"Pizza Buffet? I've never heard of that..."
You've never heard of Cici's or Joe's?
Both are in Virginia. I think Joe's is more local to Northern Virginia, and Cici's is more national.
There's a couple of Cicis in the Richmond area.
I've eaten at Cici's once, with friends. It was OK. The pizza at Joe's was better, but I last at their buffet near 20 years ago, and I'm not so sure that they do the buffet anymore.
When I was in Iowa last month there was a place in Marion called Pizza Ranch. Never stopped there; my friends said it was adequate, but not great (my friend is a real pizza fiend so I trust him on his pizza eval), but he did say that they had a huge pizza buffet, and relatively cheap - $10 for lunch.
I have to admit, I LOVE a buffet, especially a Chinese buffet. But, I've always been a huge food hound. Now that I'm working on getting my weight under control buffets are off the table.
I went to Golden Corral a few years ago with Mtnbkr and family... Oh hell, their oldest was just a baby, so it must have been close to 15 years ago now.
It was ok, but nothing great.