What happened to buffets /ck/? Why are Chinese ones the only

Buffets are my favorite restaurants to eat at desu. My area actually has quite a lot of Indian buffets too, plus a few places like Golden Corral.

The one thing that sucks is how quickly a lot of buffets go out of business. There was a Chinese buffet down the street from me a few years ago, it changed hands a couple times before shutting down.

>>8141476
They are now full with niggers

They are disgusting, frequented by diabetic rednecks who burp and fart all over the food.

>>8141476

The western ones are all in Casinos now, the last bastion of the Elderly looking to stuff their faces. Last I had something there I felt only disappointment

>>8141557

Switch Chinese with Indian, shit on a fucking shingle. Seriously there are more Indian Buffets than Chinese Buffets ever since the mainlanders took over the city.

Mongolian bbqs, brah.

That shit's where it's at. Last time I started a thread, /ck/ bitched. "Oh boo hoo, it's too expensive. You end up with a shitty stir fry and you could do better at home."

Shit nigga, if you end up with a shitty stir fry from a mongolian bbq, only person to blame is yourself.

>>8141476

All the buffets with white people food are in hotels now where I live. Everywhere else is either Indian or Chinese and the occasional African one. Even casinos offer Chinese food alongside their western offerings now.

Metal tubs full of shit food under dusty lamps and snot covered glass, sign me up.

>>8141476
There's an Indian buffet right near my house.
Shit is so cash.

>>8141476
Golden Corral must be doing alright if they got Jeff Foxworthy

>>8141650
Except leftover mongolian is a fucking oily disgusting mess?
Even fresh Mongolian is just an oily mess.

>>8141694
Maybe don't put so much oil on it?

Why all the Golden Corral hate? Golden Corral is honestly better than a fucking movie.

I have a friend named Bruce. Bruce looks to be some kind of honest-to-God pirate at first
glance, and I mean Captain Jack Sparrow's crew pirate, and the ornery, mean old fucking pirate
you'd never, ever want to mess with because he'd bite your God-damned nose off and eat it. He's
also wildly into K-pop, choreographs his own dance routines to it, and in the last year or two
has started just basically eating like a Korean, which apparently means shitloads of vegetables
and cabbage. Anyway, Bruce goes to Golden Corral like 2x a week, which I thought was kind of strange
due to his new health kick, so finally I asked him about it.

"Dude," he said. "Golden Corral has a shitload of vegetables, and their cabbage is great. But
you're missing the point. You don't go to Golden Corral just for the food. It's fucking dinner theater."

And you know what? He's right. For $12 you can sit and watch some of the most hilarious, downright
hellishly gluttonous behavior you will see outside the Plane of Fat in the Demonic Abyss. I went with
him one time and laughed so hard at some of the shit on display that now I go with him about once a
month, get a big plate of steak and another big plate of salad, stake out a spot where you can see
most of the buffets (and oh for fucking sure the CHOCOLATE WONDERFALL) and just observe the kind of
unbelievably self-indulgent (and self-destructive) shit that would make a European or Southeast Asian's
person head explode off their shoulders in horror and make someone with a "sick sad world" sense of
humor laugh their ass off.

Someone, say, like me.

For example, the very first time I went with Bruce I was witness to "the recon." This is a real thing,
and what I am about to describe is not an isolated incident, no sirree. Humongously fat people will
literally go scout the buffet. Now, I think we all do this to some extent at a buffet, in the "Hmm,
what do they have to eat here?" glance-while-walking-to-the-table sense, but this is done with military
precision, people. I've watched with my own eyes three people, all of whom were 300 lbs+, meet briefly
and talk, then split up and go to the buffets, carefully eyeballing each selection, lips moving, fingers
pointing, as if cataloging the unearthly delights that await them, then fucking meeting back up in the
same place to discuss what they saw and plan an attack. I'm serious. They were like 10 feet away.

"Guys it looks like the fried chicken tonight is coming out pretty fast, pretty sure that stuff's going
to be good, but the rotisserie is just kind of hanging out. Pulled pork was kind of crusty but I think
if we dug down a bit there's good stuff there. There was a bit of a crust on the edge of the brown gravy
and someone dropped some fucking broccoli in it but the white gravy's looking fine. Outside of that, hot
bar A looks good. And of course the bourbon chicken looks good as always."

"Fantastic. Well, the guy cooking the steaks told me they are busting open a new box in about 20 minutes,
so we should probably lay off that until then. I noticed there was a lot of bacon in the green beans right
now so that should probably be one of our first stops. The mac and cheese tonight also looks fucking
delicious, it's got a nice crust unlike that bullshit last week when it was practically yellow water, so we
need to move on that. It looks like they recently changed out the taco stuff, especially the nacho cheese,
it looks brand new, so, take that for what it's worth."

"Well I've got bad news guys, from what I could see it looks like tonight's a no chocolate cake night,
they only have that fucking one that has those fake cherries on top, and we all know how that fucks things up."

>groans all around<

"But it's not that big a deal because they just put out rice krispies with chocolate coating and the girl
said they've got tons of them. They've also got those sugar cookies and some fudge brownies that look all
right, and all the other pie shit they usually have."

"OK, so green beans, fried chicken, the mac and cheese, the white gravy, those are tonight's superstars.
Let's go."

I AM NOT MAKING THIS UP. I expected a fucking Wonder Twin powers-esque ring bump at this point, but instead
they just all fled to a plate dispenser and began loading the fuck out of their plates. It really reminds
me of nothing so much as when people like, discuss what's going on with their favorite sports teams.
Except with food.

This is also when I first experienced the phenomenon of the "multiplate."

Now, your average person will take a plate to the buffet, fill it with food, and go back to their table and
eat. But, you see, that person understands that when they are done eating, if they want more, there will be
more food available at that time. But the multiplater wants to hedge its bets. What if, between that first
and second trip to the buffet, the restaurant suddenly ran completely the fuck out of food? Like, not even
mints by the cash register or gum in the quarter machines? WHAT THEN? Your deliciousness per second
(DPS... sorry) will go down!

It doesn't bear thinking about. Now it's unlikely, gentlemen, but not impossible, so as we are smart
consumers, we're going to guard against the possibility. So let's each go get three complete plates of food
and come back to the table.

I once sharted in a hometown buffet

>>8141476
>be me, 9 years old and pretty much autistic
>eat so much at HomeTown Bufet I throw up onto the plate
>my parents probably just covered it up with napkins
>probably didn't tip well either

China Super Buffet is my favorite place to eat. I know it's not healthy, and its not entirely delicious. It's an addiction that I love catering to. Decent sushi rolls, those nice creamy oysters or clams, 4 types of shrimp, and the one I go to has seasoned whole mini squid.

Others have frog legs and Crayfish/ crawfish. Either way, it's fucking money.

>>8141894
>tipping at a buffet

wut?

>>8141476
still have a couple cafeteria style buffets around saint louis. usually they aren't too bad. especially the ham because they have to make several a day and the guy carves it right there.

>>8141918
You are the least fanciest person I have ever met.

>>8141921
thank you

>>8141911
My favorite Asian buffet is $10 at lunch and has a ridiculous variety of food, plus mongolian grill. It even has shit like steak and BBQ ribs. It's pretty great.

I think it's starting to move away from buffet towards all you can eat made to order. Sushi Palace is like $20 for all you can eat sushi + kitchen. You just write what you want on their little menu/ticket things then they bring it out and you can ask for more tickets when you're done.

>>8141476
Brother loves them, he talks me into going when he voulenteers to pay. Worst thing I've ever seen was a big fat old lady, pulling chicken skin off fried chicken with tongs, and just taking the skin. Dumb bitch. Other than that, they have good salad stuff, and the steak isn't the worst I've eaten, although fatty.

>>8141476
Because the food is shit and no one wants to pay for it by itself.

>>8141585

Spic illegal hispanics in families of 7-15 with kids running wild and talking spanish and shit. Gets in my fucking nerves. Im Hispanic so don't even try and say I'm racist.

>>8142070
racist

>>8142070
No one can hate their own race apparently

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>>8141873
>>8141876
>>8141881

>>8141920
Seeing a dude carve the meat in no way speaks to its quality

>>8142073
Contrary to Dindu Nuffings, you CAN talk shit about your own people when they are obnoxious instead of pandering to them.

>>8142107
Black people hate other black people more than anyone else.

>>8141881
Do you have the link to the site where this is from? I think the author had a few stories.

I worked as a host for a while at a rather popular local Chinese buffet in my area, ask me anything.

>>8142172
You have any pets?

>>8142175
A doberman and a cat. Now let's hear your worst material.

>>8142179
How many comedians does it take to change a light bulb?
Two
One to stand on a ladder to change it, and another to ask how long he's been up there

>>8142128
Yep. It's really long.
http://www.pjwnex.us/media/text/Golden_Corral.txt

>>8141476
There's a really great Indian buffet I like, but its half an hour away. I also go to a Chinese buffet the next town over. It's all around average, but they have great bbq squid, egg tarts, and seaweed wrapped in fried tofu. Those three items alone are the best reasons to go there.

I havent seen any western buffets though, besides chains like golden corral. I remember my friend's great grandma used to go to old country buffet at the end of breakfast and wait so she could get lunch fresh and at the breakfast price.

>>8143287

Check hotels and casinos. They got you covered.

Hmm. The only buffets I'm aware of around here are mainly Chinese buffets run mostly by Latino dudes serving Americanized Chinese food and Midwestern American dishes. There are a few Indian and Vietnamese ones here too, and they're way better than the Chinese buffets and American centric ones (like Hometown buffet which is now closed here). Affordable, filling without feeling guilty, and makes for a decent lunch date.

>>8141873
Idk how I read that through, but you're right. My dad's got a nice beer belly and when we went to the local Golden Corral, he said he feels better about himself because everyone else is way fatter than him.

I have a Greek one by me. Decent I guess. But Like 17 per person.. But like 30 kinds of food. Great sauces. Garbage ass naan bread and their hummus is dry like frito bean dip.

>>8143287
I remember Old Country Buffet. Shit was so cash but it got replaced by a better asian buffet.

>>8141873
I love going around 4pm on Sundays (feeding time) and watching the fatties get their "healthy salads" topped with several pizza slices

>>8141476
>What happened to buffets /ck/?

Black people....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNMhkXClkac

>>8144430
I will push back and say the bean broods are worse for the atmosphere than blacks.
See >>8142070

Old Country Buffet just pulled all their stores from my state. Feels bad.

>>8141476

Buffets violates all sorts of health hazards .

>winter/autumn
>have to deal with people who decide to go to a buffet while they have the flu/cold

>spring/summer
>have to deal with people who decide to go to a buffet while they are suffering seasonal allergies

Buffets are a meme. People don't watch their kids. People don't practice proper hygiene.

>>8141476
It's all about PA Dutch smorgasbords. That shit is fine eating and there are very few minorities.

Otherwise I never go to other buffets or god forbid a chain. The only exception is chinese and I know a couple that are great but they're in different states.

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>>8141476
This place in Bethesda MD is fucking amazing w/ their lunch buffet. I eat at least 3 plates it's so good, most I've done is 5.
Tandoori Nights

>>8144619
>go to a buffet while they have the flu
They don't have the flu. You don't go places or eat things if you have the flu. Of course I'm sure there are exceptions but they're more likely to collapse at the table than contaminate the food.