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Pizza Hut back in 80s and 90s.
kimmy h09-Dec-22
Would anyone else love to see the return of the Pizza Hut All-You-Can-Eat sit down restaurant which consisted of Pizza, Pasta, Garlic Bread, Salad bar, Dessert Bar and Drink refills for a set price. You would go there for a night out with your family or friends, or even have birthday parties there. God, those were the days
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  • allin
    yeah, i used to like the Pizza Hut all you can eat buffet, when i was around to enjoy them,, ;-))
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    • jason M 1009337
      yes yes yes talk about value for money
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      • Liz C 1115602
        Wow I wish I remembered this or experienced it. Sounds like a good way to spend and evening and get good value for your money.
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        • Barry T
          Went too PizzaHut in Katy,Texas sure would like in Australia
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          • DIANNE H 1017564
            I remember a pizza buffet it was the best pizza salad dressing and bread sticks.
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            • Patricia B 1012160
              It was the best kids loved going their
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              • mihaku
                Use to love the chocolate mousse at pizza hut, they should bring the restaurants back but still in the 80s and 90s layout!!!
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                • Flutterby
                  Absolutely! It was the best. We used to take the kids there occasionally and it was a good, cheap night out.
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                  • Dimitri T 100433
                    possible if get friends together
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                    • Paul J 94868
                      Yes...
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                      • Catalina
                        Never heard of it. Sure, we would go there once in a while. It sounds fun.
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                        • Kim M 197333
                          They did something called ‘Deep Dish Spaghetti’ It was amazing!
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                          • Paul B 522937
                            Yes I remember those times well Maybe people were eating all their profits
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                            • lynda e 390007
                              No, I'm good thanks
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                              • Greg B 520364
                                Did this in the 70s
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                                • Paul C 392065
                                  oh yes please
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                                  • Shawn B 1061185
                                    No, I don't think so either. Obesity rates and other dietary problems are growing far more rapidly in our culture than ever before. We don't need any more excess calories.
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                                    • roger l 315504
                                      did you know that there are two Japanese restaurants in Adelaide that do 'all you can eat' sit down meals for around $ 38 a head, difference is there is table service, serves are smaller and are delivered frequently, Well, until you don't hand over an empty plate
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                                      • roger l 315504
                                        No thank you. Seemed like the first really honest US treat 'em like animals and feed them random junk. food set out on a table to be fought over like pigs at a trough. Poor hygiene, extremely limited choices. and literally you became an unpaid restaurant worker collecting, filling and returning plates, cutlery etc.
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                                        • Poppy
                                          You bet
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                                          • Allen B 175494
                                            Bring it back i say.
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                                            • OKIE K
                                              In about 1980, I was in grade school, and they built a Pizza Hut about a mile or less from our house, so my best friend and I would walk up there for lunch by ourselves all the time. I remember when they came out with the Personal Pan Pizza. My order was, "pepperoni personal pan pizza and Pepsi please!" Thought I was being so cute. haha. Yeah, long time ago.
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                                              • Elizabeth P 1087348
                                                Those were the good old days ??! To be able to have all those selections right at your fingertips-Mmmm
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                                                • Tracy Brisbane
                                                  Absolutely love to see it back
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                                                  • SueM2
                                                    I did like Pizza Hut when you could go there for a family meal, but I don't recall any buffet, all meals were ordered and delivered to the table.
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                                                    • Christina C 466456
                                                      Yes please! Yeah those were the days. I guess they closed it because it's not that profitable. Especially in NZ cuz we have some really big blokes here who could probably clear the contents of the buffet between a few of em lol.
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                                                      • Daniel A 2
                                                        Yes. I liked it there. I got knicked out you could say a few times because I ate to much.
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                                                        • Jenny L 591463
                                                          Yeah well I think there is a hygiene issue for sure and now with viruses going around killing people I would pass Thanks so a big NO from me. Never really liked the buffet style eating in the first place. Prefer good old home cooked meal every time.
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                                                          • Lyn A.
                                                            Sounds like a great idea. Never used it, but am guessing now with covid many buffet type eateries have had to change what they do.
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                                                            • Darlene L 386670
                                                              Better than today.
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                                                              • Luna
                                                                Yes, I loved the old all you can eat pizza hut when I was younger but they would have to somehow make it all safer so people don't contaminate the food.
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                                                                • Colin L 88398
                                                                  NA all those Carbs would kill me.
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                                                                  • Jane M 438289
                                                                    It was nice but COVID kinda shut down buffet's and they don't appear to be returning.
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                                                                    • MARGARET p 388156
                                                                      My first boyfriend and I had our first lunch at Pizza Hut In Sunshine Victoria back in the 80s.
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                                                                      • Mariaj
                                                                        Oh yes I’d forgotten about them haha Yes it would be good to get the restaurant back :-)
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                                                                        • Sheree T
                                                                          Yes they were good times, it's a shame it ended.
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                                                                          • Gregory M 356315
                                                                            Apparently there’s still one in Menai or near there !
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                                                                            • Guy W 386119
                                                                              Ahh the good old days Too bad some things disappear with no reason. I spent many a night eating drinking and socializing at full service Pizza Huts. Now I have not been or came close for over 25 years.
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                                                                              • Scott R 947830
                                                                                I stopped going to many Pizza Hut years ago, as the three in my area had the slowest, worst, rudest table service of any restaurant I'd ever been to. Much rather patronize the local independent pizza places.
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                                                                                • Miely529
                                                                                  Si la mejor pizza
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                                                                                  • Sonya F 68771
                                                                                    we have a restaurant at St Andrews NSW
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                                                                                    • Larry S 382961
                                                                                      Yes but don’t recall it. There was Sizzlers that done it but they are gone. Most clubs now have all you can eat buffets.
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                                                                                      • Bugalugs
                                                                                        Why do so many people seem to think that "Change for the sake of Change" is always good? I, too, remember the Good Old Days of going to the Pizza Hut - for no good reason but just because it was a break from the regular routine, often on a Friday night. It was wonderful! Everyone enjoyed it, ate what they wanted if not what we needed! Now it is all Home delivery -often at a price sometimes more expensive than the pizzas themselves!
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                                                                                        • Jan H 753322
                                                                                          Yes, would go, great family atmoshpere. It would show the kids what the 80s and 90s was like!
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                                                                                          • Joe B 288252
                                                                                            I used to do that and it was great
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                                                                                            • bill b 783563
                                                                                              i sure would !
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                                                                                              • TERRIE K
                                                                                                I used to love taking the family to Pizza Hut so we could sit down and have a lovely meal for a great price. Now I don't even know if there is a store left.
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                                                                                                • Bill B 394870
                                                                                                  Real pizzas for hungry people....
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                                                                                                  • Barbara W 864827
                                                                                                    Yes kimmy h,loved the old ones,especially the desserts!
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                                                                                                    • Mary M 329762
                                                                                                      Yes. Once i buy in the city pizza all you can eat its was amazing but as all tbings they close down. I don't think they can make money out pizza hut all you can eat into days.
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                                                                                                      • Debbie F 1139561
                                                                                                        yes, if we can go back to how good the pizza was. now it's one of the worst pizza places
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                                                                                                        • Pat C 618241
                                                                                                          All that gluten. No wonder Aussies started to look like Americans in size.
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                                                                                                          • GrumpyBsd
                                                                                                            No, Pizza Hut was only good in the 70s, the buffet bar was always grotty from parents letting their kids get their own food especially desserts god I hate unsupervised children.
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                                                                                                            • Pennye R
                                                                                                              Yes. I loved that option for a lunch buffet. Saved time, too.
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                                                                                                              • Mare
                                                                                                                Yes
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                                                                                                                • Helen L 750218
                                                                                                                  Yes, please!!!
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                                                                                                                  • Amber 22
                                                                                                                    Yes would like to see but would would like to see some good delivery deals
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                                                                                                                    • just me- NZ
                                                                                                                      yes!!!
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                                                                                                                      • Daniel T 626103
                                                                                                                        Heck YES
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                                                                                                                        • Lariza A
                                                                                                                          Yes, definitely
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                                                                                                                          • Susan KTC
                                                                                                                            Yes!!! They were, then came so many other businesses local and overseas, competition and inflation…I can imagine it must be very challenging for any food business
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                                                                                                                            • Elizabeth A 807208
                                                                                                                              Sorry not for me I don't like Pizza but to each their own
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                                                                                                                              • bobbie k
                                                                                                                                yes.
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                                                                                                                                • Harvey T
                                                                                                                                  Yes
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                                                                                                                                  • Carolyn K 714554
                                                                                                                                    A new problem with pizza hut is they now put some spice in their tomato sauce. It ruines the flavour.
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                                                                                                                                    • Carolyn K 714554
                                                                                                                                      We couldn't afford it then. It is a good way to spread Covid.
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                                                                                                                                      • Simone S 316632
                                                                                                                                        No. Those self serve salad bars were guaranteed to give you salmonella. Kids poking their snotty fingers in the food, people sampling before plating up.
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                                                                                                                                        • Vivian M 867575
                                                                                                                                          yes my kids loved that so would my grand kids
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                                                                                                                                          • Craig O 339797
                                                                                                                                            I loved those days! It was a real decent feed and occassion with family and friends. Now I don't order Pizza Hutt at all. Really sad, really used to love it.
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                                                                                                                                            • Christina D
                                                                                                                                              I loved the all you can eat bar but there was a lot of wastage with kids playing with the drinks machine and people taking more food than they needed and leaving it on the table
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                                                                                                                                              • Kevin L 1010680
                                                                                                                                                No, it would be just another temptation to pig out and get fat again lol
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                                                                                                                                                • Ann D 726256
                                                                                                                                                  Yes those were certainly the days for families to afford a night out
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                                                                                                                                                  • Peter H 491215
                                                                                                                                                    Yes, for sure. We used to enjoy them so much.
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                                                                                                                                                    • Grommie
                                                                                                                                                      won't let Grommie in, so no.
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                                                                                                                                                      • Lachelle B
                                                                                                                                                        Some things need to stay in the the 80s and 90s.
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                                                                                                                                                        • Jania S
                                                                                                                                                          NOPE< never ate as so called FAST FOOD as it was proved to sell rubbish, LOOK at al the change in health and size of people before fast food and after, tells you all you need to know, when u put rubbish in you body, you end up as rubbish. U R WHAT U EAT
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                                                                                                                                                          • Elizabeth T 396096
                                                                                                                                                            Pizza Hut is practically extinct now. Whatever happened to it? Every town and suburb had at least one. Now Dominos is everywhere. I like both as I can get deep dish pizza :)
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                                                                                                                                                            • boy blunder
                                                                                                                                                              they were certainly good times
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                                                                                                                                                              • kristian s 513441
                                                                                                                                                                I don't eat Pizza Hut.
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                                                                                                                                                                • Kevin L 1010680
                                                                                                                                                                  Long live Papa Johns :)
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                                                                                                                                                              • Carol S 657195
                                                                                                                                                                I would love that! I have no one to go with now like I did back then, but lots of other people do!
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                                                                                                                                                                • Norman PSBHRJ
                                                                                                                                                                  Definitely not. Pizza Hut has gone downhill over the years. Pizza is very greasy and not at all tasty anymore. Where I live there was a few of them, now they have all closed down and only 1 remains. Great sign that it is not good anymore. Although when Pizza Hut was good they used to have Piriatzo. Not sure how to spell it. It was a very deep-dish pizza and that was the best in all the pizza restaurants. Unfortunately Pizza Hut is the past and should stay there.
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                                                                                                                                                                  • Robin L 79437
                                                                                                                                                                    A great place to eat, sad it's gone
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                                                                                                                                                                    • allin
                                                                                                                                                                      yes
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                                                                                                                                                                      • Chrissie
                                                                                                                                                                        I remember the "all you can eat" well. The kids (and adults) loved the dessert bar! Still have pizza hut's they just aren't the same.
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                                                                                                                                                                        • Micheal M (WPASSR-US)
                                                                                                                                                                          Yes, that was a nice restaurant to go to. Sadly, I can only eat white pizza now. Don't remember them having that on the menu then. My old Pizza Hut is still there after a brief hiatus. I may hafta look up their number.
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                                                                                                                                                                          • The dog house
                                                                                                                                                                            We used to like Pizza Hut. I remember a group of males eating their fill pretend to go outside for a smoke and leave without paying.
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                                                                                                                                                                            • Sandra C 12043
                                                                                                                                                                              Yes. Great nights for families. Also loved the Red Apple at Target,
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                                                                                                                                                                              • Michelle S 553303
                                                                                                                                                                                I remember those days SO fondly because my mother was still healthy before breast cancer claimed her health and her life! When my kids were small my mother would come visit and as there wasn't a Pizza Hut where I lived back then, we'd strap the kids in their car seats and make a day of it, doing some shopping first and then we'd go and have the all you could eat deal and oh how wonderful that time was. I remember waiting for fresh pizzas to be bought out hot from the oven, how great the garlic bread tasted and just sitting down making memories! I get sad whenever I see the ruins of that very same Pizza Hut which has lay empty and crumbling since the good old days. It reminds me how people and times have changed and if I'm honest I don't think it would work today. People are far more rude and uncouth and you'd have kids telling, I mean YELLING, at their parents wanting attention and food while screaming and throwing tantrums as their parents look at their smart phones and arrange Instagram worthy shots of their plates. I think that not only has the time of smorgasbord style dining disappeared but the whole era of sitting at a table whilst having a meal just enjoying the company of loved ones WITHOUT all manner of raucous noise and nonsense carrying on around you! This time has been relegated to the pages of history and all that remains are ramshackle buildings crumbling along with the society they belonged to! But the memories remain!
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                                                                                                                                                                                • Mariaj
                                                                                                                                                                                  They sound like lovely memories to have Michelle. I used to go shopping and to the Wimpy with my Mum…
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                                                                                                                                                                                • Michelle S 553303Mariaj
                                                                                                                                                                                  I'm SO glad that I have them and the photos of birthday parties at Pizza Hut with the grandparents who are no longer with us. For me they were "the good old days"! Thanks for your reply!
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                                                                                                                                                                              • BLACK LIVES MATTER
                                                                                                                                                                                NO (to many health risks)!
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                                                                                                                                                                                • Maria T 1103596
                                                                                                                                                                                  yes it was nice for a change
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                                                                                                                                                                                  • Chris A 117384
                                                                                                                                                                                    Hi Kimmy, yes please great days, but they would have to insist that NO mobile's at the table.
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                                                                                                                                                                                    • Harry H 1134798
                                                                                                                                                                                      I am too old for this anymore; I am just risking health problems.
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                                                                                                                                                                                      • Nola B 392757
                                                                                                                                                                                        It used to be fun but I wouldn't risk it the way people and kids behave these days...sticky fingers in the buffet with no consequence...manners are all gone.
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                                                                                                                                                                                        • Peter T 100083
                                                                                                                                                                                          I remember it was nice.
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                                                                                                                                                                                          • Suzanne S 1017427
                                                                                                                                                                                            It was so delicious and fun then..
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                                                                                                                                                                                            • Christina P 1042585
                                                                                                                                                                                              Yes I would like it to come back,it use to be one of my favourite places.
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                                                                                                                                                                                              • Reva D
                                                                                                                                                                                                Yes I'd love see come back
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                                                                                                                                                                                                • Timothy N 929266
                                                                                                                                                                                                  bigger sized pizza then too... as the family is now the same size as the large was in 80 and 90's and the large is now the old medium. - all for the same, yet higher. price.
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                                                                                                                                                                                                  • Lady Flamingo
                                                                                                                                                                                                    I totally forgot they had that! Thanks for reminding me! It is hard to find a really good Buffet restaurant now!
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                                                                                                                                                                                                    • Bill A 1068834
                                                                                                                                                                                                      For sure as long as the servings are the same size, these days servings are getting smaller and smaller.
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