The Fast Food Thread
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I still haven't gone to the Brazilian steakhouse near my place. Still have a hard time coughing up like $50 for a meal.
Noodleface
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My town is so shitty that our only "real" restaurant is a goddamn Chilis. It's a real small town though.
Joeboo
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What ever happened to good, cheap Vegas casino buffets? I blame all the goddamn celebrity chefs opening expensive restaurants, casinos figured out they could still do almost as much business selling dinner buffets for $35 a pop as $10 a pop. The good buffets out there are expensive as hell anymore.
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That sounds terrible. I'm guessing if it's a small town, the drive to another town with actual good places to eat isn't very far?
I went to Vegas near when I turned 21 so about 9 years ago and these cheap buffets were non-existant even then. I don't know if they existed in the 80s/90s or if it is just a pop culture thing to say they exist.
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Wife and I went to the one in Tyson's Corner for an anniversary. We ate so much we didn't even have sex that night. Would do again.
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The towns surrounding us are fairly shitty and one has a high crime rate.
I just eat fine meals from Burger King, so I survive. If I want to really eat something nice I Just eat something around where I work, the only downside being it's a very "rich" area and the places are expensive.
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They definitely existed, but it is probably closer to 20 years ago that it was true. At one point I want to say they were closer to $5 at some of the bigger casinos, because they just wanted you in the building, they didn't care about making money on the food so much. First time I went to Vegas was almost 25 years ago though, so take that into consideration. Most of the casinos that existed then have been torn down and redone by now.
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Yeah, at some point in the last 20-30 years, Vegas figured out there was big money to be made on things OTHER than gambling. I saw a statistic somewhere that nowadays, over 50% of the tourists that stay in a Las Vegas casino never spend a single dollar on gambling. Vegas has become a vacation destination for a lot more than just gamblers.
It seems to have also made them stingier with free drinks and comps in general, unless you are a high roller. Bastards.
It seems to have also made them stingier with free drinks and comps in general, unless you are a high roller. Bastards.
There are still some decent cheap buffets in Vegas. The ones on the strip are expensive as fuck but the Station Casinos have some cheap ass buffets. The South Point and M have cheap eats too. Of course those aren't on the strip and are a little ways out but they are there.
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I had the all you can eat seafood buffet at one of the casinos in Indiana once and it was the first and only time I had to pull the car over into a rundown gas station just to unload my anus
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It's all frozen shit, anyway. I'm confident that even the seafood buffets in places like Ocean City, which are literally located between the bay and the ocean, use mostly frozen stuff for their buffets. The real thing to watch out for when hitting buffets is how crowded they are, because that directly correlates to how long the food is sitting out.
I don't think that any seafood buffet buys their 5000 pounds of crab at the docks that morning to serve a bunch of fatasses in rascals. Lets not fool ourselves. They all buy the cheapest shit they can find.