My friends and I would go to the Holiday Inn near our apartment. Free happy-hour buffet with 1 drink purchase.
The manager eventually told us to not come back.
There was a bar across from Central Park that had snacks (crackers, cheese, ham chunks, peanuts, etc) in containers along the bar...As long as you had a drink in front of you, you could eat from them...We’d sit there with one drink and eat for half an hour and get filled...LOL