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The Real Reason Buffet-Style Dining Is Disappearing
Mashed ^ | 12/17/21 | DB Kelly

Posted on 04/21/2024 3:15:10 PM PDT by DallasBiff

Can you remember visiting a buffet when you were young? It represented a vast stretch of freedom to load up your plate with whatever you wanted. When you're an adult, though, you start asking questions. Are you eating your money's worth? Did that kid really just stick his fingers in the mashed potatoes? Why is everything so sticky?

There's a good chance it's been a while since you've been to a buffet, and suspiciously sticky utensils aren't the only reason. So many people are skipping buffets that this sector of the industry is declining — more than you might think.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Food
KEYWORDS: 2021; anachronistic; beforecovid; buffet; food; oldarticle
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To: DallasBiff

Governor Cresote?

Chris Krispy Kreme?


21 posted on 04/21/2024 3:37:54 PM PDT by sauropod (Ne supra crepidam)
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To: Hot Tabasco
The United States has become the country of self indulgence and obesity.........

It's spread around the world, you used to never see porkers in Europe, that's changing.

22 posted on 04/21/2024 3:37:58 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ncalburt

No, he didn’t.

He left it to each governor.

He stopped people from coming in, implemented accelerated protocols to purchase protective gear and equipment, and quarantined foreigners who arrived.

He recommended that people stay inside, based on what the advisors were telling him.

Don’t repeat leftist lies.


23 posted on 04/21/2024 3:38:06 PM PDT by TheWriterTX (🇺🇸✝️🙏🇮🇱)
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To: DallasBiff

I liked the dessert and salad bars at the Ponderosa when I was a kid, lol.


24 posted on 04/21/2024 3:39:31 PM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966 )
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To: DallasBiff

25 posted on 04/21/2024 3:40:31 PM PDT by C210N (Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur.)
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To: MotorCityBuck

The ability, or lack thereof, to use correct grammar always amazed me.


26 posted on 04/21/2024 3:40:35 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: C210N

27 posted on 04/21/2024 3:41:17 PM PDT by C210N (Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur.)
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To: DallasBiff

I love a good Indian buffet.


28 posted on 04/21/2024 3:41:39 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Trailerpark Badass
Too many obese women of color wanting Endless Shrimps?

There are lots of fat white people out there. Obesity doesn't discriminate.

29 posted on 04/21/2024 3:42:56 PM PDT by rexthecat
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To: ncalburt

Trump left it up to the state governors, which is how the constitution works. Did you want him to rule like Obama?

Five Democratic Party Governors forced infected covid patients in with the vulnerable relatives. As Pennsylvania’s Health Secretary, Richard Levine (now employed by the Biden administration under the name of “Rachel”) moved his mother out of a facility before executing governor Wolff’s order.


30 posted on 04/21/2024 3:43:09 PM PDT by Cold_Red_Steel
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To: TheWriterTX

Albert is DU tRoLL


31 posted on 04/21/2024 3:43:11 PM PDT by AbolishCSEU (Amount of "child" support paid is inversely proportionate to mother's actual parenting of children)
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To: DallasBiff

When I was a starving college student at the U of A, there was a Chinese buffet down the street from where I lived. We would go there around closing time and they would let us take home as much leftovers as we wanted.


32 posted on 04/21/2024 3:44:54 PM PDT by wjcsux (On 3/14/1883 Karl Marx gave humanity his best gift, he died. )
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To: DallasBiff

Most of the cafeteria chains have bitten the dust, as well. Luby’s has a few locations left that haven’t closed, but it’s been all downhill since they hired a new chief executive, he looked at the books for a few weeks, got a motel room, and killed himself. (If I remember all the details from a quarter of a century or so ago.)

Piccadilly is down to less than 30 locations, and it looks like there is one Morrison’s left (which is owned by Piccadilly - looks like a trademark preservation exercise).That’s down from 270 or so locations. (At its peak, Morrisons had over 150 locations.

S&W is long dead. Davis Brothers is as well, although the Big Chicken lives.


33 posted on 04/21/2024 3:45:02 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: Delta 21

It is not but the all you can eat Brazilian steakhouses are the only all you can eat I’m interested in anymore, especially now that I’ve learned to not eat until I’m sick


34 posted on 04/21/2024 3:48:21 PM PDT by Manuel OKelley
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To: ncalburt

“Have you heard any apologize for putting Dem scarf lady and Dr Evil in charge .”

I have not. As much as I like Trump and pray (without ceasing) for him to win, I do think he needs to address the Birx / Fauci / vaccine subject. Explanation. Apology. Something.


36 posted on 04/21/2024 4:00:03 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Navarro didn't kill himself.)
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To: Fledermaus

We still have one of the last Ponderosa Steakhouses and buffet salad bars by reasonably near us. Costs more that 1980s of course but great.


37 posted on 04/21/2024 4:05:42 PM PDT by desertsolitaire
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To: desertsolitaire

Most of the national hotel chains still have breakfast buffets.


38 posted on 04/21/2024 4:07:16 PM PDT by Laslo Fripp (Does anybody proofread anymore?)
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To: TheWriterTX

He panicked and shut down the Federal Government.

And you think the governors of any state with a population wasn’t going to follow suit?

I remember that week well. He came out on Thursday and Friday and said it wasn’t anything but the flu. On Monday, he came out and shut it down. He looked like he had seen a ghost. I always wondered who got to him over that weekend.

He did not do the country any favors that Spring or Summer.


39 posted on 04/21/2024 4:17:01 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (Don’t vote for anyone over 70 years old. Get rid of the geriatric politicians.)
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To: Laslo Fripp

We don’t stay at hotels often but always stay where they provide a hot breakfast buffet.


40 posted on 04/21/2024 4:18:06 PM PDT by desertsolitaire
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