Great Garden Buffet — Restaurant in Gaines Charter Township

The manager called me "special garbage" because I told him the food was not good. The waitress cleared the plates from the table before the manager could come so he thought I had eaten my food. Best I could show him was napkins full of chewed up and spit out out food.... He offered 30% off... "Dooood, this was my daughter's birthday dinner! No. I'll give you ten bucks." "NO TEN BUCKS" "Cool, you don't want my money, I'm out." This is where the waitress steps in front of me, puts her arms out and tells me I have to pay... Ooooooooh! I don't remember the right term for this but it falls in the realm of abduction now... 🤦🏻‍♀️The manager has been going on about cameras and calling the police... "Please do! Tell them I'm upset that you are serving garbage, you don't want to be reasonable, and I'm not allowed to leave the building. I'll wait." I sit down. He says "$20." I say "No." "You the only one with a problem. $15... Everybody else like the food! You special!" (Maaaan, that sounded like a challenge to survey the 6 other people in the building, but I let it go. I could feel something good was coming.) "I'm special?" "You special garbage" Lmfao "Ya know what. That's worth$15. Let's go..." 🤣🤣🤣 I did not realize how much fun it could be to argue with strangers in public! He did not know what seeds he just planted in my mind. 😅

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For a place that I've gone to for many years it sure has lost its quality and care. The pricing has gone up from what it used to be which isn't helped by inflation, the food quality has not improved though. Recently we went on a Wednesday around lunch time and the food was not very fresh and seemed like it had been out for a while past its time, the crab rangoons are a good example as they were very dry and you could taste that they had been in the warmer for a while, Some of the sushi tasted like it was made with day old rice and was very dry, one of my favorite ones, a deep fried shrimp ball, was very cold and I felt very ill after that day. I was the only one In my group to have that one specifically and what I had was symptoms of food poisoning, most likely the shrimp had been out for a few hours past the temperature danger zone. I wasn't very impressed with a worker actively sorting string beans on a table with no cloth down or gloves, just right in the dining room, it doesn't seem very sanitary to me working with food out in the dining area where customers are coughing and eating. The service was ok, they are always very polite and good about refills with water, I can't help but to be unimpressed with the food quality and carelessness of making sure food is fresh, sorting food on a table with no protection, and serving cold food is never ok. Please do better and make...

A friend and I went here today March 30 2024 immediately when we walked in my friend said the place smelled sweaty and stale but we decided to give it a shot anyway. We got our food to the table to find that it was cold. When inspecting the crayfish they had not been purged before cooking very gritty and mudvein packed full even the egg drop soup was cold. When I brought it to the staffs attention the owner told me I was wrong and that everything was supposed to be that way. When I explained that the crayfish werent purged he kept talking about how you cant devein them before survingand that the steam trays were up all the way. I tried to explain that you have to purge them before you cook and that the food was still cold people would get sick if they weren't to wich he replied well thats how everywhere else does it, which I know is a lie! Than he started saying he knew me and I always give him a hard time, I have literally been to this location twice in my life and last time I didnt even say anything when I left because I was generally satisfied. However this time I was not impressed and wanted to notify them and was treated very poorly by someone who claimed to be the "person incharge" weather that be the owner or the manager it was still unacceptable. Definitely would not recommend if I could give 0...