the French
No. It is French.
Most of the time, "buffet." It could depend on your context.
Partie sous forme de buffet.
un buffet
buffet
If you mean as in a 'help yourself' meal, it's French.
Buffet is a French word that originally referred to a sideboard or a small table used for serving food. It later evolved to refer to a meal where guests serve themselves from a variety of dishes laid out on a table. In the context of Warren Buffett, however, the word "buffet" is just his last name and does not have any linguistic origin.
buffet
FROM JUPITER, OR FRANCE..... YEAH FRANCE, I THINK....
One sentence for the word buffet is; Jeff works at the local buffet in the afternoons.
Cie is a French abbreviation for the word Compagnie. Compagnie translates to Company in English. So basically the name of the company is Buffet Crampon & Co.