Golden Corral Recipes (2024)

FAQs

Do Golden Corral waitresses get tips? ›

Golden Corral does not require a percentage tip. You are getting your own food and seating yourself. If they are good at bringing drink refills and hot rolls, a tip of one or two dollars per adult diner is sufficient. Asking for 15 or 20% was way out of line.

That means if you visit Golden Corral between 10:45 AM and 4 PM on weekdays or between 11 AM and 4 PM on Saturdays, you'll pay only $11.49—the lunchtime price for the full buffet. While the lunch and dinner menus may have a few differences, many of the main dishes, sides, and desserts are available throughout the day.

Golden Corral Meatloaf is a classic American dish that's both comforting and delicious. Inspired by the meatloaf served at Golden Corral restaurants, it's a hearty meal made from ground beef mixed with breadcrumbs, onions, garlic, eggs, ketchup, Worcestershire sauce, and a mix of savory herbs and spices.

If you want the restaurant style ranch flavor, you have to use the Restaurant Style Hidden Valley Ranch powder.

A conventional service staff will recommend dishes, take your order, bring food and drinks to the table, and take away your empties. In other words, a buffet server does about half the work, so a 7- to 10-percent tip sounds reasonable.

Federal law prohibits employers from keeping any portion of the tips or from including supervisors or managers in the tip pool. This is true regardless of whether the employer takes a tip credit or pays employees the full minimum wage.

Avoid weekends: Weekends tend to be busier at Golden Corral, especially during breakfast hours [2]. If possible, try to visit on weekdays for a more relaxed dining experience. Arrive early: Getting to Golden Corral when it opens or shortly after can help you beat the rush and avoid long wait times [2].

At Golden Corral, our signature sirloin steaks are cooked-to-order every night of the week. Enjoy a perfectly grilled steak, just how you like it, along with all the salads, sides and buffet favorites you love.

The best time to go to a buffet is relatively soon after it has opened, but not as soon as the staff unlocks the front door. During the first bit of service, the staff may still be setting the food into trays, organizing the restaurant, and preparing for patrons.

Stouffer's® Meatloaf with Gravy features flavorful individual oven-roasted beef meatloaves containing ground beef, onions, tomato puree, green peppers and oats, then smothered with a savory brown gravy.

What's the difference between a meatloaf and a hamburger? ›

Shape: Meatloaf is baked in a loaf pan, so it comes out shaped like a loaf of bread. Hamburgers are round, flat patties cooked in a frying pan or on a grill. Toppings: Meatloaf is often glazed with a ketchup-based sauce before it's done baking.

Every meatloaf recipe requires a binder, otherwise, you don't get the same moisture retention and tenderness when you cook it. Most recipes require bread crumbs soaked in moisture as the binder to improve the quality of your meatloaf, but there are plenty of other options.

Usually, ranch recipes will contain fresh buttermilk, and sometimes sour cream as well, for a tang that is really balanced.

The secret that many restaurants have up their sleeves is seasoning mix. Well-known brands make dry counterparts to their bottled ranch that encapsulate all the flavors, including powdered buttermilk, with none of the additives and oils.

Shady Maple Smorgasbord is located at 129 Toddy Drive, East Earl in Lancaster County, and is the largest buffet in the United States. In 1962, under maple trees, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Martin sold produce along the road, this was the beginning of the Shady Maple Farm Market, according to Shady Maple.

Tipped employees earn the full state minimum wage before tips. In these states, you can't count tips toward the minimum wage requirement. In California, restaurants must pay tipped employees $16 per hour; tips are extra. Tipped employees earn a base minimum wage that's higher than the federal tipped minimum wage.

Generally speaking, servers can make the most money if the food at their restaurant is pricey, and the wines even pricier, since tips are calculated as a percentage of the total of the bill. Higher bill total, higher tips. That means that fine dining restaurants tend to be where servers can make the most money.

Servers typically only serve and refill drinks at Golden Corral locations. Additional tasks may include cleaning and bussing tables and standing in for cashiers, as needed.

Since they make you pay first I am unable to tip. The wait staff most of the time are paid $2.13/hr during open hours for the buffet. They count on tips. A good rule is one dollar per person eating.