£20 for all you can eat, but pay fine if you leave food on plate

London: A Chinese restaurant in Britain is offering an all-you-can-eat buffet but fines customers £20 if they leave food on their plates as 'wastage'.

Managers at the Kylin Buffet in South Shields, have put up a notice urging diners to eat up all their food or face the penalty charge.

The policy has outraged one mother who was told to pay the £20 after she, along with her 10-year-old son Sam and 6-year-old niece Toni, left two onion rings, a piece of prawn toast, and a spring roll on their plates.

Beverley Clark, 40, from Hebburn, has accused the restaurant of poor customer service, but the manager has stood by the policy, the Daily Mail reported.

"After we had our starters, we went up for our main course. But a member of staff asked if we weren't going to eat the food on our plates, and said we would have to pay an extra £20 to cover food wastage costs," Clark said.

"I was furious and said we were already paying £18 for three meals, but the staff kept checking if we had eaten the food. In the end I wrapped it up in a serviette, and put it into my bag when they weren't looking, so it looked like we had eaten it," she added.

Sam Fung, manager at the Kylin Buffet, said, "I accept that my staff should not have spoken to the family about the food on their plates more than once."

"However, they left a lot of food from the buffet on their plates and we have to charge for wastage of food. We stand by our policies," Fung added.

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