(CNN) -- Self-serve buffets and all-you-can-eat salad bars are, by design, hands-on affairs. So where's their place in a hands-off world? It's been just over 80 years since America got its first taste ...

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ODESSA, Texas — We all know our local restaurants have gone through a change. How about restaurants and food establishments whose whole serving style reversed? We are talking about self-service, like ...

The traditional American salad bar carries a nostalgia for people of a certain age. Long before anyone had concerns over passing germs around while sharing the same salad tongs, the salad bar was in ...

Takeout orders and outdoor seating helped some traditional sit-down restaurants survive during months of pandemic restrictions starting in 2019. But, for self-serve, buffet-style eateries, the choices ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Self-serve buffets and all-you-can-eat salad ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Self-serve buffets and all-you-can-eat salad ...

Self-serve buffets and all-you-can-eat salad bars are, by design, hands-on affairs. So where’s their place in a hands-off world? It’s been just over 80 years since America got its first taste of the ...

It's been just over 80 years since America got its first taste of the buffet. Now, thanks to the novel coronavirus, this subset of the restaurant industry is facing an increasingly uncertain future, ...