How we compare casino buffets

Prices

Every price is the casino's standard published adult price for that sitting — weekday unless marked otherwise — before tax, service, and drinks packages, read from the official buffet page at the snapshot date — or, where a property publishes no prices, from multiple convergent independent sources, noted on that buffet's page — and cross-checked against a recent independent source. Holiday and special-event pricing is excluded. Prices drift between refreshes, so every buffet page links to the official site to check the current price.

Ratings

The rating blends the public Google, Yelp, and TripAdvisor scores visible at curation time — averaged across whichever of those the buffet has, to one decimal out of 5 — with the approximate combined review count shown for scale. It's a summary of public opinion, not our restaurant review.

Value score

Value = (rating − 3.0) ÷ dinner price × 100 — quality above mediocre, per dollar. For buffets without a dinner sitting we use the most expensive sitting they do serve. Examples: a 4.4-star buffet at $35 scores 4.0; a 4.5-star flagship at $85 scores 1.8; a 3.2-star cheapie at $25 scores 0.8. The 3.0 baseline is the point: merely cheap doesn't rank — cheap and good does.

Discounts

We list the discount programs each property publishes — players club, locals, military, senior, and kids pricing. These change more often than the prices do; treat them as "ask at the register" leads, not guarantees.

Coverage & refresh

The list covers every operating Las Vegas buffet plus the headline buffets in each other US market — curated, not exhaustive, because a shorter list we can actually verify beats a long one we can't. The snapshot is refreshed roughly quarterly.

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