Neil Freiman

And that's why we're seeing basically the death of them from over 100 to now six.

But we shouldn't eulogize the buffet in general because they're seeing a revival.

It just doesn't look exactly like what you might see in Vegas.

According to Yelp, their 2026 trends forecast, they said there was a 252% increase in searches for all-you-can-eat buffets near me.

Perhaps that is driven by affordability concerns and inflation, but it's also driven by Asian cuisine.

So if you look at a hot pot chain like

K-Pot, which also does Korean barbecue, they had three locations in 2020.

Now they have more than 150 open.

They're expecting to have that by the end of the calendar year.

So buffets haven't really gone anywhere.

They're just changing.

What is your buffet strategy?

What are you doing?

My buffet strategy is a little bit of everything because that's what I like.

I want to taste every single thing there.

So maybe I'll just take like one morsel of every single thing there, fill up my plate with something that looks like the entire buffet because I just want to taste everything.

I want to get all those different flavors in my mouth.

So that's particularly my strategy.

And Greg Gable is happy to toss in a few coins.

Berkshire Hathaway has a cash pile that's up to $397 billion at the end of the first quarter.