All you can eat comes to the UK

In just 12 months the all-you-can-eat restaurant chain Taybarns has taken the catering industry by storm - and there are plans to open 30 new branches. . .

With a "34-metre long food counter" Taybarns is all about quantity. It offers an array of food. Choose from a chip shop, carvery, pizza, pasta, even what appears to be a new hybrid-cuisine, Texican.

Its menu boasts: "Enjoy as much as you like, as many times as you like. All for one fixed price!"

While other restaurants are closing at an estimated rate of 100 a month, Whitbread which owns Taybarns, has recorded a 3% increase in sales in the last six months to £703.3m.

From the BBC, which expresses concern over the encouragement of gluttony:

The recorded average number of platefuls eaten by Taybarns' customers is 3.37.

Though that might not be so bad if appetizers or salads and desserts each count for an individual plate. Then there's a bit of pot-and-kettle:

"The American model bothers me. We want big portions, rubbish food. What we actually need is higher quality and people eating less."

Posted by David on October 26, 2009 12:31 PM