Originally Posted by
Badenoch
I've witnessed the "death spiral" at a local Japanese restaurant which isn't a buffet but offers an AYCE option where diners order from an I-Pad. Since opening the price has gone up and the quality and crowds have both declined. Ordering off the menu is a better option but this restaurant won't allow it if another person at your table wants AYCE.
Buffets are just slop troughs for human hogs and I avoid them as much as possible. My loathing of buffets began years ago at an Indian restaurant near my then office in Toronto where colleagues and I ate lunch once a week. The buffet was passable with a limited assortment of the usual dishes and eventually we tired of it. The first time we ordered different dishes from the menu it was a revelation and never ate the buffet again.
On the lower end I would agree. But a high-end brunch buffet or something like the buffets Disney World has to offer are a different story. Particularly a buffet like Boma at WDW allows you to try foods you would otherwise pass up on the menu. But otherwise I'd rather have bamboo shoots jammed under my fingernails than go to a place like Golden Corral.