“We wanted to make surecustomers could be seated as quickly as possible, so they’re notspending their holiday waiting in a line.”

“One of the things we see at most buffets in Southern Californiais that, on peak weekends, you typically wait anywhere from half anhour to 1 1/2 hours to be seated,” he said. “The real reason that we went to a larger space was for theconvenience of our guests,” Bembenek said of the upgraded buffet,which will seat 625 guests, compared with 400 in the former TerraceBuffet.