Man Banned From Restaurant After Business Incurs Losses Due To His 'Healthy' Appetite

A man in China was banned from an all-you-can-eat restaurant because of his rapacious hunger which led the huge financial losses for the business.

The man, identified as Mr. Kang, said that Handadi Seafood BBQ Buffet in central China’s Changsha city banned him from entering the business after several binge-eating visits, the BBC reported.

Kang allegedly scoffed 3.3 pounds (1.5 kilos) of pork trotters during his first visit and 7.7 pounds (3.5 kilos) of prawns on another visit. He accused the restaurant of having discriminatory behavior toward those who can eat.

"I can eat a lot - is that a fault?" Kang told Hunan TV. Kang said he never wasted any food, and admitted that he washed his food down with 30 bottles of soy milk.

The restaurant owner pulled the plug on his over-the-top gastronomical expeditions because he was eating into their profit. "Every time he comes here, I lose a few hundred yuan," the restaurant owner told Hunan TV. "Even when he drinks soy milk, he can drink 20 or 30 bottles. When he eats the pork trotters, he consumes the whole tray of them. And for prawns, usually, people use tongs to pick them up, he uses a tray to take them all."

Kang is a live streamer who keeps his audience engaged by consuming large quantities of food on camera. The restaurant owner told local media that he has plans to ban all streamers after the episode with Kang.

Kang's story went viral on Chinese social media Weibo last week with 250 million views. The majority of viewers rallied in support of Kang, saying that there's no point in holding an "all-you-can-eat" buffet if the patrons can't eat how much they want.

Some users felt sorry for the restaurant owner, who was unprepared for Kang's rapacious hunger. Last year, Chinese government started restricting food live streaming videos from social media, according to the BBC. The move came after President Xi Jinping called on people to "fight against food waste" in the wake of alarming food shortage.