Is the buffet-style eating permissible? The owner of a buffet restaurant explains this eating style as follows: "Please note that our restaurant is se

Answer

This kuffaar-baboon style of eating in the public is haraam. It is not expected of People of Imaan to degrade themselves in this humiliating fashion by following the kuffaar right into the "lizard's hole". This ludicrous act of Tashabbuh bil Kuffaar (emulating the kuffaar) is not permissible. Only men and women who incline to zina or who indulge in zina as a norm are capable of indulgence in this shameless, haraam 'buffet' style gluttony.