Also sounds like kidnapping. You can't hold people against their will. I'm surprised that some unhappy, trapped customers didn't get physical with the staff.
I would have told them “If you don’t unlock that door and let me out right know, I will not just call the cops I will obtain a lawyer and sue the owner(‘s) for false imprisonment.” They had no right to attempt to hold those people hostage like that.
Sad to see my people complying like obedient dogs to the Sino owners. Do you think the owners care about them? Of course not! Cheap labor, slave wages and don't have to give them insurance. I don't know why they followed orders.
@Anonymous Guy I think he means that the US has one of the harshest inspections and I believe that’s true. Most developing countries do not count with inspections, but most European countries do and some wealthier Latin American countries. Let’s not talk about Africa, Asia or the Middle East though.
Not only is that a fire code violation, but that’s basically false imprisonment / kidnapping. How dare they keep customers, I would have called 911 on them. People should be trained and forced to adhere to American rules, standards, and policies when opening a business.
@@tigertoxins584 No they are not, they are very different haplotypes. This is extremely lazy and over-simplified take on ethnicities on Eastern Asians. Most Chinese consists of southern mongoloid where as Japanese have even distributions of old mongoloids and northern mongoloids with very slim distribution of southern mongoloids. The closest haplotypes to Japanese are Koreans, though 25% of it are uniquely Japanese that are not found in Koreans. And no, Chinese descendants did not bring the Chinese writings and migrated to Japan, it has nothing to do with it. Japanese simply borrowed it knowing it was handy and they had no writings on their own, after they already established their kingdom. But two languages are different language group.
How do you get to that level of disgusting???! Like I genuinely do not understand how these people are comfortable working in such a filthy environment. Their homes must be just as disgusting, because no sane person is going to be comfortable running a business that is so filthy and hazardous to their health.
@@jetli12321 What? They held people in the restaurant, that's illegal / unlawful detention, and not to mention the violation of fire safety codes from locking the FRONT FOORS. No, the morons should be jailed for that.
I stopped eating at buffets years ago. There is a place in my hometown that always does well on their inspections but I still won't eat off the buffet. When I go in I order off the menu. I want my food prepared for me. I don't want to get it from a trough.
Well what’s the difference. They cook up a huge dish and give you a portion of it usually so buffet is the same thing cause they cook up a huge dish but just don’t seperate it
@@sallysmith8408 It comes out of the wok an on to MY plate and my plate is brought directly to me. I'm not handling a spoon that has been handled by dozens of people without being washed. And my food has not been festering on a steam tray, possibly for hours, with dozens of people talking, and potentially coughing, sneezing over it. That's a HUGE difference.
@@sallysmith8408 As a restaurant worker I've seen a customer grab tongs for the almond croissants to pick up a bread roll he didn't want anymore and put the roll back. He just cross contaminated two different food items with allergens. I've also seen customers drop food on the floor, pick it up, put it back on the serving counter and take a new one, and they would have gotten away with it if I hadn't spotted them, told them off and then had to remove the entire tray of food to throw away. At least in a good well organised and clean kitchen you can be sure that the staff know what they're doing and you don't have an idiot customer next to you licking the ladles or swapping tongs between the different dishes.
They should have NEVER BEEN ALLOWED TO RE OPEN ANYTIME OR ANYWHERE THE LAW IS DEFINITELY FLAWED 110 SERIOUS VIOLATIONS AND YOUR ALLOWED TO CONTINUE TO DO BUSINESS. I GUESS MONEY IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN ETHICS.
@@Superman37891 They're losing money with a bad rep, low score, & shut downs. Most restaurants fail and not rectifying their filth, they're well on their way.
The Asian culture evidently has no moral code about lying and cheating people. If you don't believe it, watch Border Security shows and see how many of them blatantly lie about not having food in their luggage, then when the agent opens it, it contains nothing BUT food. Same attitude makes them violate health rules with no conscience.
This restaurant has severely crossed the line so much in fact, that the owners of this restaurant could've lost their lease and have their license revoked.
Why do people even go there? Isn't it required (by law) that the violation report MUST be visible as you enter the place? It is where I live (Denmark) and you can get some pretty hefty fines if the report is not visible. Granted, the town I lived in some years ago was rather small (pop. 6500) so word got around really fast. A buffet place had severe problems with the hygene and within 2 days there were no customers. The owner tried everything to get people in....well, except cleaning of course. He got one bad report after another, and in the end he had so much debt that he burned the place down and tried to claim insurance money from it. He got busted (surveillance showed him walking into the restaurant with two cans of petrol) and spent several years in prison.
I believe it’s different in the US I have been to a lot of resteraunts in my life and I don’t believe I saw a violation on the front door of any one of them. Btw, incredible story
Those jackasses that locked the door should be arrested for endangering the public. At least, the local Fire Marshal should close the business for a serious safety violation.
I would have fought the employee who kept locking the door and wouldn’t let people out. If I’m unlocking your BUSINESS doors to LEAVE because I’m done, I’ve paid and I have places to be, you bet my fist would be swinging at your face. If the cops were to be called I wouldn’t even get in trouble because you would be locking me in against my will and my life could have been threatened. Places like this need to be careful. They’re lucky no one was crazy like me and fought their way out.
I would have asked politely to leave. If after a few attempt they didn't let me, I would have thrown a chair directly at the door without previous warning lol
That's surprising, admittedly I've never eaten at a Chinese buffet or any buffet actually, but one. It's a Chinese owned buffet, with all Chinese employees and it was always among the top 5 restaurants in our county. The food, cleanliness, and service were so good that you would see members of the Food and Health Safety eating there almost daily, including some from the neighboring county. In al the years that I ate there, they were only fined once and that was because the trash pickup was delayed a couple of hours due to a traffic incident.
If you expect cleanliness in an Asian restaurant you might want to check your states website for restaurant health code violations! Asian restaurants average the highest violations!
This is very eye-opening and it makes me want to inspect the kitchens of restaurants where I eat. In this video, the food area looks so neat and clean, and you'd never suspect that all of that filth is going on in the kitchen! It's sickening!🤢🤮
Ughhhhh I know this place. I used to always go to Florida for summer vacations and I went here once when it had the old name. The lo mein had a rotten smell and we left after that
The crazy part is that, I remember like about 4 years ago, the very last time I ate at Uptown Buffet in Flagler, then after I had finished eating there, I had a bad stomachache and felt sick 😷🤮🤢. These viral videos are the proof of why I felt sick that day after eating at Uptown Buffet
There’s suppose to be one opening up in the town I live in soon. Elizabeth City, North Carolina. Now I’m not so sure going to it since I have seen this.
Locking the front door with customers inside during business hours is a fire code violation.
Really?
@@alexgutierrez4125 its actually considered kidnapping and is even more illegal
Also sounds like kidnapping. You can't hold people against their will. I'm surprised that some unhappy, trapped customers didn't get physical with the staff.
I so wanted the customers to call the police/fire department and get that restaurant in trouble.
You guys are idiots no one was kidnapped no fire code violation either.
The customer unlocking the door and attempting to leave only for the employee to close the door and lock it again has lawsuit written all over it.
Exactly you can't hold your customers hostage
False imprisonment :/
I would have told them “If you don’t unlock that door and let me out right know, I will not just call the cops I will obtain a lawyer and sue the owner(‘s) for false imprisonment.” They had no right to attempt to hold those people hostage like that.
@@senpai24yt38 i would have got pissed and shoved her damn hand out of the way and left. idk what she was thinking
@@marycanaryThey look like Spanish speaking cubans, they probably have no idea the rights they have
Not only are they dirty but they're holding people hostage.
Yeah I would have shoved the staff out of the way on that one.
why repeat what we know stoopnagle
@Joshua White it was worse than that. This could be considered kidnapping or false imprisonment
Make my day.....
That's correct. 👍
I love how every employee is instructed to stop them entering at ANY cost
If only they put as much effort into keeping the place sanitary they wouldn't have TV news crews coming around every now and then.
That's when you know you're guilty af! 🤣
Wasn’t this called china buffet at one point
Imagine if they put similar effort at keeping their filthy restaurant clean.
Sad to see my people complying like obedient dogs to the Sino owners. Do you think the owners care about them? Of course not! Cheap labor, slave wages and don't have to give them insurance. I don't know why they followed orders.
Changing names and "management" is a loophole to wipe the slate clean of violations
This is one of the saddest food businesses I have ever seen.
Should cancel their license to operate restaurant
Be grateful that we have sanitary inspections here in the U.S. There's no such thing in most other countries.
In mexico is same thing they just shut you down
@Anonymous Guy I think he means that the US has one of the harshest inspections and I believe that’s true. Most developing countries do not count with inspections, but most European countries do and some wealthier Latin American countries. Let’s not talk about Africa, Asia or the Middle East though.
@Anonymous Guy I would take you at least 20% more seriously if you didn’t use the emojis
@@tigertoxins584 there’s no reason to take him serious
@@theycallmesteel5337 I like to give the benefit of the doubt
Not only is that a fire code violation, but that’s basically false imprisonment / kidnapping. How dare they keep customers, I would have called 911 on them. People should be trained and forced to adhere to American rules, standards, and policies when opening a business.
That's correct. 👍
Go to a place with real Japanese immigrants
to ensure cleanliness.
P.S. Japanese don’t operate buffets
🍕🍧🍡🍩
They actually do operate buffets in Japan. Whether Japanese, Chinese, Americans ot doesn't matter. Dirty owner are dirty owners.
@@jamalpeoples3736 Don't compare Japan to China. The differences are enormous.
@@monkelife japanese people are descendents of china though.. their alphabet is literally the same
@@tigertoxins584 No they are not, they are very different haplotypes. This is extremely lazy and over-simplified take on ethnicities on Eastern Asians. Most Chinese consists of southern mongoloid where as Japanese have even distributions of old mongoloids and northern mongoloids with very slim distribution of southern mongoloids. The closest haplotypes to Japanese are Koreans, though 25% of it are uniquely Japanese that are not found in Koreans. And no, Chinese descendants did not bring the Chinese writings and migrated to Japan, it has nothing to do with it. Japanese simply borrowed it knowing it was handy and they had no writings on their own, after they already established their kingdom. But two languages are different language group.
Why are you bringing up Japanese people this is Chinese
How do you get to that level of disgusting???! Like I genuinely do not understand how these people are comfortable working in such a filthy environment. Their homes must be just as disgusting, because no sane person is going to be comfortable running a business that is so filthy and hazardous to their health.
Simple - be Chinese.
I want to see Ramsey take a look at this.
Haha! Yes!!
Their ears are gone deaf the moment Ramsey enter the kitchen.
"what the fook is this?!!!"
he'll pass out before cussing
@@thechallengerofgame7883
Ramsay wouldn’t dare go to that Restaurant after seeing over 110 Violations.
It’s a crime to hold people against their will, the owner should hav gotten arrested
@@jetli12321 What? They held people in the restaurant, that's illegal / unlawful detention, and not to mention the violation of fire safety codes from locking the FRONT FOORS. No, the morons should be jailed for that.
I stopped eating at buffets years ago. There is a place in my hometown that always does well on their inspections but I still won't eat off the buffet. When I go in I order off the menu. I want my food prepared for me. I don't want to get it from a trough.
Well what’s the difference. They cook up a huge dish and give you a portion of it usually so buffet is the same thing cause they cook up a huge dish but just don’t seperate it
@@sallysmith8408 It comes out of the wok an on to MY plate and my plate is brought directly to me. I'm not handling a spoon that has been handled by dozens of people without being washed. And my food has not been festering on a steam tray, possibly for hours, with dozens of people talking, and potentially coughing, sneezing over it. That's a HUGE difference.
there are a multitude of types of buffets, there are buffets that serve to you as well
@@sallysmith8408 As a restaurant worker I've seen a customer grab tongs for the almond croissants to pick up a bread roll he didn't want anymore and put the roll back. He just cross contaminated two different food items with allergens. I've also seen customers drop food on the floor, pick it up, put it back on the serving counter and take a new one, and they would have gotten away with it if I hadn't spotted them, told them off and then had to remove the entire tray of food to throw away.
At least in a good well organised and clean kitchen you can be sure that the staff know what they're doing and you don't have an idiot customer next to you licking the ladles or swapping tongs between the different dishes.
That would be a fire code violation locking the door.
They should have NEVER BEEN ALLOWED TO RE OPEN ANYTIME OR ANYWHERE THE LAW IS DEFINITELY FLAWED 110 SERIOUS VIOLATIONS AND YOUR ALLOWED TO CONTINUE TO DO BUSINESS. I GUESS MONEY IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN ETHICS.
I like how he just yells to that Hispanic guy “ratones!” in Spanish lol 😆
He finally got to use his "ratones". The last Chinese owners he said the same thing to him!
I’m dead 😵
EAT AT HOME!!!!
Shameful! Their homes must be filthy, too. Apparently, too LAZY to clean. They should hire a cleaning company on a regular basis and be done with it.
Their problem is they lose money that way
@@Superman37891 They're losing money with a bad rep, low score, & shut downs. Most restaurants fail and not rectifying their filth, they're well on their way.
@@patd6370 I see. Those in charge of this restaurant should’ve realized that
Ikr
This is normal in China.
Thank you for finding my fish man I've been looking everywhere for that thing
😭😭😭
😅🤣😂
Lmao
I’m sorry when he said ratones that had me 😂😂
😭😭😭😭
lol
I cracked up 😂
So wait.. this is the same restaurant formerly named China Buffet, but changed owners and named, and still has all these violations?
Its a front for the ccp and triads to launder money. They don't give a crap about the food or even if they have customers. 🤫
Yep still remains closed to this day
@@gamedude108 and yet, at the end of the tax year.. they Will have bumper profits to launder black money to white. 🙃
Their next renaming will be t
I’m sorry but does anyone notice how most of the violations/ dirty diners are Asian restaurants!?
Not just in FL. There other CZcams videos of these type of buffets all across the US.
Hygiene is not part of their culture 🇨🇳🍜🦇🦠😷🤧
Just plain and simple nasty,
TooCoool *chinese restaurants*
The Asian culture evidently has no moral code about lying and cheating people. If you don't believe it, watch Border Security shows and see how many of them blatantly lie about not having food in their luggage, then when the agent opens it, it contains nothing BUT food. Same attitude makes them violate health rules with no conscience.
This restaurant has severely crossed the line so much in fact, that the owners of this restaurant could've lost their lease and have their license revoked.
Shut them down local 10 get on them
They're lucky they didn't lock somebody willing to fight in there with them.
I’ll pray that customers aren’t sick from the foods
1:26 I lost it a bit when these 2 employees carefully peeked in and then reeled out lol
I guess I’ve fallen down the CZcams hole. This is my 3 video I’ve watched on this place. Please tell me they aren’t still open in 2022
They were shut down.
same HAHAH
It wouldn't be an Asian buffet without the health code violations....
Imagine being the inspector that has to count the individual rodent turds.
I’m done with all kinds of Chinese food
Wilson C no restaurant is clean. It’s best and safer to cook and eat at home.
Owners who knowingly serve this dangerous food should be charged
This is now my favourite series on CZcams.
Turns out this restaurant is permanently closed. I wonder why 🤔
Clearly this is a cultural thing.
Avoid these people and their restaurants folks!
Why do people even go there? Isn't it required (by law) that the violation report MUST be visible as you enter the place?
It is where I live (Denmark) and you can get some pretty hefty fines if the report is not visible.
Granted, the town I lived in some years ago was rather small (pop. 6500) so word got around really fast. A buffet place had severe problems with the hygene and within 2 days there were no customers. The owner tried everything to get people in....well, except cleaning of course. He got one bad report after another, and in the end he had so much debt that he burned the place down and tried to claim insurance money from it. He got busted (surveillance showed him walking into the restaurant with two cans of petrol) and spent several years in prison.
I believe it’s different in the US I have been to a lot of resteraunts in my life and I don’t believe I saw a violation on the front door of any one of them.
Btw, incredible story
Cuz people are stupid and wanna get sick this is how covid started
This is America, where laws mean nothing. America loves to act all tough, but as you can see, it's all a farce.
I do all the time.the food
Is hot and every thing taste alike yummy.
A few bugs .
Those jackasses that locked the door should be arrested for endangering the public. At least, the local Fire Marshal should close the business for a serious safety violation.
When nothing but profit matters humanity goes out the window. Despicable
You know it's bad when the "R" on the sign is slightly broken
I love this trilogy
The rat was making a run for its life as the chef chased it
Why not just close the place and tell people not to patronize these nasty eateries.
I would have fought the employee who kept locking the door and wouldn’t let people out. If I’m unlocking your BUSINESS doors to LEAVE because I’m done, I’ve paid and I have places to be, you bet my fist would be swinging at your face. If the cops were to be called I wouldn’t even get in trouble because you would be locking me in against my will and my life could have been threatened. Places like this need to be careful. They’re lucky no one was crazy like me and fought their way out.
I would have asked politely to leave. If after a few attempt they didn't let me, I would have thrown a chair directly at the door without previous warning lol
look at this badass over here
bro this is the edgiest comment i've ever read
"they're lucky no one was crazy like me" bruh
Isn't locking the front door with customers inside, a hostage situation, and a fire hazard?
"isn't that a hostage situation" LMFAO
Royal buffet and china buffet shouldn’t be open they should keep closed the whole time
Not even Gordon Ramsay would come here
Lol 😂 I know a few people that would have broken the glass
Felixx Denolo I always carry my tactical knife and it has a glass breaker. I would of loved to use it in this case. 😄
Why is it always chinese restaurant soo dirty...
Just assume all Chinese buffets are like this...
Precisely why I don’t go to Chinese Buffets
That's surprising, admittedly I've never eaten at a Chinese buffet or any buffet actually, but one. It's a Chinese owned buffet, with all Chinese employees and it was always among the top 5 restaurants in our county. The food, cleanliness, and service were so good that you would see members of the Food and Health Safety eating there almost daily, including some from the neighboring county.
In al the years that I ate there, they were only fined once and that was because the trash pickup was delayed a couple of hours due to a traffic incident.
Seems like a crappy reason to fine a business
what buffet?
Yeah, I was wondering that to actually
Those health inspectors were probably Chinese on the takr.
Found the Beijing agent.
Why is all these dirty Dining videos popping up lol.
This restaurant should be rated an F
I be damned if they held me hostage...with no weapons lol
If you expect cleanliness in an Asian restaurant you might want to check your states website for restaurant health code violations! Asian restaurants average the highest violations!
It’s funny that it’s Chinese buffet restaurant but almost all employees in kitchen are Mexican. 😂😂😅
Truth Holder , are you sure all those employees are Mexican? 🤣🤣🤣
The are not Mexicans wtf. Them Chinese people only want their people to work in their restaurants
Chinese workers are more expensive !
@@gap949 the illegals are cheaper.
@Truth Holder I live in Az. don't believe that!
The dislikes are from Royal Buffet
This is very eye-opening and it makes me want to inspect the kitchens of restaurants where I eat. In this video, the food area looks so neat and clean, and you'd never suspect that all of that filth is going on in the kitchen! It's sickening!🤢🤮
This people Who Own this places Needs to be Closed...
New owners straight from the CCP
I'm done with Asian buffets!
No more chinese restaurants for me
CLOSE THIS PLACE! WHERE IS YOUR GOVERNOR?😮
Locking them in is a fire hazard during work hours. The low wage workers don't have much education though.
I don't eat at Chinese restaurants they are so dirty
OYAL BUFFET.
Imagine being the guy counting rodent droppings…
Well in China everything goes so this isn't surprising 🤷 Japanese however are very clean
The end of the trilogy
Customers are always right!
WTF were you expecting from a chinese buffet!
All buffet places are nasty
Close it for good. Nasty people.
Ughhhhh I know this place. I used to always go to Florida for summer vacations and I went here once when it had the old name. The lo mein had a rotten smell and we left after that
They never learn
The rodents are part of the ingredients🐀🐜🕷🤷🏽♂️
The crazy part is that, I remember like about 4 years ago, the very last time I ate at Uptown Buffet in Flagler, then after I had finished eating there, I had a bad stomachache and felt sick 😷🤮🤢. These viral videos are the proof of why I felt sick that day after eating at Uptown Buffet
I looked up the address and it's now some medical office called CanoHealth.... p ironic
Not surprised but good riddance to what was once Royal Buffet gone for good.
Amazing how they thought the media would just walk away from a violation-ridden restaurant that was holding customers hostage.
Shut that place down and keep it close
Moral of the story. Don't eat anything in Florida.
Watching this is slowly making me never wanna go to any buffet.
avoid buffets like your life depends on it because it does
If they locked the door and wouldn't let me leave i would call the police and have them bust down the door
they cant be stopped
Yes they can just don’t go there to eat learn to cook you lazy plonker
In the restaurant’s defense, the reporters were rather nosy in terms of trying to enter the kitchen.
Health is not in their mind only money
If you want to make a lot of friends, become a health inspector. People will want to go out to eat with you
Royal Buffet, China Buffet, China Diamond Buffet, China Star Buffet, World Buffet, circle of names
What’s the point in interviewing them?just let the people where not to eat.
They seem very welcoming
From 110 violations to 47 violations under new management, at least it's an improvement, and they are slowly learning from their mistakes.
Where's Gordon Ramsay?
"Dirty Dining"
Something's going on with this restaurant. Who the hell is this defensive.
you really think they might be hiding something? they seemed normal to me
I love this place I will never stop eating here
There’s suppose to be one opening up in the town I live in soon. Elizabeth City, North Carolina. Now I’m not so sure going to it since I have seen this.
Its like a genuine Chinese experience
Its CHINA, what do you expect.
No, it’s AMERICA. This is in MIAMI, which is in FLORIDA, which is a state in the UNITED STATES of *AMERICA.*