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Duff's Famous Smorgasbord

1969–1996

All-you-can-eat and the birthday cake.

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The all-you-can-eat smorgasbord where a birthday meant free cake and the whole family loaded up trays down a mile-long buffet line under the sneeze guard. The endless-buffet format got squeezed by newer chains, and Duff's faded through the 1990s.

Did you go to Duff's Famous Smorgasbord? What do you remember?

The drive, the dance, the heartbreak, the summer. Add a memory of Duff's Famous Smorgasbord.

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