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from pantry on tray); hot entrées of various sorts (served from chafing dish or platter) preceded by hot bouillon; cold entrées, salads, lobster, potatoes, chicken, shrimp, with heavy dressings; hot rolls, wafer-cut sandwiches (lettuce, tomato, deviled ham, etc.); small cakes, frozen creams and ices.
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As a compromise between self-service and full table service, a staffed buffet may be offered: diners carry their own plate or tray along the buffet line and are given a portion by a server at each station, which may be selected or skipped by the diner. This method is prevalent at catered meetings
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The knife is tabooed at the "buffet" lunch, hence all the food must be such as can be eaten with fork or spoon. As a rule, friends of the hostess serve... The following dishes cover the essentials of a "buffet" luncheon. Beverages: punch, coffee, chocolate (poured from urn, or filled cups brought
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The informal luncheon or lunchâoriginally the light meal eaten between breakfast and dinner, but now often taking the place of dinner, the fashionable hour being one (or half after if cards are to follow)âis of two kinds. The "buffet" luncheon, at which the guests eat standing; and the luncheon
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The "all-you-can-eat" buffet is more free-form; customers pay a fixed fee and then can help themselves to as much food as they wish to eat in a single meal. This form is found often in restaurants, especially in
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supplying orders from guests, but often by the male guests. During the
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ingredients, then pay by weight. Sometimes only cold foods are offered, but often warmed or hot foods are available at a "hot foods bar", possibly at a different price by weight.
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The Buffet Book: Inspired Ideas for New-Style
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are custom prepared at the request of individual diners.
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where diners are not paying specifically for their meal.
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are increasingly available in the buffet format, and
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1355:(Swedish Knowledge article). Accessed June 2011.
957:In Japan, a buffet or smorgasbord is known as a
1907:. Hearst Magazines. August 1945. pp. 89â90
978:, which literally means "table of sandwiches".
972:In Sweden, a traditional form of buffet is the
648:A small cold buffet at an art school exhibition
1675:"Where the empty calories just keep on coming"
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1846:Kang, Jaewon; Haddon, Heather (7 July 2020).
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1365:How to Prepare and Serve a Meal
1292:. The Free Dictionary By Farlex
848:all-you-can-eat seating section
617:How to Prepare and Serve a Meal
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1926:. Los Angeles: J. P. Tarcher.
1923:The Art of Buffet Entertaining
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1174:German-style dinner buffet
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1260:List of buffet restaurants
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477:Cookery and Confectionery
2342:Eating utensil etiquette
1504:"All You Can Eatonomics"
1028:barbecue buffets served
1000:Chinese-American cuisine
673:A variation occurs in a
1771:. ISACC. Archived from
1162:and cheeses in Slovenia
734:is commonly offered in
545:conspicuous consumption
32:Buffet (disambiguation)
2230:Service à la française
1763:Newman, Jacqueline M.
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1769:Flavor & Fortune
325:History of breakfast
30:For other uses, see
2389:Korean table d'hĂŽte
2200:Conveyor belt sushi
1852:Wall Street Journal
1680:The Washington Post
1004:South Asian cuisine
846:In 2007, the first
835:, large factories,
679:conveyor belt sushi
566:Louis XIV of France
63:Part of a series on
3016:Serving and dining
2781:Virtual restaurant
2604:Blue-plate special
2235:Service Ă la russe
2215:Full-course dinner
1775:on 26 October 2013
1595:Sports Illustrated
1568:The New York Times
1265:List of cafeterias
1008:Indian restaurants
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1904:Popular Mechanics
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1825:"Buffetmovie.com"
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1327:, Volume 18, 1904
1122:Breakfast buffet
1083:Celebrity Equinox
1012:pan-Asian cuisine
937:Brazilian cuisine
607:Dinner buffet in
454:English breakfast
427:Home entertaining
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