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Buffets are usually more popular in conservative areas than liberal areas. Something about buffets just seems so unseemly and low class.
It's high class/liberal for the streets to be covered in feces? Is that now considered a sign of sophistication? Garbage and stagnant water (+ rats) on subway tracks as well?
There are many deli's in the city with buffets. Also I know of quite a few Asian and Soul Food buffets, also on the weekends there are all you can eat buffet brunches so I would say it is more common than you've realized. Not all of them are all you can eat though most are pay by the pound. I did go to an Indian all you can eat in Murray Hill recently and it was very high quality.
I went to my first (and one of my only, thank God) buffets when I was 10. My dad took me and my brother to Old Country Buffet because they were having a special. I remember being SHOCKED... 300-400 pound+ people everywhere. We were definitely the thinnest bunch in the room lol
Probably because they are not profitable. The Asian buffet in Queens Village has been around a long time and I go once in awhile for the seafood. $22 per adult for dinner, includes lobster and snow crab legs!
Lol this? This is compleltely wrong. I highly doubt this. For traveling throughout America in my experiences, buffet are staple.
NYC is one of least American cities in the country besides San Francisco. In other parts of the country buffets are a mainstay. Being least American reflects on the cities eating culture. One thing I noticed way outside of the city is eating or food culture. Buffet are staples in places such as the South and out West. I'm sure their are buffet that exist in NYC, but probably exist in areas where there is high numbers of general American culture, and I'm not talking about sophisticated gentry folks either. Maybe in places like Harlem a buffet is probably around or in parts of Central Brooklyn or in Eastern Queens like Jamaica. I think there is a buffet here in Mott Haven. I think its like 4.99 a plate, but I have yet to eat there. I just don't like the idea of different people plucking out food with the same giant utensil where germs, bacteria and viruses can spread or cross contaminate. The best Buffet I have had was in Las Vegas and in DC. I think if NYC had more general American culinary culture, buffet would be a cultural mainstay in the city.
And yet, in traveling around Long Island, I found buffets all around Long Island in malls, shopping centers, in the downtowns of towns - villages et al, and standalone locations along highways or other roads or streets. So it is in the NYC metro area, maybe just not too much within NYC proper. Just like you don't find Walmarts within NYC proper but right on the edge of NYC proper and then outwards, you can find them (e.g., Bayonne, Valley Stream, etc.).
Lol this? This is compleltely wrong. I highly doubt this. For traveling throughout America in my experiences, buffet are staple.
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Well, you can think this is wrong all you want (maybe it is) but I didn't pull it out of thin air. The theory comes from the researcher who runs freakonomics.com. All You Can Eatonomics | Lucky Peach
Surely you must agree, though, that the theory about profitability has to be true. If business onwers were sure this idea would be profitable in NYC, we would have it here in a heartbeat.
There are plenty of buffets, but they're typically called "salad bars". I go to them often since I can actually pick what I want to eat which is nice from a nutritional standpoint. The trick is to find ones that are cheaper since they all have different prices as well as knowing how to pack your food to save yourself some money. Always put the meat at the bottom and spread out your vegetables/other stuff on a bigger surface.
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