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The Brief and Magical History of Fast-Food Buffets - Eater

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A McDonald’s breakfast buffet. An all-you-can-eat Taco Bell. This isn’t the stuff dreams are made of, but a real yet short-lived phenomenon.

Reports Fast-Food Buffets Are a Thing of the Past. Some Doubt They Ever Even Existed. A McDonald’s breakfast buffet. An all-you-can-eat Taco Bell. This isn’t the stuff dreams are made of, but a real yet short-lived phenomenon. by MM Carrigan Illustration by Carolyn Figel Sep 29, 2020, 5:01 PM UTC When we think of buffets, we tend to think of their 1980s and early '90s heyday, when commercial jingles for Sizzler might have been confused with our national anthem. We think of Homer Simpson getting dragged out of the Frying Dutchman, "a beast more stomach than man." I think of my parents going on

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