Buffet Restaurant Chains Are Always Scamming You. Here's How. 

Golden Coral

Hong Kong

Are AYCE considered the same as Buffets?

the ones in Vegas, but they are not cheap at all, but they serve good food

Hon Dah Casino in Pine Top, AZ has a seafood buffet on fridays. The star of the show is King Crab ( not snow ). I bypass the little plastic cups for melted butter and go straight for the small soup bowls. I ignore all other foods provided and eat nothing but king crab with a water back. The only thing I save room for is the self serve ice cream. Hopefully they will be the same after this c-19 is over.

Saw a man do the same with shrimp

@@jbauern57 😂 that's me, I went straight to seafood.

And that’s the law of buffets. You eat as much as you want and if someone eats lamb or crab legs, another person might just fill up on the pastas and salads. It all equals out in the end, or buffets would be non existence ( before COVID).

Worth for bypass heart sugery

@@IMadeBayu Wrong. Meat dont harm you. Its the carbs and sugar. Stop listening to lies from big pharma.

Yep, sensational headline scamming us into watching it.

Exactly what i was thinking before the video even started.

click bait

Well you could argue that the part about them being able to raise the price because it makes the customer think they are eating higher quality food is a scam

@@HellRainsFromAbove they don't raise the price after you sit down, you go in knowing the price beforehand. That's not a scam.

So? A lot of people do the same thing at home every day. I do.

And if they have prime rib on friday..the cheese steaks all week are left overs

@@brucemarsico6 I never said there was anything wrong with it.

You can some damm good soup out of leftovers

@@barryfields2964 Don't get upset, barry....I was only writing to let you know that I, too, make use of leftovers for making soups and salads and some pasta sauces. I'm very pleased you've been in the restaurant business for twenty years. So, you know a lot of sly tricks to use to get people to purchase the so called 'expensive' choices that may not be anything more than 'leftovers'. It's called, 'making money'. Cheating the naive. Thinking they're getting a great repast. Happens in all of the tourist trap restaurants around the world. There, feel better?

@@mquiroz90 some people aren’t gorden Ramsey who can cook anything

@@mquiroz90 U dont have to not know how to cook to love buffet meals. I can cook, some dishes better than others, but I also love choosing what I want to eat.

@@mquiroz90 I love what I cook too. Depends on what I'm feeling to eat, as well as my finances, I either cook a good meal at home or buy food.

I used to frequent this buffet restaurant and by making sure I tip at 50% of the price, the staff never looked at me with disdain when I pigged out. I only went up two times maximum.

Does anyone really feel satisfied with buffet food. If you factor in quality it is a scam

@@Pimpedout007101 lower quality ≠ bad taste

@@sngr- not true. Case and point, Kraft Mac and cheese. Terrible quality ingredients with good taste

@@sngr- I like buffet food. But the fact is they generally use lower quality ingredients than other restaurants. I work in a restaurant and used to work at a buffet so don’t act like you know more than the employees of that industry

@@Pimpedout007101 You did not understand what @Mick Songer said. He meant lower quality does not mean bad taste.

people like to throw around spicy words without knowing what they're talking about

Walter's Playground do you expect a business to operate efficiently if it’s generating a deficit ?

@@tankthepitbull520 sorry I wasn't clear in my reply; I was referring to the title of the video! I run a business myself and I fully agree with you. Honestly don't understand the hype. Americans I guess...

This is the second video by this channel that buffets are scams. I like cheap ass rice and salad and roasted potatoes

Thats right!!! All i have to do is shove those delicious food in my mouth ang leave after hahaha

Agreed. Buffets allow you to try a variety of options, without needing to order separate dishes. The food is already cooked and ready to be eaten, so there is less time taken up as well. You can also try something new by only getting a little bit of it, so if you like it you can get more and if you don't you haven't wasted it

@Don K Are you a slob?

I always have a salad because I'm not keen on a lot of vegetables but the buffet is the only way you get your money's worth.

If that's you in the pic, I can tell.

All the dads trying to eat money worth for the whole family. While their kids only eat pizza and fried chicken.

Got That Right!!

Yup! You better bet whenever I go to a buffet that has crab legs or something similarly expensive, that’s the first thing I go for. I get my money’s worth in my first plate then enjoy the rest of the buffet.

good one outside of indianapolis..

I do not like Golden Coral either! The one in Travaris area in Florida is horrendous! Food is lukewarm at best to cold, steak(???) hard as a rock w/ fat.. etc but visiting my brother & sister-in-law,”they love that place!”🤣Me? I paid the price & ate salad & red jello( ha!), all I could stomach & sometimes collard greens if “warm!” My food has to be “hot!” The one in Spfld., Ma has hot food, rotates it & they try to keep it fresh( grandsons adore it) but I avoid buffets...... period! Kids grabbing food, watched one in Fl take a bite out of something & put it back! Reported it to mgr but they did nothing. The coronavirus may put a big ✋ stop or hold on buffets, so we will have to see what happens.

Our Golden Corral is very good, always clean and hot food is always hot. Best bargain for seniors around where we live.

@@lenalyles2712 Seniors have weakened taste buds.

@@DefSquadFan You're rude

At home, I cook the amount that I know I will eat and I never have leftovers.

Seriously. Pretty sure that's why soup was invented... To use up foods

I am thinking about a new type of restaurants : eating-spots, in eating-spots, food keeps changing, chefs also rotate, this is opposed to current restaurants, thanks to this rotation of food and chefs, eating-spots are more powerful than restaurants, along with that, there is an app, people vote for the food that will be cooked in the next days, menu is influenced by the live input of the people via an app

Ya every restaurant needs to make a profit

Ehhh it's pretty sketchy

Correct and I get what i want

ajaedwards85 exactly

Anybody eating salad at a buffet must want hepatitis or food poisoning.

Sea Pea hmmm I’m inclined to agree

Unless they have lobster and crab legs, then I'll have several plates of those those first and maybe only 6 steaks.

Whoa, what restaurant was that???

That was a hell of a lot of stealth income...TAX FREE INCOME !

I worked at a "Whistle Junction" in FL, the big thing I remember was the general SIZE of the people. The HUGE folks that would come in right at dark, and eat and eat, & eat some more! Do you remember seeing those large humans in your old workplace? It was not unusual to see a family of 350lb men, 200lb women, & very large kids chewing through 7 or 8 refills. Pure gluttony was the norm. AYCE! $12.00! It was fun sometimes at the parking lot, to see them make the car squash down on the shocks when they piled in to leave. Poor car.

@@ijustgottasaythis Very rude comment. The only reason i'm 350lb is because I hit the Gym.

Lemme guess, Sterling Brunch? Lol hahaha

all depends on where your from sweetheart and just the general business practices of each place....aka some care...some certainly do not.

I'll tell ya the other thing that's BS and that's the part where they say "ppl would rather pay more" LMAO!!! HELL NO! It would taste even better if it were free! How dare they try and make ppl believe that BS. LOL! That's one way to raise theprice blame the customer lmao

@@neadster469 ok sweetheart, if you say so

@@sarahperrette1024 kekw. Never been to a different restaurant?

The problem at buffets isn't the service, the problem is the often unseasoned, overcooked, bland food... Raise the prices just a little bit, increase the quality of the food, and buffets will survive. Buffets can keep the Texas toast and all that jazz. But with certain types of food like oysters, like hell am I eating THAT kind of food at a buffet...

But it's a fact.. Not just a mere gossip

COVID-19 = death of the Buffet

The video was also just ridiculous. I don't like that people are stupid enough to cause food prices to go up, but that's about it. Every other "tactic" in this video is just knowing how to run a business and none of these ever remove choice from the customer. To fall for some of these you just flat out have to be lazy.

Ikr, I have to dislike this video.

Agree

I remember that Shakey's. The whole area has been redeveloped. Even the Post Office.

30ish years ago there was a Shakey's buffet in Wisconsin my family went to on occasion. (2 adults & 4 kids so we didn't go anywhere expensive.) It was great for kids. Lots of pizzas, pastas, breadsticks, salads, etc. & dessert. There was a glass partition so you could watch them make the pizzas. There were arcade-style games & always someone doing face painting.

I would defo have gone there with low price... Missed it 😂

Most food places go to animal feed, not just buffets for other people wondering.

It depends on the state that you live in..

the staff will have to serve you at any buffets that will be around ...

Hong Kong Buffet Open here in MD California.

Our buffets in Wichita, Ks have mostly opened up with extra precautions. Love going, and I waste very little.

@@MrGavinspoppop there is a golden corral where i live there all you can eat is still available they have disposable gloves for you to wear when you grab food

There's a Golden corral where I live and there's many Chinese buffets

True plus I don't know of a buffet that donates food that isn't used.

@@raegibson3066 ahaha well that's actually a lot of good name marketing actually

I'm sure you was I mean what kind of food was they promising

I thought Vegas buffets we're super cheap? I guess not

@@tiffanynerz1429 they used to be when it was a loss leader so people would have more $ to spend gambling where the real profit resides. However when the concept a creating LV as a family vacation location the cheap buffet disappeared. View some of the LV buffet youtubes and you will be somewhat shocked. However, likely for the ultra pricey ones, the quality will be much better. I still love buffets mostly due to choice as price is getting up but have recently gone to a restaurant and for 4 adults with tax and tip was $650. That is a few buffets.

Tiffany Nerz Vegas buffets are like at LEAST $30-$80 dollars per person

@@tiffanynerz1429 They used to be...until Vegas casinos and officials discovered that most people visiting were not high-roller or even moderate gamblers. Most tourists went to see the attractions and new hotel themes...and signify. No cheap food for you miser.

I actually went to a buffet last week and tha staff was seerving the food themselves

Yeah but the food still sits there exposed to a air borne virus 😶 I mean ... 🤷🏻‍♂️ To each his own.

@@japneetsaini5441 cafeteria style

@@twizack22 yea pretty much

@@IsraelGarcia-rx6zv you're too paranoid man 😂

for real.

Right!

@Aaron Gordon not sweet Tomatoes

😂😂😂

Who is eating at buffets in the COVID19 era? I believe in science, so, while I loved vegas buffets, that's over.

So, you're saying you have ESP, and know in advance what sucks.

You live in Newark

Carbage Man 🤣🤣🤣You had me burst out laughing when I read your witty comment! 😂Loved it!

Me too. I only take my favorite. I don't like to waste food.

@@CarbageMan Some people are just better than everyone else. Maybe Herr Beacham belongs to a superior race of beings.

I think the creator of these videos is just a bitter conspiracy theorist who thinks everyone is out to scam him A true customer from Hell!

USED to be $7.00, and it more than doubled....plus drinks, PLUS TAX !

My local GC locations were expensive, and the food wasn't great either. On top of that, the people the franchise hired didn't care about their jobs, that they were dirtier than Old Country Buffet. One location closed 5 years ago after that franchise owner ran it that dirty, that the board of health had to put an Unfit for Human Habitation sign on the location. The franchise owner of the other location took it over, and hadn't been open a year , and shut down due to the Corona Virus. Now the franchise owner of both locations got charged with murder in Missouri, and it's expected that his locations won't reopen at all. The local board of health has already made it difficult for buffets to reopen, that the Chinese buffets that had a lot of carryout business, are doing carryout only. Old Country Buffet was supposed to reopen by me, switching to a cafeteria style buffet, where employees serve us. 3 bankruptcies and the Corona virus caused the parent company of Old Country Buffet, Hometown Buffet, and Ryan's to close for good.

This was great when my kids were little. They could always find things they liked. They always thought it was such a treat to have a choice.

I've been to a Golden corral just last week and they reopened there's masking distancing so carry nothing to worry about and I serve the food to you

I went to GC onece a week got what l want andc as much only $12 a burger combo as much and l get a gut ache a or diarrhea for my money covid killed my guilty pleasure

Once in the Northeast, we ate at an AYCE lobster place on the highway. But it had a slight gasoline taste / smell. I think it had turned or spoiled.

F-zero91maru 🤢That’s true but this one was pretty clean in an upscale area and fly free. I still didn’t use the pop machines and i drank from a straw with the drink i ordered. Lol! They even had cooks on deck making customized dishes and sushi rolls

*Yeah, don't eat what you really want. Stuff yourself with only the most expensive dishes, because the point is to stick it to the buffet, right?*

@@doctormorbius6430 Nah. I saw plenty of fatsos loading up pizza soda & pasta and I felt obligated to balance it off on the other end.

I miss sweet tomatoes alot

Rick that was funny 😂😁😂😁

*Yeah, don't eat what you really want. Stuff yourself with only the most expensive dishes, because the point is to stick it to the buffet, right?*

@@doctormorbius6430 Those expensive items are the things that I want. If I want the cheap stuff then I won't go to a buffet.

I know exactly how you feel. I am a fat man. I walked into a department store and a woman tried to sell me a bra. I stared right into her beady little eyes and told her to get me a leopard print thong from the secret drawer. This happens nearly every time I go into a department store, except for when I ask for a leopard print G-string (from the secret drawer of course).

The buffets in my area serve cafeteria style...

Yep, that's me too! It has been many years since I've to a buffet. I don't and cannot eat very much in one sitting. I just don't feel I get my money's worth. I know a regular restaurant can be pricey as well, but I get to take my leftovers home and eat them later.

The Sushi and Hibachi buffets can be a good value. I go to one that's like 12 dollars. I go after the gym and usually end up eating up like a dozen pieces of sushi and probably a full pound of hibachi meats. Its dooooope.

Alejandro Rojas Yeah, people like you are why my town doesn’t have cheap buffets anymore 😂 Good for you though taking advantage of a good deal.

*Yeah, don't eat what you really want. Stuff yourself with only the most expensive dishes, because the point is to stick it to the buffet, right?*

This is so true. There are so many restaurants that do this and everyone turns a blind eye

And the repurposed food is often the "daily special'.

*Yeah, because the point is to stick it to the buffet, right?*

Buffets are open around here. I'm hitting Austin's Steak & Buffet tomorrow.

I don't know where you live but we have lots of buffets open where I live including Golden corral I just hit one up last week.

Your last sentence? 😂

Its in the past now ... We aint going to Buffett no time soon

*Yeah, don't eat what you really want. Stuff yourself with only the most expensive dishes, because the point is to stick it to the buffet, right?*

Yea i saw the same thing once concerning crab legs and the guy behind him says hey. The first guy responds back that this is all i am going to eat and the response back was how with no teeth. He kept walking and then the entertainment started. Someone was serious

not true buffets will look different by not being self serve anymore. someone will plate your food for you and covid spread through food is extremely rare. just wear your mask while in line for buffet and dont sit near people you dont live with.

Joel Will Eat You Out Of House & Home!!

Sorry, should read: so that they could NOT take the serving dishes still full of parsnip

@Nob the Knave I didn't stop at three. That's when the dirty looks started Lol

@Nob the Knave me and my cousin ate all the meat at a Chinese buffet once and they had to close! Lol