

Buffets
Technically Economics by Cassidy Shubatt and Dominic Russel
S2 · E6
Apr 13, 2026
59:41
Episode notes
Dominic tries to convince Cassidy that buffets are technically economics.
Mentioned:
- “Yelp’s 2026 Food & Drink Trends”
- “Man who ate 100 plates of sushi banned from all-you-can-eat buffet” by Jaroslav Bobrowski
- “The Flat-Rate Pricing Paradox: Conflicting Effects of “All-You-Can-Eat” Buffet Pricing” by David R Just and Brian Wansink
- “Paying Too Much and Being Happy About It: Existence, Causes, and Consequences of Tariff-Choice Biases” by Anja Lambrecht and Bernd Skiera
- “Nudge” by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein
- “The Framing of Decisions and the Psychology of Choice” by Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman
- “Mental Accounting and Consumer Choice” by Richard Thaler
Keywords
economics
buffets
all-you-cant-eat
behavioral