Today I went to a pizza buffet that had a very weird business model. I have never been to a restaurant like it. To begin, you walk in the door and the cashier rings up that you want a buffet and if you want water or pop. Not so weird. But then you place your things at your table and go to this back counter where you expect to fill up your pop with the many glasses they have stacked next to the pop machine. Here you are wrong, as the cashier runs to the back and fills up your cup for you. Then you don't take one of the many stacked plates next to the buffet because the cashier/pop filler is also your waitress and brings your plate to your seat. Now you have two plates because you didn't know this last part before she put the plate at your table.
Then you find out you don't actually go up to the buffet, but you look at the menu and tell the now waitress what kind of pizza looks good to you (barbecue chicken? creme brule pizza?) She does this for every member of the table and disappears. All of a sudden another waitress comes out and offers you a slice of garlic chicken pizza. You finally realize how this place works.
When the pizzas you thought sounded good come out (only takes about 7 minutes) they offer you some slices then circulate the pizza around to the rest of the restaurant and finally place any extras at the buffet.
You feel like you are all in this together because everyone's pizza gets circulated so you don't want to be the one ordering an anchovy pizza and hearing all the other diners say eww grosss who ordered that! Bring out the garlic chicken! Overall you leave, full, satisfied, and a little confused.
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