All You Can Eat

Endless Thread

WBUR

Reddit, Technology

4.2 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2018

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Chicken patrol. Tiny plates. Purses lined with plastic bags. We peek behind the curtain of the strange world of all-you-can-eat buffets, from the strategies buffet owners use to protect their profits, to the hungry customers who try to game the system.

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0:00.0	Produced by the island at WBUR Boston.
0:07.0	Amory.
0:10.0	Benny.
0:11.0	I think we better skip the appetizers on this one, like skip the Amuse bouche.
0:15.0	You're saying let's just dig right in to the main course?
0:18.0	Yeah, let us in this holiday month of gluttony drink from the cup that overflow with, let us
0:23.5	mall the cornucopia, chipmunk our cheeks.
0:27.0	Let's fill our plate at the buffet.
0:29.0	Okay, so we're going to talk about this briefly famous Reddit post about an all-you-can-eat
0:33.5	buffet in Ohio, my home state, the Buckeye State.
0:38.0	Yeah, allegedly from Ohio admittedly.
0:40.7	This was a post on the legal advice subreddit which delivers a lot of, you guessed it,
0:46.7	legal advice.
0:47.7	Granted, this subreddit is run or moderated by human lawyers and some little software
0:52.7	programs pretending to be lawyers.
0:54.7	I mean, there's only, I think, just under 20 of us and that includes some bots.
0:59.7	So, the moderators are very good at the old disclaimer.
1:03.7	We do not want to create anything approaching the appearance of an attorney-client relationship.
1:11.7	This by the way is one of those 20 moderators, not a software program or bot, but a real-life
1:17.0	human, named Shane, known on Reddit as Zanktmau.
1:21.2	And Zanktmau caught wind of this post from Ohio because he's not just an attorney who
1:26.0	is also a moderator of the legal advice subreddit.
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