Golden Corral Buffet & Grill — Restaurant in Norman

To put things simply: Golden Corral isn't bad, it's just not worth it. Let me elaborate. I don't think that anything in Golden Corral is necessarily BAD. Some of their foods come close, but by and large it's not downright inedible. The issue with Golden Corral is the classic buffet issue: the food doesn't match the money. As a buffet, they're required to try and provide as much variety as possible, and they have to provide large amounts of each food they provide. The end result of this is foods that abound in quantity, but fall short in quality. Cheap and quickly prepared foods are served to appease the "all you can eat" mentality, but in the process you end up with foods that your grandmother wouldn't be caught dead serving at family reunions. The lack of quality in the food wouldn't be so bad if the prices weren't so humorously mismatched. To eat at Golden Corral means spends 10-15 dollars per person in exchange for a meal that is hardly worth a third of that cost. This is the single issue that cripples Golden Corral! They can't serve better food to match the prices without slowing service and losing potential business, and they can't lower prices while still providing an even poorer experience! This is why I say that Golden Corral isn't worth it: you can always get a better experience for that same cost. There's places where you can spend less money and get better food! There are also places where the same amount of money will get you large quantities of food that you can actually enjoy. If you're a nuclear family, Golden Corral will cost you 40-50 dollars. Do you know where you could get better food for that same money? Just about anywhere else.

P.S. The service generally isn't great, but I can't even blame them. Those poor servers have to deal with a hundred miserable things a minute, and I can't imagine they get paid well for it either. Don't blame them, they're likely as unhappy with the...

Place was very disappointing, definitely not worth the crazy price they are asking. Got sat and then went around and looked at the selection, right off the bat it sucked. Just a little bit of everything out and it was cold. Don’t even get me started on the guy cooking the steaks. Liek what is going through your mind to cook the steaks to WELL DONE in the first place. Then I saw him cut a beautiful ribeye in half so the steak would last more people, then he proceeded to CUT IT IN HALF AGAIN. And all the pieces he cut up he put back onto the grill with the pink side down so it was well done as well. Then I went and got some macaroni and cheese, took a bit out of it and it was so cold to the point the cheese was still lumps. Let me tell you how gross that is, I gagged as I first bit down. Then while there were still customers in there they started fully closing down. I understand closing the front area, but closing the whole restaurant when it’s not even 8 is crazy. I understand lightly picking up but they were full on stacking chairs on tables taking food off the line and the grill dude decided to clean his flat top with the steaks right next to him, on the same grill. I saw him dump a bottle of chemicals which im guessing cleaner. But why would you starting cleaning the cook top right next to the grill that’s on with FOOD ON IT. Let me tell you this is the worst Golden Corral you...

THE EMPLOYEES NEED TO STOP LAYING THE TONGS ACROSS THE FOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THAT IS ABSOLUTELY DISGUSTING!!!!!!!!!! We were the FIRST people there in the ENTIRE building so I KNOW it was the employees who put the tongs like this. Which may look nicer when it's presentable - BUT PEOPLE WILL PUT THEM BACK WHERE THEY FOUND THEM, THEN THE NEXT GUEST AND NEXT GUEST ETC!!!!!!!!! THEY ARE SITTING ON TOP OF THE FOOD WHEN THEY DO THAT!!!!!!!!!!!!! MIGHT AS WELL HAVE PEOPLE PICK UP THE FOOD WITH THEIR HANDS AND NOT EVEN USE TONGS BECAUSE ITS BASICALLY THE SAME THING!!!!!! They ALSO don't take the "no children unaccompanied" very seriously because there is ALWAYS kids FACE LEVEL TO THE FOOD getting THEIR OWN FOOD, coughing and sneezing in and on the food, my mother has been there without me and seen this MULTIPLE times, I saw it today with my own eyes, a child with blonde hair and he had a mullet, he was walking and getting his own food UNACCOMPANIED and he did so more than once, FACE LEVEL TO THE FOOD!!!!!!! I've complained about them laying the tongs down ON TOP of the food to a manager before and I watched the employee lay the tongs down IN the lettuce on the salad bar after refilling it. She said she would talk to them about it, CLEARLY the issue wasn't handled and CLEARLY it happened AGAIN. MORE than one reason for SOMEONE higher up to make changes and...