O'Shanahan's

O'Shanahan's is an American-based chain of buffets headquartered in Portland, Oregon. The company was founded in 1981 by Leslie Nee O'Shanahan, and currently has over 10,000 locations worldwide (excluding the Jetanian Archipelago).

Cutting people off for health issues
On September 12, 2001, a day after the September 11 terrorist attacks, the restaurant's staff have had to cut people off from their meals in case of serious health issues, which resulted in a lot of controversy, including the restaurant's ban in the Jetanian Archipelago.

Ban from Jetanian Archipelago
On August 29, 2004, Derrick Harlock, the now-former president of Jetania, had severe heart palpitations at an O'Shanahan's in Koolia, Jetania and was cut off from his meal immediately, which resulted in Derrick starting a private voting poll to illegalize the restaurant for its staff cutting him off from his meal. After 2 months, the poll was closed and the results were 85.2% of people agreeing to ban the restaurant from the Archipelago, and 14.8% of people disagreeing with the ban. Afterwards, O'Shanahan's was forced to shut down operations in the Archipelago, with its locations either being abandoned, sold to other companies, or demolished entirely.

However, on January 21, 2021, according to an article by Italian-Jetanian reporter Alessia Buccola, it was revealed that Derrick had rigged the elections, as almost everyone in the Archipelago didn't mind the restaurant's staff from cutting them off from their meals, and the votes were swapped as Derrick wanted the restaurant banned for cutting him off, which led to severe outrage throughout the entire Archipelago. As a result, the ban was lifted and plans for several O'Shanahan's (including some abandoned locations) are due to reopen sometime in late-April of 2021.

In popular culture
The restaurant and its major controversy of cutting people off from their meals for health issues is referenced in the American Dad! episode, The Mural of the Story, where as mentioned in the beginning, Stan had forbade the family from eating at the restaurant again after their staff cut him off from his meal during the restaurant's famous, "All You Can Eat Wings Night" every Friday at 5:30 P.M. when he vomited twice and had severe heart palpitations. Hayley broke his rule sometime before the episode, went to the restaurant, and Stan had to pick her up, claiming that she "betrayed" him. The restaurant is mentioned two more times in the episode, one where a man in a city hall calls him, "A guy who pooped [his] pants at O'Shanahan's", and the other where Hayley tries to run away in Stan's SUV after he ruins her face in an attempted cosmetic surgery operation, only to be struck by a semi working for the restaurant.