{"id":21692,"date":"2014-09-01T01:00:04","date_gmt":"2014-09-01T08:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=21692"},"modified":"2014-09-01T01:00:04","modified_gmt":"2014-09-01T08:00:04","slug":"work-buffet-waistlines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=21692","title":{"rendered":"Work On The Buffet Waistlines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">It&#8217;s that day again, isn&#8217;t it? Monday. The go-on-a-diet day. It comes around every week, of course, and is overshadowed only by January 2\u2026the ultimate GO-ON-A-DIET day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">This Monday, Labor Day is a good name for going on a diet, because it is laborious. It&#8217;s also a good time to bring up what&#8217;s happening at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.celebritycruises.com\/home.do\">Celebrity Cruises<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Smaller plates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">We&#8217;re talking cruise buffets. You know what it&#8217;s like, cut from the all-you-can-eat part of the menu. In trying to help passengers be more calorie responsible, Celebrity is <a href=\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Eclipse-buffet.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21697\" src=\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Eclipse-buffet.jpeg\" alt=\"Eclipse-buffet\" width=\"650\" height=\"431\" \/><\/a>trying to serve everything as individual portions, on individual plates, instead of leaving it to us to serve ourselves (as much or as little) as we choose. It&#8217;s only being tried on one ship&#8230;so far.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Will it help?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">&#8220;\u201cGuests are eating less, it\u2019s all psychological,\u201d Chef John Suley told the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cruiseindustrynews.com\/\">Cruise Industry News<\/a>. \u201cIt was human nature with a large plate to take the things you wanted to try. Now they are portioned and our guests are also thinking about the health conscious aspect.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Celebrity has discovered its overall food consumption has dropped, the chefs are enjoying make their dishes more visually appealing and fewer passengers have been freed from doorways in which they were stuck\u2026just kidding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">There is one flaw.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">What if you take a second helping?<\/p>\n<p><em style=\"font-size: 13px; color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Today at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.portsandbows.com\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">portsandbows.co<\/span><\/a>m: The latest in cruise news<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12028\" title=\"DailyDeal-2\" src=\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DailyDeal-2-e1334202169354.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"125\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carnival.com\/cms\/fun\/ships\/carnival_splendor\/default.aspx?shipCode=SL\">Carnival Splendor<br \/>\n<\/a>7 nights<br \/>\nSeptember 20, 2014<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/portal\/site\/nycgov\/?front_door=true\">New York<\/a> (return):\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityofboston.gov\/\">Boston<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmaine.com\/\">Portland<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityofsaintjohn.com\/\">Saint John<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.halifax.ca\/\">Halifax<br \/>\n<\/a>Inside: $369<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Cost per day: $52<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carnival.com\">www.carnival.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s that day again, isn&#8217;t it? Monday. The go-on-a-diet day. It comes around every week, of course, and is overshadowed only by January 2\u2026the ultimate GO-ON-A-DIET day. This Monday, Labor Day is a good name for going on a diet, because it is laborious. It&#8217;s also a good time to bring up what&#8217;s happening at&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=21692\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Work On The Buffet Waistlines<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,32,25,19,15],"tags":[1639,154,478,138,912,72,301,35,897,941,26,27,1710],"class_list":["post-21692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-deals","category-people","category-ships","category-stories","tag-atlantic-canada-cruises","tag-carnival","tag-carnival-splendor","tag-celebrity-cruises","tag-cruise-bargains","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruise-ship-food","tag-cruises","tag-food-on-ships","tag-new-england-cruises","tag-phil-reimer","tag-ports-and-bows","tag-the-buffet-on-cruises","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}