Is this "South Park did it!" week?

Under-performance says it all, the residents were eating too much for what they were paying but more importantly they were not telling enough of their friends to come eat with them.

And the mall management? Really? it was a surprise to you that a business who lease was not renewed and who never talked to you about lease renewal.. it was a surprise they left? Just how bad are you at your job that you cant put two and two together?

Good thing they get first vote for the President

What will they do?

I heard that foxnews is scrolling images of food from the old country buffet along the bottom of their news bullshiate-casts.

/Next weeks news item: People found dead in front of their TV sets with foxnews on.
//On scene responders said: It's like they drooled themselves to death.

My guess is that people are starting to go there for lunch, and stay through dinner. When you're sitting down trying to eat, fatasses can't get between the back of your chair and the back of the chair of the person sitting behind you.

MaudlinMutantMollusk: What will they do?

/how 'bout "lose weight"?

Came here to say this, verbatim.

Sounds like a business opportunity for a bunch of seniors with nothing better to do.

Here's an idea good citizens of Coralville ,Iowa, why don't you bootstrappy free marketeers open your own damn buffet!?

jake_lex: Ah, buffets. When you don't care what you eat, as long as there's a shiatload of it.

And don't mind potential food poisoning from cross contamination!

Rich Cream: Sounds like a business opportunity for a bunch of seniors with nothing better to do.

IntotheAbyss: Here's an idea good citizens of Coralville ,Iowa, why don't you bootstrappy free marketeers open your own damn buffet!?



It's rare when I come close to a simulpost.

/you must be weird

unyon: PainInTheASP: Uh, I'm going to go out on a limb and say "Buy a cookbook and deal with it".

/Speaking of which, the rib roast is starting to smell pretty damn tasty. Two more hours to go on low and slow...
//Yes, I'm gloating.

I would be jealous, except I just popped a rib roast into the oven myself.

/it's like having smellovision

Same. Leg of lamb in the crock pot.

IntotheAbyss: Here's an idea good citizens of Coralville ,Iowa, why don't you bootstrappy free marketeers open your own damn buffet!?


This is the problem with headline writers these days. Back when I was in school, we were taught to use quotation marks to show what someone actually said, not as a commentary of an article. Don't like subby fool you, there are other buffets in Coralville and Iowa City.

As an Iowan, I would suggest driving the 5 minutes to Iowa City and eating at the pleathora of buffets there.

Why is this the mental image I conjure up anytime the name Old Country Buffet pops up?



Except that pigs are cleaner and smarter than most OCB patrons.

"There are no buffets left in town. What will we do?"

Drop a few pounds?

Orgasmatron138: As an Iowan, I would suggest driving the 5 minutes to Iowa City and eating at the pleathora of buffets there.

surely you cant really mean 5 minutes
(checks google maps)

WTF??!?! umm yeah... outrage gone out window

Orgasmatron138: As an Iowan, I would suggest driving the 5 minutes to Iowa City and eating at the pleathora of buffets there.


A five mile drive for an old fart is like six hours long.

"Underperforming"?

The last I checked, in restaurant circles, that was the new buzzword for "too damn cheap to pay for a real, competent manager". I actually heard of a restaurant manager being fired after three consecutive years of 20% sales growth. Reason cited? Underperformance. What sort of industrial strength stupidity makes you kill the golden goose? It just doesn't make sense.

/ all the restaurants I hear of doing this ultimately close up shop
// and they deserve it for trying to go cheap
/// sometimes, people are worth more than they earn

kvinesknows: Orgasmatron138: As an Iowan, I would suggest driving the 5 minutes to Iowa City and eating at the pleathora of buffets there.

surely you cant really mean 5 minutes
(checks google maps)

WTF??!?! umm yeah... outrage gone out window

BUT BUT BUT their hoverounds don't hold enough of a charge to make it that far!

TFA: "There are no buffets left in town. What will we do?"

Cook something?

1macgeek: "Underperforming"?

The last I checked, in restaurant circles, that was the new buzzword for "too damn cheap to pay for a real, competent manager". I actually heard of a restaurant manager being fired after three consecutive years of 20% sales growth. Reason cited? Underperformance. What sort of industrial strength stupidity makes you kill the golden goose? It just doesn't make sense.

/ all the restaurants I hear of doing this ultimately close up shop
// and they deserve it for trying to go cheap
/// sometimes, people are worth more than they earn

I have a friend who WAS that manager, or so he claims-I never looked at his book to verify. Reasons he got called an underperformer:
--Sure his sales were up, losses were down, so profits were up. But he wasn't PERSONABLE. I kid you not.
--By "personable" they meant "employees were complaining about him because other managers would let them get away with excuses about late-shows, ServSafe violations, etc, but he ran his show with an iron fist." So yeah he was underperforming in the employee retention side: nobody wanted to work in the rulemonger's shop when you could work for a slackass.

1macgeek: The last I checked, in restaurant circles, that was the new buzzword for "too damn cheap to pay for a real, competent manager". I actually heard of a restaurant manager being fired after three consecutive years of 20% sales growth. Reason cited? Underperformance. What sort of industrial strength stupidity makes you kill the golden goose? It just doesn't make sense.

A likely explanation: The manager was good, damn good, and as such, liked to sass back at corporate. For a while, he got away with it, since let's face it, he's bringing in the dough. Then, finally, corporate decides that his particular style of insubordination (Likely Loophole Abuse [Can you tell I'm a Troper?]) and decide that they need a way to get rid of him. It's likely NOT a right to work state, meaning that they can't just fire him and be done with it, so instead, they decide to increase his sales goals. Unfortunately for them, the first year they try this, he hits his goal. Corporate ups the goal again, and he hits it, AGAIN. So they raise it to astronomical levels, and that's when he fails. They're free to fire him, since he did not hit his sales goals.

As for the stupidity? Ya got me.

Ishidan: By "personable" they meant "employees were complaining about him because other managers would let them get away with excuses about late-shows, ServSafe violations, etc, but he ran his show with an iron fist." So yeah he was underperforming in the employee retention side: nobody wanted to work in the rulemonger's shop when you could work for a slackass.

Honestly? I always liked working with those types of managers, provided they weren't flaming assholes who trod roughshod over their employees.

Buffets are a guilty pleasure of mine. I go maybe once every 3-4 years. I've always loved them I think because it was a family ritual with my grandparents as a kid. If I went to a buffet even once a month I'd probably be as big as a house. It crappy, high-calorie food. Bad idea.

I refuse to go to the one that's only 5 minutes away. heard to many stories about it.

/has 2 Sonics within 30 mins of here. I'm good.

baltimoreblonde: I refuse to go to the one that's only 5 minutes away. heard to many stories about it.

/has 2 Sonics within 30 mins of here. I'm good.

Heard too. I need some caffeine.

Walker: How will they survive?
HOW WILL THEY SURVIVE?????

Buffet? I thought they were corn-fed in Iowa.

Crack open the skull of a neighbor and feast on the goo

Ishidan: Honestly? I always liked working with those types of managers, provided they weren't flaming assholes who trod roughshod over their employees.
True, but once employees got used to working with a slackass...somebody actually enforcing third party rules will look like a flaming asshole by comparison.

True enough, but there are personable managers and ones who only care about increasing sales, even at the expense of the actual, hard-working employees.

Smörgåsboărded up.

hmmm, yes this is the place that the GOP thinks is the most important place on earth...

PizzaJedi81: 1macgeek: The last I checked, in restaurant circles, that was the new buzzword for "too damn cheap to pay for a real, competent manager". I actually heard of a restaurant manager being fired after three consecutive years of 20% sales growth. Reason cited? Underperformance. What sort of industrial strength stupidity makes you kill the golden goose? It just doesn't make sense.

A likely explanation: The manager was good, damn good, and as such, liked to sass back at corporate. For a while, he got away with it, since let's face it, he's bringing in the dough. Then, finally, corporate decides that his particular style of insubordination (Likely Loophole Abuse [Can you tell I'm a Troper?]) and decide that they need a way to get rid of him. It's likely NOT a right to work state, meaning that they can't just fire him and be done with it, so instead, they decide to increase his sales goals. Unfortunately for them, the first year they try this, he hits his goal. Corporate ups the goal again, and he hits it, AGAIN. So they raise it to astronomical levels, and that's when he fails. They're free to fire him, since he did not hit his sales goals.

As for the stupidity? Ya got me.

I made the mistake of looking up that entry. I don't know when I'll be back.