Shoney's — Restaurant in Summersville

Where to begin? We were seated quickly, that was the only good thing about the experience. There was only one other occupied table. Our waitress asked what we would like to drink. She gave us 4 soda options or iced tea. We both opted for the tea. We asked to see a menu. She said they dont have a menu, that they have 4 sandwiches or the buffet. One of the sandwiches was a beef jerky sandwich lol. Anyway...we both got the buffet. Walking up to the buffet...our feet were sticking to a floor that probably hadn't been mopped in a long time. There were patches all over the seats and it hadn't been updated since the eighties. The buffet had a variety of dried up meat and sides that had probably been on the buffet for days. Reluctantly put a few things on our plates and headed to our table via the sticky grungy floor. Heres where the real fun began. I tried to pull apart a piece of fried chicken with no luck. The mashed potatoes were instant and reminded me of paste. The beef I grabbed was grey looking. I pushed the plate away and didn't touch anything else. My man...with the iron stomach...tried to eat some fish looking stuff that was not cooked the whole way, chicken that was not cooked the whole way and a few other things that were under cooked or was so dry and nasty you couldn't eat it. The only thing that appeared to be cooked was the small ribcage/ carcus that appeared inside some kind of a chicken patty. Mouse/chipmunk lol. Not really sure. Anyway I asked for the price of the buffet to be removed because the food was not edible. No argument at all from the waitress...I think she refunds 90% of the people that come in there. We avoided food poisoning or worse by not eating and headed to an ihop up the road. I can't believe a restaurant would even try to serve this crap to anyone. After we left there I looked at some of the reviews and I see this has been an ongoing thing for a while. This restaurant needs to be closed down by the health department or the center for disease control. Save yourself and go anywhere but here. It doesn't even...

To start, the entire staff made us wait while customers were jamming into the restaurant and other people waited to pay for their food. When the waitress did come to us, she took us all as one large group and announced there were no booths available. There were several that were empty for one or two people. My boyfriend and I took a big booth when she said that one was available, after stating loudly to all of us that none were available. We got no menus to know what the drinks were and other food they served. There were no spoons wrapped with the other utensils that were given to customers, no bowls nor spoons available near the soup nor near the ice cream. I had to find an employee to ask for a bowl for soup, and asked the waitress for a dpoon. The buffet is not big at all. It has only one island you go to get food, a counter with soup and a couple of desserts, and a deep freezer with ice cream. Half lunch and half breakfast at lunchtime. There was a ton of staff behind the wall, but no one was keeping up on the food that was being taken off of the buffet. Some of the food looked like it had been sitting for some time and needed to be tossed out. There were no small packets of butter, just a container of it on the buffet that you had to scoop out what you wanted, taking up another place that could have been used for more food. The music, early to mid 1990's county music, was way too loud. We only saw the waitress four times: first to get our order, second to see if we needed a refill on drinks and I asked for a spoon, when she brought the spoon and then to bring our bill. It took a while for us to get checked out, too. I'm not sure how they could get behind with so many employees, but there was only one pie available for purchase near the register. The restaurant looked like it had not been updated since that 90's, too. We were very disappointed in what should have been a...

Okay. Please take time to read these reviews before going to this location. I've never liked Shoneys but went with the family thinking it would be alright. No. Dear lord don't do it. We were sat quickly, the waitress was friendly and got our drinks quickly which was good. Well we all decided to get the bar. I walked up there and got my plate. Looked at the food on one side, then the other. Everything looked so bad. I'm not joking when I say everything looked like it was leftovers from Easter. But looks aren't everything so thought maybe it would taste okay. No. The only good thing from that bar was my strawberry. Everything was cold, idk if the heat wasn't working or what but all the food was cold. The stuffed crab I got would've only been acceptable in a ninga star throwing match cause lord knows you couldn't choke it down. The shrimp was cold and hard. The steak was all sitting in a bucket of what looked like used oil, and that taste made you wonder. I made one trip to that bar and that was too much. I glanced at one point at the "desert bar". Had a red sign that was all lit up. Had something that resembled a cupcake and a brownie sitting on a plate from the dollar tree. Felt like I was gonna see the "we'll leave the light on for ya" logo. Bottom line dont do it. Got charged almost 90 bucks for a terrible meal just saying... didnt complain to anyone there just...