Fallen Grizzly,
You might be onto something........car guys always want to eat.....good food....cheap cost...
big parking lot...... good combination. Can the meet cars be easily seen from the road? At some
meets they cut on their flashers to attract drive-by traffic. Closed hoods are just a parked car,
but open hoods are a meet! At Best Buy in Tampa, the cars are as close as they can get to the road....and people spread as the crowd gets bigger.

All meets start small, sometimes two guys with hoods up and a pizza......

Sometimes when I go into a restaurant close to a meet, I say words
to the effect: "I stopped by to look at those import cars out there and thought I would come
in and spend some money while I was here." They can see that, but when I tell them, it's
a little like "paying rent" (so to speak) on the parking lot..... LOL I want to get it in their
mind that if the cars were not there, I would not be there with my wallet out...... LOL

Your quote:
".......Ichiban buffet in village lakes shopping center in land of lakes.......food good, cheap and
they got pretty big empty lot...."