Pizza World — Restaurant in Granite City

If I could give less than 1 star, I most certainly would AND tell everyone I knew the same thing!! My co workers and myself ordered lunch yesterday here...5 people..that's a decent amount of money I would say...and what really got to me about my HORRIBLE SALAD is that we had it delivered to us at the hotel I work at, so I could not even take it back and ask for the situation to be possibly rectified. I was AT WORK and still hungry. I got the large salad, with eggs, olives, mushrooms, croutons, tomatoes and the usual salad fare, etc. I am being specific in my review here so maybe Pizza World will read this and change their practices. The egg on my salad was definitely pre Frozen and then thawed out. Spongy, and wet. So gross. The mushrooms were clearly from yesterday or longer back because they were wet, slimy and of various shades. It was just poor quality. I'm not a picky eater. But in the restaurant business, when serving raw vegetables, a must have is that they be FRESH. It just made me wonder how old everything else was that they served, camouflaged in melted cheese. Bleh. No thanks. And I promise you this, my guests at my Hotel ask me every day where are good pizza joints in the area...I won't be saying...

We went to dinner here recently on a Sunday evening around 5pm. There were only 3 or 4 pizzas with a few slices each on the buffet. They looked like they had been there a while. Only one fresh pizza was set out after we arrived. There was no pasta out at all and the sauce appeared to be drying up(not stirred frequently). The salad bar was ok. But there too it seemed things were drying up(not fresh). The young lady that greeted us when we arrived and paid was very friendly. However she disappeared somewhere for the entire hour we were there. Two male employees did emerge from the kitchen long enough to fill their drinks. The dining area table and chairs seemed neglected. I had to clean/wipe off my chair before sitting. There were also several tables that had all the plates/cups/utensils from the previous diners still laying around on them. An ice cream for dessert would have been nice, but there were no cones or bowls available. I would've asked, but again...the employees seemed to be much more interested in remaining out of sight somewhere. I probably won't be eating...

The salad bar is very fresh and tasty although the plastic forks seemed a bit chintzy they still managed to work okay the pizza buffet was Fresh & fabulous with many varieties of fresh hot pizza to offer various kinds of traditional as well as their signature Gourmet pizzas and also new types of pizzas with different spins put on them, I have been going there for over 20 years and throughout the years it's always just been okay so I usually only go every couple years or so but I went the other day and everything except for the dessert breadsticks was amazing and the Nats were finally gone from the salad bar I look forward to going back very soon PS on Monday the buffet is $8 tax and drink included all the other days are $10 tax and drink included kids under a certain age are free and I think some days maybe Tuesday older kids can eat free to not sure though you have to...