Shoney’s Restaurant

Last time I was in as Shoneys was about 13 yes ago, good food I’m Hinesville, GA. Loved their lunch buffet so I though, what the heck, can’t be that much different. Wrong! Buffet was a holiday price $ 14. Options were horrible, good was not brought out in forever and low quality. Terrible. Don’t stop here if you have a choice. Only good thing was the waitress was really nice and that’s about it.

Wish I could give negative stars.
Wife and I ate here on our way through W. Virginia. I had a fond memory of eating at Shoney’s as a kid with my grandparents so I thought we’d give this one a try as it’s right off the exit. HUGE mistake. Walk in and wait several minutes to even be recognized. We sit down at one of the dirtiest and broken down booths I’ve ever seen in my life. The menus that were handed to us were sticky and gross. We decided to give the buffet a try rather than order off the menu since everyone seemed to be flocking that way.
We ordered water – it tasted like dirty pool water. We got up to the buffet and made plates… to be honest the food looks like what you would expect from a buffet, not appealing, but not especially inedible. Except the ranch dressing, which is clearly a powder mix. Hey guys, use a little less water next time. It looked like peppered milk. Gross.
We sat down to eat and… just…it was like eating House of 1000 Corpses. You know how sometimes when someone bakes cookies and you can taste their house when you bite in? Yeah, this was the exact same thing. The food just tasted like dirty carpet and sadness. I guess when you’re serving food that’s so bland, it’s easy to transfer whatever flavors are nearby.
I was disgusted and had to use the restroom. That’s where the magic was – I knew there was a problem when, before even crossing the threshold of the restroom door, I had flashbacks of my days working in nursing homes where the old men peed on the walls and refused to let anyone clean them. The restroom inside was worse than that. I did my business, wishing I could float to avoid touching the floor then walked out without touching anything. You know your facilities are truly the work of the devil when my crotch is cleaner than anything in your restroom.
We were ready to leave, but wanted to cleanse our pallets so-​to-​speak. My wife got some fruit and I got some mashed potatoes, but by the time we sat down, we were both too disgusted with what we’d let pass our mouths to eat what we got. I was horrified that I ate anything at this place and my wife was immediately starting to feel sick.
I paid, trying not to vomit the whole time, counting down the seconds until she handed my card back so we could leave. I literally bounded and sprinted to my car to GTFO of Shoney’s and West Virginia.
We won’t be back.

Omg! I can’t find anything good to say! Chicken pot pie looked like it had a frisbee on it. Slim Jim mediocre. Potato soup looked like mashed potatoes. dont even get me started on our waitress. Will not be back!

Meh! A buffet chain that exists throughout the south and here in Princeton, West Virginia. The place creeped me out. It smelled old and unclean. Prices seemed high for what I got. Food was so-​so so it wasn’t worth it to me.