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. All-you-can-eat establishments are frequently self-service buffets, but some AYCE restaurants instead provide waitservice based on an unlimited series of written orders for specific foods.

Buffets

The all-you-can-eat buffet has been ascribed 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

References

  1. ^ "Strip visionary McDonald dies". Las Vegas Sun. July 9, 2002.
  2. ^ "El Rancho Vegas: Dining". gaming.library.unlv.edu.
  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.