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Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: just Warren on July 08, 2018, 08:12:08 PM
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Smaller flatware? LOL. (https://youtu.be/KAha5roQXIA)
It all makes sense and there are definite strategies for getting the most for your money.
I do miss the low-priced buffets that casinos used to have.
Around here they used to be like 6.99 now they're up to $14-17 depending on the day. Of course you can get comps if you play enough but I don't.
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Mmmm.... all you can eat.
Best way to feed hungry teenagers. I don't care how much markup they had, they never made money off of me in my teen years. (Though the rest of my family likely balanced it out.)
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I never would have guessed that buffet restaurants used statistics to determine what to serve and when.
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I don't get it when I see someone pay those prices and then they put together a huge green salad.
I like the cold stuff too, but I just get a little of the pasta salad, or the ambrosia or the seafood salad just for the taste. Like maybe a fork's full of each.
I'm at a buffet for the meat. Yes, I will have another slice of prime rib thank you! And some more turkey, and ham and oh look there's some fried chicken...
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I don't get it when I see someone pay those prices and then they put together a huge green salad.
I like the cold stuff too, but I just get a little of the pasta salad, or the ambrosia or the seafood salad just for the taste. Like maybe a fork's full of each.
I'm at a buffet for the meat. Yes, I will have another slice of prime rib thank you! And some more turkey, and ham and oh look there's some fried chicken...
The last time I was at one of them, I overheard a teenage girl say to her mother: "I just want a salad."
It took a lot of restraint on my part to hold back the "What's wrong with you!?" that almost jumped unbidden from my mouth.
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I've been told that at the local Golden Corral, there are a bunch of severely morbidly obese people who come in regularly (if not daily), occupy a bunch of tables (its almost like an eating club) and just graze all day long.
I've seen this firsthand when we took the kids there for lunch several years back.
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About twice a year I'll go to a Brazilian Steakhouse, where it's $50 per person just to sit down. The waitstaff is good at pushing the salad bar, but I skip it. For $50, you are going to stuff me full of meat, not rabbit food.
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I lurves me some broccoli beef and General Tso's Chikkin at the local
bacterial culture center Chinese Food buffet. Don't even get me near the hot roll bar at Golden Corral unless you want to carry me home.
Brad
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Mmmmm... Golden Corral......kids eat free....chocolate fountain....kids, picking their noses and sticking said result and finger into chocolate fountain and then sucking chocolate and whatever off of finger.....repeat...time and time again......ummmm..Golden Corral... [barf]
You are quite welcome for the visual. ;)
bob
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Many years ago - when I was still a kid - there was a buffet restaurant (called "smorgasbord" back then) named House of Norway, just outside the Chicago city limits. I remember it being excellent. It closed when I was still in high school.
The local "good" Chinese buffet closed a couple of years ago; went downhill fast after the original owners sold it. Recent Yelp reviews of the local Golden Corrals have a good deal of comments about snot-nosed kids running amok, sampling food and putting it back as well as sticking their dirty fingers in the chocolate fountains repeatedly so they can lick off the sweetness.
I don't eat there.
(BobR posted just before I did.)
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I get salad at all you can eat buffets... But I tend to go epic when there is a salad bar in front of me... Somewhere under all the other stuff is lettace. I swear...
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Mmmmm... Golden Corral......kids eat free....chocolate fountain....kids, picking their noses and sticking said result and finger into chocolate fountain and then sucking chocolate and whatever off of finger.....repeat...time and time again......ummmm..Golden Corral... [barf]
Salted chocolate. Yum!
Brad
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There used to be a Ryan's locally. I don't recall a chocolate fountain (I wouldn't have touched anyway), but they did have chololate chip cookies that were pretty good. I just promised myself I would eat a plate of veggies (not all mashed potatoes) before I dug into the meats. The Ryan's closed down. A Chinese buffet has opened up in its place that I have not tried yet. Pepper steak and rice is my goto dish for Chinese food.
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I spent too many years in the restaurant business to want to eat anybody's buffet food.
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About twice a year I'll go to a Brazilian Steakhouse, where it's $50 per person just to sit down. The waitstaff is good at pushing the salad bar, but I skip it. For $50, you are going to stuff me full of meat, not rabbit food.
Oh man. Mrs and I go usually once or twice a year. The only reason I even touch the salad bar is because I'm Brazilian and so it's hard to resist foods that are a taste of what I grew up with. Not really the vegetable sides, but things like farofa and feijoada...
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Most of the buffers around here pretty much suck. Golden Corral is extremely expensive, no good Chinese buffets, and the pizza buffets all taste the same.
We do have a good Brazillian steakhouse and it’s only $23 a person. For the price of a buffet I’d rather go to a good regular restaurant.
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and the pizza buffets all taste the same.
I've never encountered a pizza buffet that was worth the money or the effort and I've never had pizza at a normal buffet that I would rate as any better than mediocre.
It's odd as pizza is not that hard.
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Pizza Buffet? I've never heard of that...
I do like a good Chinese Buffet. Chinese is one of those ethnic food groups that's better for grazing on variety rather than just eating one thing and it's too expensive to get everything take out unless you have a big group of people pitching in.
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Pizza Buffet? I've never heard of that...
Obviously you are not an elite sophisticate like us.
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. . . We do have a good Brazillian steakhouse and it’s only $23 a person . . .
I just saw that a new sign - Espeto Brazilian Steakhouse - went up at a recently defunct restaurant in my neighborhood. Construction/remodeling is going on and I haven't found any announcements yet in the local paper or on line, but this bears watching.
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I've been told that at the local Golden Corral, there are a bunch of severely morbidly obese people who come in regularly (if not daily), occupy a bunch of tables (its almost like an eating club) and just graze all day long.
I heard about a couple on disability for being too fat who did this as a hobby.
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"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.
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My dad found one, Chinese place but they cater to their local market. So half Chinese, half rural southern soul food. Yep, it's a high blood pressure diabeetus dream.
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I worked at a Mr. Gattis pizza place in high school. Buffet 5 or 6 days a week. The regular pizza with the toppings you want was always better. They tended to go minimal on cheese and toppings for buffet. I still like their pizza. I think they are just local to the Houston area and a few other towns.
The place made the most money on nights when there was no buffet. They went to buffet 7 days a week when some competition opened up and I think it was the beginning of the end.
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My dad found one, Chinese place but they cater to their local market. So half Chinese, half rural southern soul food. Yep, it's a high blood pressure diabeetus dream.
Found one of those in Pennsylvania, once.
Lots of pretty decent Chinese food on the buffet, and chicken, gravy, and waffles and pork and sauerkraut. Kind of funny to see.
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The Chinese buffets with other foods mixed in are the best anyway. There was one nearby that decent pepper steak, but also had garlic bread, french fries, chicken nuggets, and pizza (never tempted to try it). =) Yes, it was a carbohydrate fountain. It got closed down, I never heard exactly why. I do recall going in there at 11 AM when they supposedly opened and the food didn't taste as fresh as I expected.
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Pizza Buffet? I've never heard of that...
Pizza Hut, Pizza Inn, CiCi's, and Mr. Gatti's all had lunch buffets in the DFW area when I lived there.
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Economic rule #1 if you want to open an all-you-can-eat buffet: don't do so in a town along the Appalachian Trail. The thru-hikers will eat you into bankruptcy.
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When visiting the in-laws in Reading, PA, we used to go to the Shady Maple near Lancaster.
https://www.shady-maple.com/smorgasbord
The last time we went (for a late breakfast), I overheard the people at the nearby table: they had been eating breakfast for almost three hours and were waiting for lunch. That pretty much killed my appetite.
I once worked with a lawyer who grew up in that area. A family tradition was to gorge at the Shady Maple the day after Thanksgiving!