HFC,
The website has been updated with the newest issue now.

It's just as well if they remove the buffet. Their buffets are usually dried up and nasty. Better to order off the menu. After reading about the expired shelf goods being sold,though, I wonder what they're saving in the fridge?

It seems that most of the flying hooks around the country still have full service buffets though, but some better than others. At most of them they seem to always overcook the fried chicken, and food that's not fresh is one of my pet peeves about a lot of the J's. But they usually have some decent menu choices, and the pizza they sell at the restaurant foyer is usually pretty good, but expensive. If they close down all their buffets, oh well. Getting too fat anyway.

I was at the Flying J buffet at Exit 104 (Interstate 95) in Carmel Church, Virginia this past Saturday (10-11-200 at 11 am.

I noticed: being waited on in five seconds or less. Shown to my seat. When I went to go get food I noticed a Flying J restuarant worker (who was not a wait person nor a kitchen staff) working with a cart of cleaning supplies. She was mopping off the surfaces of the buffet and of the glass in the sneeze shields. Never seen that before. As soon as my glass of sweet tea became empty, it was replaced with a new glass. Now, in terms fo the quality of the food ... the fried chicken needs help. I think it should have the word "Goodyear" branded onto each piece. I saw an item that I have never encountered before, "Turkey Pot Pie", it was very good. The salad bar, which I thought was the best in the truck stop industry did not have pickle spears or pickle chips this day. However, the peaches were excellent, just like eating them if they had been taken off of the tree right then and there. I think that drivers and others should go to the Flying J website, search for the most recent issue of the "Long Haul" magazine, find the article about the changes in the restuarant, and find the e-mail address listed in that particular article to let Flying J know what is good, bad or indiffernt with their food services.

Sorry about that icon showing up instead of the number eight. I don't know how that happens. It's supposed to be two thousand and eight for the year.

I think why the food tastes the same at every Flying J is that the main company sends the same cooking equipment/food supplies to each FJ and there are instructions on how to use said equip/food. So you end up with the Goodyear Chicken.

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That's the way it works in most restaurant chains! Boring, boring, boring. That way, they don't have to pay as much for kitchen staff - open bag, box, or can - follow directions and serve!

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Dynamite comes in small packages, Nitro comes in smaller ones, take your pick!

That's the way I cook at home LOLL!!

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Dear Sir,

In view of current trends in world banking, I write to inquire - if one
of my checks is returned marked "insufficient funds", does that
refer to me - or to you?

Yours etc

That's most of the cooking around here too! I do have a few things that I make that are more involved, but not much. Chili, stew, meatloaf, etc. I don't do soups and things like that from scratch though. Baking is my specialty!

My hubby is the real chef around here. One of these days when he's home again, I'm going to have to get him to make me some seafood alfredo - the from scratch kind where you can feel your arteries clogging just looking at it!

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I didn't say it was your fault, I said I was going to blame you.

Dynamite comes in small packages, Nitro comes in smaller ones, take your pick!

In that article about the new slant on food services that appeared in the October 2008 edition of Flying J's Long Haul magazine, they are getting a "new sheriff in town" at Food Services. I think she is going to shake things up and bring good things to Flying J restuarants in North America.