Thanks for the funny, insightful and true article. I was laughing and nodding my head all the way through the journey and loving every minute of it.

Sad to say, there was a time in my life--20 years ago-- when I was called the Buffet Design King.

As an architect, my colleagues and I designed some very innovative and well-known nationwide buffets. The new buffets we did changed the rules for how a stampede of buffalo can graze their way through a buffet line in less than 2 hours. I learned how to "re-constitute" food, like mac and cheese with a spray bottle of olive oil and couple of stirs to make it look like nobody had touched that tray of food.

As I saw it, eating at a buffet line was like shaking the hand of every person that walks in the restaurant in the middle of cold and flu season.

But in all fairness, many buffets are cleaner than restaurants because of the scrutiny. However, you won’t see me eating at them any time soon. Most of the buffet chains in US are going out of business.

Thanks for the great article!