Dimitri wrote:

> 2. Why are Salad bars so popular - simple no labor involved to make
> the salads. The customer provides the labor and doesn't need to be
> certified.

The customer provides about 5% of the labor at a salad bar. And the
labor required to supply the salad bar is 3x as much labor as it would
take serving a salad to a customer at a non-salad bar restaurant just
because of the sheer number of ingredients at the salad bar restaurant
compared to a regular restaurant.

-sw