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    Buffet City

    2.5 (48 reviews)
    Closed 11:00 am - 9:00 pm

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    Moderate noise
    Good for kids
    Good for groups

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    Dennis Y.

    Buffet City is one of my favorite places. The food is very good! Shrimp, Lo Mein, rice, sesame chicken, several other dishes are available. Its been there for quite some time so a lot of people like it. And the employees are nice. However.... I visited tonight and was disappointed by a couple of things. 1. No silverware anymore. Theyve gone to plastic forks. I'm sorry but if I'm going to pay $17 for a meal, I'd at least like to have real cutlery to work with. 2. One dangerous element was that the floor are very slippery. Perhaps from condensation, i don't know. They have signs down warning that the floors were slippery, but this was unreal. A customer has the right to expect a safe environment to eat. And if someone had a bad fall and decided to sue, I'm sorry but those little plastic signs aren't going to protect the restaurant. Put a few mats down for crying out loud! Fix that and the review would be better. But again, the food is very good.

    food is definitely the absolute worst Chinese I have ever have eaten ! Service was not terrible, pretty sure they can't speak any English because they don't talk , there's no music playing or tvs you can hear everyone talking at there tables and I will never go back and if you read all of this just don't go like I did to just try just in case you didn't believe the reviews waste of time and you will be going straight to the bathroom immediately

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    Blaine F.

    STAY AWAY Just stopped to get sweet and sour chicken ( chicken is hard as brick,shrimp was old ) Pretty much the whole buffet was stale and when I ask for fresh fried rice she tried to charge me $3.20 for that on top of $9.80 for the plate that is inedible and cold. God Bless and good luck if you go here.

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    The fried chicken had so much hair on it. a little too much. banana pudding was right next to raw shrimp ? odd

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    Food is decent. Inexpensive. 10.99 for dinner. Ate until I just couldn't anymore lol.

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    This is the worst I had ever eaten food Health is poor service There are bugs in food restaurants like this how possible I won't come again

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    Stopped in after the 'Bama game. Good service and a nice selection of hot items at dinner time. Good eats!

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