The Last Buffet, Or The First New One?

Revisiting the "death of the buffet"

I guess I like lasts. “The last roadside ice cream stands in America,” headlines a recent piece of mine. Last year I wrote about “The Curious Case of the Last Record Changer.”

I wrote once of aging restaurant concepts:

A place like this is a nonrenewable cultural resource. A restaurant is a business, but it’s almost like an organism too, a living reposito…