Target market: People who believe in eating their dishware

Featured items:  French onion soup in a bread bowl, zucchini boats, cherry vanilla in a waffle cone

Target market:  People who like isosceles triangles

Featured items: Doritos, spanakopita, Toblerone

Target market:  People who like their food to smile at them

Featured items:  Peking duck, crawfish, wild boar

In memory of Steve Jobs.

Target market: distraught Mac loyalists, Tim Cook, humble Americans

Featured items: apple martinis, apple pie, apple juice, applesauce, apple butter, sour apple jolly ranchers

Target market: I’m not going to state the obvious

Featured items: ethnically-ambiguous-fusion tacos served in mason jars from a food truck with sriracha sauce

Each purchase includes a complimentary souvenir instagram photo to post to your blog

Target market: alcoholics, recovering alcoholics, high-school students who “just want to grow up already!”

Featured items: liquor chocolates, penne pasta with vodka cream sauce, bourbon pecan pie, beer-battered fish N chips, rum cake

This kind of goes against everything I stand for, but it is definitely making me hungry.

Dedicated to my roommate, Alina, who eats bruschetta at least two times a day, and also has a food blog (and also took the above photo).

Target market: people who are too mature to eat Bagel Bites

Featured items: a variety of crusty breads, soft cheeses, tomatoes, fresh herbs, olive oils and lots of crumbs

Target market:   , Paula Deen, saturated-fat junkies

Featured items: cashew butter, soy nut butter, country crock spread, butterscotch, butter beans, butternut squash

I’ve been living in Raleigh for just about 3 months now, and I’m embarrassed to say that it has taken me that long to check out the buffet scene in the area.

Naturally, I was starting to go through withdrawal.

Which led me to the:

I have a special place in my heart/stomach for chinese buffets. Probably because of the tacky waterfalls and fish ponds and also because I really like dumplings.

Lucky for me, there are at least 3 chinese buffets on Capital Boulevard, about ten minutes from my apartment. We chose the Hibachi buffet because there was a coupon in the paper. Which we didn’t use because lunch was only SEVEN DOLLARS.

I have to say, I wasn’t blown away by this buffet. Richmonders, you will remember my fondness for the Superking buffet. The Hibachi buffet in no way compares to Superking.

I was a bit disappointed in the quantity and selection of food items. In reality, they probably have just as much food as Superking, but the way the buffet tables were organized made it look like less.

Their sushi section was nowhere near as good as Superking, which immediately bummed me out. And unfortunately, their ice cream does not come in tiny individual cups like Superking, which I love (and typically eat at least five of them.)

And I found it very strange that they put shrimp and oysters next to the dessert:

The most awesome thing about this buffet is that it is apparently a hotspot for celebrities.

Not only was Mickey Mouse there, but local Richmond rock band, Against Grace!

So to sum things up, here is how the Hibachi buffet ranked:

Food quality/taste: C

Food selection: B

Price: A

Atmosphere: A

Overall, I’d give it a B. I probably won’t go back because as I said, there are many more buffets in the area that I need to give due diligence to. But I will say that my taste testing group gave the Hibachi buffet a positive thumbs up and were overall pleased with the experience.

Target market: carolers, christmas elves, jack frost nipping at your nose, folks dressed up like eskimos

Featured items: eggnog, chestnuts roasting on an open fire, fruitcake

Happy Holidays!

Target market: people who are grossed out by cannibalism but kind of interested.

Featured items: sour patch kids, gingerbread men, disney princess fruit snacks

I fully support this (and other food & drink related fantasies).

bajillionhits:

Christmas can be pretty exhausting, which is why I can’t believe yet another holiday season is upon us and STILL no one has thought to create Egg Nog Energy Drinks. I think there’s a huge missed market opportunity here.

I’m too busy winning The Whole Internet™ to create these high-powered seasonal treats myself, but in the spirit of holiday giving, here are 15 brand name ideas I just made up for Egg Nog Energy Drinks, which absolutely should exist.

Get your strat together, beverage-makers.

1. Eggstreme Nog

2. Santa Crunk

3. Red Nose

4. NogMonster!!!

5. Four Lokristmas

6. Jingle Juice

7. Noel Throttle

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