It depends on the buffet. Sometimes it can be legitimately nice, but a lot of times the food ends up very dry from sitting out for too long.
Yeah, and when bananas get really ripe they start turning that sickly shade of grey. Vile stuff that is.
actually my issue with buffets has nothing to do with the food quality.
it's more like the guy in front of me crawling up under the sneeze guard and the girl rummaging through the food. : )
if it's just opened, for example, i wouldn't have an issue in theory.
i've been to several over the course of my lifetime, spent too much time with my diet coke and bowl of soft serve ice cream watching customers abuse the universally accepted rules of community eating.
i'm certain that there are several good establishments that monitor and administrate these places well. i'm just not in a big hurry to find out which ones. : )
p.s. i'm totally with you on the mayo thing. as long as i have a kitchen aid, i am not buying that oddly textured store bought mayo.