This type of beloved restaurant disappears officially
Although most remain corded, some buffets have been forced to transform completely.
The buffets are officially dead. Or at least it seems to be writing on the wall. Real all-being buffets-eating with roots in the 1940s, Las Vegas, with modern cafeteria style salad and hot food bars caters in urban areas,Any restaurant where the food is open, self-served by several customers using the same utensils, has been set up for failure during the pandemic.
When coronavirus began to extinguish the economy in March, the FDA has published a recommendation for all self-service food companies to close until the pandemic closes. But with restaurants that struggle to stay afloat with restrictions on dinner services, buffets seem to be the least likely opportunity to attract the limited pool of reluctant customers already concerned about their safetyClosed spaces.
Though there isno evidence that the virus is transmitted via surfaces or inanimate objectsThe buffet's self-service lines often lead to customers flying over food stations. Not to mention the presentation of open food containers seems particularly unattractive by knowing that the virus is easily transmitted by respiratory droplets. Unfortunately, it seems that all things that make a buffet what is it, are counterproductive to combat a pandemic.
So, what will happen to all the buffets we like?
The restaurants that did not depend completely from the buffet, like Pizza Hut and Bonanza Steakhouse, left theirCorded buffet sections as they reopen the locations during the pandemic. Similarly, grocery chains like entire foods andWegmansWhere hot food bars were a big customer attraction, left these closed stations indefinitely.
Centered chains buffettes like golden corral, have triedRotate away from the self-service configuration As they welcomed the guests to their locations in May. Instead, they now operate as a cafeteria-style restaurant, in which employees serve customer items that would have been otherwise in the buffet.
And what about the preferred pole of the travel industry,Buffet breakfast? It apparently seems to be a thing of the past. The Hotel Giants MGM, Hilton, Marriot and Four Seasons have completely eliminated their buffets and the experts content that change is probably permanent. Instead, you can now expect you to receive a breakfast bag - a much less exciting meal, but also safer.
Unfortunately, the pandemic spelled the end of some. More particularly, the buffet style chain, soft tomato souplantation,announced in early June They will close all 97 of their locations to enter well.
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