all-you-can-eat restaurant
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An all-you-can-eat restaurant (AYCE) is a type of restaurant in which a fixed price is charged for entry, after which diners may consume as much food as they wish. Self-service buffets are a common type of all-you-can-eat establishment, but some AYCE restaurants instead provide waiter service based on an unlimited series of written orders for specific foods.
Buffets
The concept of an all-you-can-eat buffet has been attributed to Herb McDonald, a Las Vegas publicity and entertainment manager who introduced the idea in 1946.{{Cite news | url=http://lasvegassun.com/news/2002/jul/09/strip-visionary-mcdonald-dies/ |title=Strip visionary McDonald dies | newspaper=Las Vegas Sun | date=July 9, 2002}}{{Cite web|url=https://gaming.library.unlv.edu/ElRanchoVegas/dining.html|title=El Rancho Vegas: Dining|website=gaming.library.unlv.edu|access-date=2023-04-08|archive-date=2023-04-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230408042951/https://gaming.library.unlv.edu/ElRanchoVegas/dining.html|url-status=dead}}
A 2011 study showed that the amount of food consumed increases with the price charged for the buffet.{{cite journal|last=Just|first=David R.|author2=Brian Wansink|title=The Flat-Rate Pricing Paradox: Conflicting Effects of "All-You-Can-Eat" Buffet Pricing|journal=The Review of Economics and Statistics|date=February 2011|volume=93|issue=1|pages=193–200|doi=10.1162/REST_a_00057|s2cid=57569105|url=http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/REST_a_00057|accessdate=27 February 2014}}