Those prices aren't bad for one person but the average young family wouldn't want to spend that kind of money on 2 or 3 kids very often for a buffet dinner.
Paul and Karen
New to us 93 Pace Arrow
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This all reminds me of back in Denver, Co. There is a radio station that has a restaurant show twice a week. The host will comment on a new or new to him eatery in or around town.
He'll carry on all about how good the food, and service is, and then make some comment like. "and very reasonably priced also. two can eat for less than $150.00 including wine." $150.00 bucks!!!! for that kind of money, I better be served by the Swedish Bikini Team, and they need not bring their bikinis either.
I don't know if I am out of touch, but $20.00 for dinner for two is "high falutin' for me. I'll do it for Peggy, and I won't even grumble about the prices, but it sure does scorch my tail feathers when the check arrives.
I have all but stopped eating breakfast at the local casino because of the high prices..
Several Sundays back I went to the local casino for the 99 cent breakfast like I have been doing for the past 25 years..
.... and I almost passed out from sticker shock ... !!
they had raised the price from 99 cent to $1.99.. and now they charge extra for the coffee.
There is just no way I will pay $2.13 ..(w/tax).. for a simple breakfast of ...
2 eggs,
2 toast,
hash browns,
2 bacon -or- 2 link sausage -or- 1 ham steak -or- 1 sausage patty.
and if I have coffee, it would cost me another $1.25 ..(w/tax $1.32) ...
Then the waitress wants her tip ..
(I always tip exactly $1.00 no matter what I eat)
That makes it a total of $4.45 just to eat breakfast..
That price is totally ridiculous... It's highway robbery !!
if they lowered the price of the meal to $1.25 and tossed in the coffee for free .... maybe I would eat there again..
For about that same amount of money, $4.45,... give or take a quarter, I can eat breakfast at home three times... And I save the gas it takes to travel to the restaurant ...
Breakfast at home......
2 eggs at 12.5 cent each ........... 25 cent
2 bacon at 16 cent each ........... 32 cent
2 toast at 5 cent each ........... 10 cent
1 small potato +- ........... 10 cent
1 pot of coffee (+-10 cups)......... 30 cent
and add in about 15 cents worth of electricity to cook and wash dishes.
Which comes to / +- / $1.22 to eat at home..
John
John Harrelson
Carson City, Nevada
fulltime since 1977
93 Ford 350 4wd Diesel
95 Prowler 30.5 ft 5th wheel w/slide
TWO CENTS WORTH
The story goes that a man died and was approached by the Devil who told him that he could buy his soul back for a dollar. The man searched his pockets and could only come up with 98 cent. While begging the Devil to forget the two cent he was short, an Angel happened by and hearing the Devil laughing, asked the man, "Would you mind if I put in my two cents ?" The Devil got so mad that he exploded in a puff of smoke and the man's soul was saved. The moral: Sometimes putting in your two cents worth makes a difference.
JOHN "the cook" 1997
74discoverer25 wrote: i just happen to have golden corral receipt, 9.99 for dinner buffet 1.89 for drink, i don't think too unreasonable, it is 2008! i don't break em like i the way i used to eat, but for small tastes of lots of different things, and real mashed potatoes(just wish they had better gravy) i don't mind at all.
This is about what our two local Golden Corral restaurants charge. It's not my favorite place for lunch, but I've been a few times.
I don't feel like I have to "eat my money's worth" and you're right, for a little taste of a lot of things, it can be pretty neat.
Generally, I treat it like a normal place: a salad, an entree, and a couple vegetables.
rondynowincomfort wrote: I never go for seconds on things, which means i'm paying for all those people who go back 3 or 4 tmes.
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Me and my middle son THANK YOU.
Once we went to buffet with friend who was fighting overweight. She admired his second dinner plate with small pyramid on it, but when he come back with 12 cakes for desert, her eyes become square. When after eating all those cakes he grab sup bowl and went for ice cream, she fainted. With 6' he is 120 lb.
Wish I had the genes.
Pessimist sees dark tunnel, optimist sees a light at the end, realist sees lights of coming train.Engineer sees 3 idiots on the tracks.
What cracks me up about buffets is the folks who load their plates like that's all they're gonna get; food hanging off all sides and piled a foot high!
I'm not a buffet fan either, especially not "cheap" buffets, that being Ponderosa, Golden Corral etc. Their buffets have cheap junky food that I absolutely wouldn't eat anywhere else.
I find it nauseating to see people piling 4 days worth of food onto one plate. And.....get a load of the desert area by the time the kids are done with it. Yuk! My kids like these places but I already get turned off by the scratched plastic plates, brown plastic glases with 2lbs of icecubes and cheap tasting fountain soda.
I told the kids on our next trip to Florida that we won't be going to these places anymore as I would rather eat at a decent sit down dinner once then eat at those places 3 times. But....that's just my point of view. When we went to a Gold Corral in Tennessee off the I75 the line up went all around the restaurant.
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Girl 21, boy 18, boy 15, girl 6
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2006 Outback by Keystone 31RQS
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The only time we go to Golden Corral is Veterans Day when they fed the Vets(and probably anyone else) for free. Wife says that is a good price. Guess we will stick with our Cafeteria and Tex-Mex places.
jharrelson wrote: I have all but stopped eating breakfast at the local casino because of the high prices..
Several Sundays back I went to the local casino for the 99 cent breakfast like I have been doing for the past 25 years..
.... and I almost passed out from sticker shock ... !!
they had raised the price from 99 cent to $1.99.. and now they charge extra for the coffee.
There is just no way I will pay $2.13 ..(w/tax).. for a simple breakfast of ...
2 eggs,
2 toast,
hash browns,
2 bacon -or- 2 link sausage -or- 1 ham steak -or- 1 sausage patty.
and if I have coffee, it would cost me another $1.25 ..(w/tax $1.32) ...
Then the waitress wants her tip ..
(I always tip exactly $1.00 no matter what I eat)
That makes it a total of $4.45 just to eat breakfast..
That price is totally ridiculous... It's highway robbery !!
if they lowered the price of the meal to $1.25 and tossed in the coffee for free .... maybe I would eat there again..
For about that same amount of money, $4.45,... give or take a quarter, I can eat breakfast at home three times... And I save the gas it takes to travel to the restaurant ...
Breakfast at home......
2 eggs at 12.5 cent each ........... 25 cent
2 bacon at 16 cent each ........... 32 cent
2 toast at 5 cent each ........... 10 cent
1 small potato +- ........... 10 cent
1 pot of coffee (+-10 cups)......... 30 cent
and add in about 15 cents worth of electricity to cook and wash dishes.
Which comes to / +- / $1.22 to eat at home..
John
John, You are really a big spender. I bet the casino would send out a Limo for you if you pressed the issue...
Howard, USN Ret
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2003 Terry 27H. Super Slide
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