Flattening the curve is working! (Corona: safety, Whole Foods, land)

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Originally Posted by V8 Vega

My favorite restaurant, Soup Plantation, a all you can eat buffet, a big place with lots of people fairly close together and milling about, I can't imagine opening for a long time.

I love the little ice cream cones

[goodheathen]

Originally Posted by oh come on!

The question is, do they still want to eat at buffets even if covid were eradicated?


i wonder if people are much more germaphobic and mindful these days

it was just yesterday that people would lick their fingers and then touch the common utensils at a buffet, and sneeze directly on the food.


and K-12 schools never taught squat about hygiene

the only people who ever receive training on cross contamination are healthcare workers.

I heard that buffets were going out of business before the virus infected humans. Meat and unhealthy eating in general have been losing their appeal.

[Marv1985]

Just think of the sky-high levels of sodium in the food at most buffet restaurants.

[TimTheEnchanter]

Originally Posted by goodheathen

I heard that buffets were going out of business before the virus infected humans.

Where?

Originally Posted by goodheathen

Meat and unhealthy eating in general have been losing their appeal.

With whom?

[Tulemutt]

Originally Posted by goodheathen

I heard that buffets were going out of business before the virus infected humans. Meat and unhealthy eating in general have been losing their appeal.

Originally Posted by TimTheEnchanter

Where?


With whom?

When did America’s heart turn cold on buffet chains?

... In 2016, Eater’s Dana Hatic blamed the fall of the buffet on America’s “newfound focus on fast casual dining [and] farm-to-table menus,” as well as “widespread attention on the health effects of obesity and overconsumption.”...

https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/4...-golden-corral

[saibot]

My father-in-law (now deceased) loved Sizzler and Souplantation and often wanted to go there for birthdays and other occasions. Honestly, I've always thought these buffets were kind of gross and not worth the price and I think a lot of young(ish) people would agree.

[goodheathen]

https://www.sandiegoville.com/2020/0...ot-reopen.html

Maybe buffets were doomed, but "flattening" needs to kill as few businesses as possible (generous temporary financial assistance, probably).

[Exitus Acta Probat]

When I saw a woman, at the buffet at a local Ralph's, lick the chicken sauce off her fingers and then pick up the tongs again, I decided I was done with buffets.

[V8 Vega]

The Soup Plantation in Porter Ranch is a big place and most of the time full. A real money maker it looks like.

[TimTheEnchanter]

Originally Posted by Tulemutt

When did America’s heart turn cold on buffet chains? https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/4/3/18290479/buffet-chain-restaurants-decline-bankrupt-golden-corral

I guess I wasn't thinking so much about "national buffet chains". There aren't any near me and there are only a couple I've ever been to when traveling and they were so awful I never went back. The one exception was the Sizzler in Koreatown LA. It was about the only non-Korean place to eat in that general area at the time and I had a customer service office in K-town I used to visit.

I was thinking more of the local Chinese buffet, Indian buffet and occasional Mexican buffet and of course the Las Vegas buffets; the only reason I go to LV.

I haven't seen any of them drop in business pre-Covid.