On the request on my grandkids, I have taken them to a Round Table Pizza near my house a few times this month. I hadn't been to one in years, so on our first visit, I was impressed. The salad bar was good and the ingredients were fresh, with a good variety of the usual offerings, and the pizza was also good. They both ate their fair share of slices, making the kid's buffet price worth it.
Yesterday, we were a little out of our area, and the kids being hungry, I looked for a Round Table Pizza nearby and found this one on Golden Lantern. It was 11:10 when we walked in. There were two men having salads, but no other customers, and no pizza under the heat lamps. I assumed it would be out shortly, but I was very, very wrong.
I paid, took my younger grandson to the restroom, came back, got our plates, helped my younger grandson get his drink, filled my salad plate, and started back to the table when the man at the counter asked me what kind of pizza the kids liked. I thought that was strange since I assumed that the pizza was already cooking and well on its way to being brought. Wrong again!!
The kids were a little patient asking several times where the pizza was, drinking, then refilling their drinks, their hunger being satisfied by some cheese bread that came out about 11:30, but still no pizza.
I ate my salad, but didn't enjoy it, feeling guilty that I was eating and they weren't. Finally at 11:40, ...40 minutes after they opened, and 30 minutes after we got there..., three pizzas came out: cheese, pepperoni, and barbecued chicken...ALL THREE WITH BURNT CRUST!I I took a slice of the cheese and one of pepperoni for each of the grandkids, along side of the two men who also immediately got up to get pizza. I didn't wait in line behind them even though they had been there first, and I didn't instruct the grandkids to wait their turn as I normally would have. They were hungry, and I was being a grandmother bear. They needed their food, and had waited long enough. When I brought the kids back to the table, then and only then did I go back for a slice for me. Again, disappointment!! All that was left was barbecued chicken. The men, rightly so, had taken all the rest of the cheese and of the pepperoni, and I don't blame them one bit! They had waited even longer than we had.
So back to the table I went with my barbecued chicken slice. I'm Italian. I like pizza. I come from back east where some of the best pizza is made. I've even had pizza in Italy, BUT I HAVE NEVER, EVER, EVER HAD BARBECUED CHICKEN PIZZA! I ate the topping off, and waited for a decent slice of pepperoni. Finally, about 20 minutes later, more pies came out. By then, there were more people coming in, I was disgusted, and the kids, who had filled up on drinks and cheese bread, and weren't very happy with the dry toppings and the burnt crusts, didn't want any more.
I would consider our visit to have been a waste of money, and I would have asked for my money back and left during the wait if the kids had not been with me, but kids learned some valuable lessons, but expensive lessons, the most important being that we will never, never go back to this Round Table Pizza again. Bad staff? Bad management? Slow ovens? Who knows, but I would not give it a second shot. read more