All you can eat places need to be expensive or use cheap food. Restaurants are a business. Sweet Tomato is kind of in between. It is the type of place you go when you don't feel like cooking dinner but don't want to comb your hair. The salad bar is good and you can pile up a bunch of veggies and lettuce for healthy eating. Then you can add some unhealthy carbs at the hot bar. Once or twice a year is plenty.