Buffet, sometimes called buffet dinner, is an informal western-style banquet which is widely used in the world at present, especially in large-scale business activities. Its specific practice is that instead of preparing dinner, diners can choose their own food and drink at will, and then stand or sit down and eat freely with others or alone. Buffet is called buffet, mainly because it can arouse the subjective initiative of diners when eating, and they can help themselves and arrange and choose dishes within the established scope. As for it, it is also called a cold dinner party, mainly because the food it provides is mainly cold food. Of course, provide some hot dishes in moderation, or provide some semi-finished products to be processed by the diners themselves.

buffet is a way of eating which originated from western food. The chef will display the cooked cold and hot dishes and snacks on the long table in the restaurant, and the guests can eat at will and serve themselves. This form of dining originated from Scandinavian cold food and Hunt breakfast in northern Europe in the 8th-11th century.

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According to legend, this was the first way for pirates to eat at that time. Up to now, many cafeterias around the world are still named after "pirates". Pirates are so rude and bohemian that they hate those dining etiquette and rules when eating. They only ask restaurants to put all kinds of meals and drinks they need in containers and concentrate them on the table, and then they will drink and eat without restraint. Pirates, a special dining form, was initially regarded as an uncivilized phenomenon, but over time, people felt that this way also had many advantages. For customers, they were free from any constraints when dining, and they could take whatever they wanted and eat as much as they wanted. For hotel operators, because of the elimination of the customer's desk service, it naturally saves a lot of labor and manpower, which can reduce the use of waiters and reduce the cost of employing people for enterprises. Therefore, this self-service dining method quickly became popular in Europe and the United States, and with the constant pursuit of food, the form of buffet gradually developed from cold food and breakfast before meals to lunch and dinner; From light meals to various theme buffets, such as Valentine's Day buffet, Christmas buffet, weekend family buffet, celebration buffet, wedding buffet, food festival buffet, etc. According to the mode of supply, from the traditional guests to eat, the finished food table has developed into on-site cooking before the guests, cooking and eating now, and even developed into a "self-made" buffet where customers help themselves with food raw materials and cook and eat themselves.