OP specifically specifies that this was a "conveyor-belt sushi" restaurant. Those are only "all you can eat" in the sense that you're welcome to pull as many plates as you'd like off of the belt, but each plate is usually priced at one of a few different levels, and you will be charged for the total value of the plates you removed from the belt.
Eg, if yellow plates are $1, blue plates are $2, and orange plates are $3, and you pulled two orange plates, a blue plate and a yellow plate, your total would come out to $9 even if you didn't clear your plates.
They clearly said it was all-you-can-eat and the behavior and reaction are very much fitting the context. Why are you assuming you know better than them the restaurant they went to?
>Why are you assuming you know better than them the restaurant they went to?
OP clarified, and I thanked them for clarifying and acknowledged I was wrong. I've further mentioned as much in additional comments[1, 2, 3], and I've edited my original post to clear things up. Care to continue being snarky despite my attempts to correct myself?
>Yes, flat-rate sushi conveys exist.
And are, by and large, less common than per-plate joints, hence the confusion.
“All you can eat” rarely means “you can eat as much as you can afford” but rather means “you pay one price and can eat as much as you like for that price”.
That a conveyor belt is involved doesn’t change the offer.
Correct. The confusion, as noted elsewhere in this comment chain, lies in the fact that most conveyor belt sushi joints are not all you can eat, and the format of the restaurant that OP went to is rare.
Did you really show up to this comment chain two days later to repeatedly highlight how I'm wrong after I already corrected myself repeatedly throughout?
And if I am a part of this comment chain, and I am confused (admittedly so, I should remind you), is there not confusion in the comment chain? :)
Boy, you should probably step outside and touch some grass or, I dunno, maybe let stuff like this bother you a bit less. Yikes.
Edit: And no, contary to your suggestion, I'm pretty comfortable not deleting my comments - I don't mind publicly making a mistake and then owning it. Thanks for the thought, though! :)
Absolutely untrue in all states of Germany and Austria I've visited. People here would flip out if conveyor belt sushi was priced any other way but with a simple flat rate.
The entire world is not just Japan or the USA, please be respectful of this.
The confusion, as clarified elsewhere between GP and I in this thread, lies in the fact that you don't usually see an actual "all you can eat conveyor belt sushi" restaurant - they traditionally charge by the plate but you're welcome to order as much as you want. In point of fact, the restaurant OP went to bucked that trend and was actually a flat-fee conveyor belt joint.
This will be amusing - how did you make it this far into this chain, past my first comment that contained my edit explaining how I made this mistake? Unless you're just being a dick for the sake of being a dick, of course...
I've visited two conveyor-belt sushi locations - one in Japan and one here in the US. The one in Japan followed the colored plate system, however the US one just worked off a flat $20 fee.
Eg, if yellow plates are $1, blue plates are $2, and orange plates are $3, and you pulled two orange plates, a blue plate and a yellow plate, your total would come out to $9 even if you didn't clear your plates.