Talk:El Rancho Hotel and Casino

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Made a few changes to grammar and punctuation. Bigweeboy 14 May 2009

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I'm watching food tech on Modern Marvels right now, and there is no mention of the buffet in the main article here. According to MM, the El Rancho Casino was the first ever buffet in the U.S., and I believe the world, to actually become all you can eat. Starting in Europe back in the 17th Century, Aristocrats would use it as a way of displaying their fine serving wear and linens, it caught on in Europe and the rest of the world.

The buffet didn't become all you can eat until 1948 when the local promoter for the El Rancho set out plates of cold food on tables to attract gamblers. It became such a hit, they opened up the first all you could eat buffet restaurant inside the casino, only charging a buck for the buffet, and I believe is the origin of the phrase 'Buckaroo Bonzai' as it were, and soon after, all the Vegas casinos were doing it.

I wanted to add this info to the main article because it's such a cool piece of Americana, but I need to hunt down some outside reference sources later for external linking in the ref section before I post it.

Rekuzan (talk) 00:55, 6 November 2010 (UTC)Reply

The first buffet was at the El Rancho Vegas across the street, not this property but instead the resort that this one was eventually named after. See http://gaming.unlv.edu/ElRanchoVegas/dining.html. 68.224.130.221 (talk) 17:37, 4 February 2013 (UTC)Reply

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