Agreed - buffets for breakfast at nice hotels are a good idea.

LOL - I do think the Korma Sutras in Overland Park, KS and Westport - Kansas City, MO after flying into MCI are well worth a try. Their lunch buffet with Butter Chicken, Na'an, Mango Lassi, Goat Curry are really excellent.

I used to have no self control.. nowadays I seemed to be able to walk out just being full enough, not having to stuff myself to the point where I'm rolling out the door..

I prefer to have buffets at hotels for my kids sake.. quick eats and selection..

I would say it depends on the price.

If it includes a free ride on the ambulance, I might eat a lot.

Till around a few years ago i used to have a nearly bottomless stomach. Ive been asked one or twice(politely of course) to stop eating as they were running out of food.. This was at a local Indian all you can eat for �4.99 place. I still go there once in a while, but I have learnt to control my portions now.

Yes, I enjoy Korma Sutra, too!

There are buffets and there are buffets. On one of my trips to India I told my husband that I hope the afterlife includes an Indian buffet. My favorite is at the Taj West End in Bangalore, and the Crowne Plaza Delhi is a close second although it was grossly overpriced a few years ago. I try to keep my weight under control (female, 5'7, 135 lbs) so I don't pig out, but I love being able to get a little taste of a variety of dishes, with no waste. I eat what I put on my plate. And the desserts. On my first trip to India I told my husband I was going to propose marriage to the dessert chef. All in tiny servings so I can have one and throughly enjoy it. (When I take guys in my office to the TWE for lunch they each have 3 or 4.)

I'd put Cinzetti's, near us, in the middle of the road. Decent food but quite expensive if you're eating moderately. My son likes it but mostly he pigs out on the bruschetta with the chopped-tomato spread so they probably make money on him, too. I go light on meat and go back for vegetable-type stuff several times. The place is usually crowded with overweight diners, some of them having to use scooters to get around. Scary. I think my son and I ($40 for 2 people with tip, I had club soda, he had tap water) subsidized a few of them.

We're headed to Myrtle Beach tomorrow- it's plagued with All U Kin Eat joints. I suspect the food quaity is notches below Cinzetti's and my husband is a very light eater. We'll stay away, thank you.

Used to be a huge fan of buffets, particularly when I was a small kid and my family loved to go for buffets during family gatherings/celebrations. I do enjoy a good buffet but more often than not the quality is compromised in most places to deliver the quantity required. With my experience with buffets I normally go for food that are most expensive on its own, seafood would be the main target, followed by most meats. I'm usually stuffed when it comes to desserts but wouldn't reject some good ones.

Detroit MGM serves all you can eat snow crab on Wed for $33. I'd say at least 5 pounds of crabs.

I think that's my general thinking as well, to go for the higher end food.. or the food I would prefer..

Funny, at the Asian buffets, nowadays if there is a Mongolian grill, I would prefer to have the dishes cooked fresh, accompanied with some delectable selection offerings off the buffet.

I go more for Thai and Brazilian formats nowadays.. although the all you can eat Korean and Sushi BBQ is a nice substitute for buffets.. you know, the ones you cook on the table..

Actually, many restaurant/hotel buffets are their opportunity to empty the walk in fridge of all the food that did not sell the prior week. They build their buffet menu around those items. Many buffets are actually the anithesis of 'waste'.

Athena53 said ""I'd put Cinzetti's, near us, in the middle of the road. Decent food but quite expensive if you're eating moderately.""

WOW -another of me/wife favorite haunts. Incredible variety. We used to drive from Richmond, MO down 210 then to I-35 south and then Metcalf (over 1 hour) just to go there.

Good food management.

The buffet food after the meal is waste anyways.. As long as the food isn't spoiled, I wouldn't be opposed to hotel food management along these lines..

I've never met a buffet I didn't like.

That's not entirely true, but mostly. I remember being a kid when my family was relatively poor. We thought a trip to the local steakhouse was a treat. Having an all you can eat salad bar was my first introduction to buffet style eating. Buffets don't seem to be very big item in northern California where I used to live, but there are some here in North Carolina where I am now. Like some other posters have mentioned, I love a good Indian buffet. I like the variety. There is also a good southern food buffet restaurant that is a solid 45 min to 1 hour away. When I was unemployed I'd actually drive the 45-60 minutes it took just to have lunch their. I wouldn't pig out but I'd get a little bit of everything.

I do a fair amount of hotel breakfast buffet, generally comped due to program status. I'm not a fan of most ethnic buffets, and the food service sanitation background from working in restaurants when I was younger gives me pause. Suburban Americanized-Chinese buffets really turn me off, but a good and busy Indian buffet is fine.

What I do enjoy about once a quarter is a mid-scale casino lunch buffet, where I can go just after the rush and have a leisurely lunch and get some work done. A less expensive one such as Green Valley Ranch outside of Vegas isn't going to have tremendous variety, but for $10 including tip I can fashion myself a nice salad, a sandwich using freshly carved roast beef or turkey, some sort of roasted vegetables or pasta, and some cookies or a brownie.

I immensely enjoy Salad Bars.. unfortunately its becoming moreso a thing of the past where I live.. Plus salads are healthy for the most part if the right items are chosen..

The restaurants we frequent, some of them do offer all you care to eat soup or salad.. so I find that to be a reasonable substitute for intake of veggies when I feel like it