Is the Old Country Buffet on 30 still open for business? I read that the franchise has gone out of business.
Bob
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I just Googled Old Country Buffet. The one for York comes up at this address. I would make a phone call to see if they are still there. Otherwise, there's always Micky Ds.....
905 LOUCKS ROAD
YORK, PA 17404
(717) 846-6330
still in business
It was there for the fall York meet.
They were last time. I watched them, and another they merged with, boom and bust, including nearby. Ate at several all over. I have thought they should open on Friday, and earlier on the weekend in York to grab the breakfast business before the show opens. They, l think, have the buffet business in York, while there is Golden Corral, East Earl, and at least the two "Amish" ones in or near Lancaster.
They are drying up right and left. The company is from Minnesota, and they used to be everywhere around here. When they go, they close suddenly. Now there is just one in MN. It may be there for spring, but given the trend, I wouldn't hold my breath for fall. Golden Corral is starting to move into my area.
There are plenty of better restaurants in my opinion. They put TONS of salt in their food and I always tended to over eat there. My friend and I stopped going there a few years ago.
About 15 years ago a guy threw up at the table next to mine. I never went back.
Sounds like a recipe for an E. coli festival!
Well, all buffets, and the ones in Lancaster are very popular, have the open, get another plate mode, and at Golden Corral you can see the food prepared, vs. maybe what goes on behind closed doors. The GC in Casper,WYO. had a brief problem but l had no problems there in several visits. But l have seen a downward trend at GC, in that one experimented with breakfast everyday, but gave it up. I was pleased to find the GC in Williamsburg, VA. had breakfast everyday. The local one has cut back on breakfast meats, which is why l go there, while traveling, for a big breakfast and not bother with lunch hiking through stacks of orange boxes with unknown contents
eddie g posted:About 15 years ago a guy threw up at the table next to mine. I never went back.
He may have overheard your conversation. 
LOL all the guy did was ask if it was open. It is.
The one near me in Annapolis shut down a while ago. It was a goos restaurant , all u can eat. I mis it.
Country Buffet was also connected to RYAN's which as mentioned above about Country buffet they shut down quick with no warning. there today gone tomorrow.
I did hear though, not sure how true it is, but Golden corral are buying some of them up and changing them to Golden corral
Big_Boy_4005 posted:They are drying up right and left. The company is from Minnesota, and they used to be everywhere around here. When they go, they close suddenly. Now there is just one in MN. It may be there for spring, but given the trend, I wouldn't hold my breath for fall. Golden Corral is starting to move into my area.
It appears Old Country Buffet is also an umbrella company for some different brands, like Ryan’s Steak House. Here are the locations: http://www.oldcountrybuffet.com/locator
Frankly, I assume the days of the buffet and steakhouse are waning, because they’re vanishing all over the place.
When I was a teen still living in north Florida, my parents and I would often go out to Quincy’s steak house (so often we got to know the people who worked there by their first names) and when that went under, would go to Ryan’s down the road. There were a couple of other places like that but the names escape me. We went to most of them at one point or another. As far as I know, there aren’t any places like that in my old hometown anymore. If you want a steak like that, you have to go to Roadhouse or one of the higher-end steak places. I think the buffets took them over, to the point when we’d go back then, they seemed surprised we wanted a real steak and not the buffet. Dad called the people eating only at the buffet, “Canned corn eaters”.
When I was in the Army in Maryland, there were several steak houses outside the post. I usually would eat there at least one night a week. Being a single soldier, those were very lonely meals but the food was always decent. Comfort food, they call it today, I think.
I’ve lived in the Pacific NW since 1998 and I was shocked to find a vacuum of not only steak houses, but BBQ places as well. The latter changed when a few chains finally moved in years ago, but the former never really did. Again, you have to go to places like Outback to get a steak. I think it was Golden Corral that had a location near the first duplex we lived in after I got married, but we only ever went there once or twice. It was unimpressive, which I guess is why it closed a while back. Nothing like that ever came in to fill the gap (though there’s a longtime pizza buffet that apparently does well, within sight of the old Golden Corral location).
But going to a steak house, getting an affordable ( decent) steak, roll, steak fries and a small desert is a thing of the past for me now, darn it.
I would go to Old Country Buffet before I would go to Golden Corral. Though the Amish buffet that's in or near Strasburg gets my vote. I think it's called Katie's Kitchen.
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It does appear they are still operational. Some might wonder how or why.
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The Old Country Buffet here Closed.
There was a Golden Corral that far west? The fartherest l could find west a couple years ago was Casper,WYO. Cracker Barrel was further. I think it has to do with regional tastes. I know a server at a Cracker Barrel in Mass. lectured me on her having no taste for country ham, a reason l tracked down the one at Sturbridge.
Speaking of Cracker Barrel, I was surprised once to find one next to my hotel in Gallup, New Mexico! The Vermont-country-store-style gift shop seemed a little out of place, but the restaurant was packed with locals as well as tourists. Go figure!
Jim
Wow, I read the chain declared bankruptcy in 2008, 2012 & 2016. It's a wonder any of their restaurants are left standing.
