all-you-can-eat

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Adjective

all-you-can-eat (not comparable)

1. (literally) Offering unlimited food to a diner at a restaurant for a fixed price for as long as the diner continues to eat.
   • 1995, Edward B Fiske, The Fiske Guide to Colleges 1995:

     It's an all-you-can-eat deal, and students can use their meal cards at numerous campus snack bars and sandwich shops.

   • 2007, Bob Sehlinger, Grant Rafter, Katie Brandon, Beyond Disney:

     JT's serves all-you-can-eat prime rib on Wednesday nights for $18.99.

2. (figuratively, by extension) Offering unlimited service for a fixed price per time period.
   • 1998 January 19, Network World, volume 15, number 3:

     "Last year, when they came out with their all-you-can-eat, $19.95 per month service, it nearly brought them down."

   • 2008 October 11, Billboard:

     Nokia has unveiled its all-you-can-eat Comes With Music package for the United Kingdom […]

Translations

offering unlimited food to a diner at a restaurant

• Burmese: အဝစား (a.wa.ca:)
• Finnish: syö niin paljon kuin jaksat (phrase, used as modifier for nouns)
• French: à volonté (fr)
• Hungarian: korlátlan (étel)fogyasztás(i), korlátlanul/korlátlan mennyiségben fogyasztható
• Indonesian: makan sepuasnya
• Japanese: 食べ放題 (ja), バイキング料理 (baikingu ryōri), バイキング (ja) (baikingu)
• Polish: rodzaj bufetu
• Spanish: libre (es), tenedor libre (es) m

offering unlimited service for a fixed price per time period

• Indonesian: makan sepuasnya

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