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I’ve seen a sign like that at a couple of restaurants around Minot.  At one it always annoys me because they don’t have clean plates sitting out.  If you finish your salad or whatever first you have to sit and wait for the waitress to bring you another plate.

If you’re the sort that pays attention to such laws.  I usually just go back up and use the same plate again.  What are they going to do, write me a ticket?

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.

-- Thomas Jefferson

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I think it’s worth it.  You have less chance of transfering germs to the food via the serving spoon if a soiled plate is not in the mix.

Of course on the right side of the state they can leave clean plates out without them being stolen.

What’s going to happen to US industry when the global warming extremists like John McCain double the price of electricity?  I would think all these factories will close and set up in countries where they aren’t scared of technology.

whistler.
we are now finding out that the japanese have too many allergies because they are too clean. there’s nothing like a fatso drooling on the buffet to help build one’s immunities.

Sounds like the same theory as in the Omega Glory. Personally I don’t think it’s worth it.

But since you brought it up those sneeze shields drive me nuts.

What’s going to happen to US industry when the global warming extremists like John McCain double the price of electricity?  I would think all these factories will close and set up in countries where they aren’t scared of technology.

Rob, I have never seen a restaurant buffet that did not have plates, bowls, and saucres ready on the counter. As for this law, I have also never seen people reuse plates at a buffet. As long as nothing is dripping off the plate onto the buffet I don’t really have a problem with reusing plates, just seems a bit ill-mannered.

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Whistler is right.  The law is for health reasons.  I certainly don’t want someone with the flu or even a cold touching the serving spoon to his used plate and then putting it back in the food.

The restaurant needs to be told they should have clean plates out.  I know which one you mean Rob (or Mick or whoever you are.)

I don’t want my customers getting sick, either. To prevent that, I would put a rule in place telling my customers they need to use a clean plate each time through a buffet. The fact that the State is regulating such an unbelievably inconsequential decision is mind-boggling.

Requiring a clean plate every time you go through the buffet line is obviously a left wing plot to provide more jobs for entry level workers, i.e. dishwashers and bus persons…

...or maybe it’s a right wing plot by the MAN, to keep the disadvantaged poor preoccupiped in menial jobs that pay minimum wage while the gluttonous upper classes eat more than their fair share!

(I think I’ve been reading too much of Dave Anarchist, the Vegan Comic… all the conspiracies are beginning to blend together!)

For any voter trying to choose between the two candidates for commander in chief, there is no better test than this: When American strategy in a critical theater was up for grabs, John McCain proposed a highly unpopular and risky path, which he accurately predicted could lead to success. Barack Obama proposed a popular and politically safe route that would have led to an unnecessary and debilitating American defeat at the hands of al Qaeda.

Frederick W. Kagan

Proof: Or maybe it’s just fucking retarded.

Now davey, that sentence structure is totally fucked up. What you meant to type was “Maybe I am just totally retarded.”

Then again, we all know that already.

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there’s nothing like a fatso drooling on the buffet to help build one’s immunities.

You go now! You been here four howah! You eat too much! You scare my wife! You go now!

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