Chicago's Pizza Geist — Restaurant in Indianapolis

I've come here for the lunch buffet with coworkers several times, most recently shortly after they reopened the buffet. It had been shut down for the Coronavirus pandemic. The food is always fresh and delicious, and I especially love that they have both cheddar and nacho cheese sauce for bread sticks. They have a nice selection of pizza on the buffet, including non red sauce pizza for those who prefer that, and they have a delicious dessert pizza. The service is friendly and attentive without being obnoxious.

A note about their handling of pandemic-era buffet service: they were giving everyone a primer on the rules as they paid. Very thorough and nicely done. Serving hand must be gloved (they provide food service gloves where they place the plates), masks must be worn when not sitting at your table, and they provide a tub of pie servers that you use all the way down the line, placing the used one in a second tub at the end of the buffet line to be washed. The only other big change is that the salad bar is closed. They offer pre made salads, which looked great. They are charging an extra dollar for them, I assume due to the cost of the extra time and packaging required. That was the only bummer for me, because sometimes I just want to grab a couple things off the salad bar without having a whole big salad, but it is 100% understandable in the midst of a worldwide pandemic. Didn't negatively affect my experience.

I'm glad to have discovered this spot and will...

Consistent with prior visits. LOTS of brown lettuce to pick around. Other side items on salad bar was crusty and dried out on top. Hot bar: 4 rock hard bread sticks, dried up food and empty bins not filled. You'll pay for a full salad\hot bar but you just wont get full use of it. Ordered a small pizza with 1 meat and cheese. It was hot and tasty but the meat was just thrown on mostly one side of the pizza. Had to try to spread the meat out before eating when it came to the table. We all wore our coats while eating. So cold! Asked server for heat to be turned up. She said it was 52 degrees inside, thermostat set on 75 was broken and that is as warm as it will get. When we arrived the dining room was empty and we could see employees playing around by throwing paper wads in the dining room. Our arrival ruined their play time. The server was efficient and friendly, prompt and kind. Props for her! But in a simple phrase: VERY POOR MANAGEMENT HERE. CORPORATE OFFICE NEEDS TO WAKE UP AND DO SOME MANAGEMENT...

Limited seating. I dined at the buffet around noon. There were lots of kids though so maybe they’re out of school. I saw some people walk right back out because there weren’t any empty tables. Pizza choices didn’t seem to be too varied. There were like 3 cheese pizzas on the buffet at once. Or the toppings were so sparse, I thought they were cheese. I noticed that many patrons ordered pizza off the menu instead of the buffet. Maybe that’s a better option. Salad bar was nice. Good nacho cheese for the breadsticks. Clean place and the workers were very kind. Overall decent for $12 (unlimited pizza, salad, drinks).

Edit to respond to owner: May I suggest you put signs up to label the pizzas? I had never eaten there and didn’t realize the toppings were under the cheese. I grabbed a slice of one pie and only took one bite because it had bacon. I don’t like bacon on pizza. I wouldn’t want to stand there asking the employees to identify every single pizza for me when you can...