I was born in 1991 in Sonora, Mexico; and a tradition that was at least once or twice a year as I was growing up was to go get our passports and cross the border to Tucson, Arizona and go for a shopping spree, and included in that trip was always dining to the HomeTown Buffet at least once, that would also be the first place I would get to see images of Norman Rockwell's iconic Americana paintings. That tradition kept happening until these started to close for us around 2011 -- not to mention as we became adults we all parted ways and we made these trips less often -- and I only felt a bit sad ever since. When I was a kid I would always eat way too many Rice Krispies treats, and binge on pink lemonade and/or chocolate milk. What can I say, it was a place of no restraints. These days I rarely go back there now, but sometimes I've been going to Golden Corral and it feels like something from my past comes back.

@chloeiacovou907

5 ай бұрын

Loved reading this. Thank you for sharing

@DamplyDoo

5 ай бұрын

Great memory and Americana moment. Thanks for sharing

I will always miss when the Pizza Hut buffet was a common find. We didn't know how good we had it

@MayorMcheese12

5 ай бұрын

Yeah member when pizza places were called pizza parlors and you could actually sit down and eat the pizza inside?

@mystica-subs

5 ай бұрын

I remember, and miss, the Wendy's Salad bar :)

@zerohours.

5 ай бұрын

You remember you could get like 3 pizzas for 5 dollars each, and on top of that you had the salad bar and all the appetitizer buffets. You could literally stuff your family and take leftovers home for like 20 dollars.

@rohan750

5 ай бұрын

omg that was soo good! how many in the usa are there?

@Dogy0909

4 ай бұрын

There’s still a sit down Pizza Hut by my house but it’s definitely not the same I remember as a kid. We still have Cici’s pizza bar though

as a kid, getting my own ice cream was the absolute highlight lol.

My number 1 rule when eating at a buffet is: stick to mostly red meats & sea food, avoid chicken (bc I always eat chicken on the daily), also avoid fillers like breads &pasta. Always save a lil room for a sample of the deserts 😁

@jensenraylight8011

5 ай бұрын

Nowadays, more and more people treat Buffet like a Banquet where they hang out and chill with friends, catching up with everyone life story. and instead of trying to maximize their money worth, they just eat anything they want to their heart content, while hanging out and talking with friends. it's more about variety, because there are so many variety of food that if you try to match and order every individual food from non buffet place, it'll easily cost you $200-500, but because this is buffet, with only $20 you can sample as many food as you want and i think this is the healthiest way to approach Buffet, like, how come you spend way more, like $40 on McDonalds and think that they really deserved that $40 for only a handful of food, while at buffet, it cost you $20, and you get unlimited food, but you think that they're not deserve your money, and trying to make them Bankrupt as fast as possible. and worst, they wear that poor attitude with a pride, not knowing that people often see their behavior as vulgar and shameful and that kind of Maximizing your money attitude often come from people with low income demographic, they're the worst customer, bad behavior and poor attitude, they make the experience worst for everyone.

@joeybaseball7352

5 ай бұрын

My strategy is for the first plate, always take a little bit of everything. Basically the equivalent of one bite, or even ½ a bite on something that you're unsure about. And fill up your plate with a tiny bit of absolutely everything. You then eat & evaluate, and figure out what you enjoyed the most. And then you go back for those dishes, and ignore the rest you didn't care for.

@TheKindDoc

4 ай бұрын

@@jensenraylight8011 LOL so we have one subtle racist who manages a buffet, you tell em, Karen

@tiffanyvalentine8597

3 ай бұрын

And don’t drink too much lol they be refilling them drinks fast af tryna get you full off liquids

@truth4004

3 ай бұрын

​@@jensenraylight8011I think it's cheap people not poor people who are gluttonous. I've seen well off people stuff their faces too

I haven't been to a buffet in ages. Of course, they're more of a bargain when you're 19 and your stomach is like a satchel in a video game that can hold hundreds of times what its size would suggest. At 40 when you're tapping out in the middle of your second plate: less so. The most annoying thing about buffets when I was a kid is my dad would INSIST we have a salad first. Like, you paid for all this Chinese food and you're gonna make us fill up on _LETTUCE?_ Dude!!! Nothing against a nice salad, but I can and often _do_ make one at home. A dinner of ten different kinds of stir fries and sushi and crab rangoons? A trifle less feasible for a home cook.

@DSMTheEditor

5 ай бұрын

100%, buffets were great when I had a teenage metabolism, now, Im good with just one GOOD plate from a more traditional spot

@Dave-bj3pq

5 ай бұрын

😂😂

@kellychuang8373

5 ай бұрын

Really good adivce there then again the pandemic killed that lifestyle along with high costs.

@jer103

5 ай бұрын

2 things on getting more for you money at a buffet: (both I've learned from competitive or binge eaters) 1. Try to not eat before going. If you have an empty stomach, the more you can eat. 2. Eating a lot takes practice. If you expand your stomach, you can eat more. Like eat 2 bag of salad for 1 meal. *I'm 44, and can still eat 3 to 4 plates at a buffet. It's because I use these 2 rules.

@wisdoom9153

5 ай бұрын

​@@jer103another advice, don't get swayed by eating carbs first, save for later; buffet often place them in more noticeable place to lure & make you feel full faster.

I love all of the tile and brass of the 80's salad bar. We used to get the salad bar at Ponderosa Steakhouse when I was kid. Me and my two sisters would load up plates of chocolate pudding, cheese and those tiny little ham cubes that we would skewer up the tines of our forks. The soft serve machine was also self serve and we would create huge monstrosities of hot fudge, sprinkes and whipped cream.

@kimbrey65

5 ай бұрын

I miss the Ponderosa. My husband and I would go there for dinner often.

@vincer7824

5 ай бұрын

Points for using the word "tines".

@22lilacsky

Ай бұрын

80's kid here, we did the same at ponderosa

@circleinforthecube5170

20 күн бұрын

love all the old interior design of resturaunts, actually felt nice to eat there and not like your visiting a corporate complex

I never had the McDonalds or Wendys buffet. But in the 1980s, Pizza hut buffet was god tier for your family. You could get cheap large pizzas for 5 dollars, and they'd bring out in the pan, and on top of that you had an open salad and appetizer bar. Great times

8:11 Can we all just appreciate the shout out to the Old Country Buffet carving guy? He's a legend right up there with Wendy's "Grill Skills" and "Chili Can Be Served With Cheese" along with "Pizza Hut Training video 1988."

@djackmanson

5 ай бұрын

"Did you catch the game last night?"

@adamgh0

5 ай бұрын

@@djackmanson "Have you tried the lasagna? It's my favorite."

@lelandgaunt9985

5 ай бұрын

Ohh chili can be served with cheese

@KennyLamTravel

5 ай бұрын

Do you like hot fudge Sundays?

@waterotter3625

5 ай бұрын

"How's the weather out there?"

Anyone from Texas remember “Pancho’s all you can eat Mexican buffet”? That’s what I’m talking about

@lelandgaunt9985

5 ай бұрын

1 in Houston, and 3 in the dfw area.

@Lightning613

5 ай бұрын

@ Corpus Christi in the 1980’s. 👍

@coloradoco12

3 ай бұрын

Raise the flag!

I've been going to buffets since the 1980s, having lived in 3 different parts of the country. I have been to Sizzler, Old Country Buffet, Ponderosa and Golden Corral. I did notice that sometime in the late 1990s or early 2000s that the quality of the food declined noticeably at Old Country Buffet. The company declared bankruptcy in 2008 and it may have been due to people noticing the same thing and going elsewhere. The latest bankruptcy was not the first time. Old Country or various parent company ownership groups have filed for bankruptcy FOUR TIMES( 2008, 2012, 2016 and 2021). Sizzler has also gone bankrupt multiple times and during the 2006 bankruptcy the location in my area closed. I have lived in the south since 2005 and in my last two locations, Golden Corrals were nearby. Even today, more than 15 years later, the food remains high quality and though it is not "cheap" any more, the portions and the the freedom to get what I want rather than being constrained by a menu beats the Under Portioned Over Priced experience at almost every sit down restaurant.

@22lilacsky

Ай бұрын

The quality of food went downhill everywhere by 2000

Golden Coral was definitely of my favorites as a kid.

I’m glad you mentioned Shady Maple. As a semi local, I usually don’t go unless I’m invited or it’s for a special event. People come from all over for the experience.

@WayneMoyer

5 ай бұрын

Well don't forget that it's free on your birthday. -signed another semilocal.

I used to LOVE buffets as a kid. We only went as a treat. Unlimited anything I wanted??? It was truly amazing back then. I haven’t been to one in a few years bc of food quality and health reasons and they also just aren’t a value to me anymore… but I’ve considered going to Golden Corral to see how it’s changed/bring on the nostalgia

I used to love Old Country Buffet in the early 2000s. I'd go with either my dad or girlfriend and we'd have a great time. Favorite food was the baked fish.

I was a baker at Old Crunchy buffet in high school. I still dream about those yummy little frozen cookie hockey pucks.

@Dis-Emboweled

5 ай бұрын

Me and my best friend were bussers and dishwashers together during highschool. It lasted a year, but did we have fun! The fish on Saturday was way better than it should have been.

Not a buffet person necessarily, but Shady Maple is truly a wild experience

@kwamesmith3214

5 ай бұрын

It’s funny. Felt like dozens of people mentioned to me how great that place is, and these mentions happened in only a few months. Unfortunately for me, this news happened when I’m in rehab facility/nursing home. My feasting days are over. 😂😂

@batkat0

4 ай бұрын

​@kwamesmith3214 you're not missing much. People hype it up but with lunch at least it's mostly typical buffet fare. Fried foods and salad bar....it's not PA Dutch homecooking like a lot of people claim

My go to buffet items are eggs, prime ribs, fish, fruits, and sometimes desserts. I stay away from foods that fill you up quickly like bread and pasta.

Maaan, I miss Old Country Buffet. Best Mac n cheese ever!

Anyone remember Hometown Buffet? My high school graduation breakfast was held there; most of our celebration dinners there too. Now, my go to favorite is coconut shrimp at the local Chinese buffet.

@stevesutton3996

5 ай бұрын

I remember the bbq ribs and their great bread pudding. Simply the best!

@Chlamydia69

3 ай бұрын

hell yeah hometown buffet in lancaster Ca💪

@cantrespawn1460

2 ай бұрын

​@@Chlamydia69 The one next to that Toys R Us? Haha. I haven't lived there in ages. Wonder if it's still around.

@Chlamydia69

2 ай бұрын

@@cantrespawn1460 yessir😭😭💪unfortunately i think the hometown buffet shut down ages ago but i might be wrong tho too

I remember Hometown Buffet, the one near my house closed and became a bakery now

Growing up Furr's was my familys buffet. It was always the place we went for birthdays and to get something special. It closed in 2020, I miss it every time we pass the old building.

Another thing that important to the globalization of buffet styled restaurants is cruise ships. Cruise ships love buffets that on most modern day cruise ships you can find at least 2-3 of them on the same ship mixed in with traditional restaurants.

@paulgerrard9227

12 күн бұрын

It isa way to offer variety incl pasta meat gelato pizza etc. nobody has to eat like its the last food on earth. Suits certain people. Or you can just have toast and coffee.

A+ video! LOVE IT! Fascinating topic and history!

I miss old country buffet,I haven't seen one for years

Jonesin for a buffet right about now!

Now look at all of us. Starving

As someone who grew up very lower-middle class in NYC ,in the late 90's/early 2000s, going to a Chinese buffet was always one of my highlights since it was saved for special occasions. Now as an adult I look forward to sushi and Korean bbq buffets!

Glad to see my country Sweden getting attention for the creation of the buffet!

Ah, the all-you-eat buffet! Another Weird History Sunday ❤ Going to buffets, my favorites to get were seafood, mac n cheese, and of course desserts. I didn't know McDonald's, Wendy's, and others had buffets of their own too

@jfwfreo

5 ай бұрын

I still remember going to a KFC all-you-can-eat buffet here in Australia a long time ago. The KFC it was in still exists but the all-you-can-eat is long gone.

Just seeing this video reminds me of all the times I went to Old Country Buffet with my parents and sister as a kid. Such good memories I wish I could revisit 😔 As a kid, nothing beats the chocolate milk dispenser for when you got dessert 😎

My family goes to Shady Maple once or twice a year for birthdays. Had no idea it was basically the largest in America. If any of you come out to this part of PA, be careful of the Amish buggy, they are everywhere.

I agree with the buffet idea. Hygiene does play a huge role in the one I go to. Mostly we do not attend the cheaper ones. We ve been sick in Vegas before so that has always had a way of getting us to avoid buffets!

@kellychuang8373

5 ай бұрын

Yeah it really is going too much used to also been to those buffets when I was younger and before the pandemic hit also stuffed myself till I got sick too and even been to Las Vegas a couple of times too I think either in the 90s and sometime again in I think early 2000's.

@lookoutforchris

4 ай бұрын

We avoid buffets outside of nearly 100% white zip codes. It takes a high trust society for a buffet to remain clean and good value.

@kellychuang8373

4 ай бұрын

@@lookoutforchris That's also something to know and interesting.

First meal this way was at four years old when we went to Perry Brothers Smorgasbord in Santa Cruz CA! Later there were King's Table in the suburbs! I did used to enjoy Sizzler's salad bar options - although I always thought the offerings were like cheap wedding reception foods! Haha!

It was in '92 during our vacation to Florida that I first experienced a Chinese buffet. Prior to that the buffet had been pretty much exclusively an experience aboard cruises on the Baltic sea.

@joecmillerify

5 ай бұрын

Some of the best Chinese buffets in Florida are in Orlando and there are two pretty good ones in Broward county between Miami and Fort Lauderdale

This brought back memories of going to Sveden House Smorgasboard in the 70’s. It was such a treat!

Thanks for useful and valuable video as always ❤❤❤❤❤❤

I was once forcibly removed from a Japanese restaurants "all you can eat" sushi buffet. They said I ate too much.

@BlunderDownUnder

5 ай бұрын

You sir, do not sound like a man who has had all he could eat!

@chrismayer3919

5 ай бұрын

I can see Shaggy and Scooby Doo getting thrown out as well! 😂

@evlkenevl2721

5 ай бұрын

We had a local Asian restaurant that used to sell single trips to the buffet in a to-go container. Guess they didn't like how much people loaded up into those Styrofoam clamshells because they started weighing them at the register and charging extra. Needless to say, customers weren't thrilled about that and the restaurant stopped weighing them shortly after.

@seeingeyegod

5 ай бұрын

You here FOUR HOUR! YOU GO HOME NOW!

@evlkenevl2721

5 ай бұрын

@@seeingeyegod That's exactly what I thought of too!

I am a Pennsylvania native. Shady Maple is legendary. All you can eat home cooked food.

In Brazil this kind of restaurant is even more popular, we called "quilão" because you can pay a price for whenever you can eat or by weight.

@joecmillerify

5 ай бұрын

They have Brazilian buffets in South Florida, we have quite a few good Rodizios and Churrascaria, with several of them being on the very high end.

I do recall, as a child, those salad bars popping up and it was always an add-on, and eventually the battle started and that was free...and the rest is history!

Thank you for bringing back the regular narrator!

Don't forget to mention Rax and Ponderosa! I think Bonanza also may have had a buffet. I haven't been to Ruby Tuesday in some time, but they always had a great salad bar. And, of course, all the places you mentioned were either historic or else chains. That leaves out various local places that have buffets. As for the ones you mentioned that still have one at some locations (Pizza Hut & KFC).... I don't know of any Pizza Huts that *don't* have a buffet. All of the ones I've gone to in recent years (mostly all around Ohio have them. KFC buffet is more rare in my experience, but I know that Upper Sandusky, OH has a good one - and Celina, OH did, too, although I don't know if it's still open post-pandemic.

I grew up in the state of Georgia and my parents rarely took us out to eat. When they did, it was usually to Shoney's on Wednesday nights, when kids eat free. My dad would let me order a hot fudge cake and it's still one of my favorites today (Shoney's is still around as I've found out!). Whenever we traveled we would always eat breakfast at Shoney's breakfast buffet. Now that I live in New Mexico I really only get to eat Shoney's when I'm driving to my parent's house in Georgia. There's a Shoney's in Henryetta, OK that I stop at both on the way to Georgia and back home. I have a lot of good memories associated with Shoney's!

I remember when buffets didn’t even have sneeze guards!

@jenniferlonnes7420

5 ай бұрын

Eeww!

@joecmillerify

5 ай бұрын

@@jenniferlonnes7420 I live in Florida and most of the Chinese buffets and even Golden Corral doesn't have them.... You have to remember this is coming from a state where the Florida Surgeon General who says cigarettes don't cause cancer and agreed with the woman from Texas who said that demons cause infertility and he supports Medicaid covering exorcisms.....

Nothing was better in the 90’s then getting stickers for your Book It pin and eating at the buffet at Pizza Hut. 🍕🍕🍕🍕

That’s a Barf-fay, I tell the family as we drive by.

Love Shady Maple.. I'm 45 minutes from Lancaster, Pa and travel there once or twice per year... They also have a wonderful bakery and farmers market....

In Poland food served as a buffet is called "szwedzki stół" which translates to "Swedish table"

We cherish the fact that we live near Shady Maple. Thankfully not toooo close, or we’d be filled to the brim with scrapple

Me and my homies would sneak into Old Country Buffet in Waterford, Michigan when we were in our early teens. Old Country Buffet had some good cinnamon rolls and also baked fish 🐠

I used to go to a smorgasbord all you can eat restaurant. It went out of business in the late 80s. It served a large salad bar with assorted jello and pudding. I tried a Saurkraut salad. Saurkraut drained sweetened with brown sugar, cinnamon, and plump juicey rasians. There were asian, european, Mediterranen, Italian, carribean, Indian, cajun,and American dishes. Shrimp was available on Fridays and crawfish was available on weekends when crawfish was in season.😊

As a kid growing up in Akron, Ohio in the 1970s, my first exposure to buffets were the Chinese ones and the Cathedral Buffet. The Cathedral Buffet was run by televangelist Ernest Angley. Crazy. He made his congregation work there for free as "volunteers". He said they wanted to work for free to help the church and that he did it to keep prices low rather than to line his pockets. Several lawsuits from employees proved that wasn't the case.

I miss my Hometown buffet in my city. My family would celebrate anything and would head over there. The last time I remember having the Hometown buffet was a to-go order of mashed potatoes, meatloaf, mac & Cheese, and a mix of vegetables. To this day the sign that says Hometown Buffet is still on top of the other signs from the other business.

@joecmillerify

5 ай бұрын

Hopefully your hometown buffet was better than where I went in Florida, they catered to senior citizens so basically everything was cooked almost to the consistency of baby food and beyond bland.

@MexicanNuke

5 ай бұрын

@@joecmillerify Dam, I feel really bad for you man. Did they a least have the ice cream and the icee machine?

@joecmillerify

5 ай бұрын

@@MexicanNuke It was soft serve and broken quite a bit and God knows when they cleaned it. Sodas were very watered down (a lot of times out of various sodas). We didn't have an icee or slush puppy machine. Mostly what the had was very watery coffee and very watery iced tea. The only redeeming quality is before HomeTown buffet and Duff's smorgasbord died is they tried to modernize their menu, added seasoning again and the old people started bitching because they started adding seasoning and put in a carving station complaining that it was hard to chew the steaks and complained that hometown started advertising on campus. Old people actually complained "We don't want college kids at our restaurant". Hometown and Duff's actually had a good weekend breakfast buffet But it was too late because they wanted their food to taste like generic nursing home food for the old people who came in with senior citizen discounts and half off coupons and of course you can't run a business like that. Also because the food was so bland nobody under the age of 100 would go there especially for a couple of dollars more you could go to Golden Corral or the same price a Chinese buffet that had a lot more flavor.

@stevesutton3996

5 ай бұрын

The bread pudding was the best!

@joecmillerify

5 ай бұрын

@@stevesutton3996 our hometown buffet had a few desserts, it was mostly soft serve ice cream when it was working, Jello, vanilla pudding and chocolate pudding, sometimes rice pudding and a couple of cakes that was your generic chocolate cake and generic yellow cake and maybe a pound cake or angel food cake. They didn't have the bread pudding very often.. You have to remember the demographic of the two they had in Broward and the one Duff's they had in Broward, the average age of the people who went in there was death. The old people literally bitched at management when they started advertising on our college campus because we weren't going in for the early bird special or using senior citizen discount and senior citizen coupons. They literally told management "We don't want college kids in our restaurant" oh and also we tipped better, now of course this was way before vending machines asking for a tip or an elevator asking for a tip via QR code (yes those are a thing).

I miss Old Country Buffet. The only one in my town closed doown more than a few years back and now there's only a chinese place left to fill the void. Several times in my childhood I remember being scolded to get more than just ham and red jello. So many good memories.

Sadly after Covid , Las Vegas buffets which were common at every casino has shrunk to a baker’s dozen. Downtown has only one buffet.

I miss the Old Country Buffet. That was the first place I tried fried Okra and Cornbread.

There has been buffet' s forever. It's so fascinating! 😮

I love the Shady Maple!

Man I remember the days when my family and I would go to buffets together but now with my dietary restrictions I can't. I have to admit buffets are one of the things I miss eating

Other than one local Chinese joint, the only all you can eat buffet anywhere near me is Golden Corral, and it's 80 miles away.

As a Pennsylvanian, love the Shady Maple shoutout! It is delicious! I miss the Pizza Hut buffet for sure!

0:22 The buffet becomes the very essence of America. One part variety, one part abundance, and one part endless opportunity... You also forgot: one part Gluttony.

@kwamesmith3214

5 ай бұрын

For me, all parts gluttony and maybe one kernel of regret 😊😊😂😂🤣🤣

Wendy’s Superbar was the greatest buffet. Dirt cheap and pretty tasty. For a buffet.

Both of my mother's parents came from Sweden. At Christmas my Mormor would make smorgasbord. My Morfar would make "glugg". This is a traditional drink in Morfar's village. You start with fresh wine in a big crock. Add spices like cinnamon sticks,fresh fruit,etc..At Christmas you filter the fermented beverage. Put it back in the crock. Add "aqvavit" (family made moonshine) to strengthen the beverage. It called glugg because thats the sound you make when you drink it. In my Morfar's village you tie a fork to one hand and a mug to the other and wander around going house to house eating snd drinking. People pass out eventually. They put a blanket on you.

I'm close to Shady Maple. Outstanding establishment. Great food and a fantastic gift shop also.

How dare you remind me about hometown buffet 😭 miss that place!

I spent three weeks in Macon (my hometown) and Warner Robins, GA a few months ago. My brother and I ate at Ole Times Country Buffet almost every day. The value for the money can't be beat, and the food was excellent in the Warner Robins location - much like what I grew up with. I wish there were more buffets in south Florida, where I live now. Thanks for the memories!

In the 1970s the only buffet I remember was Morrison's Cafeteria, which we ate at just a couple times on our road trips to the south, when my grandmother lived in Greensboro, NC. I believe Morrison's was in Greensboro. Sometime in the 80s I think, we started eating a lot at Sizzler, Ponderosa, and Bonanza, all of which ended up having nice big salad bars, which I loved. Then I remember Wendy's coming out with the Superbar, which was a salad bar, but also a baked potato bar. But it also had chili, and you could build your own tacos and burritos, and probably more. I ultimately stopped getting burgers at Wendy's, and would order just the Superbar. It was so good. Sometime in late 90s or early 2000s we got an Old Country Buffet here in South Jersey. I liked it a lot. Then it closed, and then a Golden Corral opened up not far from there. I liked that even more. But it didn't survive the Covid shutdowns, and never reopened. There is still a Chinese buffet in the area that we go to on occasion. There used to be two of them, about 20 miles apart. I don't know what happened to the other one. On a different note, I was in Denver one time, in late 1997 I think, and my friend took me to an all-you-can-eat pizza buffet. It was either in Denver or Golden. I'm not sure now. It simply had pizza pans under lights where they put out slices of any type of pizza you could think of. That was the only pizza buffet I ever saw. Oh, something else I remembered. Years ago the local Marriott resort was famous for its Sunday Brunch, while a nearby non-chain restaurant also had one. both were excellent. Marriott left that resort in 2009 or 10, and it hasn't been the same since. So I'm not sure if either place still has a Sunday Brunch. I always heard that the casinos in Atlantic City had good Sunday brunches, but we never went.

I haven't seen a buffet in a very long time. At Old Country Buffet you could pay for lunch near the change over to dinner and chill and get dinner for the price of lunch. Really helped with the munchies, lol.

RIP John Pinette

Man,, I love buffets! My family and I used to go to Ponderosa when I was a kid (not sure how far they were located, I'm from NY state). We still have a couple Chinese buffets around, but all the other chain restaurants like Golden Coral, Sizzler, etc are long gone in my area.

I loved Vegas buffets. I travel internationally and am looking forward to trying a world famous buffet. That has food from around the world.

Its a pity all-you-can-eat joints (at least those that aren't the super expensive super fancy kind that you might find at a casino or high-end hotel or something) have mostly vanished in Australia. I suspect the pandemic killed most of the cheap all-you-can-eat places that still existed (it certainly killed what was left of the Australian incarnation of Sizzler) because they were forced to close for so long (or stop offering self-serve all-you-can-eat)

@paulgerrard9227

12 күн бұрын

Pizza hut richmond nsw still has all you can eat as an option. Not a cheap one

RIP John Pinette 😢

I love me some Shady Maple. Love ❤️ from PA

Point of order: Marty did not kiss his mom, she kissed him. He clearly did not expect it.

Ryans brings back such memories for me. Me and my grandparents use to go there all the time and sometimes my close friend would tag along. I always thought it was a nice treat then. I wouldnt say im above buffets now but I dont seek them out and much less think there good like I use to then

@kristixmichelle

14 күн бұрын

I had to scroll so far to see Ryan's mentioned! They were always our go-to on Sundays because I think kids ate for free or really cheap. We would go with my parents and Granmother. They had great food. I think our local one closed in 2006.

Thanks!

The buffet is pretty much the Nevada State Food. Many small town casinos have them. I avoid them in Las Vegas, because too much turn over of tourists decreases quality. You get what you pay for, so I plunk down the cash for the one at the Atlantis in Reno. Absolutely enormous, at least 50 yards long, with very fresh food. Carving table, taco bar, Mongolian bbq, pizza variety, Chinese, soup bar, comfort food, fresh seafood, ginormous fruit & salad bar, a dessert bar that makes kids' eyes pop out, bottomless mimosas on Sunday. A bit pricey, depending on day of the week, brunch or dinner, senior, club member, etc. I wish I had found it decades ago when I could do 7 plates at a buffet, but now I'm down to 3 and just breaking even.

My favorite buffet was fire mountain steak house buffet near Flint, Michigan. All you can eat prime rib and steak. They closed for good a few years ago. It was expensive, but steak and prime rib, 😋😋😋

My first job was Pizza Hut. We had breakfast pizza buffet, and dessert pizza buffet. Long gone in this area, and sadly missed

Old Country Buffet will forever be the GOAT

Finally the narrator we all love

I miss our golden corral. As kids we went to ponderosa for special occasions 30 miles away

I was just at Shady Maples back in November. Great food

My go to buffet plate? Meatloaf, mashed potatoes, veggies and a dinner roll.

Very interesting video. Didn’t know McDonalds and Wendy’s had buffets. Every December we go to Shady Maples in Lancaster and every time there’s something different, it’s the best.

@joecmillerify

5 ай бұрын

I lived on the Wendy's buffet during college same with the Pizza Hut buffet... What killed it wasn't the pricing, it was the time it took to constantly restock it..... Imagine trying to do burgers fries and sodas at the counter plus the drive-thru and then having to warm up a big tray of mac and cheese or mashed potatoes or ground beef for tacos. That's what killed the Wendy's buffet, rhe same basically went for Pizza Hut.

Best narrator ever ❤

Golden Coral was me and my friends go-to during High School. Saturdays, we would go hangout at the Arcade at the mall and then head to Golden Coral for some "good" food.

There are buffets in Pennsylvania still called smorgasbords.

I'm from the area and go to Shady Maple all the time! There's also a "country store" on the lower that's just as big as the buffet, to wander off those calories.

good video

I love buffets! I have nostalgic memories of Golden Corral's Chocolate Waterfall [mmm mmm delicous], and Shoney's blueberry muffins [though their best item is the Hot Fudge Cake IMO]. While the Golden Corral near me is still open, my local Shoney's has sadly closed this year. I'm gonna miss them, and I'll especially miss the Shoney Bear mascot, he was super cute and the plush toys are HUGE nostalgia for me. Thankfully, I still have a Mr.Gatti's near me, and they have the BEST pizza buffet ever! The chocolate dessert pizza is AMAZING! Not a buffet chain, but I would like a video on Burger Chef. They invented a lot of things other restaurants would "be inspired" by. The Burger Chef Fun Meal was the OG Happy Meal and it's unfair how Mcdonald's got away with stealing the idea. Burger Chef also had a cast of animated mascots. Burger Chef himself was first voiced by Paul Winchell, best known as Tigger, and ironically also the voice for the 1970s version of Jack from Jack In The Box restaurants [as seen in animated commercials], and then later by Hal Smith. Jeff was voiced by Lionel Wilson, voice of Terrytoons character Tom Terrific, as well as Eustace from Courage the Cowardly Dog. Sadly, Hardee's bought the chain and it now only exists in memories. I'm a 2000s person, therefore never having been able to grow up with the chain, and I still think what happened to Burger Chef is unfair!

The Sweden House on Plainfield in Grand Rapids MI in the 80's. Yeah baby!

When I was a kid I remember going to eat at SIR GEORGE BUFFET.. AMAZING food..

I've always loved buffets.

@steverippe1151

5 ай бұрын

I love buffets,too.😋

The last buffet I went to was a Chinese one, and they had delicious food to f***ing go to WAR over!

Regardless of where it started, Las Vegas has more buffets per linear mile than anywhere else in the world.

SMORGASBORD!!!!!! As a kid in Chicagoland 1960s these were still around. loved them, love buffets still.

I remember old country buffet from my childhood. I could pig out without my parents getting mad at me. Every time we went they would encourage me to eat more.