Real Thai Kitchen — Restaurant in Santa Cruz

Came to the restaurant for their all you can eat lunch buffet. Arrived at the restaurant and was told that they will be closing for break in 30 min. They mentioned that we can still welcome to come in for the buffet and they will refill the empty buffet food trays for us.

It took 10 min for them to get the buffet food refilled and only refilled about 3 of the dishes in the buffet section. We are a party of 4. If you do the math, 3 dishes refilled + small amount of left overs in the other dishes, divide that by 4 people does not give us an even split for a normal meal! And this is supposed to be a buffet!

Another 15 min later, they came out and started taking away all the food for cleaning. Long story short, that only gave us 15 min to eat a buffet and not all the food are there.

If they don't have enough time to serve use for a buffet, then they shouldn't have accepted us. And if they don't plan on refilling all the food in the buffet, they shouldn't have said they will refill all the food.

We would have been happy to find another place to eat if they had told us that not all the food will be refilled and the food will be taken away in such a short period of time.

They run the business like a bunch of crooks. We felt robbed out of this experience.

EDIT: Checking my credit card statement later, I found that they added $5 more into the transaction than what it was before! I still have the customer receipt to confirm this. Crooks! STAY AWAY from this restaurant! Disputing with credit card company on this overcharged...

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