Ye's Buffet — Restaurant in Winnipeg

Monitor your bill. Make sure you're charged the correct amount. Beware there is a sign on the tables that they will charge for food wastage. I don't know about this one. I would have like to have heard mention of it prior to being seated. It can create potentially unnecessary and awkward situations, as it did for us. We were scolded for not finishing something we did not like. This place would not be my go to restaurant. Selection is better than other places such as a restaurant on regent and lagimodiere Service could improve. Food was ok, you can get the same and even better elsewhere.

Staff were all staying in the room with the drink station. You can see them standing and talking to each other. If you looked out into the restaurant you could not find people who worked there. No one was clearing plates or giving refills. You had to ask for it to be done. Their comprehension was unimpressive. We dined with with children and they were all under 4, the price is $1.99. When we entered and mentioned children at the table, I was asked if they were under 12 price is $8.99 I said yes they were actually under 5. We had to get our bill changed 3 times to correct this. One child fell asleep and didn't eat. The other finished eating and changed spots to watch something off of someone's phone. They thought we were doing some magic trick of having more children than we said. They could not understand that one child moved and the other was snoring in their stroller. We even took the shade off of the stroller so the sleeping child can be viewed! Staff hide from working but they are so quick to want you to pay more. Had they been doing their job and paying attention, getting tables out as fast as possible maybe they would make more money, better tips causing less people to wait and for the spaces in the parking lot...

I have a love/hate relationship with this place but we keep returning! Pros: massive array of food. Even our picky kids love it sushi selection great sesame chicken, bbq ribs, etc decent salad bar, soup selection family friendly all-you-can-eat even selections for healthy eating

Cons: buffets used to be the cheap option. No more. Same price (or more) than going to any middle-priced restaurant. supper price is crazy high. Try to go at lunch. always Soooo busy and very noisy they don't refill the food after a certain time (more on that below) ice cream machine NEVER works and they have a terrible selection of hard ice cream. Used to have syrups and toppings but that has been gone for ages. at busy times (like Sundays) parking is difficult. -long wait times in Mother's Day

This last time we went (Dec 2023) they had started a new rule that they don't refill the food after a certain time. It was to close for lunch at 3pm and I believe the time for no refilling the dishes was 2pm. We arrived a few minutes after that. I went in to see if there was still loads of food and there just wasn't. Not enough. We would have felt jipped. This was very frustrating because we had our hearts set on Ye's and this is the soonest we can ever arrive and we only ever go here Sundays. Well we can't anymore as there will be no refills.

So we killed time for 2 hours at the mall waiting for 4:30 to arrive (we'll never do that again). With 4 hungry kids this wasn't so fun but they all wanted Ye's. This also meant our party of 7 would now cost $183 instead of $126. Not cool simply because of their new rule.

So our occasional Sunday go-to restaurant after church will no longer be Ye's because we'll never...

So disappointed. We went for a New Year Eve dinner and arrived at 7, many items were empty from the buffet, some very clearly had been sitting there a long time. Many were cold and or soggy . My partner spoke to the manager about this and after making an excuse for the poor quality of the food then offered to take 20% off the bill, which was appreciated. Dimsum items had to label as to what they were (as they were starting to close things down ) so it was a guess if you would like what you chose from there ... The sushi was about the only section that was good. The staff was moping around ours and other patrons tables while we are, and around the food area. So we had the lovely smell of cleaner and dirty mop water while we ate. Additionally no wet floor signs anywhere. The quality has gone down so much since our last visit ( my bfs son chose to come here and was so excited) . The prices have gone up , as excepted with most places these days but considering how awful it was the quality is not what it once was.When we went to pay our bill the 20% off was there but they didn't adjust it properly as we had two seniors. The pop that the little dude had was flat, the desserts , which were few when we arrived were put away before people were done eating. The ice cream machine is out of service ( as it was a year ago ). Really wanted to enjoy our visit but left dissatisfied. Please note I know this is a buffet not fine dining but this was an awful experience and we were not the only patrons at this time (approximately 30 people were still eating...