Buffets - Great Deal or Paying for Crap?

I go to a chinese buffet near work once or twice a week. It's fairly decent, especially at $5.99. It is not the best chinese food that I have ever had, but the General Tso's chicken and sweet/sour chicken are tough to screw up, so that's typically what I fill my plate with. As for other types of buffets, sometimes I will go to this locally owned pizza place that does buffet lunch, and it's fairly good. The woman who runs the place will come out and ask us what kind of pizzas we like, so she can toss one in the oven for us. Pretty cool. For any other kind of buffet, I am more than a little apprehensive about going to them. Either the food is really bad, the selection is really bad, or both {often times both}.

Jam it back in, in the dark.