There’s just something about buffets that keeps people coming back to them time after time. They don’t have the greatest food quality and have been poked and prodded by countless people which makes the idea of eating anything under heat lamps an unenthusiastic ordeal. Buffets offer great economic benefits if you can consume more food than the price of your meal. In some instances, the all-you-can-eat buffet model has failed when some individuals ate too much free food and were forced to leave the restaurant. Most of the time, people can’t eat as much food compared to the price of the buffet and the restaurant is able to make a profit. Buffets are great because they have a wide selection of different items. Most of these items can be expensive as entrees or appetizers at a regular restaurant. At a buffet, you get the chance to try all of these dishes for the same price. Also, buffets give regular people the chance to eat expensive items such as crabs legs as much as they want when they’re usually too expensive to purchase at your local grocery store. People have limited incomes and buffets are great for people to stretch their disposable income out. Others feel that buffets are a challenge. If the sign says ‘All-You-Can-Eat’, then people will take on the challenge and see just how much food they can consume in one day. Value and variety are the kings of the day at your local buffet.

If we’re looking for selection and quality, we’re going to hop on a plane and fly to Las Vegas, Nevada. Vegas is the king of buffets by trying to entice gamblers and tourists with lunch specials and cheap prices to keep their stomachs full and their butts inside the casinos. Critics and guests voted the Rio buffet as the best buffet in Vegas. The Rio buffet has more than 300 dishes prepared fresh daily. You can get breakfast, lunch or dinner items and the variety ranges from omelettes or prime rib to sushi or Asian barbecue. In some spots, you can enjoy live-action cooking in front of your eyes and have meals prepared to your liking. There are different ethnic stations set up where you can grab Asian food from one area and go to another spot to get American food. Uniquely, they have a custom noodle soup bar, a choose your own stir fry station, and they have some crab legs and shrimp to peel. For dessert, enjoy more than 70 varieties of homemade pies, cakes and pastries, and nine gelato flavors, all made from scratch on site at Carnival World Buffet. The place can get busy which is a good sign as the food is almost always fresh and is constantly being turned over and not sitting under a heat lamp for hours. The price ranges from 25$ for lunch to 35$ for dinner. There’s a great bonus if you’re a local Vegas resident as you get a 50% discount.

You can check out more about this buffet over at their website at http://www.riolasvegas.com/

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We’re introducing a new series to our website. We’re going to focus on some great family-friendly restaurants for lazy parents who want to bring their kids to a place where they can run around and have fun and drive the staff crazy. The adults can enjoy a meal while their kids are distracted by all the bells and whistles that the restaurant has to offer them.

Many of us look back and fondly remember lazy days of childhood playing toy trains in our basement with our neighborhood pals. Now, kids are focused too much on their iPads and cellphones and don’t enjoy the simpler toys that their parents used to enjoy. Train-themed restaurants are restaurants where your meal is brought to you by a toy train. You simply place your order with a waitress (who is usually dressed up in train engineer attire) and then wait patiently to see the toy train come around the corner with your meal. Many of these restaurants have plenty of train memorabilia on the walls for kids to stare at also help to show the historical information about many of the trains that are operating nearby to help push cargo or bring passengers to their destinations. They are perfect to celebrate a birthday or a milestone and have plenty of seating (including high chairs for the little ones) where the whole family can sit together and enjoy the experience. You’ll find multiple train-themed restaurants in Chicago, Illinois as Chicago is the third largest city in the USA and is the main freight rail hub of North America.

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There’s no denying that we love ourselves a good burger. Burgers used to be made on an assembly line and then shoved under a heat lamp until they were eventually brought over to your table. This old concept can still be found at your older fast food chains that promise low quality meals for a cheaper price. Around 2005, this all started to change with the emergence of made-to-order burger chains like Five Guys burger franchise that made your meals on the spot and contained fresh (not frozen) ground beef. Now, many other franchises have popped up such as Shake Shack that promote the same concept and are making the market increasingly more saturated. How do you change this concept to make your burger joint unique and have a fresh way of doing business?

Well, you start by making your burgers Eco-friendly. Usually, the words ‘burger’ and ‘Eco-Friendly’ don’t always mix. But, in this case, Epic Burger are trying to make you feel good about eating a hamburger again. Epic Burger opened in Chicago in 2008. It’s a privately owned business founded by David Friedman, a Chicago resident since 1983. The cornerstone of their concept is serving beef free of antibiotics and hormones as well as being humanely raised. This means meat that has no drugs pumped into it and won’t cause complications with humans eating too much antibiotics down the road and causing problems with bacteria-resistant diseases. Also, their bacon contains no nitrates. This means that you will have less of a chance of getting heart disease because nitrates can cause your arteries to harden and lead to a possible heart attack down the road. Even their packaging is Eco-friendly. Their plant-based packaging comes from renewable sources such as sugar cane, potatoes, and recycled paper. They’re also picky about their buns, butter, salt and cheese. They make fresh buns with no preservatives, use real butter, sea salt (compare to table salt) and premium Wisconsin cheese. The goal is to create an iconic American food without drugs, artificial colors and flavors, nitrates, phosphates and preservatives. They were recently named ‘Best Burger in Chicago’ by the Cooking Channel’s ‘Burger Wars’. Right now, they have seven locations in Chicago only so you’ll need to take a trip to the Windy City to check them out.

You can check out more about this pizza joint over at their website at http://www.epicburger.com

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We went on the search engines to try and find some new and lazy food gadgets that will make it even lazier to enjoy our favorite meals or our favorite treats. Here’s a roundup of some of the new and unique products that we were able to find on the net.

-Have you ever wanted to drink a beer at your son’s football game and not get yelled at by the other parents for being a lazy drunk? Well, now you can use the power of stealth technology to enjoy any drink that pleases you with the help of the beer belly device. The drink is held in place in an insulated sling under your clothes making it look just like a real home grown beer belly.The device holds 80 ounces of liquid and can fit up to a 40 inch waistline and a height of over 6 feet. The device can let you get drunk in peace while forcing others to think that you’ve ate one too many hamburgers lately.

-There’s nothing more fun about being a kid and building stuff. Little kids like to play with construction blocks and let their imaginations go wild building all sorts of unique things. This love of stacking things together has been brought to life in the form of forks and knives. Now, you can take your utensils and join them together in the cupboard. This process helps to keep the cupboard more organized and can be a great set to take camping with the family and avoid losing any cutlery compared to more traditional utensil sets. It’s also a great tool to get little kids more accustomed with eating with utensils as opposed to using their hands to eat everything.

-Ordinary candy dispensers require individuals to have to put a coin into them to receive their treat. They get touched by hundreds of different hands on a regular basis and there’s a good chance that these machines have all sorts of bacteria and germs on them. These machines are great for lazy people who are too cheap to go and fetch for some extra money and for germophobes who don’t want to put their clean hands on a dirty machine that has been touched way too often for their liking. Also, why waste all of that energy having to turn the darn thing? Simply place your hands underneath the sensor and you can have all of the free candy that your heart desires.

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It’s time to whip up enough tasty and lazy snack. We’re going to take our love of Doritos chips to new heights by crushing them up into millions of tiny pieces and using them as a coating for some chicken breasts. We love recipes like this one because it’s very hard to screw this up. You can overcook these items and the worst that can happen to you will be an extra crispy crust on the outside with the moist texture of the chicken meat still nice and juicy on the inside. The recipe to make this type of chicken is no different than any other breaded chicken recipe. You always need milk, eggs, chicken, some spices and your coating of choice. You can always substitute the Doritos for other stuff such as corn flakes, panko bread crumbs or Italian bread crumbs but we like the cheesyness of the chips instead. You can purchase some Jalapeno or Sweet Chili Doritos if you’re the adventurous type but we’re going to use good old fashioned Nacho Cheese Doritos for our recipe.

Let’s find out how to make this easy recipe at home.

1. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees

2. Take your boneless chicken breasts and cut them up into strips length-wise. Make sure to remove any extra fat that might be on the chicken.

3. Put the chicken breasts into some buttermilk and place them in the fridge for an hour or two.

4. Whip up some eggs.

5. Crush some Doritos by hand or in a blender to make the coating nice and small.

6. Take chicken out of the fridge and drain some of the buttermilk in with the eggs. Take off any excess buttermilk from the chicken and place the chicken in some flour that’s mixed with black pepper, cayenne pepper and some garlic powder. Now place each strip into the egg mixture and then into the Doritos. Repeat this step a second or third time in order to build up a nice thick coating around the chicken.

7. Pour some canola oil or peanut oil into an iron cast pot. Make sure there’s enough oil to soak the chicken completely. We don’t want too much oil as we don’t want the oil to spill over or start a fire. Make sure the oil heats up to between 350-375 degrees and then carefully lower each strip one or two at a time and cook for roughly 2-3 min. on each side until golden brown.

All done! We recommend you serve these with marinara sauce on the side as the cheese goes well with a good tomato dip.

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