colinspooky: I would have thought it was the perfect place, unless you mean the customers they do get actually eat ALL the food

You haven't seen hogs at the trough until you've been to a breakfast buffet in Las Vegas.

But, Chocolate Fountain!

Selling large quantities of cheap food to a country of lard-o's sounds like a great business plan. They just weren't charging enough, obviously.

So now where the black people in my area eat?

Lost Thought 00: But, Chocolate Fountain!

Good Christ, a microbiologist could make a good living analyzing the bacterial and fungal life forms living in that broth of double-dipped saliva, human hand contamination, and sneeze receptacle.

why you don't go to an All-you-can-eat:



The obligatory THAT family...or fat family.

If it's say Mr. Gattis, you have to hover around for fresh pizza, or else they will tear your arm off like hungry cattle when that sausage and pepperoni is brought out.

If it's Golden Corral, they are always in front of the meat grill...ALWAYS.

I would love to think they are going bankrupt bc people have realized that there is much better out there than their bland, overcooked slop, but I know full well that most people don't care so long as there is lots of it.

There's a Ryans in Clarksburg WV. Getting to the buffet is like navigating thru a pod of whales.

i worked at ponderosa 15 years ago, usually cooking or dishwashing, but one day i was bussing tables. someone approached me and asked me, with no hint of joking, if he could move his chair to the buffet itself.

imagine how embarrassing it is to have to be explained by a sixteen-year-old why that's not possible. well, how embarrassing it would be to one of us who is not stupid enough to ask such a question

Paula Dean has the diabetus.

Kurmudgeon: There's a Ryans in Clarksburg WV. Getting to the buffet is like navigating thru a pod of whales.

Oh wow I remember Ryan's. We used to have one not too far from us when I was like 8. They always tried to give you that football sized baked potato and were drink refill nazis in hopes you would eat as little "real" food as possible.

Yeah, I'm going to have to go with WRONG, subby. It's like saying an all-you-can-drink vodak store would go out of business in Russia because there are too many alkies. Makes no sense.

They could have kept up their profit margins by increasing the amount of Alpo in each dish they made. Doubtful the herds of customers would have noticed.

proteus_b: i worked at ponderosa 15 years ago, usually cooking or dishwashing, but one day i was bussing tables. someone approached me and asked me, with no hint of joking, if he could move his chair to the buffet itself.

imagine how embarrassing it is to have to be explained by a sixteen-year-old why that's not possible. well, how embarrassing it would be to one of us who is not stupid enough to ask such a question

Wow, Fark needs a "sad" vote button.

/former buffet server

I am sitting here at Five Guys, getting a real kick, etc.

Pick: I am sitting here at Five Guys, getting a real kick, etc.

gotdamn you...now I know where I have to go for lunch.

Bag of fries...here i come!

They shut down the location nearest me during their last Bankruptcy, but I don't miss 'em . They were disgusting! When it first opened it was decent, then the price went up and food quality became pathetic. The last time I was in there before they closed, the whole place just reeked of unwashed fat people and/or dirty rags.

\space is now an equally as disgusting, overpriced chinese buffet

The reason they went out of business is because school cafeteria food at $13 a person isn't a great business model. The food is absolutely disgusting and the only people that they can attract are equally disgusting fat pigs who two handled stuff their profits down their powdered gravy dripping triple chin faces.

Golden Corral isn't great either, but still worlds beyond OCB in quality, and it's cheaper.

I actually kinda like OCB. If you want a large selection of edible comfort food at a good price, it's perfect. We always eat there when we head down into Bellingham. The closest we have up in Vancouver is Uncle Willy's, and I wouldn't go there if you paid me.

Last summer we went to the Tulalip Casino buffet - a bit more than OCB, but definitely worth it.

One of the casinos around here has a decent buffet, but it's $30 per person.

Vancouver did have a chain of buffet restaurants called Bonanza that I remember loving as a kid. It was like 60 cents for every year of age of a kid, and my cheapass mom would always say I was 2 years younger than I was. Best part was the self-serve ice cream.

/Only slightly overweight.

We will hit Ryans for their weekend breakfast buffet about twice a year. The key is to get there early before the freak show arrives, and get an omelet from the made to order station. Use the buffet only for the sides.

PoTBoT: The reason they went out of business is because school cafeteria food at $13 a person isn't a great business model. The food is absolutely disgusting and the only people that they can attract are equally disgusting fat pigs who two handled stuff their profits down their powdered gravy dripping triple chin faces.

Golden Corral isn't great either, but still worlds beyond OCB in quality, and it's cheaper.

All of the Corrals in Houston are pretty disgusting. In terms of their interior, and the regular clientele. I admit there are some days I just need to strap on the feed bag, and go slummin and just hit a buffet to eat like a pig, b/c I normally don't.

I tend to hit up Corral b/c the only other buffet in town I like is Gatti's pizza. They built a couple of Furs on the outskirts of Houston, but nothing in town.

Corral is funny, b/c you have the regular Klump-like families like I said. The other thing is they promote this whole all you can eat steak and grilled items. But man, those servers are Nazis. They give you tiny portions, and when you say "please may I have a bit more sir?" they turn into these monsters and get pissed. I mean, it's not like they are losing a commision on how much crappy meat they hand out.

I heard they recently got a chocolate fountain. Yeah, I'm never touching that thing. I can imagine the fingers and tongues placed on that thing when staff isn't looking. And I'm sure it's not kids doing it.

I will say, Luby's does a buffet on weekends, and I've hit that up a few times, and It's good, and I feel regret with an extra full tummy afterward.

they should have charged diners on a sliding scale

FinFangFark: All of the Corrals in Houston

Aren't they all next to a walmart, or am I thinking of the one in Humble only?

/Avoids buffets, except when eating Indian food.

loonatic112358: FinFangFark: All of the Corrals in Houston

Aren't they all next to a walmart, or am I thinking of the one in Humble only?

/Avoids buffets, except when eating Indian food.

No, not all of them. But now that you mention it, the one near me is across the freeway from the Walmart. Walmarts in Houston are nightmares...I stay away.

Since you're in Humble, you may have read or heard, apparently the Corral in Pearland is suppose to be super awesome. It's well managed and doesn't have stains everywhere. A food critic at one of the stations I worked at even gave it 4 stars. WTF?

FinFangFark: No, not all of them. But now that you mention it, the one near me is across the freeway from the Walmart. Walmarts in Houston are nightmares...I stay away.Since you're in Humble, you may have read or heard, apparently the Corral in Pearland is suppose to be super awesome. It's well managed and doesn't have stains everywhere. A food critic at one of the stations I worked at even gave it 4 stars. WTF?

Maybe it's new?

My dog wouldn't eat the "food" at those places.

Basically it's a place for those that have an enormous hole in them that they are trying to fill.

Becoming an junkie would probably be healthier

The saddest thing I ever saw at OCB, or Old Cu**y Buffet as we called it, was a a couple scarf down a mountain of food, then get up and go to the bathroom for about 30 minutes, then they came back for round 2.

Yeah Gatti's Pizza ain't bad. I worked at one for two summers and knew the owners pretty well who took care of the restaurant. They wanted to put out good quality food for their customers at a great value and I rarely saw weird people. I think the salad bar was helpful.

I just avoid American restaurant buffets all together now. They're not good for you and eating in, cooking from scratch for yourself, and eating at ma and pa restaurants/eateries are the best value.

Nexzus: I actually kinda like OCB. If you want a large selection of edible comfort food at a good price

I like the baked fish. A little lemon... a little butter.

Plus the fatties dont take a shine to it, so there's always good filets to pick from.

OCB - "All the school lunch you can eat!"

Nothing in the article suggests this has anything to do with obesity or people eating more. It blamed the economy for people eating at home more.

As an aside; the Golden Corral choclate fountain is quite possibly the worst idea in food service history. Have you ever eaten at the GC? Go to the desserts; everytime a new cake comes out someone takes the first slice then farks up the cake beyond recogniton! Will these people use the chocolate fountain, then smash it to pieces so no one else can use it? Furthermore, I can't see anything but horrific sanitary outcomes with the chocolate fountain.

Magorn: Casino Buffets are either amazing or horrific

Three Words: Buffet. At. Bellagio.

/drools

buckeyebrain: Magorn: Casino Buffets are either amazing or horrific

Three Words: Buffet. At. Bellagio.

/drools

Amen to that. That is the only buffet where I will willingly eat myself into oblivion.

OCB is the only restaurant in my life I have ever seen cops called to.

buckeyebrain: Magorn: Casino Buffets are either amazing or horrific

Three Words: Buffet. At. Bellagio.

/drools

NOMG NOMG NOMG

I prefer the "All you can eat, plus a whole chicken" buffet places myself.

Warren Buffet filed for bankruptcy? Ruh roh.

I'm not fat and I think golden coral rocks

Old country buffet is where they bus the old people to they usually put them in failing strip malls in run down sections of town and serve very low quality food.

bigmattress: buckeyebrain: Magorn: Casino Buffets are either amazing or horrific

Three Words: Buffet. At. Bellagio.

/drools

NOMG NOMG NOMG

It's decent, but it's also expensive. Unless you get a comp... I liked the Rio buffet better and it was like 20-25$ less.

born_yesterday: Lost Thought 00: But, Chocolate Fountain!

Good Christ, a microbiologist could make a good living analyzing the bacterial and fungal life forms living in that broth of double-dipped saliva, human hand contamination, and sneeze receptacle.

Oh thank god, I'm not the only person who recoiled in horror when seeing that commercial.

LesserEvil: After shutting down all of the Chinese buffets in town, this man:

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moved on to the only remaining buffet... Old Country Buffet.

The parent company plans on converting it to a dry cleaning business, once they get one last customer out of the place.

I was told I would be grandfathered in as long as I didn't leave.

I went to one somewhere in Michigan once.

Holy crap. There were people there with thighs the size of my torso. They were among the more svelte patrons.

I'm not kidding.

The last time I ate at a buffet, ANY buffet, a gigantic man picked up a piece of cake right off the line and stuffed most of it into his mouth and started chewing. He had dead eyes like a sharks, while his maw opened and closed on the cake. A trail of the remainder, maybe a quarter of the slice in crumbs ended up down his t-shirt, some staying on the shelf of his gut, some dribbling to the floor and bouncing around. He had absolutely no self respect. It was like witnessing Jabba the Hut or Gollum eat a live fish. I was so revolted I just couldn't eat. Now, even good places I go to like chinese and indian, I absolutely avoid if I know they have a buffet like weekday lunch.

Bacontastesgood: The last time I ate at a buffet, ANY buffet, a gigantic man picked up a piece of cake right off the line and stuffed most of it into his mouth and started chewing. He had dead eyes like a sharks, while his maw opened and closed on the cake. A trail of the remainder, maybe a quarter of the slice in crumbs ended up down his t-shirt, some staying on the shelf of his gut, some dribbling to the floor and bouncing around. He had absolutely no self respect. It was like witnessing Jabba the Hut or Gollum eat a live fish. I was so revolted I just couldn't eat. Now, even good places I go to like chinese and indian, I absolutely avoid if I know they have a buffet like weekday lunch.

Next time, use a stronger line and bait your hook better, and you could be coming home with a tale of legend!