All-you-can-eat restaurant

Swedish smörgåsbord buffet

An all-you-can-eat restaurant (AYCE) is a type of restaurant in which a fixed price is charged for entry, after which diners may consume as much food as they wish. Self-service buffets are a common type of all-you-can-eat establishment, but some AYCE restaurants instead provide waiter service based on an unlimited series of written orders for specific foods.

Buffets

The concept of an all-you-can-eat buffet has been attributed to Herb McDonald, a Las Vegas publicity and entertainment manager who introduced the idea in 1946. ^{[1] [2]}

A 2011 study showed that the amount of food consumed increases with the price charged for the buffet. ^[3]

See also

• Free refill
• Smorgasbord

References

1. "Strip visionary McDonald dies". Las Vegas Sun. July 9, 2002.
2. "El Rancho Vegas: Dining". gaming.library.unlv.edu. Archived from the original on 2023-04-08. Retrieved 2023-04-08.
3. Just, David R.; Brian Wansink (February 2011). "The Flat-Rate Pricing Paradox: Conflicting Effects of "All-You-Can-Eat" Buffet Pricing". The Review of Economics and Statistics. 93 (1): 193–200. doi:10.1162/REST_a_00057. S2CID   57569105 . Retrieved 27 February 2014.