Souper!Salad!

• Souper Salad offers a large variety of healthy alternatives to the usual all-you-can-eat food bar. The menu changes daily, but each day they offer five different soups, six different prepared salads, a 40-foot salad bar, a baked potato bar, a taco bar, fresh breads, some light desserts and a soft serve sundae station. There are vegetarian or vegan offerings every day, as well as a gluten-free menu. Souper Salad is in 13 states from Nevada to Georgia.
  
  

Furr's Family Dining

• When you want to feed a family of big eaters, Furr's Family Dining is the place to go. This buffet restaurant features a very large menu of filling dishes with a seemingly endless variety of side dishes. One day's menu offerings included chili and cheese enchiladas, catfish and hush puppies, pinto beans with gravy, sirloin steak, fried okra, sweet carrot casserole and many more dishes, including 17 different desserts. Furr's is in seven states in the central-southern part of the country.
  
  

The Lady and Sons

• When it comes to southern buffet restaurants, only one celebrity comes to mind for many people: Paula Deen. Deen, along with her two sons, runs the restaurant The Lady and Sons in Savannah, Georgia. While part of the restaurant has a regular menu, they still offer a cafeteria-style buffet menu that features deep southern-style cooking. Fried chicken, country fried steak, black-eyed peas and collard greens are just some of the local specialties for which Paula Deen is famous. The Lady and Sons is open seven days a week, but Sunday is only for lunch buffet.
  
  

DOC's Barbecue and Southern Buffet

• Doc's is entrenched in the middle of Columbia, South Carolina, and has endeared itself to many local barbecue fans. The menu here isn't as varied as some cafeteria-style restaurants, but they take pride in that. According to Doc's, they'd rather do just a few things really well. They offer hardcore southern fare such as catfish stew, pepper vinegar BBQ, black-eyed peas and bread and butter pickles.