The best thing about the buffet is that you can at least have some choice of how things are cooked. I hate under-done sasuages or bacon where the fat has hardly seen the pan. With a buffet at least you can fish around for the "better cooked" sausages, eggs, bacon etc although I will admit that on the whole the buffet in GF tended to have more "under cooked" food IMHO (not to say it is not cooked, just not cooked well enough for me).

Also, as per above, I do not like not being able to customise my breakfast. I'd rather have 3 slices of bacon, one sausage etc etc so this whole table service thing for me is a faff and I'd much prefer we go back to the buffet style/help yourself style of service