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from pantry on tray); hot entrées of various sorts (served from chafing dish or platter) preceded by hot bouillon; cold entrées, salads, lobster, potatoes, chicken, shrimp, with heavy dressings; hot rolls, wafer-cut sandwiches (lettuce, tomato, deviled ham, etc.); small cakes, frozen creams and ices.
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As a compromise between self-service and full table service, a staffed buffet may be offered: diners carry their own plate or tray along the buffet line and are given a portion by a server at each station, which may be selected or skipped by the diner. This method is prevalent at catered meetings
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The knife is tabooed at the "buffet" lunch, hence all the food must be such as can be eaten with fork or spoon. As a rule, friends of the hostess serve... The following dishes cover the essentials of a "buffet" luncheon. Beverages: punch, coffee, chocolate (poured from urn, or filled cups brought
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The essential feature of the various buffet formats is that the diners can directly view the food and immediately select which dishes they wish to consume, and usually also can decide how much food they take. Buffets are effective for serving large numbers of people at once, and are often seen in
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The informal luncheon or lunchâoriginally the light meal eaten between breakfast and dinner, but now often taking the place of dinner, the fashionable hour being one (or half after if cards are to follow)âis of two kinds. The "buffet" luncheon, at which the guests eat standing; and the luncheon
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applied both to the display itself and to the furniture on which it was mounted, often draped with rich textiles, but more often as the century advanced the word described an elaborately carved cupboard surmounted by tiers of shelves. In
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serve a large number of patrons with carvery meats, seafood, salads and desserts. Cruise operators in Sydney, conduct Sydney
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Herbert "Herb" Cobb McDonald in 1946. The buffet was advertised in flyers for only one dollar, and a patron could eat, "every possible variety of hot and cold entrees to appease the howling coyote in your innards".
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The "all-you-can-eat" buffet is more free-form; customers pay a fixed fee and then can help themselves to as much food as they wish to eat in a single meal. This form is found often in restaurants, especially in
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design and observed, that "a buffet may, with some propriety, be restored to modern use, and prove ornamental to a modern breakfast-room, answering as the china cabinet/repository of a tea equipage."
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supplying orders from guests, but often by the male guests. During the
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ingredients, then pay by weight. Sometimes only cold foods are offered, but often warmed or hot foods are available at a "hot foods bar", possibly at a different price by weight.
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Open buffets are often associated with a celebration of some sort, and there may be no explicit charge or the cost may be included in an admission fee to the entire event.
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Italian (restaurants serving pizza are especially common), and more recently in Japanese restaurants, and also other types of foods.
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920:âliterally, "food by kilo"ârestaurants are common. This is a cafeteria style buffet in which diners are billed by the weight of the food selected, excluding the
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restaurant, where seated patrons select dishes from a continuously moving conveyor belt carrying a variety of foods. In another variation, Brazilian
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Easter celebration buffet at a school in Poland: Head cheese, boiled eggs, sausage, deviled eggs, rye bread, and stuffed eggs
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The Buffet Book: Inspired Ideas for New-Style
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1788:"How to Get Your Money's Worth at All-You-Can-Eat Buffets"
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served at small tables, at which the guests are seated...
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are custom prepared at the request of individual diners.
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where diners are not paying specifically for their meal.
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are increasingly available in the buffet format, and
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1699:. Associated Press. 21 March 2008. Archived from
1314:The Sphere: An Illustrated Newspaper for the Home
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1344:(Swedish Knowledge article). Accessed June 2011.
946:In Japan, a buffet or smorgasbord is known as a
1896:. Hearst Magazines. August 1945. pp. 89â90
967:, which literally means "table of sandwiches".
961:In Sweden, a traditional form of buffet is the
637:A small cold buffet at an art school exhibition
1664:"Where the empty calories just keep on coming"
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1835:Kang, Jaewon; Haddon, Heather (7 July 2020).
676:style buffets feature roving waiters serving
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1431:(in Brazilian Portuguese). 13 September 2023
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1754:"Chinese Buffets: A Trend Worth Exploring"
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1888:"Novel Touches for Buffet Service"
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1634:McCarthy, Michael (7 March 2008).
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1326:"Christmas Celebrations Etiquette"
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2919:Lists of food and beverage topics
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1369:Tonon, Rafael (6 October 2016).
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1559:. Associated Press. 27 May 2007
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1451:"Strip visionary McDonald dies"
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1354:How to Prepare and Serve a Meal
1281:. The Free Dictionary By Farlex
837:all-you-can-eat seating section
606:How to Prepare and Serve a Meal
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536:. The 16th-century French term
1915:. Los Angeles: J. P. Tarcher.
1912:The Art of Buffet Entertaining
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559:Alexandre-François Desportes
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1163:German-style dinner buffet
549:and adopted in France. The
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1662:Carman, Tim (1 May 2012).
1249:List of buffet restaurants
1219:All-you-can-eat restaurant
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506:1939 New York World's Fair
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896:North Indianâstyle buffet
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466:Cookery and Confectionery
2331:Eating utensil etiquette
1493:"All You Can Eatonomics"
1017:barbecue buffets served
989:Chinese-American cuisine
662:A variation occurs in a
1760:. ISACC. Archived from
1151:and cheeses in Slovenia
723:is commonly offered in
534:conspicuous consumption
21:Buffet (disambiguation)
2219:Service à la française
1752:Newman, Jacqueline M.
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1864:Peck, Carole (1997).
1429:quantocustaviajar.com
1332:. Accessed June 2011.
1005:Mediterranean cuisine
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940:cha chaan teng buffet
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1959:at Wikimedia Commons
1758:Flavor & Fortune
314:History of breakfast
19:For other uses, see
2378:Korean table d'hĂŽte
2189:Conveyor belt sushi
1841:Wall Street Journal
1669:The Washington Post
993:South Asian cuisine
835:In 2007, the first
824:, large factories,
668:conveyor belt sushi
555:Louis XIV of France
52:Part of a series on
3005:Serving and dining
2770:Virtual restaurant
2593:Blue-plate special
2224:Service Ă la russe
2204:Full-course dinner
1764:on 26 October 2013
1584:Sports Illustrated
1557:The New York Times
1254:List of cafeterias
997:Indian restaurants
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937:In Hong Kong, the
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818:dietary moderation
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2522:Emergency rations
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2239:Table reservation
1955:Media related to
1893:Popular Mechanics
1816:. Buffetmovie.com
1814:"Buffetmovie.com"
1703:on 11 August 2014
1316:, Volume 18, 1904
1111:Breakfast buffet
1072:Celebrity Equinox
1001:pan-Asian cuisine
926:Brazilian cuisine
596:Dinner buffet in
443:English breakfast
416:Home entertaining
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