Last year I ate at Golden Corral, and since I was trying not to eat too much heavy food, I decided to eat from the salad bar. I was the only one out of all of us that did. That night, I had the worst food poisoning (or stomach virus idk) that I had ever had in my life. My stomach felt as if someone was stabbing me, and I kept constantly having to use the bathroom from around 7pm all the way until 4am the next day (I'm trying not to be too detailed with this. It was awful). It was so awful that I almost asked someone to take me to the hospital, until finally it "calmed down" around 4am.
Thank god I didn't have work the following day because I felt as if I had been hit by a train and was weak as fuck. Since then, that same location shut down permanently (before the pandemic) and honestly I'm not surprised. I will never eat at Golden Corral again. It's fucking garbage.