And that is why most of this category of restaurant is utter and complete crap. Contrast that to say a Lubys Cafeteria, which at least when I lived in Texas had each store get local bought ingredients and base their daily, fresh cooked menu on that. Lubys had good food even though it was a cafeteria. It isnt about cost or snobbery, it is about having decent standards and holding places to that. If people wouldnt eat the slop there would be more places not serving slop.