HOME > BLOG > All You Can Eat Buffets: Good Prices, Bad Food? A buffet is a meal where there are several different kinds of food, usually put into large pots, bowls, or plates and placed (put) on a long table. Each person takes his or her own plate and serves themselves (puts the food they want on their own plate). Buffets are very popular in the United States, and can consist of (be made up of)