Golden Corral

After forcing the Golden Corral in Cary to go out of business, the Terror descended upon this Golden Corral to wreck havoc, chaos, and destruction. Know what’s even more terrifying than my appetite? Figuring out how to enter this Golden Corral. There are two total streetlights in Garner, and neither one of them are near this Golden Corral. After a few u-​turns, I finally found the restaurant’s entrance.
Golden Corral isn’t the absolute best buffet ever, but it’s still pretty good. I eat absolutely everything, but I enter Golden Corral with one thing in mind — steak. This Golden Corral must have received intelligence that the Terror was about to descend upon it. The steak station ran more slowly than any other Golden Corral that I’ve visited.
I don’t mind a slow grill station, but the person running the station proves that anybody can wear a chef’s jacket. Anybody who has every ran a grill should be able to give an approximation on the cook of a steak. I like to eat my steaks on the rare side, because I’m a tough guy who lives life on the edge. All of my steaks were close to well done, with one of them mildly burnt.
Service doesn’t make up too big of a part of a buffet, but it still matters to a certain extent. While buffet servers have large sections, they still only have two real responsibilities — refill drinks and clear tables. Our server was not particularly busy. She was simply lazy. I noticed her standing behind the line and whining to one of the chefs about how tired she is. 8:00 is far too early to whine about exhaustion.
I sincerely apologize for the part that I played in closing down the Golden Corral in Cary. The Golden Corral in Garner fails to live up to even the most minimal and reasonable of expectations.

This Golden Corral is dirty, gross and food is not fresh at all. The employees are not friendly and have a really bad attitude. I went to this restaurant with my wife today and asked the manager for a refund, don’t waste your time and money.

Manager was kind and our server was kind as well. The food was not too great and they put the food away early which was disappointing as the manager said to take our time.

Went on Sunday evening. …line out the door. I wish the department of immigration was there. …the line would have gotten real short.
After waiting a while and seeing no progress in the madness we left.
Sure wish the location was open in Cary.

Was here for dinner, between 6−7pm, on a Friday night. Not extremely busy, but steady flow of customers. I’d estimate that half of the food wasn’t labeled properly, or at all. It was hard to find an employee behind the counter to explain what some of the food was that wasn’t labelled. The food was dry and tasteless. Two of us «ate» and it cost just over 30 dollars — You would think for that price the food would be a lot better. Service was slow, plates piled up on our table. I honestly had my «Golden Corral» expectations of dining in mind… which are lower than normal dining out. This experience didn’t even come close to meeting those already low expectations. Poor value, and poor experience. Can NOT recommend this place!

I’M JUST NOT BLACK ENOUGH TO GET SERVED AT GOLDEN CORRAL.
I was waiting patiently at hand carved roast beef, but the black cook only 3 feet away wouldn’t wait on me. After a few minutes, my wife came up and suggested I get a steak from the platter instead, which I did, while walking by the roast beef, the cook was helping a black man as if he was an acquaintance, then a black woman, and the cook was as friendly as he could be. But for me, a middle aged white man, I wasn’t going to get even a hello. It was very obvious, and an example of a black person practicing discrimination. I’m not going back.

We were in Raleigh yesterday, and decided to eat before heading back home to Virginia. We saw this Golden Corral, and decided to dine there. What a GROSS mistake! We’ve been to other Golden Corrals in other places that we’ve lived, but never anything near this disgusting. Food was not fresh, nor were the areas clean. There were brown ROTTEN strawberries in the container by the chocolate fountain, and many used sticks laying all over the bar. Food was hard and cold as if it had been sitting there all day. I/​we ate very little, because it was that bad, we’ve never experienced anything like this, I am surprised the Health Department has not shut it down. Many people working there, but NO ONE seemed to care how disgusting it was. I watched one worker filling the salad dressing containers, setting the large jar of salad dressing (which the outside was NOT clean) on top of the open salad dressing containers, because they had no place to set them, except on the open bowls of dressing, nor were the containers cleaned, just refilled. DO NOT EAT HERE — THIS PLACE SHOULD BE SHUT DOWN!!!

Last Sunday my husband and I woke up with an animal desire to eat large quantities of mediocre food. We’ve looked far an wide for better buffet options in the Triangle but always seem to find our way back to the Golden Corral (If you know of a better option, please PM me).
It was our first time in this location and we got there early enough for the «Early Bird» special (I think it was $ 8 each). The other benefit of getting here early is it’s pretty much empty and I’m assuming the food is as fresh as it’ll ever be. This is a chain so if you’ve been to one you pretty much been to them all. Employees were helpful enough but not super pumped to be there. There was a ton of food but everything seemed at least semi processed. There are always 1 or 2 things that I can find and GENUINELY like but the quality always disappoints me. So if you’re just in the mood to shovel massive amounts of so-​so food down your gullet at great price, you really can’t go wrong with a Golden Corral.

While this restaurant has a huge selection of food, and I tried a number of things, I never really found anything that really tasted good, that really satisfied me. You know, that feeling of «Boy, that was good!» What I did get later, though, was the brick-​in-​the-​stomach feeling of having eaten mediocre food (even something as simple as sausages didn’t taste very good). Kids love it, though, I guess because they have cotton candy (the mark of all fine dining establishments, right?). I did notice they had larger-​than-​life-​size posters advertising family testimonials of how they loooove Golden Corral and make it a regular family outing. I don’t know about you, but I’m a little suspicious of a restaurant that has to advertise to the customers ALREADY INSIDE THE PLACE about how good the food is. Soooo, if you love Golden Corral you’ll probably still enjoy it here, but if you want a really good meal you’ll have to look elsewhere than this mega-​buffet of mediocrity.

I am rating this golden corral on how it compares to other buffets in the area– and not on how it compares to other restaurants.
Now then, you walk in and there is a huge wall to your left of ‘get your own’ beverages. Upon sitting down after we found a table I became worried that if you chose one of the unusual beverages [smoothies, icees, teas, lemonades!] that there would be no refills as the waitress stations that they have only contain a soft drink machine. Have no fear! The waitresses will bring you plenty of refills for whatever you choose to purchase. The mango smoothie is delicious as a drink but in no way tastes like a smoothie.
Onto cleanliness! The place is very clean because it is new, however you can tell that in a year or so this place will be kind of a garbage dump like some of the other ones in the area. Our waitress cleaned plates off our table quickly and efficiently.
Now for selection! I posted a picture just looking down the salad bar… this place is huge. definately one of the larger golden corrals in the area. great selection and plenty of healthy options too. Their buttered biscuits were amazing and if your into that peppery tasting corn from your elementary school days they’ve got that too. The lunch selection featured pulled pork, mini angus sliders, and a huge salad selection. No chocolate wonderfall exists at this location.
Overall this place is great for the price. Lunch buffet is not crowded and food is fresh.
TIP YOUR WAITER OR WAITRESS: we discovered you can take cash out at the register if you forget to bring a couple bucks with you.

Another newly designed GC opened, and wow! GC, in general, has declined for me, over the years. This new design is well received. The wait staff was very friendly, on a mid-​afternoon weekday.
The serving area and seating are differently designed. The food is no longer central. It is now covering an entire back wall, with a second row off of that. The selection is perhaps 1.5−2 times as large. I like it! The seating is a little oddly patterned, but I have no complaints with it. The food was good, hot, well stocked and well presented.
There is an endless beverage area, when you come in. So now, when you buy any drink, all refills are free. The selection is greatly expanded. We had strawberry smoothies! (Try also mango, a really nice juice selection and milkshakes)
I also want to mention the soft serve ice cream… birthday cake, chocolate, strawberry, cookies and cream, peanut butter and others… soft serve! cool
I think I’m getting stingier with my 5 stars these days! But for a GC, I’m newly interested in returning. And my daughter asked me 10 times, when we would return. lol
Today, they earned a solid 4 stars.
(1 adult buffet, 1 child buffet, 2 smoothies = $ 16)