Dave & Busters

They pour a nice Guinness.
My wife and I took our two kids finally to Dave N Busters, and I’ve got to say that they had a really good time in the games section of the place. I’m going to go back to the food, though.
I liked the food; I had a spicy cheeseburger that had a decent amount of heat, the meat was well-seasoned…good stuff. My kids enjoyed whatever it was that they ate (I don’t remember what they had… chicken strips, mac and cheese, shepherd’s pie, whatever it is that kids always eat), and my wife liked hers except for the artichokes which hadn’t been shucked well and had a good amount of inedible leaves still clinging to them. This is a big rating bring-​you-​down.
The staff was great. Our server was pleasant, good with our kids, and gave us a couple of freebies as well (I’m not including her name here as I don’t want the MAN to come down on her.) Also, there were a couple of staff guys on break out shooting hoops on the floor that gave all the tickets they earned to my children… big plus.
I really wish they had more classic video games. Shooting zombies and racing motorcycles through canyons is fun and all, but these games don’t grab you nearly as much as the old-​style ones (and there, I’ve completely turned into my father explaining why John Denver was better than the Dead Kennedys). But really, would Dig-​Dug or Donkey Kong or Rally-​X or Tempest, or Shinobi or Q-​bert or Joust or or or or really be that hard to find…
Yes, prices are a bit high on some things, but we had fun and had good food (minus the artichoke leaves.)

We finally had a date night his past Saturday (2−26−16). There was a large crowd and the wait times were 1.5−2 hours. No problem we took time to play games. When we gave our names we received a pager. The hostess wrote the pager number down as they would next to the name.
After 2.5 hours of waiting, I went to the hostess. She couldn’t find our name on the list. SHE NEVER PAGED THE PAGER!!! She could never explain why I wasn’t paged, were the list with our name went and never apologized. This is the worst service!!!

terrific location right off of a major interchange of I 385 and I 85 in greenville. if you’re looking for a good time with friends, coworkers, or kids even this is a really cool place to go. like I said very convenient and good service, btw u do pay for what you get… not overpriced for the most part, food is decent but then again this is an entertainment stop more than a restaurant so keep tht in mind.

We love it true it is always crowded but it’s a great place to have fun and they will definitely take all ur damn money but I love it LOL the kids enjoy it and we will return.

Went in to have a drink and play games, but decided to have an appetizer! Food was okay, but the waiter did not clean off the table and left a dirty napkin and plate on there and never removed it. Also he did not bring napkins or silverware! Probably won’t be back for food!

Holy shit, whose leg do you have to hump to get a drink around here?

Not the best D&B I’ve been to the but far from the worst. Greenville is a small town so I expected a small D&B and that’s exactly what I got.
There are SO MANY games to play! Most of the games are ticket/​token redemption games. Not my cup of tea but not too bad either. The best part of this place is we can let our 2 year old son tear loose! He can touch every game. He can look at every light. He can run lap after lap and just have a ball. If we need something to keep him occupied when it’s hot out or raining, D&B is the place to be.
Besides heeding the warning of other Unilocal reviews, we’ve avoided eating at D&B because of the price. We reviewed the menu multiple times and for the cost of the food, we can get more and possibly better quality elsewhere. Not sure what it costs but I have seen the 100oz beer tubes in the bar area here. Based on general food prices on the menu, I shutter to think what 100oz of draft beer would cost me.
I refrain from giving this D&B 5 stars because it is SO LOUD inside!!! We eventually get used to the noise but when we leave, the silence outside is deafening.
If you are looking for some games to play or a place to entertain smaller children for hours on end, please check this place out. You’ve been warned and directed…

Hopefully your reading this prior to deciding to go, and not when its too late. Like I did.
EAT SOMEWHERE ELSE FIRST.
The food was underwhelming to say the least. It’s not inexpensive.
A glance at the menu should have indicated there would be issues. As any fan of Gordon Ramsay will know, when a menu has too many things, too varied… Then non of them will be made well.
Against my advice, two of our party ordered the bang bang chicken. A quasi Thai dish that they were both disappointed with. The mountain of nachos was an $ 11 mess. The «meat» was… I just realized I’m having a hard time describing it because I’m not sure there was any…
Maybe some of that canned hot dog style chili mixed in with some nacho cheese?
The pretzel dog kids meal was good, but not worth the almost $ 7 price. Three cocktail hotdogs wrapped in pretzel dough, and a small serving of fries?
Something we did & questioned later…
When the server brings you your purchase of $ 80 in game card money — do you include that in your tip %? We did, but later thought we shouldn’t have.
THEN THERES THE GAMES…
They definitely make it difficult/​confusing to keep track of what your spending. To their credit, the prizes seemed moderately priced (tickets) & they had a good selection of premium prizes.

Food is nasty. Games are ok but not really geared towards the audience. The beer selection is garbage and I would compare it to chuckycheese for adults.

Had a great evening! The manager Casey was very nice and helpful! He went out of his way to care of us and the tables around us. Our service was good, and the food was great! We had several drinks, and they accommodated when we sent one back due to not enjoying it, with no issue. The arcade was great with plenty of games. Everything was clean and fairly priced. Will come again!

We are from Denver and lived Dave & Busters there. We are so excited to have this here now. It did not disappoint. We had a very old club card with a lot of poinys and the lady that helped us had a hard time pulling up the information. She didn’t give up and we really appreciated it. Love to play games, have a beer, and spend time with the family. Thanks for coming to Greenville!

There are several unwritten rules for those unfamiliar with Dave and Buster’s. Number 1: Don’t go for the food. Eat somewhere else and then come here for games. Number 2: Don’t come here expecting old school arcade games (many of the games will be ticket based).
I recommend eating somewhere you know you will like and then coming here afterwards for drinks and gaming. I’ve been to Dave and Buster’s in different cities (Livonia MI, White Flint MD, Richmond VA, Orlando FL) and this one isn’t bad. This one has a decent game selection (shooters, ticket games, and racing). Unfortunately, the trivia machine was broken, otherwise I would have been all over it. I’ll definitely be back.

My only regret is that Unilocal doesn’t have negative star ratings. This is my second time here and both times the service was painfully slow. We were not greeted at the door for 10 minutes. They are understaffed and have one person «greeting» customers and checking people in for the Game Center. The had one server for the entire dining area. Every step of the meal was painfully slow. My wife actually had to go to the bar to get a refill of her diet coke. She then had to clear the table after we finished eating.
The food was mediocre at best. It’s basically the same thing us get at any mid level chain restaurant. I got the grilled steak salad and my steak was almost raw. We brought our five year old here for his birthday and it was a huge disappointment. The manager offered a free desert but I would have rather just left. The free desert took FOREVER to show up! Not worth the wait.
So, the game area is fun for the kids but the restaurant is a waste of time and money.

Only critique is the food is a little bit pricey. Other then that, I enjoy the games very much. You’ll get the best value for going on a Wednesday — half priced games.

I’d like to say first off that I’ve always wanted to go to a Dave and buster’s. We don’t have one where I’m from. Now I’ll get into how they absolutely ruined it. I walk into the front doors and there is music blaring so loudly I can’t here the girl at the front desk explain how they’re going to steal my money. I asked her to repeat herself twice with no change.
Then comes this bullshit card system. What the hell ever happened to «I put quarters in to video game, I play video game until I die and then put in more quarters»? No, that’s no good. Let’s complicate the whole process and steal your money before you can even spend it.
Then you have the games, some of them are straight up arcade games but then you have the ticket games. You know, the ticket system that has you essentially paying $ 30 for a fucking comb or something. As much as I hate these games I can usually just stay away from them but they drag pac-​man into the situation. So I sit down, swipe my card which I have no idea how much I paid, I get to play level one of pac-​man and that’s it! Level one, spits out fucking tickets I do not want at all and then just goes back to the start screen. I want to fucking play pac-​man!
Fuck this place.
The drinks. They skimp on the liquor. Oh! And when you ask for an itemized list of what you’re paying for with your goddamn money, the piece of shit bar tender shakes his fucking head when he thinks you’re not looking. Seriously fuck this place and that piece of shit. Congrats dude, you look like you’re almost 30 and you tend bar at a Dave and busters. Kill yourself soon.
Fruit ninja was fun with the big screen, and I was totally looking for a positive here but I just remembered, you can only play one level on at too. Fuck this place.
Overall, fuck Dave and busters. It’s a ripoff. It’s a poor attempt at a casino I think, I honestly really don’t know. I’m struggling to find any reason why someone would go there a second time. But hey, people are stupid as hell and they’re going to throw money away wherever they can. I guess this is just one of those places smart enough to just say, «Hey, throw your money away over here you dumb fucks!» And there they go, shuffling their fat asses off to the bright lights and loud noises.
Fuck this place.

This place is awesome! It is an adult playground, and child friendly. The games are all half-​price on Wednesdays. You load up a card with money, then swipe that card to play the games. This same card keeps track of your tickets.
The food is amazing, and you even get points on your card for every dollar spent on food and drinks!

Let’s start with the atmosphere. Loud and busy. Even seated at the booth we were screaming to communicate.
We got our appetizer before we got our drinks and had to ask three times for silverware. FYI we went at three in afternoon. Not a busy time. The menus were absolutely nasty! Some of my pages ripped b/​c they were stuck together.
Started with spinach dips and chips. Good flavor but spinach was so chewy I spit most of it out!
The bar burgers: bad quality pre made patty on a sweet Hawaii roll. Didn’t like the sweet bun. Came with fries which were good.
Philly Steak: soft roll but very salty beef!
Gold fingers: good flavor chicken fingers but chewy.
Lawn mower salad was large but nothing spectacular. Served with buttermilk ranch dressing which I don’t like.
Wasn’t impressed and probably won’t be back.

Ah… Dave & Buster’s just opened a location in Greenville. THIS close to me. That’s a nice step up. People in the area are searching for a place to «Eat, Drink and Play».
D&B is nothing new to me. I’ve been to five other locations, including Concord Mills in NC, and a couple of the Atlanta D&B’s. Of all the ones I’ve visited, this is overall much smaller, split into two separate areas – a dining area with a bar, and of course the arcade itself. The layout of it is nice. Pretty lighting both inside and outside the building. This new look of Dave & Buster’s admittedly isn’t the same though.
I visited here 12/​11/​2014, and it was overall good. But if we had the gas to travel about 2 hours to the Lawrenceville or Duluth, GA location, then we’d do those instead. Definitely bigger and more games to play over at those.
The games are what 90% of the people come here for. For a D&B of its size, it’s slightly below average if not average, with mostly ticket redemption games, and several types of racing and light gun arcade games. Fighting games and pinball machines are history now, sadly. There are no ‘90s or older arcade games. Don’t expect to see an 8-​player Sega ‘Daytona USA’ setup or a 4-​player linked Harley-​Davidson «L.A. Riders» game. Those games are now pretty much old-​school. And every D&B I went to has at least two games in ‘The House of the Dead’ series, but this one had absolutely no HotD. Sort of disappointing… :P
To play the games (for you newbies), you load your cash onto a swiping card, and swipe them into the card reader of each game. Dave & Buster’s game credits are called «chips». The chip cost of the games depends on the day you go; every Wednesday is «½ games» night. Highly recommend going on Wednesday if games are your concern. Otherwise, the games are average-​priced, generally costing around 50 cents to $ 1.25.
Lots of other cool newer games worth playing however… Namco’s «Mach Storm» flight simulator, which costs 15 chips (expensive!), the new «Aliens Armageddon» shooter from Raw Thrills is awesome, 4 players of ‘Mario Kart’ – 4 players, now that’s killer! And of course, that Batman driving game again. However, some games were already broken. The player 2 side of «Dirty Drivin» was unplayable. I couldn’t accelerate! Player 1 worked way better and had great force feedback on the steering wheel. I also enjoyed some of the redemption ticket games like ‘Temple Run’ and some weird arcade version of what’s known as «Flappy Bird». Although, these dispensing paper tickets are getting old. I hope D&B can upgrade their card-​swiping system and integrate the game tickets into the cards, like several other arcades have done recently. That’s much more convenient. Otherwise, the games themselves are plentiful.
The food is just average, and the burgers tasted pre-​cooked, like typical D&B food. I normally just stick to the «Goldfingers» and dip them in sauce. I personally wouldn’t «eat» here. You’re better off eating at the Carolina Ale House across the parkway. And it’s fairly expensive. Coporate coldness, man, corporate coldness… it sucks!
I can’t comment much on the service because this just opened up in November 2014. It’s a big corporatized chain restaurant too. Service is all dependent on the people.
All in all, I’m overall impressed to see a Dave & Buster’s far less than an hour away from where I live. It isn’t the same as the ones in bigger cities, but this still impresses me. I’d eat elsewhere before you come here though, but it’s good for an gathering with buddies, blowing up competition with your friends at the games. ;)

This was our first time since it opened a few days ago. Here is just a brief overview of our first impression.
FOOD & SERVICE
We both did the $ 16.99 Eat and Play Combo that came with a entrée and $ 10 Game Card. There are higher priced combo deals as well. I had the Fried Jumbo Shrimp, while my wife had a Burger. The food was very good. The service was slow at times as there was some confusion by the staff on who our server was. I’m sure this will be ironed out in the future. There seemed to be a lot of staff just waiting around. I attribute this to over-​staffing for the first week, so I understand.
GAMES
They had a lot of games to choose from, especially ones we’ve never played before. We made it our goal to play as many of those as we could. Unlike other D&B locations, this one lacked the bowling alley and billiards. That didn’t ruin our visit, but just a heads up if you are expecting them to be there. You’ll find a good mix of regular games and ticketed games.
PRICE
When you put number towards a game card, you are purchasing «chips» that go on the card. For instance, a $ 10 card grants you at or around 48 chips. The higher amount you purchase, the better deal on the chips you get. From walking around I would say the game cost an average of 5 to 8 chips. Some less, some more. Along with the two $ 10 cards we got during our meal, we purchased an additional $ 10 card and used a free $ 10 coupon we got for signing up for their rewards program. So with the $ 40 worth of chips we had, we were able to play a decent amount of games.
PRIZES
Their prizes are a lot better than what you’d find at other places. But they might require more tickets. We finished with about 2,600 tickets. We decided to use it for our 2 year old and get her a few things. For the big ticket holders they have game consoles, video games, appliances, headphones, etc. You can save your ticket on your card for another visit if you prefer to save up.
Overall, I’d give our experience four stars. We will definitely return in the future.

I was there at the grand opening, seems like a fun place.
In case you don’t know, this is an arcade, with a nice bar/​restaurant area. The company is based in Dallas and they have about 73 locations around the USA.
The look is very much like Las Vegas at a casino, except, it’s an arcade with lots of fancy games. Just like in Vegas, you notice you are in a dark, windowless room. It’s very flash-​E. bright lights, loud music and game sounds. You don’t play with coins, you’ll get a Dave & Buster’s Power Card which activates all the midway games.
I took a look at the menu and it seemed to feature mostly $ 10 burgers and $ 17 entrees, they’re big on meat and fried food. I guess you’d say, fancy fast food which includes pastas, burgers, steaks, seafood, chicken and desserts.
In the restaurant/​bar they have a huge tube looking thing that you can get served at your meal. It contains what looks like an extreme amount of beer. I think it’s kind of an optical illusion, but it is impressive!
The place is well staffed and Dave & Busters is a cool place to hang out and have fun!