How does a takeout buffet work? Isn’t the entire idea that you pay for what you can eat while you are there?
Maybe the fortune should take its own advice? “Pithy reigns.”
I imagine it’s like a salad bar - fill a container and head out.
Pay by weight? That would make sense then. I just envision otherwise one person going in and buying enough food for 2. Or for 2 days. We went to an “all you can eat” Korean bbq once where you grill the meat, where we paid per person. Signs all over the place said they had the discretion to surcharge if you over-ordered by a significant amount. I think to counter this scenario where you are ordering to have leftovers. Not implying anything about the poster. Just wondering how it worked.
That, or whatever you can fit in the box.
Recycling one of my dad’s stories. Nearby to UCLA a million years ago, there was a mongolian bbq. Where you pick your meats, veg, sauce, and they add noodles. It was whatever price for as much as you could fit in a bowl. Like $10 per bowl say. The poor college kids used to engineer the frozen thin sliced meats to increase the diameter of their bowl. If the food when cooked couldn’t fit in a single bowl, the cook would put the finished dish in two bowls. This went on for quite a while before they changed to pricing by weight.
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You should see me building a salad when it’s priced by the volume instead of by weight.
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Just ask for a to-go container and get what you like from the buffet. As long as the top closes you’re good to go. I don’t abuse this with bulging boxes. $10.71 tax included. I once watched a guy with what I consider a full box, smoosh the lid down to make room for a few slices of some kind of dessert pizza. Takes all kinds!
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i’ve been on another Negroni Summer kick!
those korean-ish snacks look fabulous.
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Some take-out buffets in Toronto used to let customers fill a container as full as they liked, for a set price per container.
Another place weighed the amount people took from the buffet, much like the salad bars in NYC, or the Whole Foods hot table / salad bar.
One of the Chinese buffets in Toronto stopped offering take-out buffets because some customers (mostly families, rather than college students at that location) would get greedy and take all the meat or chicken out of the stir-frys.
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A post was merged into an existing topic: What’s For Dinner #96 - the Which Marketing Commercial Month Is It? Edition - August 2023
If someone could move the previous post to the August thread, thanks in advance!
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Just moved it, @gcaggiano Greg!
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Late July dinners that actually got photographed:
Double chiles relleno, 'cado, H2O melon and a lime wedge
Pepper fajitas, 'cado half and easy-peasy cole slaw with poppy seeds
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