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[VIC] All You Can Eat Dinner (1.5 Hour Session) $25 + $2.78 Booking Fee Per Person @ Garden State Cafe (Mulgrave)

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[VIC] All You Can Eat Dinner (1.5 Hour Session) $25 + $2.78 Booking Fee Per Person @ Garden State Cafe (Mulgrave)
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AssociatedPgardenstate @ Garden State Diner on 06/07/2023 - 18:28 eventbrite.com.au (4941 clicks)
Last edited 13/07/2023 - 20:26 by 3 other users

You spoke, and we listened! For a limited time only, prices are back to $25pp for pre-bookings (vs. $30 for walk-ins). Get in quick!
*Note that Eventbrite charges a booking fee of $2.78 per ticket on top of the $25 we charge. We're in the process of getting ticket sales set up on our own website which would mean no booking fees in the future :)

As seats are limited and in high demand, we're releasing tickets a week at a time. To be fair to everyone, reservations will only be taken via Eventbrite. Every Thursday at 6pm, we'll release an EventBrite link on ozbargain and on our website, which you can use to secure yourself seats for the next week’s sessions! Be quick, don't miss out. We hope to welcome you soon :)

This week's Tickets available from 6th July 6pm - 9th July 11pm on Eventbrite(eventbrite.com.au)

Session Times:
Monday 10 July , 6pm - 7.30pm, 8pm - 9.30pm
Tuesday 11 July, 6pm - 7.30pm, 8pm - 9.30pm
Wednesday 12 July, 6pm - 7.30pm, 8pm - 9.30pm
Thursday 13 July, 6pm - 7.30pm, 8pm - 9.30pm

5 "Night Market" stalls are featured in this week's All You Can Eat:
51st State Burgers | Annyeong Chicken - Korean Snack Boxes | Loaded Superfries | Ting Mama - Taiwanese | Hotdogs Reloaded

Other Information:

  • Drinks are not included
  • Children under 2 are FREE, Children under 5 are half price ($12.50).

Keen to find out more about us?
Website: www.gardenstatecafe.com.au
Address: 799 Springvale Rd, Mulgrave (near Monash Uni Clayton Campus)
Phone: (03) 8524 9547

Parking Instructions:
Carpark entry is via Miles St. From Springvale Road, turn into Miles St, then make a small U-turn into the Paragon Office Building undercover carpark. Then, walk around the front to the cafe!

Dining & Takeaway All You Can Eat Bubble Tea Burger Dinner Korean Fried Chicken

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closed Comments

  • Pace210 on 06/07/2023 - 18:38
    +5

    Even though I can't eat much, every time I see this posted my mouth waters, sucks to be in Perth on rare occasions.

    • DH on 06/07/2023 - 19:22
      +1

      Wish there was a good lunch buffet in Perth, before anyone says the Bayswater, no just no

      • CptnObvious on 06/07/2023 - 20:01

        Don't you guys still have Sizzlers?

        • bobzor on 06/07/2023 - 20:35
          -3

          Lmgtfy

        • SpainKing on 07/07/2023 - 00:12

          Don't re-open that wound </3

    • stingy-oz on 06/07/2023 - 23:03
      -1

      Sucks to be in Brisbane on rare occasions…

  • 87percent on 06/07/2023 - 18:42
    +2

    How does ordering food work? Is it like food in bainmarie, or do you order each time you want food?

    • exit on 06/07/2023 - 19:51
      +1

      Order each time but the staff were pretty attentive when I went

  • LolwutMikka on 06/07/2023 - 18:53
    +2

    Food was good for an all you can eat. Definitely worth it in my experience

    • TightAl on 06/07/2023 - 21:12

      Thanks - will give it a go

  • CrazyBargainCatcher on 06/07/2023 - 18:57
    -3

    Why not on weekends? :(

    • psylence on 06/07/2023 - 21:27
      +19

      For some reason they want to turn a profit on weekends

    • Associatedgardenstate @ Garden State Diner on 07/07/2023 - 00:10
      +1

      We're actually thinking of extending it to Sundays - so stay tuned! Unfortunately we're fairly busy on Fri/Sat and unable to offer the all-you-can-eat then!

    • bennybaubles on 06/07/2023 - 19:15
      +8

      That’s not grounds for a neg

  • Heaps for Cheaps on 06/07/2023 - 19:27

    Wish you guys did a pop up in Sydney.

  • alishan2000 on 06/07/2023 - 19:40
    +19

    Not $25, A$27.78, incl. A$2.78 Fee & Tax

  • DarrylKerrigan on 06/07/2023 - 19:41
    +5

    I'm seeing $27.78 per person including unavoidable fees and taxes?

  • Heaps for Cheaps on 06/07/2023 - 19:45
    +25

    I'm seeing $25 + $2.78 booking fee + own transport costs + hotel/airbnb cost if coming from interstate + possible opportunity cost

    • OZKap on 06/07/2023 - 21:35
      +3

      Just send them a bill for your time, easy.

  • 91312 on 06/07/2023 - 19:48
    -8

    27.78 not 25 dollars

    • Clipyy on 06/07/2023 - 20:40
      +17

      ok grandma its time for your bedtime

    • I Smell Pennies on 06/07/2023 - 22:35
      +4

      I would have given you an upvote if you stopped at the first sentence bit then you went all negative on hard working businesses so take a neg

    • Gervais fanboy on 07/07/2023 - 01:31
      +2

      Ohh really, what’s the name of your restaurant and what prices are you charging for food?

      $27 for a buffet, with heaps of choices and you are still whinging 🤦🏻‍♂️

  • iamconstipated on 06/07/2023 - 20:41

    Literally no way to pay the price of $25 in the title. Does the $2.78 get refunded at the door on the night?

    • FindMeADeal on 06/07/2023 - 20:46
      +10

      You shouldn't eat anyway

      • iamconstipated on 06/07/2023 - 20:49

        I figure eating at this event might give me the runs instead.

        • Gervais fanboy on 07/07/2023 - 01:32

          Check their reviews online

          They have got near perfect reputation, very very rare for any restaurant.

          • exit on 07/07/2023 - 10:40
            +3

            @Gervais fanboy: They compensate reviews with free bubble tea so I would take it with a grain of salt. They are at least a 4 star experience regardless though based on my experience.

  • t_c on 06/07/2023 - 20:42
    +2

    If seats are limited and in high demand, how does walk ins work?

    • Heaps for Cheaps on 06/07/2023 - 20:47
      +26

      They walk back out.

    • Associatedgardenstate @ Garden State Diner on 07/07/2023 - 00:14

      Hi there, we have fixed number of seats allocated for online-presales, however we do leave some seats for walk-ins (who can decide whether to go ala carte or all-you-can-eat). Unfortunately, we can't guarantee seats for walkins, so we highly recommend pre-booking to avoid disappointment!

  • browser on 06/07/2023 - 20:44
    +41

    What is this booking fee non-sense? People is so used to paying for extras, businesses are taking it for granted everything want to charge a fee.

    Pre-booking is doing them a favour, so they can plan and collect money in advance. If Eventbrite charges them a fee, they should just absorb it as the cost of doing business, or factor it into the deal. Do they also want to introduce rent and utility surcharges?

    Cafes and restaurants who charge credit card fees conveniently forgot the benefit of e-payments, not having to count cash, wasting time on changes, going to the bank for coins, handing out incorrect changes, lost, theft and worse. Card payments have saved them a load of time and trouble, and they have the audacity to charge their customers for that.

    It really gets me when charity websites also want to pass on the hosting cost, I made $100 donation voluntarily, but that's not enough, they also want $5 more to help run the website. Goodness! Do they also want $10 more to cloud fund a computer?

      • browser on 06/07/2023 - 20:51
        +18

        Well, if the advertised price is $10, I expect to pay $10.

        What is the point of publishing a price list but charges different prices?

      • Iwantthebestprice on 06/07/2023 - 22:12
        +2

        They didn’t even make a decision, he made a statement. Re read their comment 🤷‍♂️
        And they are 100% correct

    • gakko on 06/07/2023 - 20:54
      +6

      I believe it's what they call a good ol fashioned scam.

  • RedTaco on 06/07/2023 - 20:48
    +29

    I'd have to agree, title should state $27.78 as these additional fees are unavoidable. it's the same as businesses needing to include GST in the advertised price.

  • dragonfly090 on 06/07/2023 - 20:59
    -5

    pass, no vegan

  • [Deactivated] on 06/07/2023 - 21:01
    +6

    Wrong price in title, no thanks m8

  • DingoBlue on 06/07/2023 - 21:05
    +3

    Even legit and well known sites can be super scammy with fees (I’m looking at you Airtasker). I’d bet that OP wasn’t clearly made aware of the fees that their customers would have added on and I’m 5000% sure OP isn’t benefiting from them in any way.

    • iamconstipated on 06/07/2023 - 21:36
      -1

      Or OP was purposely trying to mislead. Their previous post even stated "$25 + fee".

      https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/780507

      • OZKap on 06/07/2023 - 23:55

        Check revision history. That "+fee" was added by an ozbargain moderator 21 days after the deal was posted by the rep.

        The rep was quite open in the comments about the fee, probably just forgot it this time. They updated the body of the deal when the booking fee was pointed out by ozb users.

        Do you really think that a rep would want to invoke the ire of all ozbargain users just to make their deal read "$25" instead of "$25+$2.75"?

        • Associatedgardenstate @ Garden State Diner on 07/07/2023 - 00:06
          +10

          Thanks for that! We were busy but came back to all these comments, and immediately revised this particular listing to reflect the fee, both in the title and the description!

          In the future, we'll be selling direct from our own website (unfortunately currently still work in progress) - so there'll be zero booking fees involved, just a flat $25, which I'm sure everyone will be happy with.

  • Rockhard on 06/07/2023 - 21:07
    +4

    Misleading Price

  • PlaunsJanus on 06/07/2023 - 21:17
    +8

    Could you please correct the price in the title? There’s zero tolerance for hidden costs from ozbargainers.

  • rufio on 06/07/2023 - 21:18
    +6

    Advertising, wrong price and for those reasons I'm out.

    • Repstar on 06/07/2023 - 21:55
      +1

      Ozbargain tank.

      • tony2shanks on 07/07/2023 - 00:35

        I healed you and OP one upvote point

    • mrvaluepack on 07/07/2023 - 04:37

      Hi Barbara

  • Kaiserschmarrn on 06/07/2023 - 21:25
    +1

    Went last time, won’t go again even at $27.

    • overlook on 06/07/2023 - 21:27
      +5

      hmm can you please tell us why?

        • DingoBlue on 06/07/2023 - 22:44
          +3

          Uber eats quality? You know that’s like a platform right?

          • Kaiserschmarrn on 06/07/2023 - 22:57

            @DingoBlue: Oh had no idea. Thanks for the heads up. Ill remove my comment.

            • capslock janitor on 06/07/2023 - 23:17
              +2

              @Kaiserschmarrn: No what did you say?

              • Kaiserschmarrn on 07/07/2023 - 00:07
                +3

                @capslock janitor: food was ok, but not enough for me to perceive value in the all you can eat. Each to their own tho - carb loaders and fried food lovers may find it worthwhile. Their food wastage policy ($15pp for 300g+ waste) compelled me to eat things that didn’t taste good - my bad for ordering the fried king oyster mushrooms. Korean fried chicken was the best on the limited menu but I can get that at places closer to me.

                • capslock janitor on 07/07/2023 - 00:24

                  @Kaiserschmarrn:

                  food wastage policy ($15pp for 300g+

                  cant get overly experimental i spose

                • Associatedgardenstate @ Garden State Diner on 07/07/2023 - 00:30
                  +7

                  @Kaiserschmarrn: Thanks for the feedback! Just to clarify, however, the food wastage policy is there solely as a deterrent to prevent people from ordering way too much food and then it all going to waste. If there was a particular item you ordered that didn't suit your taste, we certainly won't charge you if you didn't finish that item! We like to think we're pretty reasonable in that regard :)

                  P.S. We've had over 500 covers over the last few weeks for the all-you-can-eat sessions, and we actually haven't had to charge a single customer for food wastage!

                • bennybaubles on 07/07/2023 - 10:21

                  @Kaiserschmarrn: When places have a food wastage policy I bring a plastic bag to dump any dodgy food into so as to avoid such fees

  • mrnacho on 06/07/2023 - 21:46
    +1

    Hey OP, the buying ption seems to be only 2 or more tickets? Going to stop by before work but just by my lonesome.

    • exit on 06/07/2023 - 22:08
      +2

      Probably because I made them lose money last time when I went by myself lol

      • DingoBlue on 06/07/2023 - 22:45
        +1

        Were you driving around all night?

      • Associatedgardenstate @ Garden State Diner on 07/07/2023 - 00:19

        Would love to welcome you back :) Shout out if you want to buy another individual ticket!

    • Associatedgardenstate @ Garden State Diner on 07/07/2023 - 00:18
      +1

      Hey there, we certainly welcome you coming by yourself! We just had to disable single tickets, because of logistic issues where big groups all bought individual tickets and it was a nightmare figuring out which people were part of a group or otherwise. However, if you let us know your preferred session time, I can PM you a unique link which allows you to buy a single ticket!

  • cookie2 on 06/07/2023 - 22:10
    +1

    Incorrect price in deal title. Booking fee adds 2.78 to $25 cost. Total cost is $27.78.
    In saying that… still tempting.

  • Herbse on 06/07/2023 - 22:13
    +2

    So what's included in the buffet? Is it all the normal stuff?

    • Laziofogna on 07/07/2023 - 00:00

      You can bet if you start eating too much the service will slow down till the end of session

      • Associatedgardenstate @ Garden State Diner on 07/07/2023 - 00:22

        Quite the contrary, at least in the previous sessions that we've run, it's been the customers slowing down way before the end of the session :)

    • Associatedgardenstate @ Garden State Diner on 07/07/2023 - 00:25
      +2

      We've got a special buffet menu that changes every few weeks (different "stalls" being featured) - this menu is an assortment of the most popular items on each stall.

      For this week, the bestselling items of the following "stalls" will be available:
      51st State - Burgers
      Annyeong Chicken - Korean Fried Chicken & Snackboxes
      Ting Mama - Taiwanese Street Eats
      Hotdogs Reloaded
      Loaded Superfries

  • Hugh G Rection on 06/07/2023 - 22:36

    darn it, im in nsw and im hungry

  • Dabbler68 on 06/07/2023 - 23:37
    +2

    Let me help with another negative vote. If a consumer can't get it for $25, don't advertise next week.

  • Wiser on 07/07/2023 - 00:23

    After covid majority of the businesses are chrging even when you do eftpos transactions
    And it is a percentage of total spend.
    Where are the politicians ACCC who introduced credit card surcharge arguing those who pay cash or eftpos actually subsidising credit card holders for interest fee period and reward points.
    As a community we are accepting all these changes without protesting.

    • Nom on 07/07/2023 - 14:43

      It used to be just a few tightass stores like MSY with a credit card surcharge, that people complained about.

      So the ACCC issued guidance as a response to the complaints - but instead of the guidance being "don't do this", they instead said that surcharges were fine as long as they were realistic?!?!

      So every business now has official permission to add the surcharge, which of course they quickly did.
      Blame the ACCC for removing the grey area and formally giving the OK to surcharges.

  • Ceri on 07/07/2023 - 00:45
    +4

    People seem to be very salty about $2 fee.. Meanwhile I'd just love to try $27 in Sydney.

    Best of luck OP. Great price with or without the $2 fee :)

    • Dabbler68 on 07/07/2023 - 01:25
      +1

      The issue is not that $25 is good value and $27.78 isn't. It's promoting the deal as $25 when nobody can get that and the booking fee is more than 10% of the price.

      Garden State, hopefully you will get that and not do it again next week. Why not just make it the price you want that is enough to include the booking fees. Your first word in the listing ….. "you spoke and we listened".

      • TightAl on 07/07/2023 - 09:52

        Hope you've never paid your taxes or any airfare with a credit card LoL

    • gimme on 07/07/2023 - 07:59

      ppl have way too much time on their hands to get all principled over a couple of bucks. then again ozbargain

      • Sinnerator on 07/07/2023 - 08:15

        let's apply your logic to govt and police corruption etc etc

        • OZKap on 07/07/2023 - 08:32

          You're equating a 5% service fee with government and police corruption.

        • gimme on 07/07/2023 - 09:05
          +1

          lol … child farts at school …. let's apply that to a million cows farting and climate change…. kid must be removed!!

  • Lucille Bluth on 07/07/2023 - 08:19
    -1

    Other Information:

    Drinks are not included

    Even water?

    • Associatedgardenstate @ Garden State Diner on 07/07/2023 - 12:44

      Water is complimentary, of course :)

  • chickens on 07/07/2023 - 09:51
    +5

    most of the food was delicious, excellent value at ~$28 and would go back, not sure why there's such a vocal minority, the staff were amazingly friendly as well

    the only "downside" i could think of is that the fries when ordered were massive, i get the feeling if you paid for the fries a la carte without this buffet they wouldn't give you such a generous serving

    would be happy to be proven wrong though

    • Associatedgardenstate @ Garden State Diner on 07/07/2023 - 12:45

      Hi there, thanks so much for your positive feedback :) We were glad to have you! I can assure you that the fries portion you get when ordering ala-carte, whether in store or via delivery platforms, are the same size as during the AYCE!

  • pharkurnell on 07/07/2023 - 11:48
    +1

    Ticket sales have ended

    Thank you all for your interest. Our All You Can Eat sessions for next week (3 July - 9 July) are now fully booked out. Tickets for the following week (10 July - 16 July) will be available for sale on Thursday 6 July at 6.00pm. The link to the new EventBrite page will be posted on Ozbargain and our website https://www.gardenstatecafe.com.au/all-you-can-eat. Don't miss out next time!

  • capslock janitor on 07/07/2023 - 12:20

    can Table for 1?

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