Much of it depends on the owners some want money and you loose lots of money in a restaurant to some extent no matter what so the good ones they focus on making good food and having good caring service.

They will spend the time money and effort to have a very good staff well maintained equipment.the cheap owners don't care unless they have to.

The sad truth is that health inspectors in some areas spend lots of time behind the desk a place like New York City will have very active ones but elsewhere not so much.

You would be really shocked just bad some places are and I am the kind of guy that will drop something on the floor and eat it if my dog does not get to it first.At the same time some places are amazingly clean.

I find out really fast when I move an ice machine out away from the wall or step into a walk in.Another big clue is temperatures you can tell what places will let get well past the danger zone before even calling it in and they known that it can take up to 24 hours for a non emergency for a person to show up.

I tend to agree with the mom and pop places many of them are pretty good if the cooks are also the owners then it is a labor of love and they usually have very clean set ups.

I know Disney is very clean because I have a cousin that is a higher level chef for them cleanest place he ever worked.

The thing to me with buffets is more the customers and their poor habits you will notice at a good buffet employees sit and watch people closely and will remove something that got contaminated.

Once when I was 15 or 16 I was eating at this Chinese buffet in Orlando with my dad and I went to grab a second plate as I lifted up my plate a damn cockroach flew out from under it by some chance no one else noticed and I took the cockroach as a sign that my meal was done.I did not say anything to my dad right away but he survived two tours in Vietnam so I figured that little cockroach world not upset him too much I just did not want to be overheard and start a damn riot.So I told him later he just said "extra protein for someone".

Haha happened to vietnamese friend of mine a few years back, him and his mates were politely turfed out of a caribean buffet, because they out ate their welcome :) He said they even started eating some of the decorative fruit hanging on the walls - they were actaully given permission by the waiter to do this, but the manager was less than impressed. :D.

LOL :)

I've been to a few over the years and you invariably see one or two who could eat two more taties than a pg....I envy them because they're getting better value for their money than I am :03:

From reading the headline, I knew I would find a post in here from you saying that. :)

:yep: And 9/10 you'll get a better sized portion and a tastier meal from a roadside burger van than from a fancy restaurant.

From reading the headline and my reply, I knew I would find you knowing that you'd find me saying that.

I'm confused now. :doh:

Let's go to Dots and get some brekkie:shucks:

I'm starving. Some biscuits and gravy with a whole pile of sausage would hit the spot right about now.