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If we want convenience and scale, we need more cafeteria style restaurants. Everything is cooked in bulk, you walk in and choose visually what you want. This is
by moltar 6y ago
If we want convenience and scale, we need more cafeteria style restaurants. Everything is cooked in bulk, you walk in and choose visually what you want. This is very popular in post Soviet countries.
There doesn’t need to be a compromise on quality and taste either. Maybe presentation only. Won’t be able to get an instagram shot out of the cafeteria portion.
Analogous to that are food markets in South East Asian countries. Each stall just does one thing. You walk thru the market and just grab what you want. It’s like micro services of food.
- MattGaiser 6y agoIsn't this just a buffet?
- gambiting 6y agoBuffet for me means one of these restaurants where you pay a fixed price and then eat as much as you like. That's not the kind of restaurant that is common in Central/Eastern Europe(in fact those all-you-can eat restaurants have never caught on here)
- MattGaiser 6y agoSo what are they like?
- lmz 6y agoLike a buffet but not self-serve. Pick what you want and they tell you what the total is.
- Falkon1313 6y agoCafeteria style means you pick what you want as you go down the line, and at the end of the line you pay for what you picked.
- jinglebells 6y agoEver been to IKEA restaurants? If not Google it. Lots of stuff they dish up for you out of massive trays.
- Symbiote 6y agoBuffet means self-serve, the price can be fixed ('all you can eat') or by weight. Canteen or cafeteria is the word you want, where they serve you at a counter and you walk away with a meal on a tray. Sometimes there's a combination, with only a salad buffet.
- moltar 6y agoThe difference in function with the buffet is that buffets are self serve. But the main difference for me is the quality. Buffets are always underwhelming. The food is basic and barely palatable. While cafeterias have a pretty solid quality and taste equal to a proper mid range restaurant. Even in Canada. I’ve had a chance to work at a military base on a contract. There was a cafeteria on the base. The food was amazingly good and dirt cheap. It was like half the cost of a basic McDonald’s meal, twice the size and nutritious.