Short kids may not get picked first on the basketball court but at several Asian buffet restaurants, they get cheaper meals. It's a longstanding practice: When a child walks in, he's forced to stand next to a ruler on the wall. An employee then determines how much his parents must pay for the meal. Taller kids get charged more than shorter kids based on an assumption that they'll likely eat more.
To some parents, this makes no sense at all. "It's discrimination," says a Newport Beach resident named Linda (who does not wish for her last name to be published). "They might as well charge by weight."
She complained at a number of Asian seafood restaurants throughout Orange County--Makino Sushi Buffet in Irvine, Todai in Orange and Hokkaido Seafood Buffet in Newport Beach--after her 9-year-old son was given a price based on his height. He's 3-foot-7.
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