After all the changes that have taken place in the restaurant industry since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s hard to imagine all-you-can-eat buffets making a comeback anytime soon, if at all.
But if buffets are really going to be a thing of the past, it’s worth taking a trip down memory lane and remember how they came about in the first place.
The 1980s ushered in the era of the salad bar, where patrons could design their own pre-dinner grazing, but restaurants felt like they had to up their game and add more and more items to the salad bar. Soon, patrons were ordering just that and making a meal out of it.