Originally Posted by
Peterpack
No the difference with a buffet is you can go up and keep re filling your plate
With what i am thinking of is you pay by the plate, just like school, you can't keep going up and getting as much food as you want at school
So i am thinking of food better than buffet food
Basically if a restaurant has 15 dishes on the menu which is about right for a good restaurant, they have large amounts of all of their 15 dishes for customers to choose from
Not all buffets are 'all you can eat'.
I'd far rather have food cooked to order - if a restaurant has to cook 15 dishes en masse, they are going to be put out and held hot for a length of time - if you make one dish to order, it is brought straight out to you. Quality suffers somewhat.
Also, if the restaurant has to cook 15 dishes in large enough quantities to feed the stream of people, there is going to be a lot more waste (serving 15 dishes, a good buffet style will use more food than a la carte). Thus, either prices would be higher than a la carte, or quality would be worse.