On Sunday, October 18, 2020 at 2:53:19 PM UTC-4, jmcquown wrote:

> I cannot even imagine thinking a meal at Golden Corral is a good thing.
>
> Jill

Sometimes any meal you can get is a good thing. :-)

In some places in the U.S., all the regular restaurants close on one particular day of the week, say Mondays, leaving you with a "best worst" choice if you happen to be on vacation there and then. As we discovered in Sierra Vista, Arizona a few years ago. It was either McDonald's, Burger King, or .... Golden Corral. We were pleasantly surprised. The food was ordinary as one might expect, but it was fresh, the red meats were rare and juicy, the fried food crispy, there were a lot of options for salads and vegetables and desserts, and all in all it was pretty tasty. It was a bit disconcerting to be surrounded by more very large people and large families than you were used to, all hammering away at the all-you-can-eat buffet, but not surprising given that it is an all-you-can-eat buffet. :-) And, although it had all the ambience of a high school cafeteria, the staff cleared tables rapidly and kept the place impeccably clean. Now, I don't know if that particular Golden Corral was the acme of the chain, and the rest are the pits, but given the same circumstances, I'd eat at one again, willingly.

But I'm not much of an expert on the subject, given that I've only eaten at fast food restaurants when circumstances more or less forced it, for decades, so consider that. :-)

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Silvar Beitel