Village Inn Pizza Springs Rd — Restaurant in Hickory

I’m never the one to leave a review, but I had to on this location. My husband and I and our 4 children stopped in last night about an hour and half before closing and the place was completely empty just the employees, that should have been my sign to leave then. Smh. But we proceeded to go and eat buffet as the kids insisted, we went in and paid for buffet $64! We had a couple pizzas made on request they came out pretty quickly, but the awkward weird part is there is an older white man that apparently worked there that had very cringy work clothes on standing behind the buffet bar just hawking you while you are fixing your plates. Then I realized my husband had dropped a couple pieces of cheese on salad bar and the man would come around with the tongs and scoop the “waste” up and put it back in its compartment on the salad bar, then he would walk through and grab him a slice of pizza with his bare hands after we had sat there and watched him adjusting his pants waist, rubbing his arms, pulling his phone out of his pocket. My daughter went and grabbed some dessert pizza not long after it came out and there was a small gray hair that looked like came from that man, not sure what his position was there “food guard “ or bust boy because we did see him as soon as we left and another family that left where he went and cleaned the tables off. We stayed long enough for kids to get full so we could head home due to we were celebrating one of their birthdays and he wanted pizza! It was just a very uncomfortable situation being hawked while you eat and watching this nasty old man touching on every thing with his nasty hands! Smh! I told my husband we should have went to the Morganton location bc it definitely has a...

Requesting a pizza on the buffet then having to watch the employees nonstop for the moment that they place your sacred pie upon the alter of the buffet ziggurat that the drooling mongoloids saddle up to much like a trough. Then you will inevitably be outran by slobbering goblins that were dragged out of their trailer parks to put their snotty hands all over every candy bar they come in contact with while waiting to check out at the local retail superstore, all while their parental units scream at them while threatening violence because "they ain't buying nothin". By the time you make it to the resting place of the pizza you requested, you will only find a few streaks of grease, a germ polluted spatula, and your broken dreams of cheesy bliss. Never fear, as there is a salad bar with those unnatural and frightening mini corn cobs that stalk my dreams and that may or may not be able to hear my thoughts. Happy hunting and gathering my friends. May the marinara gods smile upon you so that you may drink wine of success and out-run, out-smart, and out-manuver your pepperoni hunting...

Well first off waited for about 5 minutes to get noticed that my family and I were even standing there. We got the buffet and the girl taking the order asked how old my son was and my boyfriend said 4, and she then proceeded to look at my boyfriend like he was lying. The salad bar, I mean it was just gross, the cheese in the container was semi melted and in chunks from where it was melted and then put in a refrigerator, the thousand island dressing was old, as it was separated. The pizza was ice cold, and it didn't look to be as they were making anytime soon. We were never asked what kind of pizza we prefer, or anything. All in all it was an extremely bad experience. Asked for a refund and left, the girl behind the cou ter just looked dumbfounded when we were telling her all of this. So needless to say we will not be returning to village inn...