Bangor Area Businesses That Your Kids May Have Never Heard Of
So, what Bangor area businesses do you miss the most?
That s the question that we recently put out there at I95Rocks on Facebook, and man, did we get a response.
It didn t take much to jog someone s memory who has lived in this neck of the woods for some time. Memories of that restaurant that used to serve up your favorite dish, or that business where you purchased books or those vinyl record albums that you still may have either down in the cellar somewhere or out on that garage shelf. People don t soon forget where they used to feel comfortable buying clothes, or where they went with their mother and father to buy a pint of fried clams when they were young.
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.