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They were last time. I watched them, and another they merged with, boom and bust, including nearby. Ate at several all over. I have thought they should open on Friday, and earlier on the weekend in York to grab the breakfast business before the show opens. They, l think, have the buffet business in York, while there is Golden Corral, East Earl, and at least the two "Amish" ones in or near Lancaster.

Well, all buffets, and the ones in Lancaster are very popular, have the open, get another plate mode, and at Golden Corral you can see the food prepared, vs. maybe what goes on behind closed doors. The GC in Casper,WYO. had a brief problem but l had no problems there in several visits. But l have seen a downward trend at GC, in that one experimented with breakfast everyday, but gave it up. I was pleased to find the GC in Williamsburg, VA. had breakfast everyday. The local one has cut back on breakfast meats, which is why l go there, while traveling, for a big breakfast and not bother with lunch hiking through stacks of orange boxes with unknown contents 

Big_Boy_4005 posted:

They are drying up right and left. The company is from Minnesota, and they used to be everywhere around here. When they go, they close suddenly. Now there is just one in MN. It may be there for spring, but given the trend, I wouldn't hold my breath for fall. Golden Corral is starting to move into my area.

It appears Old Country Buffet is also an umbrella company for some different brands, like Ryan’s Steak House. Here are the locations: http://www.oldcountrybuffet.com/locator

Frankly, I assume the days of the buffet and steakhouse are waning, because they’re vanishing all over the place.

When I was a teen still living in north Florida, my parents and I would often go out to Quincy’s steak house (so often we got to know the people who worked there by their first names) and when that went under, would go to Ryan’s down the road. There were a couple of other places like that but the names escape me. We went to most of them at one point or another. As far as I know, there aren’t any places like that in my old hometown anymore. If you want a steak like that, you have to go to Roadhouse or one of the higher-end steak places. I think the buffets took them over, to the point when we’d go back then, they seemed surprised we wanted a real steak and not the buffet. Dad called the people eating only at the buffet, “Canned corn eaters”.

When I was in the Army in Maryland, there were several steak houses outside the post. I usually would eat there at least one night a week. Being a single soldier, those were very lonely meals but the food was always decent. Comfort food, they call it today, I think.

I’ve lived in the Pacific NW since 1998 and I was shocked to find a vacuum of not only steak houses, but BBQ places as well. The latter changed when a few chains finally moved in years ago, but the former never really did. Again, you have to go to places like Outback to get a steak. I think it was Golden Corral that had a location near the first duplex we lived in after I got married, but we only ever went there once or twice. It was unimpressive, which I guess is why it closed a while back. Nothing like that ever came in to fill the gap (though there’s a longtime pizza buffet that apparently does well, within sight of the old Golden Corral location).

But going to a steak house, getting an affordable ( decent) steak, roll, steak fries and a small desert is a thing of the past for me now, darn it.

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