In Brazil its called that as well, but these days its more associated with fitness people and meal prepping in my mind. Here its mostly buffet restaurants (hug

In Brazil its called that as well, but these days its more associated with fitness people and meal prepping in my mind. Here its mostly buffet restaurants (huge restaurants many times) where you "make your plate and pay per kg", and there is always dessert and fried food. In Lisbon I saw mostly restaurants where you pay for a "menu" (a "special plate" for the day) which made it easier for me to control my intake, easier for the smallish restaurants to prepare, etc. (I rather liked eating a quick lunch at my last job - heated in the microwave - since I could I can leave at 16h15 instead of 17 and beat the traffic...)