Pizza Ranch — Restaurant in Altoona

I’ve only ever been to the Pizza Ranch in Ankeny and decided to try the one in Altoona. Extremely disappointed. The minute we walked in there were dirty tables every where and the cashier had to serve us. 15 dollars per person was absolutely ridiculous for the food the served. The featured food item wasn’t even in the buffet, and there was close to nothing to actually choose to eat. Imagine paying that much money for a slice of dessert and ice cream (the only enjoyable food there). There was hardly any choice as far as pizza. When you ask for a specialty pizza, they only let you have a fee slices per person at the table and then put the rest of the pizza on the buffet. Where the hell do you go to a restaurant featuring pizza where they dont serve basics like pepperoni, cheese, and sausage pizza unless you specifically ask for it??? And when we got there, all the dessert trays were empty. After an half hour of being there they were finally filled again, but seeing as they were the only edible thing there, everyone in the restaurant took their share and there was, once again, no dessert. Later on I went into the women's bathroom and was surprised at how dirty it was. There was pee on one of the toilet seats, and the floor was INCREDIBLY slippery. There was no “wet floor” sign put up. The experience over all was extremely irritating. Not to mention the fact that in 93 degree weather there was hardly any AC! Do not eat here! Extremely expensive for an obviously very...

Worst experience me and my bf go to pizza ranch often was out by this location so we decided to go there even tho we usually go to a different location we walk in around 4pm and nothing I mean no pizzas where out literally nothing we had to order anything we wanted all but the salad bar which we have never had that happen walking into a pizza ranch there's usually always pizzas out but there was nothing we got our pizza we ordered and waiting about an hour nothing fresh came out besides wings that where very very fatty for Thursday night wings that my bf has been wanting to try but absolutely terrible and wouldn't recommend them at least at this location we decided to just get ice cream well my bf went first and came back took a bite while I sat with my toddler and he said taste this it taste funny and it very much did we get their ice cream each time expect it tasted spoiled so we just decided to leave shortly after leaving all of our stomach hurts and we had diarrhea even into the next day worst experience we will never return to this one for sure ive never seen my child shit the way she did after this not worth almost paying for 40 for 2 adults and a 2 year old to eat to walk into nothing in buffet and having to order and wait as if i went to a sit down restraunt and after i had wish we chose...

Some of the best fried chicken in town, and more chicken is brought out frequently to fill up the pan. There's also potatoes, gravy, a vegetable and fries. Some of the items like the fries, are a little salty for my taste. The pizzas are excellent, and they ask customers if there is any pizza they would like to have so I ordered their TACO PIZZA which was DELICIOUS. They brought a right-out-of-oven hot Taco pizza. I gobbled down two pieces. The TACO pizza is covered with retried beans, chips, lettuce, etc. There's plenty of other types of pizza already out which are all exceptionally good. The dessert pizzas are usually cherry, blueberry, apple and peach. Not all flavors are available at the same time, but they keep bringing out more pieces, and they all DELICIOUS. The salad bar has varied items including fruit and pudding. The green salad items are good but not the best available around. The salad bar needs to be monitored more to keep foods from being dropped into other items. The salad bar could do with improvement. Pizza Ranch runs frequent fundraisers for numerous organizations. The groups involved in the fundraiser help out at the restaurant, and they have a collection jar for donations too. Family atmosphere and...