"All you can EAT!" A regional/state thing?

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Originally Posted by ASTalumna06

I grew up in New England, and there really aren't that many buffet-styled restaurants around there. And if there are, I never found them.

Between college, and now 2 years following that, I've lived in Pennsylvania for about 6 years, and buffet-styled restaurants are everywhere. Golden Corral, Ponderosa, Old Country Buffet, etc. As to whether or not people PREFER to eat there, I don't know.

I've also traveled up and down the east coast, from Maine to Florida, and a whole bunch of places in between, and I've never run across any of these restaurants that I've seen in PA.

Did you ever go to Imperial China Buffet on upper Peach? When I was in undergrad (at the same time as you), my friends and I would go there almost every Sunday morning (which was really afternoon) - we thought it was the best hangover food we'd ever have. It's either taken a huge downturn or our palettes have matured because we tried going there once this summer after a bachelorette party and most of us hated the food and ended up sick by the end of the day - how did we eat that crap???