You guise wanna go to Golden Corral?


 
We have one here but I honestly after a couple times there was not impressed. We used to have an Old Country Buffet. It was a chain started in Richfield MN. I liked them MUCH better but they left the area and all outlying areas and I think they're only left with their original place on Lyndale and 66th in Richfield MN. Since they've left the Rockford market and only Golden Corral is left I tried them but have not bothered to go back.
 
One of my coworkers used to work for OCB's parent company. For all intents & purposes, OCB really no longer exists. They've filed bankruptcy at least twice. My observation is that cafeteria style restaurants have a really hard sell in the Midwest, especially the Upper Midwest.

25 years ago, I sent some time working on Houston's southeast corner. It seems that this style of restaurant is on almost every other corner down there. Shoot, I'd gone out to lunch with one of the other nerds when he shouts across the room, "Arthur! Over here!" Company president & CEO sits down with us.
 
We have one here in Prescott. We've only gone their for breakfast. The positive is they have a large variety of items, the downside it's just average food nothing really pops.
 
25 years ago, I sent some time working on Houston's southeast corner. It seems that this style of restaurant is on almost every other corner down there. Shoot, I'd gone out to lunch with one of the other nerds when he shouts across the room, "Arthur! Over here!" Company president & CEO sits down with us.

Things have changed over the last 25 years. We really have a lot of great restaurants down here. There is so much cultural diversity, you can find almost any type of food down here.
 
Things have changed over the last 25 years. We really have a lot of great restaurants down here. There is so much cultural diversity, you can find almost any type of food down here.

I never meant to imply that Houston didn't, just that there was a lot of good cafeteria style food service. I had a lot of great food down there, from southeastern Asian to Mexican, even European. Gotta admit, what ya'll call kolaches bears little resemblance to what Grandma (Dad's side) turned out. Dad was 5th generation Bohemian in this country.
 
We have more than a few here in Louisville and I eat there every now and then. What one has to wrap their head around is that going out to eat and going out to dine aren't necessarily the same thing. Sometimes you want something new and better than you can do at home. Other times, you just want some good grub but don't feel like cooking. That's where places like this come in.
 
I never meant to imply that Houston didn't, just that there was a lot of good cafeteria style food service. I had a lot of great food down there, from southeastern Asian to Mexican, even European. Gotta admit, what ya'll call kolaches bears little resemblance to what Grandma (Dad's side) turned out. Dad was 5th generation Bohemian in this country.

You are correct about that. There are some really good places to get traditional kolaches in Texas, but you really need to get outside of Houston. Here are some of them:

https://abc13.com/food/hit-the-kolache-trail-for-the-best-kolaches-in-texas/2252285/
 
OMG Clint. This is exactly why so many Americans are obese. Self check time peeps.

Hey! Some of us might be sensitive.... :D

Lost 15+ lbs last spring welding up my GF monster, not only is the scale no longer saying "one at a time, please," it's asking where the other guy went.....
 
Back in the day they were called Smorgasbord or cafeteria food . Multiple dishes set in steam tables or under heat lamps.
I went to GC once and tried the pot roast, holy salt lick!

Tim
 
Ive eaten there on occasdion. Golden corral at least had a few edible things. A few other places....cough.. Ryans ..cough..were completely inedible except for dinner rolls. When cant even eat chovolate cake because dry and tasteless...its bad.

And yet to some, its decent. Those people must eat dog food at home.

Same experience at crystal palace buffet at Disney once when kids were little. $130 for dinner......nothing worth eating but bread... That was 15 yrs ago...lot of money then.

Total opposite, dinner in the castle was one of best restaurant experiences ever had . Great filet.
 
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last summer my neighbors had me print them off some coupons they emailed me for the woman-of-the-house's birthday :)

The last time I remember going,,,,,,,,,it's been a while.

There was a Chinese buffet that used to serve crab legs among many other things, I'd load up on them.

The last buffet I went to was at a casino in Wendover - they had prime rib and a ton of other things.. I'm only good for about 1.5 plates anymore. I tend to enjoy Indian buffets most lately
 

 

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