Originally Posted by lili

The difference between all-you-can-eat and a buffet seems to be lost to many people. Those plates stacked to overflowing are ludicrous. Neither all-you-can-eat nor buffets limit one to a single trip to the food trough.

Brunch buffet is the worst of the lot (unless it's free, in which case it's okay but I'd rather pay $5-7 for two fresh-cooked eggs and toast I don't have to toast.)



This sounds like that last few weddings and company Christmas parties I've attended. Being polite (er.. drinking) we usually wait until the truly starving have cleared out and invariably discover there is no food left or the main courses are gone and dessert is being put out.

But those events are not really buffets with a large variety of food, they are a cheap (for the venue, not the people footing the bill) and easy way to serve crowds a limited choice of sub-par food.

And what is a buffet? The restaurant putting out a bunch of stuff so they don't have to take orders and deliver food and charging about 3x what anyone would pay to order off a menu. Sometimes variety isn't the spice of life.

I don't even want to think about the sanitation, the sneeze screens, the restaurant dumping old product .....

But if you have teen-age boys an all-you-can-eat buffet can be a very good family night out until they learn better