First and last time trying this location tonight. It wasn't horrible, just didn't go well for us.
First off, the building is big and the parking lot is huge. From the outside, I was really impressed. I've been to a few Pizza Ranch locations in WI, and this was the nicest looking one of them all, so far.
I knew from the lot that it was going to be busy. Lots of cars at about 6pm. Against my better judgement, we still went inside. There was a short line for the register, it was there I had my second thought that this was a bad idea. $27 for one adult and two kids. Cost wasn't too bad.
We found a table right away, but had to flag down someone to clean it off. The majority of the lobby was occupied. It's a Friday night, what did I expect? Overall, for the amount of people inside, it wasn't as trashed as I thought it might be.
We made our first approach to the buffet. My kids were able to each find a piece of pizza and some mashed potatoes with gravy. I got two slices of pizza. There wasn't much else to grab. We ate what we were able to grab and waited a bit afterwards before heading back to the buffet.
Second trip to the buffet. No pizza available! This is pizza ranch, right?! Kids grabbed more mashed potatoes and gravy and some salad. I decided to wait.
15 minutes later and a few pizzas were put out and snatched up quickly by others. I decided to wait up by the buffet. After while, I was able to get two breadsticks. Still no pizza available.
Probably another 15 minutes passed by, finally one of my kids was able to get another slice of pizza, but definitely not a slice she wanted (mushrooms).
Finally, about 45 minutes into our visit, there was some pizza to choose from. I grabbed a few slices and sat back down. Within a few more minutes, again nothing to grab.
At this point, my kids had been waiting for cheese pizza for about 50 minutes and everything that was put out was being grabbed up quicker than you could get to the buffet. My kids decided to resign to ice cream only to find there were no more ice cream cups available. Thank goodness they arent sheep...they improvised, grabbed a soup bowl, and got some ice cream.
As we were just about to give up, I was able to grab a few slices of taco pizza. Which was really good!
How can a pizza buffet run completely out of pizza? Continuously? On a Friday night? There were plenty of employees visible in the restaurant, so lack of help wasn't the problem.
In the end, I didn't get much pizza and my kids barely got any at all. They were content eating ice cream for dinner, but that was certainly not the plan.
The small amount we ate was not worth $27. It was good, but minimal, at best. We should've stayed home! read more