Originally Posted by
MisterNice
The
Old Country Buffet chain dont do menus but they have over 100 different foods on the many islands steaming away. You can shovel as much calorie-laden overcooked grub as you want, return after gorging and do it again and again. The places are packed, lines to get in all the time, most patrons are 240+ lb. Ninety per cent of the food is starch laden, fried, deep fried, pre-sauced etc. Gallons of gravy are availabe too. They even have the most handicapped parking slots I have ever seen at a restaurant.
MisterNice
Disclaimer: I walk in only to observe and I never ate there
^^^ My one time in an OCB, I observed a family of 4 (Dad looked like a planet, Mom and the kids were huge moons) attempting to make several trips back and forth to the buffet.
Nothing was more painful than watching this group attempt to squeeze into and out of a booth...until I saw their plates laden with literally a sample of everything on the buffet. They had the meatloaf, the fried chicken, the roast beef, the fried fish, the mashed potatos, the rice....everything. All with gravy on top.
After their 3rd trip up....I began to feel ill. So we left...
BTW - My vote goes to Bennigans/Houlihans/Chili's/Fridays. I can not tell the difference when eating at any of the above. Each attempts to go beyond burgers...and each fails miserably. So, I stick with burgers at these places.