Word: buffet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like Club Med's individual customers, corporations are drawn by the promise of a relatively inexpensive package deal. It typically includes airfare, accommodations, three buffet-style meals a day, theme parties and nightly entertainment, all for an average per-person price of $1,100 a week. More than 20 villages, from Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic to Phuket in Thailand, have installed personal computers for executives to toy with when far away from the office. The new appeal to companies helped increase Club Med's revenues by 17% last year, to $843 million, and profits...
...intended to house bulky experimental gear, it has much more living space inside. Crew members have separate "cabins," or cubicles, each equipped with a folding chair, a desk, a mirror and a sleeping bag. The common area of the space station's living unit features a dining table, a buffet built into a nearby bulkhead, and exercise equipment for the crew. The station is fitted with a large number of portholes, providing views from all four sides of Mir. One oversize porthole has been installed in the floor for viewing the earth's surface...
...parents, Bob and Jeanne Johnson. The elder Perssons have previously "swung up into Canada a couple of times" and driven as far as Tennessee, but this is the trip of a lifetime for them. Like other first timers in Las Vegas, they are dazzled, even by breakfast. The $1.99 buffet at a casino called Circus Circus stretches, at least in the recounting, "from here to that telephone pole" across the parking lot. "You had to walk a block," says Bob Johnson...
...comes to the size of his portions, the avid French gourmet usually avoids the gargantuan in favor of the petit. The merest taste of his favorite cuisine, he reasons, ought to be sufficient. No more. Last week French chefs banded together to challenge the world record for the longest buffet. The result of their labors: an 846-ft. table filled with an appetizing array of food. The creation was unveiled during a Mardi Gras celebration at the World Tourism and Travel Show in Paris and offered dishes representing all the departments of France, including the Indian Ocean island of Reunion...
...delicacies on the menu: pigs' feet cassoulet, beaver confit, stuffed goose's neck, eel gratin and frog tart. Other attractions were a 4-ft. 5-in. candied Eiffel Tower, a 10-ft. vegetarian paella dish and a gigantic cooking pot 10 ft. in diameter and 5 ft. deep. The buffet organizers topped off the pot presentation with a pinch of culinary cuteness: they had a jazz band called Haricots Rouges (translation: Red Beans) play music...