Go us. Originally developed in Finland, BuffetGo allows users to purchase end-of-the-day food from major restaurants at a fraction of the price.
On your end, you browse the app, select the restaurant, pick up your to-go box, fill it up, and head out the door. Behind the scenes, what's happening is that you're picking up food that's gone unsold and can't be saved for the following day due to various health regulations. It's perfectly safe at the end of the day, though. It's a win-win.
You pay a fraction of the price for the same food people have been eating all day, the buffet makes some of its money back, and the food isn't wasted. You probably know someone who cringes at the thought of heading out to a buffet. Eating out anywhere is putting a lot of trust in a stranger, and buffets ask you to trust employees and other customers.
Fortunately, there are some things that you can keep an eye out for to help protect you and other diners. When it comes to dangerous foods, you might want to consider giving some of the seafood particularly raw things like oysters and sushi a miss. There's a huge potential for illness there, especially when those foods aren't kept at the proper temperature.
Aside from improperly cooked or stored foods — which can be a danger anywhere, not just at buffets — the other big danger is cross-contamination. Cross-contamination can also happen anywhere, but buffets have more potential hazards. With all customers serving themselves, there's a huge chance for the transfer of germs on serving utensils.
And it isn't hard for someone to use one serving spoon for multiple dishes. This is bad; please don't do it. Long sleeves making contact with the food or serving line is bad, and that's not even mentioning people who might pick up a dinner roll, change their mind and put it back.
So to keep yourself safe, look for telltale danger signs like spoon handles touching food, other customers returning with dirty plates, and dishes that don't have their own individual serving spoon or set of tongs. Avoid those things, and maybe let an employee know what's going on. The rules that are in place for buffet food and safety are just like other restaurants, which means you might be unpleasantly surprised about some of them.
When it comes to the actual food prep, utensils must be swapped out and cleaned every four hours. And on the buffet table, any time a serving utensil actually falls into a dish of food, that food has to be tossed. So you'd expect there to be some rules about the serving utensils, right?
Regulations don't extend to serving spoons and tongs, even though there's a huge risk for contamination.
That includes everything from someone using the same utensil for more than one dish, to someone who's just come out of the bathroom without washing their hands properly.
And that happens more than you want to think. According to a study from Michigan State University , only 5 percent of people wash their hands in the CDC recommended manner. Since you're already thinking about buffet safety, let's touch on the sneeze guard. Specifically, about how disturbingly recent it is. Originally called the Food Service Table , the sneeze guard setup was created by a man named Johnny Garneau. He applied for his patent on March 10, , at least two decades after the first buffets started popping up in America.
Garneau was the mastermind behind some of the earliest buffet chains, called American Style Smorgasbord. Post by Gil Hamilton » Wed Oct 26, pm.
Privacy Terms. Quick links. OT: anything goes! What do they put into the foods at buffets? They must put something in to make the customers eat less food. When I do go to eat at buffets, I find myself eating only two plates maybe and these aren't even full plates. I find that this affect is particularly noticeable when I eat at Chinese buffets, where I feel extremely stuffed just after two plates. Is it a placebo affect or do they actually put starch or some other magic ingredient in to make the consumers full quicker?
Post by aerius » Mon Oct 24, pm Lots of grease and fat. Usually the more fat a food has, the more filling and heavy it is. Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history.
There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes you can do these things Post by Raxmei » Tue Oct 25, am Some Chinese buffets oversalt the food to make their customers eat more rice, which we all know is dirt cheap. Post by dragon » Tue Oct 25, am Raxmei wrote: Some Chinese buffets oversalt the food to make their customers eat more rice, which we all know is dirt cheap.
Post by Pu » Tue Oct 25, am dragon wrote: Raxmei wrote: Some Chinese buffets oversalt the food to make their customers eat more rice, which we all know is dirt cheap. If the US military is involved, then things, which are not worth the cost if a missile will also be shot at with missiles. Post by Zor » Tue Oct 25, am I don't eat Chinese at buffets, the stuff in sitdown resteraunts is better. Lost password? Recover password. Remembered your password?
Back to login. Already have an account? Login here. Ah yes the Chinese buffet, a great place to go when you want to load up on your favorite crab Rangoon's and General Tso's chicken all for around 15 bucks and all you can eat.
As tempting as it may sound, we all know what happens after a trip to the buffet….. We load up BIG on about plates and shortly after we start kicking ourselves wondering why the heck we even came here in the first place.
You might either love them or hate them. But the truth is that common buffets are really very popular in our restaurant culture in the modern world. Mainly originated from Swedish culture, buffets are one of the massive sectors for any restaurants to make a lot of profit and also get a severe amount of traffic on their business. But have you noticed that when you are at a buffet, you will be able to eat less amount of food in comparison with your normal capacity.
Was it the simple matter of scarfing down too much food too fast? Or was it a clever ancient Chinese secret whereby the chef implemented certain ingredients that would make you feeling full?
So that being said, let's dive in and tackle the mysteries behind buffet food and why it makes us feel so full after a couple bites. When it comes to Chinese buffet cuisine, we find ourselves surrounded by options that are very high in saturated fats , carbs, and proteins. All of which are foods that make us feel full at a faster rate.
It is also a combination of eating too fast when presented with foods you really enjoy. From a business perspective it would be reasonable to assume that Chinese buffets try to maximize profits by offering their customers foods which will make them feel full.
There are a variety of other options including salads, sushi, lean meats, and much more. It is all up to the consumer to decide what foods to partake in to achieve different results. But let's be real, who goes to a buffet for a salad? Talk about boring, we want the comfort food we all know and love. You just have to assume that some shady stuff is going on behind the scenes to facilitate this much food for bargain-barrel prices, no?
Chain-buffet employee and aptly named Redditor BuffetWorker took to the interweb to dispel some buffet myths, and candidly spill the workplace secrets he's learned over four years of working for a chain buffet for the sake of this piece, we'll just refer to this anonymous tipster as "Gary". Fortunately for all-you-can-eaters, most of the answers here are surprisingly positive.
It's the one question that plagues every buffet enthusiast's mind. Fortunately, "Gary" said it happens infrequently. When his previous comments surprised some users, they continually prodded the dude to see if there was anything nasty about the food his establishment served, to no avail.
There's really nothing to worry about eating there," Gary said , reiterating that most of the food they serve is pretty fresh, with old food being rotated off the floor pretty frequently. But he did say he saw his manager drop a piece of roast beef on the ground, wash it off, and still serve it.
Overall, I feel like this is all positive news for buffet fans. Well, except the person that ate that roast beef.
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