Buffet King — Restaurant in Odessa

Please be aware!!

Hopefully no one else deals with my same problem.

My family and I wanted to have a good time but unfortunately it was just a terrible experience. The waitress brought the check to pay and we were waiting for her to come and collect the money, she never came by. We decided to leave the money at the table close to the receipt. While we were getting close to the exit door. The waitress came to us accusing us of not paying. She totally lost her temper and was yelling all across the restaurant. We try to explain to her but she kept saying: " that there was no money and she told her coworkers not to let us go" when we were waiting at the lobby for her to go back and go check for the money. She went back to the table more than 3 times and she would be yelling all around the restaurant "no money, you need to pay". After a coworker went with her back to the table to recheck they found the money. She came back to us extremely upset and I told her: " that she needed to be careful to check first instead of accussing us of STEALING infront of all the customers and humiliating us at that degree". Unfortunately, she had the money with the receipt and the plastic tray where we left the money and she had the courage to throw all that to me. She almost hit me. Then, the manager came by and didnt do anything at all. We tryed explaining to her all the humiliation we suffer and the way the waitress reacted but we totally wasted our time. The waitress went back to her "beverage post" yelling and throwing spoons, forks and dishes. It was a very embarrassing and humiliating situation without letting us explained at all. I can assure you my family and I will never go back to the...

I am appalled and disgusted by the sanitary level of this place. Came in, no one had a mask only a few including me, not a big deal bit something to point out. They had absolutely no gloves for when one needs to go grab food so people were touching plates and food utensils with nasty hands. The food looked good from afar..until you got closer and saw how disgusting it was. The sushi was all over the place. The little tongs for sushi was caked and nasty. The raw sushi tasted weird and was CRUNCHY?! Not to mention the meatball covered shrimp and some weird food with I think shrimp and clams where the sauce looked like sewage water. My cup of water was still caked on with grime that I could literally scrape off with my finger on the inside. Thankfully I got another cup that wasn't dirty. They had a bucket of,I imagine, was a sanitizing liquid that was milky cloudy and grease with food floating on top. Their ice cream wasn't frozen enough so it came out like a shake,tho I did enjoy the creamy vanilla flavor it had. You could customize your cones and even be able to get cookies and cream ice cream! But of course the ice cream scooper and the water it was in was cold,milky and dirty to touch. I'm not sure if it was today that it was so nasty or if it's usually like this then they need to be shut down. I work with food in kitchens and that does not look sanitary to me at all. If the front looks like this then imagine what goes on...

Got seated fast. Had a good variety of seafood and even sushi. Did the stir fry on a previous trip, so will do that again next time.

Salad shrimp fresh and cold. The 4 hot bars were kept well stocked, although someone ahead of me cleaned out most of the salt and pepper shrimp the moment a fresh batch came out. But last trip that was good. This time by the time I got done with hot & sour soup, and sweet & sour chicken, a crawdad, and frog legs, I was out of room.

Ate here a year ago when line at golden Corral was just too long for our schedule. Stopping here was fastest time from engine shutoff to first fork of food in mouth, so when in this end of town and no time to cook and have errands still to do late into evening.

In an era where lots of time is wasted idling in near gridlock traffic, the new normal for Permian Basin, a place where multiple trips can be combined; park and walk to building materials, car parts, etc then eat and not have to cook and clean up when getting home does leverage my time.

With steep inflation, I have almost stopped eating out, and so far prices have not busted my budget here, although I think it did inch up a few...