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Should obese people be banned from restaurants?

Bill would ban restaurants from serving obese customers.

Sorry, you’re too fat to eat here!

Miss. bill would ban restaurants from serving obese customers

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Obese people banned from dining in restaurant

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    i think this argument was coming since cigarettes. when being obese is as high of a cost rate and death rate as cigarettes.this is a problem and soon will overtake cigarettes as the no#1 cause of death do to problems related to it. back when we tried to block the cigarette ban they all laughed when we said fat people would be next.guess what.the time has come.notice menus like mcdonalds and all of them going non trans fat etc.they see the law suits coming to.much like the cigarette ban was laughed at ,at first.this is next. but i don't agree with anything.you should be free to do what you want. political correctness has to be stopped!

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    If that were to occur, there would be a lot of restaurants, mostly all you can eat buffets, that would lose my business and I don't think they would like that. Over 10 years as I added 400 plus pounds to now be 640 many restaurants benefitted from my business and I was able to eat a lot of food and gain my weight. I love being very obese and they like me as a customer. Many go out of their way to make sure I am well served and have a lot to eat. For that they get my business and the servers my generous tips. The ones that take the time to bring me my food so I don't have to get up are even tipped more. Since I usually eat quite a bit when I go out, at my weight I often need some help to stand back up because I have eaten so much. Good waiters and waitresses help me there too. I like giving the all you can eat places my business and they like seeing this 640 pound man come back to eat more. We should not be banned. We pay for the right to eat as much as we want and we should be able to enjoy that service.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Of course they shouldn't be banned, they would be the biggest source of income for restaurants as they eat a larger amount and make larger orders (no offence to larger people). Anyway how ridiculous to ban people from eating at a restaurant because they are obese, let them eat where they want so long as they dont interfere with anyone elses dining experiance. I tell you who should be banned, people with un controllable loud, rude children.

  • 1 decade ago

    Government has no right telling anyone in the U.S. how to live as long as their actions are legal and not hurting anyone.

    If we banned idiots from politics we would have no politicians.

    If we banned people with extremely radical left wing ideologies and no common sense from teaching then we would have to shut down most schools & universities.

    There is an endless list of things we could look at banning but it doesn't make it the government's job to do so.

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  • Rada S
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    That is absurd.....a fat person maybe diabetic, etc. and doesn't mean we want them to fast until skinny...

    ....besides, why should the government be limiting Private Dining....I guess now we will have the grocery Store police next....

    ...Now increased premiums for their health care...OK.. Insurance companies tried to do this and it was viewed as "discrimination" as there was a demographic people that were more prone to heart attacks, strokes, etc...and Now everyone has to pay for them in increased premiums...yet I can still be discriminated for having pre-existing......so what is next...McDonald's teenage employee trying to decide if your TOO FAT to serve? 1/3 of the country is overweight...but we cannot wire their mouths shut,,,last I heard!

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    obese customers probably make up a large percentage of the restaurants customers though, it makes sense from a health perspective but from a capitalist point of view, the restaurants have to make money and they do that by serving fat people. Thats why they are fat to begin with

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    i assume if he very own the region of corporation, they have the superb to refuse provider to every physique. Cant think of him final a Republican Rep for too lots longer with that form of mentality. What a moron! ask your self what his define for weight problems is. sense sorry for is companion. desire they are no longer puttin on the pounds. they'd no longer get to consume this week he would desire to be extra apprehensive approximately his state being 40 8th out of fifty with teenage being pregnant and 40 5 or 40 six flunk out value in his extreme faculties

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    This is old news. As Johnny said, it was only written to draw attention to the fact that people are getting larger and larger in this country.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    i am not sure if that is going to help out the problem any. I am a big person myself and i hate going out to eat. I acually prefer home cooked meals myself. I think we go out to eat like once every 3 months and thats it. And most times when we do go out we get salads. So ya i do think it would help kids but i highly doubt they are going to ban obese kids from restraunts.

  • gldmj5
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    This is hardly worth commenting on since the bill will never, ever become law. Its only purpose was to draw attention to high obesity rates in the area.

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