> starches like potatoes might only cost the restaurant $0.30 per serving, compared to $2.25 per serving for steak.
What you need is a hybrid buffet, in which each person gets a certain limit of meat, but unlimited of all the cheaper food.
What you need is a hybrid buffet, in which each person gets a certain limit of meat, but unlimited of all the cheaper food.
You could go through the salad bar, the soup, and bread line as much as you want.
But on the salad bar, most of the actual proteins (I should say non-vegetable proteins -- all the garbanzos you can eat!) were an extra unit charge.
The "secret" was that they always had Chicken Noodle Soup, so folks would go there and simply pick out all the chicken, leaving the broth and noodles. Which was, honestly, pretty annoying.
Souplantation gave up with COVID. They literally threw in the towel, and shut the entire chain down.