I've been to this Pizza Hut's Buffet twice this year, the last time being today simply for material for this review. The first visit was not great and since then they have remodeled the dining area so it at least looks like it isn't closed. Previously a large part of it was roped off. My main complaint the first time was that all the pizzas on the buffet table were undercooked, with raw pastry in the center. I wish that was the only criticism I had today. The selection of pizzas has gone down, for the buffet, and the place certainly was not busy. Napkins have been replaced by rolls of paper towels jammed into the salt and pepper caddies at the tables. Interesting. Service was ordinary, they've taken away the sign at the door that says "Wait to be Seated." Eventually someone noticed me. After pouring my soda the guy at the counter walked off into the back of the dining area without a word. I guessed I should follow my drink and apparently was correct.
Lots of this I can forgive, I could care less about the service, all I wanted was abundant decently good pizza. I intended to have a piece of everything offered on the buffet just so I could review it here, and I can eat a lot of pizza. I only managed four slices of today's menu. I appreciate that the pizzas were cooked this time, but I got a little scared when I was biting into what I thought was a sausage pizza or a ham and pineapple pizza and what I tasted didn't match what I saw. There was a lot of uhoh factor in this pizza. The sausage on the sausage pizza was only sausage at first glance. I pried a piece off to taste by itself and I am guessing it's the company's substitute for sausage and is probably the goo that meat packers make from discarded bits of faces and spinal tissue. Probably very nourishing but not real sausage. Has a kind of dark chocolate look to it and I could compare it to very nasty things. I had a piece of what might have been a simple cheese pizza and there was a single Maraschino-red vegetable on it that might have been a tomato. I stared at it awhile in wonder. Why include that? On the Hawaiian slice, the three shreds of pineapple were obviously pulled from a can of pineapple chunks.
I saw a pizza on the buffet that I can't even match to anything on the menu they've posted online. It looked like a big cracker with raspberry jam on it. I didn't try it and to my knowledge no one else did. I sampled the bread sticks, one was cinnamon and has no place on a pizza buffet. The other was what I hoped was garlic bread but no, it must be something people call Italian Herb. Both types were flat, hard and had clearly been in the bins for a long time.
Pizzas on the buffet weren't even hot, the best I got was warm, the worst was cold. I can get cold pizza at home the day after I buy it somewhere. I don't need a restaurant for that. After four pizza slices I quit, I really didn't want to try anything else they had out. read more
