When is a buffet not a buffet?

[Henrietta75]

So family member invites me for a buffet breakfast
to a pub type place which we haven't visited before so
they can speak privately about an issue.

The blurb on the doors and advert hoardings is
"Buffet breakfast 7am - 11am" come and enjoy blah..

Anyway we sanitise our hands at this empty place (9am saturday morning) and we're told yes its a buffet but
the servers pour your breakfast choices in the plate, here is your seat. Unlimited tea included.

So we go over to the counter and one by one server pours our food and we take it back to the table. Sausages are a bit cardboardy but thats another story, rest is fine.

I feel like another hash brown and a few mushrooms, FM wants a couple of slices of bacon. Eventually server appears and says sorry, you only get one plate that's it.

Is this a buffet? Nothing other than prices on the disposable paper menu for veg or non veg and reads clearly buffet - Is this normal?

The prices for different sizes would be a clue to it not being all you can eat.

Heh, so this is kind of like a new 'is it a sandwich?' Type thing.

It would have been a buffet if you had served yourself. He just not an all you can eat buffet.

We went to Pizza Hut and they are calling it a Bluffet! It's unlimited pizza, salad, tortilla chips and garlic breadsticks but you just have to keep asking for it. No refillable drinks though. Was really good value for £4.50 (with help out deal)!

Premier Inn was awful, used to be the highlight of staying in one having the buffet breakfast but not last time. Had to queue for hot food, pastries and yogurt so was next to people then. Had to touch a button for hot water/coffee so that would be a high risk touch point. All bread for toaster was individually wrapped in cling film. No fruit, cereals for kids, one poxy glass of juice and no way of getting more as staff were run off their feet. Luckily I didn't pay for it! The next day at Wetherspoons was so much better!!

Aye. We had two yellow buffets in our kitchen for the kids to sit on.

Surely that's a tuffet? What Little Miss Muffet sat on?

@SchadenfreudePersonified

Aye. We had two yellow buffets in our kitchen for the kids to sit on.

Surely that's a tuffet? What Little Miss Muffet sat on?

Nooo. Tuffets are completely different. Buffets are like kitchen chairs, but without a back rest.

Every day a school day nightsky

The type you sit on is pronounced like buffit rather than buffay though.

Travelodge have the best breakfasts. 7.99.

I got close to eating one but had it whipped out from under me.
I nearly cried (I hadn't paid for b&b, just b).
I think I was hungry for 6 months after that.

@Howallergic why didn't you just for it?

Because I had no money.

OP please explain poured

Where I'm from, a tuffet is a grassy hillock. Some people use tuffet as a word for a footstool. So it depends whether Little Miss Muffet was inside or out!

"Pour" is odd enough but on the menu it says once you've chosen your breakfast selection, they will be happy to build it for you!?

Don't think I've ever had my breakfast poured or built! Hash brown bricks cemented with egg?

Nope, I’m still stuck on ‘pouring’ your breakfast. Is this a regional thing?

It's not an all you can eat so you are BU.

I'm sure you were full enough after round 1 of breakfast.

I think it's fairly clear that it's not all you can eat but I think small, standard and large are really imprecise descriptions that don't allow you to compare the relative size and value of them. IMHO it really should be priced as number of items or a full description of what you're getting for your money.

@Howallergic sorry to hear that! Hope you’re in a better place now

@TeaForTara

Are there any other Yorkshire folks on here wanting to answer "When is a buffet not a buffet?" with "When it's a stool."

No? Just me then.

Was Tuffet ere. I'd forgotten

I'm sure you were full enough after round 1 of breakfast

It depends. In a hotel where we were having full English, buffet style (v rare occurrence) I would only eat or if each item, egg, rasher, sausage, mushroom, grilled tomato, but I would split them up into 2 mini breakfasts because tomato cannot be in the same plate as runny egg. Not in my world.