Reading the comments in the article is just depressing. Even all-you-can-eat immediately goes to us and them arguments.

All you can eat sushi - just eat the fish and hide the rice somewhere.

Damn! I was about to post that one.

Buffets without meat are super cheap, with none of the repurposed meats grossness/danger

When I miss packing lunch it's my usual go to. Kinda close to the office. Bread, soup, hummus, usually some veggie lasagna. If I the least bit could handle buffets it would be great. I have a tendency to just overstuff myself.

Even if it's very salty for some reason. Then again, I don't usually salt rice or pasta even, so it might just be me.

Ask they add less salt next time?

On the buffet? I don't think they will adjust it for me.

Restaurants listen to their clientele, know that if one suggests something, it's quite likely others were thinking the same but were not brave or invested enough to say anything. It's a lot easier for a customer to just find another place, that you leaving a comment card for the manager shows that you want them to be better as you want to return. The manager can then secretly sample some food the day following and judge for themselves, keep it in mind should someone else speak up.

We were at sizzler one night, and while sitting in our booth, my mother-in-law told us to check out the kid sampling all the food at the salad bar.

The little 8-year old Blutarski clone crammed a bunch of shrimp into his grotesquely huge maw, and then proceeded to take his still-moist-with-spittle porky-pig fingers, and see if the shredded cheese tasted as good as it looked. I guess it did, because, after that, he ended up taking a big ol' bite of a chocolate chip cookie, decided he was full, and put the 1/3rd of it he didn't finish back on to the tray.

Haven't been able to eat at a buffet since then.

You're welcome...

Animal House - Cafeteria

A buffet* is like the exact opposite of how to eat meals- unless it’s a social thing; you have crotch goblins; or you haven’t eaten in weeks or something.

*a good soup/salad bar might be the exception

Breakfast buffets are ok. I think. Unless the group think decides otherwise. . . 0_o

I was recently a victim of a cancelled flight, and the hotel had a buffet. Requires less staff, and works for bulk service. I guess that's a good thing. Especially when the food is decent. Which is was - but it was Europe. And it didn't have an entrance fee. So you decide. . .

Of course I say this and I literally ate from a lunch buffet today, so I'm gonna have to have a light touch on all this.