All You Can Eat
All You Can Eat
[The comic shows the facades of four stores next to each other on a street, with the sidewalk shown in front of them. To the top of each store's name there has been appended white signs. Three of the white signs partially cover the name part of the sign above three of the stores, but the fourth sign is placed entirely above the text of the third store. Thus that white sign's top is higher up than the building's.]
[First store from the left. The top line of two on the store's sign is obscured by the white sign:] White sign: All-you-can-eat Store sign: Discount Tires
[Second store from the left. The top line of two on the store's sign is obscured by the white sign:] White sign: All-you-can-eat Store sign: Hair Salon
[Third store from the left. The white sign on this store is slightly tilted, and most of it is above the top of the store completely above the store sign:] White sign: All-you-can-eat Store sign: Lumber and Store sign: Flooring Depot
[Fourth store from the left. The top line of two on the store's sign is obscured by the white sign. However, the name can still be deduced, and the top line says "Kevin's".] White sign: All-you-can-eat Store sign: Pet Store
[Caption below the frame:] My hobby: Going out at night and adding "all-you-can-eat" to every store's sign


An all-you-can-eat buffet is when a restaurant will charge you once for entry and then continuously serve you more food at no additional cost until you have eaten all-you-can-eat. Part of the " My Hobby " series, this comic shows Randall wishes to pre-pend "all-you-can-eat" to random stores.
With the exception of the pet store, which sells pet food, these stores do not sell food, so the very idea of eating their product would be ridiculous for most humans. However, this is what Randall's stunt makes the stores he defaces seem to advertise. Most people would not seriously consider eating the products these stores sell [ citation needed ] even with the signs suggesting they should, as they sell tires , hair cuts , lumber and flooring and pets .
The "all-you-can-eat" signs obscured the top line for three of the four shops signs. It is not really possible to read the obscured part of the first two signs, although it is likely that the first and last letters in the first sign are A and K. And also since the A is taller than the white sign, this first letter must be larger than the others which do not show above the white sign. There could be room for anything from 8 to many more letters hidden as it can be seen in the second line below that the I's take up much less space than the other letters. But from the letters below it seems likely there were 9 (maybe including a space) if no I's were used resulting in a word or two like this "A _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ K". All letters in the comic seems to be capital, but Randall sometimes use small caps, where the first capital letter is larger than the others. This would fit with this sign.
The third sign is fully visible, and it makes sense as it is not a name in the top line but part of the description of what the store provides.
The last sign is though clearly readable even though the white sign covers the name at the top, and it says "Kevin's Pet Store". There actually exists a web page with the name "Kevin's Pet Shop" , supposedly located in Texas, but there is very limited information on the page. See more about the use of Kevin in xkcd in the trivia below.
In the title text, Randall seems to have fallen for his own prank. After he puts the "all-you-can-eat" sign onto the signmakers' place, he proceeds to heed his own sign literally and eat the posterboards that he is supposed to make signs from. To remind himself not to make the same mistake again, he tells himself to "do the sign-making place last."
It should also be noted that sometimes "all-you-can-eat" is used to mean "unlimited usage". An all-you-can-eat data plan, for example, is another way to say unlimited data. If this definition of the word were used, all-you-can-eat would mean "unlimited copies of our product for a one time fee". A kapsalon can, arguably, also be called an all-you-can-eat hair salon.
Note that some pets are considered food in some cultures; rabbits are commonly kept as pets as well as served as food, dogs are consumed in some areas in eastern Asia, guinea pigs in South America and Africa, and some fictional characters are known for eating cat. Even more normally, a cat owner that wants to buy an "all you can eat" bird feast for their cat would be happy with this last store.
Aside from pets, pet stores also sell pet food, and while frowned upon by some, it is common practice to give human nutrition supplements to pets and vice versa. Some animal snacks are considered very tasty by many people, and there even exist several brands of snacks designed to be eaten both by people and their pets so that the owners could feel somehow closer to their beloved companion. Premium pet foods are made to standards that are no worse than standards for human food, so eating them poses no health risks in the short term - long term, most pet diets would fail to deliver the right balance of nutrients needed by humans.
[The comic shows the facades of four stores next to each other on a street, with the sidewalk shown in front of them. To the top of each store's name there has been appended white signs. Three of the white signs partially cover the name part of the sign above three of the stores, but the fourth sign is placed entirely above the text of the third store. Thus that white sign's top is higher up than the building's.]
[First store from the left. The top line of two on the store's sign is obscured by the white sign:] White sign: All-you-can-eat Store sign: Discount Tires
[Second store from the left. The top line of two on the store's sign is obscured by the white sign:] White sign: All-you-can-eat Store sign: Hair Salon
[Third store from the left. The white sign on this store is slightly tilted, and most of it is above the top of the store completely above the store sign:] White sign: All-you-can-eat Store sign: Lumber and Store sign: Flooring Depot
[Fourth store from the left. The top line of two on the store's sign is obscured by the white sign. However, the name can still be deduced, and the top line says "Kevin's".] White sign: All-you-can-eat Store sign: Pet Store
[Caption below the frame:] My hobby: Going out at night and adding "all-you-can-eat" to every store's sign

