Hotel Charging Fat Kids More for Meals
Oulton Hall plans to weigh kids and change their Sunday lunch cost based on their weight:
Youngsters will be asked to step on the scales to see how much their restaurant meal should cost.
A child weighing five stone will pay £5 while a youngster who tips the scales at 10 stone will have to fork out £10. Bosses at five-star Oulton Hall near Leeds claim the idea is "just a bit of fun".
Fun. Yep. Loads. Oh, but it's voluntary - that makes it all okay, right?
Spokesman Nigel Massey said: "There will no doubt be people who say it's not politically correct. Well, frankly, they should get a life and stop being so miserable."
Nigel Massey's contact information through Massey Partnership Ltd.:
Address:
4 Wimpole Street
London W1G 9SH
England
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7637 3220
Fax: +44 (0) 20 7637 3226
Registered Office:
56, Brunswick Gardens
Kensington
London W8 4AN
Thanks, Richie.
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Posted by paul on October 6, 2008
It's not a bit of fun. It's a) discrimination, b) the old sickening idea of having fun at fat people's expenses, children at that, and c) performing a health-related procedure (because that's what taking a person's weight is) on minors. Frankly, I wouldn't touch the last one with a ten-meter pole if I were them. I really hope that parents who patronize that place grow some metaphorical testes and bypass the weighing in when going there to eat with their kids, and then proceed to call the police if the owners or the staff insist.
HAHAHAHAHA How much "fun" it is to ostracize and belittle those fat kids! HAHAHAHAHAHA
Hopefully consumers will respond by using another bit of harmless fun: their pocketbooks. The only way companies like this learn is by striking out at their bottom-line.
Didn't Ground Round do this in the US in the '70s and '80s?
Didn't Ground Round do this in the US in the '70s and '80s?
Yep - they had a "Kids Pay What They Weigh" promotion one night a week where you paid 1¢ per pound of body weight. I think the only difference is they didn't sell it as a punishment but I can imagine the shame of having your dinner cost more than your "skinny" sibling would have been the same.
Oh and I did a little digging and it was as recent as 1994.
I hope someone sues them out of business! This could be harmful to thin children as well. Some girl could be going through a growth spurt and come out weighing ten stone (let's say she's 5'8 or taller) and be charged twice as much as her sibling, who is five years younger than she is. Girl thinks she is fat. Girl goes into tailspin and gets eating disorder.
At that point, the family hires a lawyer and sues the restaurant. The tabloids smell blood and jump all over this. Restaurant takes a hit and goes under.