Buffet Inc.
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Buffets, Inc. is a company that owns American national chains of buffets.
As of October 1, 2004, Buffets, Inc. and its affiliated companies operated 376 restaurants in 37 states.
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[edit] History
The company was founded by Roe Hatlen and C. Dennis Scott in 1983. Scott left in 1989 to start HomeTown, but the two chains merged back together in September 1996. The current Chief Executive Officer is R. Michael Andrews.
On November 1, 2006, Buffets Inc. acquired Ryan's Restaurant Group adding 340 Ryan's Grill Buffet and Bakery and Fire Mountain Grills locations.[1]
[edit] Chains
- Country Buffet
- Fire Mountain Grills
- Granny's Buffet Kennewick, Washington
- HomeTown Buffet
- Old Country Buffet (often referred to using the acronym OCB)
- Ryan's Grill Buffet and Bakery
- Tahoe Joe's Famous Steakhouse, which has nine locations in California.[2]
[edit] Mascots
At Kennewick's Granny's Buffet, OC Bee is also the mascot, only the name is changed as "G Bee".
[edit] In popular culture
- In the South Park episode Grey Dawn it appears as Country Kitchen Buffet.
