It all probably started with the Google buffet lunch party a decade ago.

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Group interviews ended with a robust Mexican buffet-style lunch as we began preparing for one on one interviews with the judges.

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An extreme alternative is Niji, a Japanese Restaurant inside the Hyatt Hotel which offers an opulent lunch buffet and a view of the ocean waves.

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This was probably the first sign that a broader trend was underway, beyond the Google-triggered free-lunch-buffet party in Silicon Valley.

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Fine Midtown Indian restaurant with an attractive setting and good lunch-time buffet that make it worth the visit.l Maya -- 1191 First Ave.

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In fact, if I had been blind folded and asked to guess where I had been taken to lunch, my likely response would have been a buffet-style restaurant, rather than London's St Bartholomew's Hospital.

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