Buffet Chronicles: Royal Spread

When you're rare because you never stopped doing what you always did

Over this whole pandemic/economic disruption/recovery period, watching the subtle changes in business—stores, restaurants, prices, formats—has been really interesting to me. Since I really like buffets, I’ve used them as a sort of microcosm of these changes: changes that arise out of economics but which also end up being more than that.

This time, I’m wr…