'It would never cross my mind to behave like this...': Entitled hotel guests devour every last bite of the buffet spread, leaving other guests hungry and furious

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Sienna Varady
Aug 21, 2024 10:00 AM EDT

The entitlement of some people continues to bewilder innocent onlookers who are just trying to go about their daily lives. We have distinguished two traits that characterize entitled persons. They are, first and foremost, fierce and tremendously confident in their own righteousness.

The story below is an account of a frustrated hotel guest. The original poster (OP) had just returned from a luxurious vacation. One of the hotel amenities available to OP is the buffet. One evening as he looked over the buffet, deciding what he would like to devour that night, he overheard a strange exchange. In essence, a family had taken everything from the buffet, clearly unable to eat it all, and then, after a short while, they got up and departed, leaving a huge amount of wasted food on their plates. Startled by what had transpired, OP shared his tale on Reddit. 

So, make sure to read the story below if you're interested in learning what other Redditors thought of this trend! After you're through, don't forget to check out the employee's account of how his micromanager reprimanded him for arriving to work sixty seconds late!

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    "They cleared the buffet entirely..."
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    Entitled guests at a fancy hotel: Buffet hoarders and Thieves
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    I'm currently on vacation at a fancy hotel, and I witnessed two disturbing incidents this morning that left me questioning people's sense of entitlement and respect for others. At breakfast, I noticed a family (a couple, a kid and grandmother) at a nearby table. What caught my attention was how they had essentially recreated the entire buffet at their table. After they finished
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    loading up their plates, many items at the buffet were completely empty. Their table was piled high with plates full of untouched food - ham, cheese, croissants, etc. When they left the restaurant, most of this food remained uneaten and would obviously be thrown away. The waste was overwhelming.
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    Later, I went to get a drink from the beverage station. This area has a fancy machine with built-in jars for various juices and water. The machine automatically refills these jars when they're returned. Normally, people fill their glasses directly from the machine and immediately put the jar back.
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    A woman approached the machine, took out the entire water jar, and walked away. At first, I thought she was just taking it to her table to fill multiple glasses. But after a while, I realized the jar was still missing. I looked around and saw that she had left the restaurant entirely - presumably taking the jar back to her room!
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    When I informed a staff member, she seemed confused repeating "She... she went out of the restaurant with the jar? Oh, really?" before quickly heading to the kitchen. I'm left wondering How can people be so disrespectful to the entire community? It would
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    never cross my mind to behave like this. I can't even imagine considering such actions as possibilities. Have any of you witnessed similar entitled behavior in hotels or other public spaces? How did you react?
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    Skeltrex · 19 hr. ago This morning the breakfast wait staff had to remove an almost full display of sliced cheeses and meats because a child sneezed all over it (Nice, France). She looked like she would have been only 11 or so, and she was just a child. But it was a little disappointing that she had not been schooled better
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    _Internet_Hugs_ . 15 hr. ago I was at a buffet and witnessed a tween lick the salad ladle and then put it back. I might have been a total , but I made them replace the whole container.
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    Just-Me-Being-Nosy 18 hr. ago. edited 13 hr. ago • Different situation but same kind of thing.... I was at an Annual General Meeting (AGM) a few years ago and they had tea and sandwiches set up afterwards. I saw a woman open her backpack and take out a big bundle of sandwich bags. She went around to all
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    the tables and stocked up. And I mean stocked up- she cleaned out most of the plates. Put the bags into her backpack and headed off home. But none of us there did anything, we just watched! The organiser rolled her eyes when someone told her. Apparently the woman did the same thing every year. (Edit for spelling & make abbreviation in full)
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    olagorie 16 hr. ago I once worked for a bigger company that had shareholder meetings where usually several hundred people turned up. The meeting took place in a big hall. Me and my colleagues helped out decorating and organising stuff.
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    I was astonished to see that before the buffet started several 70+ yo people unpacked loads of Tupperware from their backpacks. it was our job to stop them piling food in the Tupperware until after people had eaten and the session was resumed. Within 5 minutes all the rest of the food was gone. Then they
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    started carrying the decorations outside to their cars. While the meeting was still happening! Not small decorations but entire small trees that we had rented. Again, we had to stop them until after the meeting. They took everything, every single flower, vases
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    Afterwards, we were told that this happens every time. They are pensioners who buy the minimum amount of shares of several companies because they are a) bored and b) they get all of this "free" stuff (I have no idea what they are doing with it). In the past the company had tried to stop them but afterwards during the meetings there had been hour long discussions about this topic, wasting everybody's time.
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    -AgonyAunt-15 hr. ago I was staying at a 5 star hotel in Sydney, The Shangri-la. They had a complimentary cocktail hour so we went to have a quiet drink and some nibbles before heading out for dinner. The amount of children at cocktail hour was astounding. It was a self serve type set up where you could grab drinks from a
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    fridge (a olic and non) as well as finger food. Savoury snacks and mini deserts. People allowed their children to help themselves to full plates of food, instead of just taking one or 2 of something. I was so devastated when I didn't get any macarons then saw a table after the parents with their 3 kids had left, with all the untouched macarons.
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    Why the f k were kids allowed to be at cocktail hour? Why the were kids under 10 running around a 5 star hotel helping themselves to whatever they wanted like it was a kids birthday party? You best believe I complained and the following night my partner and I were sent a private cocktail hour to our room.
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    • InsincerePlatypus · 14 hr. ago I was at an all you eat buffet once, the big draw were crab legs. One family was right across from the buffet and each time a new batch of crab legs was brought out, the husband was the first one there and took all of the crab legs before anyone else could get to them.
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    The last time I went up while he was cleaning out the legs. he had left a small one in the bin, I told him, You missed one. He didn't go back after that., but my wife told me he was glaring at the back of my head the rest of the night, but I got a reasonable number of crab legs, so I was good.
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    • PorkrindsMcSnacky 18 hr. ago . edited 16 hr. ago It seems like things are different now than when I was a child, in that staff members or whoever's in charge of the buffets don't do anything to stop people like this.
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    When I was a child (back in the 80s), I went to a buffet dinner with my parents in Vegas. I can't recall the hotel we were in. My parents and I were at one end of the buffet line when suddenly we heard a commotion. Someone was yelling.
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    It turned out that a couple had tried to cheat by not paying for their children and piling extra food on their trays (not the plates) to feed them. The manager or whoever was in charge was yelling at the couple. I don't know if they left or ended up paying for the children, but likely the latter.
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    My parents and I felt bad that the family was shamed in front of everyone, but at the same time were astonished at how brazen they were to try and get out of paying for a meal. ETA: I forgot to mention I was in Las Vegas, land of buffets lol
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    Competitive-Metal773 13 hr. ago I was just at a buffet a few weeks back, and my daughter and I were sitting there enjoying a nice lunch and minding our own business when a large group of approximately six or seven adults and eleventy billion kids varying from maybe three to about 12 were seated nearby.
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    The kids were pretty rowdy, but being a parent myself, I've gotten good at tuning that kind of stuff out, and kid-noise has to be pretty over-the-top to phase me. I vaguely registered that the kids were running back and forth a lot, but didn't pay them much attention until my daughter went to go up and one almost ran into her. The adults at the table were all engaged in conversation and barely looked up, let alone said anything.
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    After that, I discreetly started paying attention (and guiltily felt like a Gladys Kravitz, but at that point it was such a fascinating train wreck I couldn't look away.) I saw the kids bringing loaded plates to the table, eat for a minute and then leave most of it to run back for more. I was close enough to see that they often came back with the same foods... say three egg rolls, eat half of
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    one and then abandon them only to bring back more. I swear I saw one kid get three plates piled high with pizza and noodles and didn't finish a one. I secretly hoped I'd get to witness an outraged manager/staff member confronting them, but to my disappointment, nothing of the sort occurred. The server was a quiet, shy- looking young woman and seemed too
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    intimidated to say anything. They were still at it when we got up to leave (dodging flying little bodies.) As a Gen X with a retail background I like to think myself pretty tolerant of people's shenanigans (though oddly enough, my effs are getting shorter and shorter in supply these days.) I can't tell you how much I wanted to go full Boomer Karen
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    on their entitled a es. I managed to keep it together, but I was exhausted with the effort. And I don't even want to imagine the mess on the floor under their table. Yeah, people just s
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