Re:The economics of all-you-can-eat buffets
by unishark on Sunday January 26, 2020 @02:21PM
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Well the word "sushi" actually means the kind of rice they use. It isn't exactly fair to call it a catch since that's the dish. And at the all-you-can-eat sushi chains in California I've been to, it is always against the rules to remove the rice. In fact that seems like a common rule at all asian buffets I go to.
If they start making the fish super-thin that's quite lame though. A buffet chain near me did that as they were trying, unsuccessfully, to survive. I also once went to a regular sushi places that had an all-you-can-eat special and who kept ("oopsie") accidentally bringing way more california rolls than I ordered.
I have been to a few all-you-can-eat sushi restaurants and the catch at all of them was: it is only Nigiri (not sashimi) and you have to eat the rice.
I can't remember if they simply refused additional servings until the rice was gone or if they charged a la carte for un-eaten rice portions, but one way or another, the goal was you had to fill up on rice ...