. (AP) - A 265-pound man says a restaurant overcharged him for his trips to the buffet, then banned him and a relative because of how much they consumed during their visits.
Ricky Labit, a 6-foot-3 disabled offshore worker, said he had been a regular at the Manchuria Restaurant, eating there as often as three times a week. But on his most recent visit, he said a waitress gave him and his wife's cousin, Michael Borrelli, a bill for $46.40, roughly double the buffet price for two adults.
"She says, 'Y'all fat, and y'all eat too much,'" Labit said.
Labit and Borrelli said they felt discriminated against because of their size.
"I was stunned, that somebody would say something like that. I ain't that fat, I only weigh 277," Borrelli said.
Accountant Thomas Campo, who spoke for the restaurant because the owner's English is limited, said the men were charged an extra $10 each on Dec. 21 because they made a habit of dining exclusively on the more expensive seafood dishes, including crab legs and frog legs.
I am outraged. Discriminating against fat people in the great state of Louisiana is like discriminating against liberty. I, for one, won't stand for it. I am calling upon all the husky, the chubby, the fluffy, the flabby...All the beer guts and big butts and wide loads...All the obese, morbid or otherwise...to descend upon this small Louisiana town to fight for what is right. Join me, as we save the Houma 2...or the Houma 2XL, as it were.
Ricky Labit, a 6-foot-3 disabled offshore worker, said he had been a regular at the Manchuria Restaurant, eating there as often as three times a week. But on his most recent visit, he said a waitress gave him and his wife's cousin, Michael Borrelli, a bill for $46.40, roughly double the buffet price for two adults.
"She says, 'Y'all fat, and y'all eat too much,'" Labit said.
Labit and Borrelli said they felt discriminated against because of their size.
"I was stunned, that somebody would say something like that. I ain't that fat, I only weigh 277," Borrelli said.
Accountant Thomas Campo, who spoke for the restaurant because the owner's English is limited, said the men were charged an extra $10 each on Dec. 21 because they made a habit of dining exclusively on the more expensive seafood dishes, including crab legs and frog legs.
I am outraged. Discriminating against fat people in the great state of Louisiana is like discriminating against liberty. I, for one, won't stand for it. I am calling upon all the husky, the chubby, the fluffy, the flabby...All the beer guts and big butts and wide loads...All the obese, morbid or otherwise...to descend upon this small Louisiana town to fight for what is right. Join me, as we save the Houma 2...or the Houma 2XL, as it were.