Fried farm raised whitefish, cole slaw, corn, wheat bread roll with butter, pepsi: $8.11
Included carrying tray to the table, an attentive table person refilling water and soda, real china and silverware, and cloth napkin.
Should you ever visit one, the person at the end of the serving line rings up your order, but you pay when you leave. They trust you, and it speeds up the service line. Butter is by the soft drinks. This being the South, the expectation is you want sweet tea. If you want soda, you tell the drink person and they fetch one
Mmmm! I’m hungry already! 🙂
Mmm, Mmmm Good. I am glad you are eating healthy Art. Providing us with an excellent example of eating good : ) with the ‘whole wheat’ roll thing , and fish with the good omega 3’s going on.
Interesting, I have never caught a ‘white-fish’ before. Just smallmouth bass, brook trout, rainbow trout, bluegill, redeye, crappie, sunfish. I had a catfish one, but I guess the hook didn’t get set and he got away.
Now I watch the fish at the Bass pro shop tank, LOL
Cafeteria style is so cool since its kinda infrequent anymore
Have a good one
Parrott
I was looking over the local buffet scene here after I drove past the “Tin Tin Buffet” near today’s K&W in Pineville. That particular one charges $25. It’s Asian food and includes crab legs. There is one “soul food” buffet out near the airport, and the rest are Chinese or other Asian cuisines. My experience at Chinese buffets is generally good. The illegal immigrant relatives keep the costs down 😉
That plate of food does look yummy! I love fresh wild-caught fish and seafood. Hard to find good seafood in the backcountry. I frequent a nice Chinese restaurant operated by a family that only charges $5.50 for their all-you-can-eat buffet, and a Southern style cafeteria that costs $4 – $8 per visit. I visit one or the other about once per week. Mostly I eat fresh, made from ‘scratch’ cooking at the house. A lot more effort to be sure.
Whitefish is apparently a fairly generic term. The fish tasted most similar to walleye which I only had recently. I actually ate about half the cole slaw – it came with the fish. Something like 80% of seafood in this country comes from Asia, mostly from fish farming rather than caught in the wild.
We don’t have a K & W in this area. Guess if I want cafeteria food, I’ll have to stick with Ryans.
Ryans, Old Country buffet, and Homesryle Buffet are owned by the same company. K&W are a local version of a more regional chain called Morrison’s which went out of business a long time ago. The second of the two co-founders died this summer.
frankly, I don’t expect them to survive much longer unless they are allowed to accept EBT cards. Back in the day, the line was long, and their challenge was getting turnover in the dining area so people coming off the serving line could be seated right away. There has been no line any time I’ve gone. With a cafeteria, if the volume goes down, it’s tricky to keep the food both hot, but not dried out or overcooked
A few of the cafeteria style restaurants have added stir-fry style stations in addition to having a grill for burgers, steaks, etc. In past years I frequented a few of the franchised cafeterias and the food was good, hot, well-prepared and/or fresh salad fixin’s. But when the immigrant labor was hired to cook the food it suffered a precipitous decline, prices were raised and the volume dwindled. That was my experience. Nowadays only the mom ‘n pop places see me coming through the door.
My sense is the help at K&W might be dominicans – not sure.
K&W–
I’m coming to the opinion that the K&W on Independence Blvd in Charlotte is not up to snuff. I went there yesterday and got Turkey and Dressing. Turkey is cheap protein – my guess is the serving size of the Turkey was around 1 oz. Fried potatoes were cold. Pepsi ran out – rather than offering to bring a Pepsi to my table after they changed the tank, I was offered Dr Pepper or Mountain Dew. I took Lemonaid instead.
It appears that the area along Independence is “in transition” – while 1980s era condos in my part of town are $80-100 per square foot, similar condos near the defunct Eastland mall are going for $40/sq ft and dropping fast.
There is a pay phone outside the K&W and at least two “no loitering, no soliciting” signs near the phone. The seniors walking in with their walkers are not the people looking to pick up prostitutes.
I’ll bet those seniors are attracted to nurses. 😉