How All-You-Can-Eat Buffets Make Money

You can eat as much as you want for one flat price, and the buffet still makes money. It pulls that off by pricing against the average eater instead of the big one, steering you toward the cheapest food in the building, and getting you to do all the work for free. And the strange twist is that the exact same design that made buffets so hard to beat is now quietly wiping them out.

This is how all-you-can-eat buffets make money, and why they're disappearing.