Odd restaurant policies?!?

[two_bit_score]

I stopped doing buffets quite a while ago. Undisciplined children were bad but the gluttonous adults are what really put me off.

Amen to that! Pigs would have better manners than some people at the all you can eat buffets.

 

[kenmbz]

Way back in High School we went to a Ground Round (was a local chain) for the all you can eat fried chicken. Most of us could put away a basket or two as they were half fries and 1/4 chicken. Our football buddy "big phil" put away 26 baskets, and drank 3 pitchers of beer in that one sitting. It was surreal.
They also served little baskets of peanuts (floor was always covered in shells) and had projectors, usually showing old short movies or cartoons at Ground round. New owners and changing tastes and a takeover by owners who wanted to make the chain less costly to run and make it seem like every other chain eventually killed the whole aesthetic.

 

[jmc]

Amen to that! Pigs would have better manners than some people at the all you can eat buffets.

Decades ago, consumer advocate Ralph Nader said something to the effect of- if you must eat at a buffet, try to get there early.

 

[CobyRupert]

I think buffet is the french word for “feed trough” when you want to swine and dine.

 

[Big Barn]

Not my thing, but I have no problems with the all you can eat concept.

What really bothers me is the way customers load up their plates for the mere sake of loading it up, leaving a large portion or more of it and getting up to do it again.

The wastefulness is a disgrace.

 

[Thomas]

Not my thing, but I have no problems with the all you can eat concept.

What really bothers me is the way customers load up their plates for the mere sake of loading it up, leaving a large portion or more of it and getting up to do it again.

The wastefulness is a disgrace.

You took the words right out of my mouth...indeed a shame.

 

[Fuddy1952]

We used to (swine & dine ) at local Golden Corral, arriving about 10:30 am. That way we got the breakfast buffet AND lunch buffet they started putting out about 11. I bet lots of customers we saw have passed. Huge and I mean huge people. One guy I remember getting steaks (what quality meat could it be for $8.95 at an ace?) Ace=all can eat. This guy as they put steaks on grill would holler out "RARE!"...so basically raw.
There used to be a Duff's buffet not too far. They had this huge motorized round table, half in kitchen, other half in dining area with partitions. You'd stand there getting whatever came around the carousel putting on your plate...only people were eating as stuff came around. We look around and some lady had her mouth over the ice cream machine nozzle, pulling on the lever!

 

[Molalla1]

We used to (swine & dine ) at local Golden Corral, arriving about 10:30 am. That way we got the breakfast buffet AND lunch buffet they started putting out about 11. I bet lots of customers we saw have passed. Huge and I mean huge people. One guy I remember getting steaks (what quality meat could it be for $8.95 at an ace?) Ace=all can eat. This guy as they put steaks on grill would holler out "RARE!"...so basically raw.
There used to be a Duff's buffet not too far. They had this huge motorized round table, half in kitchen, other half in dining area with partitions. You'd stand there getting whatever came around the carousel putting on your plate...only people were eating as stuff came around. We look around and some lady had her mouth over the ice cream machine nozzle, pulling on the lever!

:laughing: . . . . .

 

[two_bit_score]

Decades ago, consumer advocate Ralph Nader said something to the effect of- if you must eat at a buffet, try to get there early.

Last time I went to a Golden Corral Buffet was in Odessa, Tx about 10 years ago. Very nice restaurant from the outside and in a nice location. When I got inside, after I paid for the buffet, I knew I was in for a real time. EVERYONE, in that place looked like they weighed in at 300+lbs. It was early in the evening and they had steak that night so I went right to the steak. Man, that place was a mad house in no time. I ate and got out fast.

 

[Industrial Toys]

I like the concept of having bench seating with little clearance to the dinner table at all you can eat Buffets. . Maybe like with baby chairs, they could have HUGE chairs (that cost EXTRA) for the Big people and shame them.