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10-12-2006, 09:34 AM
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I've been kind of skeevy about buffets since the last time I went to a Sizzler, which was back in high school. This 5 year old, stuck his finger in the mashed potatoes, took a lick, must have liked it, and did it again - about 5 times. I made a worker take them away, and told the manager about it. Buffets and kids, it was pretty much my worst nightmare.
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10-12-2006, 10:36 AM
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Hoss's is yummy. Broccoli salad mmmmm.
CiCi's is disgusting. Pizza Hut's pizza buffet is OK if it's turning over quickly. I haven't been to Ponderosa in probably 20 years and I'm a little afraid of Golden Corral - restaurants named after farm things make me think I may look like a farm animal upon exiting.
And I don't even want to get into some of the super duper sketchy mono Chinese but we have sushi buffets around here.
The best ever buffet was Chi Chi's. MMMMMMMMMM.
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10-12-2006, 12:41 PM
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Originally Posted by 33girl
Hoss's is yummy. Broccoli salad mmmmm. MMMMMMMMMM.
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OMG! Totally forgot about Hoss's... my buffet heart belongs to Hoss's!!! Too bad there aren't any in NoVA. Maybe they'll be one in Philly~!!
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10-12-2006, 12:52 PM
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Count me in on the buffet hate. The only ones I would even consider going to are the places that have weekly Sunday brunches.
The ice cream at Chinese buffets are just not ice creamy enough.
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10-12-2006, 01:06 PM
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Originally Posted by Taualumna
Count me in on the buffet hate. The only ones I would even consider going to are the places that have weekly Sunday brunches.
The ice cream at Chinese buffets are just not ice creamy enough.
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Speaking of ice cream...ever watched a bratty kid stick their face under an ice cream machine and let it pour into their mouth? 
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10-12-2006, 01:08 PM
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Speaking of ice cream...ever watched a bratty kid stick their mouth under an ice cream machine and let it pour into their mouth? |
Eww...I think I would draw the line there and say something to the kid/his parents. I usually don't let kids bother me at a restaurant, but that's just gross!
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10-15-2006, 08:53 AM
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In mourning since they closed the Dallas area Todai...  If I gotta do my Todai fix, I gotta drive to Houston.
Slop troughs - ahem, buffets - vary in quality. If you find one that serves good food at a reasonable price, stick to it!
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10-12-2006, 04:53 PM
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Speaking of ice cream...ever watched a bratty kid stick their face under an ice cream machine and let it pour into their mouth? |
No, but that's just gross.
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10-12-2006, 01:30 PM
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Hoss's is yummy. Broccoli salad mmmmm.
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Can I get an AMEN?!?! The only thing I don't like about Hoss's is when you go to the ones in the country, and they have photos of the steers that are "featured" that week. 
I like the Chinese etc buffets or other ethnic buffets, so I can try things and see if I "might" like them. I also realize that many of the foods I might like might taste awfully different in a "real" restaurant.
But, I'm totally against children at a salad bar or buffet unless they're with an adult. On that line:
The Weirdest Wedding Reception My Parents Attended:
Suffice it to say that it was a buffet meal, attractively set up. The bride's uncle, dressed in one of those t-shirts that look like a tux only with glitter, pulled a chair up to the buffet, and ate directly out of the various containers!! Needless to say, my parents immediately decided that they really didn't need to hang around.
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10-12-2006, 04:29 PM
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The only two types of buffets I've been to lately are lunch buffets at Indian restaurants, and a Sunday brunch buffet at a nice local restaurant. I need to find a good Indian restaurant with a lunch buffet within walking distance of my office; there are a couple of places within taxi distance, but by the time you cab it out there, eat, and cab it back, a couple of hours have gone by, and I don't have that kind of time. (And just try to hail a taxi in NYC when it's raining!)
 @ the kid sticking his hands repeatedly into the mashed potatoes and the adults eating directly from the buffet. At the Sunday brunch place I go to, there are usually lots of kids of various ages, from babies on up, but their parents generally take them by the hand to the buffet and make them use the provided utensils to take food and put it on their plates.
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10-12-2006, 04:32 PM
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Where in NYC do you work?
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10-12-2006, 04:55 PM
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Where in NYC do you work?
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Lower Manhattan, just off Wall St.
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10-12-2006, 05:01 PM
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Oh. I know a great Indian buffet, but it's in Jackson Heights. Kinda out of your way.
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10-12-2006, 05:09 PM
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I prefer to be served than going in line at a buffet. Besides, I never finish my food, and have the rest of my meal to go so I can eat it later. If I do go to a buffet, it's usually a nice chinese restaurant. But after reading some of your stories *shudder*..I'm gonna think twice before I agree to go to one. lol.
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10-12-2006, 11:09 AM
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Originally Posted by ShaedyKD
I've been kind of skeevy about buffets since the last time I went to a Sizzler, which was back in high school. This 5 year old, stuck his finger in the mashed potatoes, took a lick, must have liked it, and did it again - about 5 times. I made a worker take them away, and told the manager about it. Buffets and kids, it was pretty much my worst nightmare.
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This is the exact reason that I can't eat at a buffet. Children & adults sticking their nasty fingers in food, and goodness knows where their hands have been before or if they had just sneezed or coughed or worse!
After seeing one adult man use his hands to pick crab out of a crab salad at a buffet I swore them off completely!
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