I'm disappointed to see the low-rankings, because I love this place. I've been eating at Marino's since I was in 1st grade and that was about 20 years ago. Every time I come home to Jackson I eat here. I think the pizza is very good, and the folks who work here are friendly. I miss Marino's. Go Mounties!!! read more

I wanted to give at least a 2 Star on this but the longer I sit here with this meal, the worse it gets. The pizza crust is like a cracker. The Caesar salad has red onions all chopped into it. It showed up cold. I can't blame Door Dash for that as they picked it up when it was scheduled. You can see by the photo how the crust is like a cracker. And I can't even begin to understand red onion on a Caesar salad. Really disappointing. read more

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Big arcade and super yummy everything!! Great place for birthday party and lots of room! , Win stuff at the arcade!! Yummy yummy!!!

It's cheap, it's decent but not much to say about it! Went inside once it has arcade inside kinda looked like chunky cheeses knock off, with a lot less games! read more

If I could leave no stars I would. Don't bother coming here. The worst pizza I have ever had. Buffet only. Gross

Mean old lady who answered the phone (after ringing 10 times!). Talked to a buddy, he told me about Slice n'Dice right down the street..... I immediately called back and cancelled the order. Can't wait to try this new spot, pretty cool theme. BOYCOT MARINO'S! read more

Always been a family favorite for years but now it's like they don't care no passion at all. Quality of food has declined to a point of no return. Have a child who is allergic to dairy and even though we request no cheese pizza arives with more cheese then on the pizza we ordered just cheese on. just not acceptable we have not made any reviews about it over the last year but we tried them again tonight as one last shot it it was the same story. read more

Went there for the pizza buffet which USED to be good. There were not many customers there when we came in. The pizza was old and dried up so we waited for them to refresh the buffet. There were three different employees who walked around and looked at the buffet but did nothing to refresh it. Their main concern was to fill up their drinking glasses and ignore it and walk away. Finally when additional customers came in a fourth employee checked the buffet and threw all of the pizza slices out because they were old leaving the buffet empty. After 15 minutes more they finally brought two pizzas which were partially sliced. They made no further attempt to put any more out while we were there. Poor customer service at best. read more

Really bad pizza. Pathetic salad bar. No coffee. No reason to come here unless you have little kids who play arcade games or you just like to eat a lot of really bad pizza. read more

Marino's Pizza - Pizza Buffet - Pizza Near Me - Jackson, Michigan

Marino's seems to be going downhill. It used to be a good place to grab a quick lunch. Their pizza buffet was good (not great) but even decent pizza is pretty good and the salad bar was fairly well stocked and finally, they have Pepsi products so I can have my beloved Mt. Dew with my meal. That was then, now it seems they just don't want business. I went for a late lunch today and the buffet was empty, nothing there at all. Which isn't too big of a deal. I'm sure they would have whipped up a pie, even with toppings I picked, that is if the lady at the counter had even acknowledged I walked in. I guess her phone call (sounded personal) was more important. She didn't even give me a sign she'd be right with me. I walked in, pulled out my wallet to pay for the buffet and she walked in back. I waited a for a bit but she never came back out. read more

We decided to do a get together with family for my daughters 7th birthday party, I had heard great things about this place for parties so I figured I'd try it out. I went in the day before and discussed everything with a lady and she was helpful and assured me everything would be just fine and she told me to wait and put my order in when we got there. I decided to have all the adults eat off the buffet because that made the most sense at the time and we had to need the $150 mark in order to have one of the Back rooms. When we first got there the lady behind the counter was less than friendly. The kids party pack was not put together ( I called 4 hours a head of time to confirm our party size so they could get the party stuff around) the party pack included 10 token - party favor and a balloon. The young girl that was also work behind the counter put the party package together within 20 mins and on this trey sets a dinky tiny little plastic frog and a deflated balloon. Now when they say balloon on a party package for kids you would assume it's inflated. I'm nope not here, how annoying is that?! Well at this point whatever, well the kids party package included two slices per kid, we out the pizza order in and it took almost 45 mins for us to get our pizzas and our pizzas right that came with the kids pack. Any time we needed to ask for something I felt like we were inconveniencing either the older lady or the younger girl who let's be honest had some of the worst customer service manners I had ever seen in my life not jus to us but there was another group in there also experiencing the same kind of stuff. Now the adults eating off the buffet had little to choose from half the time because the pizza bar was not kept stocked like it should of and the pizza that was left up there was dry! The garlic bread was cry, the salad bar was gross the lettuce was brown and wilted and once again when I asked for new it was a huge inconvenience. So all in all the pizza was gross, the customer service was horrid And especially DONT do the party package it's a waste of money. I will include a photo of the kids "party package" read more

Marino's Pizza - a red plastic frog - Pizza Near Me - Jackson, Michigan

The female owner is an absolute terror to her staff, and rude to customers. Have you seen the show "Hell's Kitchen"? That's Marino's! Old, frozen food reheated and served with a snarl. The only thing fresh is the pizza and subs. Considering the state of the kitchen, might not be a good idea though. Not quite sure how this place has stayed in business. read more

I would specifically NEVER TAKE CHILDREN TO THIS RESTAURANT. See the WARNINGS about bringing children here, below. Marino's Buffet is on the way to going out of business. I can't remember ever seeing a restaurant with so many things done horribly wrong. I really wanted this buffet to be our new "go-to" place near M-127 on the way up to our cottage ... but instead it was one of the worst restaurants I've seen in many years. Total lack of management, horrible food quality, complete lack of sanitation, and cutting of corners in every possible way. When you come in for the buffet, they hand you two plates from behind the front counter (assumedly one for salad and one for pizza). There are no further clean plates available. This means that you have to re-use these plates if you return to the buffet. This is expressly against health department regulations which state you have to use a new plate for each trip to get more food. They are trying to not have to pay employees to do dishes, and they are trying to limit the amount of food you eat. Just put the damn plates out. The plates and silverware were so dirty I had to re-wash all of it myself. They have *cut* some combination of soap ... dish machine sanitizer ... or water temperature in the dishwasher. Cutting costs. The salad bar was horrible. Very *few* items ... cutting out things like blue cheese dressing and many other very standard salad bar items. We were there for 1 hour, and in that time there were 7 tables which remained completely un-bussed and strewn with filth and dirty dishes ... *for our entire visit*. Not a single dirty dish was removed from the dining room. There were no table settings. No salt & pepper, no toppings (parmesan cheese and/or pepper flakes - RPF), no napkins, no nothing. We ordered the pizza buffet. They had ONE, SINGLE, old, hard cold pizza on the buffet. When I inquired what was going on with the pizza, I was told more would be made. This took so long however that we ended up filling up on salad and the cold pizza before more was put out. We were totally ripped off. When the new pizza did arrive on the buffet, it was one single pizza which the cook had simply taken various toppings and jumbled them all together (including pineapple). By the time we left, a couple more pizzas that came out were the same! NO specific combinations whatsoever. This was not a "supreme" style pizza ... which has multiple toppings distributed on *all* the pieces. Made so poorly I wondered if the cook was making an angry statement. They claimed that "garlic bread" was part of the buffet, but when it finally came out near the end of our stay, it was flat, greasy and hard as a rock and with no hint of garlic. It would have been just as easy for them to take the dough and make it into breadstick shapes. Instead they took a pizza crust, put some prep (grease) on it, and threw it in the oven. Garbage. The sauce on the pizza I recognized immediately as having taken canned tomato paste, cut it with water, and added sugar. It was horribly sweet. Absolutely awful. AGAIN, cost cutting. WARNING: an issue with bringing CHILDREN to this restaurant. The restrooms are back in the game area in a dark side-hall and completely out of view of parents unless you stand there in that hallway and monitor. In the men's room there are only two toilet stalls and one children's urinal. NOTABLY, anyone using the urinal has their private parts completely exposed and on full display because of the two large mirrors at the sink directly reflecting the front of one's body. That means, if you or your children are waiting to use one of the toilets etc (which is likely because the restaurant's seating capacity appears to far exceed the restroom facilities allowances), it is a total PEEP SHOW of adult or children's privates. (Not sure how they got away with the seating vs restroom capacity issue.) Folks, anyone can follow your children into the restroom from the game area and you'd never know unless you stood there and kept watch. I would NEVER bring children to this place. Positives? The price is quite cheap ... and includes beverage. They have a selection of ice cream up by the cash register at additional cost. The location is a *great* location. Near the freeway, easy to get to, nice neighborhood (they should be doing *gangbusters* business here). The parking lot is fairly easily accessible. That's it. With as bad as every single thing was in the front of the house at this restaurant, I would bet good money that they are in TOTAL VIOLATION of health code in the kitchen. This kind of total lack of Controls, SOP's and lack of management is FOOD POISONING waiting to happen, folks. I strongly recommend people who have been ripped off and suffered through a visit to this restaurant call the Health Department and request an inspection be done. To the owners: ... *close* this restaurant and STOP RIPPING PEOPLE OFF . CLOSE IT! read more

Tried this place for the first time. Pizza was really good. Wings were okay nothing special. Our order was to go place needs a make over and the old lady is rude to the staff. read more

If I could write zero stars I would.this place sucks the pizza sucks the games suck.i don't get why anyone would ever go to this place.the salad bar had iceberg lettuce mushrooms cheese some disgusting pasta salad.there were two pizzas on the buffet and when I asked little Johnny or whoever the pip squeak at cashier where was the za?he got this attitude like I was hassling him.thank god I lied and told these idiots my kids were were four they bought it my kids are 8 and 9 I think I should have told them I was 4 too.this place needs a makeover badly. read more

Family owned small business. You aren't going to walk in and feel blown away by looks, but it's my favorite pizza and it has been since I was 5 years old and would go play at the arcade. I think Marino's is a center piece to the community. A must try read more

I just ate here for the first time in about 15 years, and was pleasantly surprised by their pizza buffet. Good crust, good sauce, and plenty of cheese make for a tasty slice. The salad bar also had lots of options, not that I was interested in salad. Sometimes pizza and I just want to be alone. read more

I just tried the new location at Mich ave and robinson road and I was not impressed with the pizza at all . It would seem that you would make your very best pies when first opening up so they would get repeat business . Well , if this was their very best , I would hate to see the everyday pizza . Almost no toppings and skimpy on the cheese . I won't be back , ever . read more

I love Marino's but the smaller one on the other side of town on Horton Road is a beeter buffet stop for pizza. Here they are stingy bringing out the fresh pizza and makes no difference how busy they are. The other Marinos kept the pizzas coming and our group was the only ones there between lunch and dinner time. The pizza here is good but the other Marinos is better. read more

This place is not what it use to be took the family out tonight bad mistake first:customers service was horrible second:the pizza was awful after u wait 30-35min for the pizza for the buffet half of the pizza's was uncooked and the rest of them was horrible my son is 3 and he love pizza now if a 3 year old and 7 other kids say the pizza is bad is a problem third:the soda machine didnt have ice and the pop taste like rust Four:Games half of the games work and i almost done whats the saddest part five: I couldnt even watch the michigan and Michigan state basketball game today because they only had one channel that works with all them tv's there worst 200 dollars i spent in a whole time so if u looking for a nice place to take your family out for a night u might want to think long and hard before u choose this spot and they didnt even cut the pizzas right what so hard about cutting the pizza...... read more

The manager is not very accommodating - we called to get the hours and were told it stayed open until 9:00 PM. We got there at 7:45 and were told we could not order or use the dining room as they were closing soon. It is not worth it to go thru the hassle of just ordering pizza. It would be nice if they were taken over by new management, Very unpleasant place to eat. read more

I will never go back in this trash house. Managers rude , staff and everyone ignores you, the pizza is not refilled at the buffet, it's dirty , and when you ask about more pizza on the buffet , they tell you it's being made , while the kitchen help is talking and clowning. Simply put they don't care what you think. Check out yelp for reviews. I see another business closing down soon . Demand better jackson read more

This is the first time I have ever walked out of a restaurant leaving the entire meal on the table; awful!

We stopped here after our soccer games. The staff was friendly, the food was fast, kids enjoyed playing the games. The pizza buffet was very convenient for our large group. The pizza itself was good, nothing fancy or outstanding, just good. read more

I use to have my younger year birthdays here and enjoyed it all the time, we decided to take my son there for his birthday with a cpl other kids since it was Tuesday kids day. Walked into an empty place and still got crappy service. The girl behind the counter acted like she didn't want to be there, let alone wanted to count out the tokens we had bought! Got frustrated and slammed some tokens into a bucket. I dont think she ever even smiled! Then she seemed bother that I wanted to order the salad bar on top of the purchase we had just made. Trust me, had I of known the lettuce was wilted and warm, I wouldn't have ordered it. Good thing I did though so I had ranch for the dry pizza. On top of all that, we still managed to have a good time for my son's birthday, including having to have someone fix the machines a couple times because it wouldnt give us any tickets or it wouldnt take our tokens. Finally we just gave up. Turned our tickets in and the girls seemed bothered we had 3 kids trying to get prizes for the tickets they had won. For a FAMILY restaurant, the service was lacking in the friendly part. Especially when it came to the kids. I dont think we will ever make that mistake again. No pride whatsoever. read more

The restaurant is not clean at all. The floors need mopping. The door glass needs cleaning. The surfaces behind counter was smudged and dirty. Even the drive through window was absolutely dirty. I even talked to the manager and she tried to blame it on kids. This place is a mess from the time you walk in. After guest left, the tables were even left a mess for a long time. read more

Terrible service, terrible pizza and just dirty! Half the games didn't work, the electrical cords are all over and the changing table is in the hall way not the bathroom! Absolutely awful. read more