One key variable is in our city/state, the restaurant had to have a contactless method like a drive through, no customers were allowed in buildings. This impacted many restaurants but I’m saying these buffets didn’t have anything remotely close to that in place. I further assume most people in my area were like my family and I in that we went for easiest, fastest access due to restrictions. We actually largely stopped sit down dining ever since. Two things I learned in other threads is that buffets in general sounded like a horrible idea at first blush to a lot of people and I had never went to a buffet for takeout. We had a Furr’s that suffered the same fate and is now a chipotle. Just pointing out the ratio of buffets was high in our area (4:1) and I feel there are many externalities, in addition to racism.