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After years of hearing about the chuck-a-rama I decided to try it for lunch yesterday

Buffets are buffets. Food is not meant to be made and then sit around for a few hours at a high temperature until people decide to pick through it. It is meant to be made in manageable portions and eaten within a short time of it being made. So you always get exactly what you think you will at a buffet. I think Chuck-a-rama is just fine, as far as cheap buffets go. It's hard to feed my family for less than $100 for a decent meal (6 of us), and yet have enough variety of a sufficient quality to make it a reasonably enjoyable experience, and generally chuck-a-rama fills the bill. In Reno (and in Vegas) the years of good cheap buffets are long gone. Our favorite here, Tucan Charlie's in the Atlantis, is not $30 for the standard weekday dinner buffet and I believe it has topped $40 on Friday and Saturday nights.
 
did u seriously leave that note? funny to post a pic, but if u actually left it thats kind of a dbag move imo, especially if the service was good/fine but u just didnt like their food.
 
I do wonder what you were expecting at a buffet, Kicky.

From what I've been told, Chuckarama is apparently one of the better chain buffets, but that's like being the best spice girl.

Only time I eat at buffets is if I don't have to pay.
 
Yes. Butt hurt much. Indeed. You sure got me on that one. You have been trained well by your sensei. Slobbing that nob has paid off apparently.
 
Duck Rodgers said:
So you were there on Mexican day apparently?

https://www.chuck-a-rama.com/menu/menus.php?day=Thursday
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That explains the "burritos" and "enchiladas."

I dare you to go back for Seafood night tonight:

https://www.chuck-a-rama.com/menu/menus.php?day=Friday
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After seeing the video of some guy gorging himself on fried whitefish, I dare not. Given my opinion that some patrons neck fat there looked like gills that experience probably borders too close to cannibalism for my tastes.

Besides, I went back to Phoenix last night so I won't even be tempted.

As long as I'm opining on Utah's food:

Here in Arizona there's a very prominent chain of taquerias called Filibertos. They're not particularly good but Filly-B's is the gold standard for drunk food and/or completely cheap Mexican. They are so well-known locally that there's a huge variety of Filiberto's knockoffs that have all stolen Filiberto's general menu, color scheme, naming convention, and get very close approximations of the logo. Off the top of my head, here in town I have seen Eriberto's, Juliobertos, Aliberto's, Fujiberto's, Poliberto's, Adiberto's, and Loberto's. Many of these restaurants go extreme lengths to get that first letter to look as much like an F as possible so that drunk people will think they're going to Filiberto's. It's gotten so bad, that the Filiberto's bags now come with the statement "Don't be Fooled, There's Only One."

I assumed this was a local thing only as I've lived in many other places around the United States and never seen an imitator outside of Arizona. Sure enough, driving through Brigham City, Utah I find "Floriberto's" complete with the same font and color scheme. My heart was vaguely warmed.
 
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