I went to a Golden Corral a few years ago while visiting West Virginia.
In hindsight I’d would paid any amount for someone to lock me up prior to entering.
There apparently are some very nice buffet restaurants in other parts of the country. There are very few here that I’d feel comfortable with. Plus, leaving all that food out on a steam table in a crowded restaurant even with sneeze guards just screams salmonella and e coli to me, especially with kids sticking their hands in it and people who have no clue about hygiene handling the utensils. If it was a nice clean place busy enough to keep the turnover up, moving it off the buffet regularly, and the patrons weren’t in any way suspect themselves, I’d love it if the food was good and the price was too. Can’t think of a one that fits that description, though.
My kids and I stopped going to Golden Corral years ago. Some giant slob barfed all over the bathroom and wandered back out to stuff his face some more. My boys call the chocolate fondue fountain at the dessert bar the “booger finger fondue” after watching dirty little kids dipping their fingers into the fountain and licking the chocolate off repeatedly.
It’s a nasty scene full of people with horrid eating habits and a total lack of manners.
No thanks.
If you’re a man, it looks like you achieved the nearest male equivalent of pregnancy and needed the local medivac van to cart you home that night. For a regular restaurant, try Karl Ratsch’s German restaurant in Milwaukee and its braised goose shank dinner, washed down by a liter of dark Pschor Brau . Does the same thing.