Strangely, I don't think that I had been to a Golden Corral for years. Then in the last three weeks, I've been multiple times. I don't know why. To make it even more interesting, I actually ate more at the salad bar than I did at the meat/entree bar. Go figure.
The salads are actually pretty decent. I'm not an expert by any means, but I really enjoyed the variety of selection when it came to lettuce, as well as toppings for the salads and even the various soups they had.
Don't get me wrong, I went back and picked up a few sides here and there to go with it (don't want to spend my $10 and eat a salad), but I didn't gorge myself on all you can eat ribs either.
Sweet Tea Report: The sweet tea in the front (where you pay your bill) is almost always excellent. But the sweet tea in the back - where the servers get your refills - is almost always not sweet. So ask your server to get your refills from the front and you'll be good. Otherwise it's horribly not sweet.