{"id":855,"date":"2004-04-24T15:12:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-24T15:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=855"},"modified":"2018-08-12T08:39:55","modified_gmt":"2018-08-12T13:39:55","slug":"855","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/04\/24\/855\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Understanding Is Right, Yours Is Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a Chuck-A-Rama-(But-Not-That-Mucha) restaurant manager threw out a low-carb eating couple for eating too much roast beef at a buffet restaurant, district manager Jack Johnson proved that not all PR is good PR when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/cs\/CDA\/ssistory.mpl\/nation\/2527142\" target=\"new\">he said<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve never claimed to be an all-you-can-eat establishment,&#8221; said Johanson. &#8220;Our understanding is a buffet is just a style of eating.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mr. Johnson&#8217;s understanding implies that you pay full price to the buffet style restaurant for the convenience of not having a server attend you, not for the ability to eat until you&#8217;re full.<\/p>\n<p>Smile, Mr. Johnson; you&#8217;ve just made a politician of yourself before the whole Internet.<\/p>\n<p>(Link seen on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fark.com\" target=\"new\">Fark<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a Chuck-A-Rama-(But-Not-That-Mucha) restaurant manager threw out a low-carb eating couple for eating too much roast beef at a buffet restaurant, district manager Jack Johnson proved that not all PR is good PR when he said: &#8220;We&#8217;ve never claimed to be an all-you-can-eat establishment,&#8221; said Johanson. &#8220;Our understanding is a buffet is just a style [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=855"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22777,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855\/revisions\/22777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}