Pizza Ranch

me with my fiancée came up to wisconsin together with our friend to visit her sister.
it was sunday so right after the church service we decided to go to this place, because we were a big group and we want to eat a good lunch together. so when we got to the place the line was long amd we just have to wait patiently to pay and be seated. it was busy and the dining room is full.
we were a party of 8people and the staff are very friendly and attentive with our needs. including on fixig a table for us. so that was a plus customer service is always important on a restaurant.
now into food. the pizza Im not a big pizza lover but it was good the pizza taco. barbeque and steak n onion was good but average for my taste. the best part for me was the fried chicken. I think overall I had like 6 piece. it was so good fresh hot crispy chicken. i mean the chicken is better than the pizza. they should change the name. lol
but anyways everyone enjoyed the meal. i couldn’t try much of the desserts because I was so full already. maybe next time when we come back I will go lite on the pizza more chicken and add room for dessert.
definitely will be back when come again to this area!

I like the concept and most of their products taste ok. The staff is always friendly.
That said, they seem to have a problem keeping food hot. The heat lamps over the pizza are not doing the job, with pizza just at room temperature, and the chicken is just plain cold. It’s a shame — because they are starting with a decent product.

Ive been going Pizza Ranches since 2000 when I lived in Sioux Falls/​Iowa. Probably more than 400 visits total. Ive been to this one more than 50 times. Out of all the PR this one has an issue with keeping up with the buffet. Several times Ive been here in the middle of buffet time and there has been close to no pizza’s and/​or the chicken was completely out. Next time Ill take a photo and upload it. Standing around waiting for several minutes for then to appear 2 cheese sticks, garlic cheese, etc. That highlights another common issue here, lack of variety with Pizzas. Most people don’t want to see 2 cheese sticks, 1 cheese pizza, 1 garlic cheese, 2 pepperoni and some bizarre customer request.
It also takes them a while to get around and clean used tables up and wipe them down. We like to use a booth and several times I had to wipe it down myself.
I just went past the dessert pizza bar and my hands were full so no pic but it was bare. My wife noted the same thing several minutes before I went passed it. So what will happen now is when it shows up people have been waiting so long it will all be gone again within minutes… Update…And thats exactly what happened… waited 10−15mins with multiple trips to the dessert bar and I guess my timing was wrong, I turned up to find 2 empty pizza trays.
I do love Pizza Ranch along with my kids, this one is just poorly run at times.

The last 2 times I have been there at around 12:30 on a Sunday there has been no chicken for 15 – 20 minutes. I don’t go there for pizza, there are a dozen pizza places in Sun Prairie. I go there for chicken! The girls couldn’t even fit all the pizzas on the bar, they just kept coming. Yet no chicken, barely any potatoes. I told 3 workers that there were no forks or spoons at the salad bar or forks at the pizza bar and yet none were ever brought out the hour I was there today. I could find no one looking like a manager in the place just tons of teenagers trying to clear tables running into each other. Customers were just standing near the chicken getting angry!!! Today was the longest wait for chicken and there have been nights that we have waited. I would think a Sunday noon time they would be making chicken double time. As soon as 1 tray was brought out it was empty in 5 minutes. I imagine it would be another 20 min. wait for the next customers who come through. I don’t know why after telling 3 people they needed to bring clean forks out that NO ONE brought any out. POOR MANAGEMENT is all I can figure. I will be making fewer stops there.

99% of the time the pizza isn’t worth eating. If I were running a pizza buffet, I would ensure there as always a pepperoni and a cheese pizza on the buffet — there never is. The chicken is the best thing here. However, I am usually pleasantly surprised by the salad bar. All you can eat soft-​serve ice cream isn’t bad either.

I ate here about two weeks ago with my daughter and son-​in-​law that live in Oregon and the pizza was very good my wife liked it because it had other things The people that work there were very nice and polite I will eat here again

We came here and it was fairly busy. The pizza was good, not great. The dessert pizza is fabulous. Very good salad bar. Options like fried chicken, potatoes, soup, and fries for the non-​pizza eaters. If you want a flavor of pizza that you do not see on the buffet, tell a hostess and they will make it and bring it to your table! Great service. Not very clean on the interior, however.

Five stars for the take out fried chicken. Hands down the best fried chicken in Sun Prairie.
However, the restaurant and buffet, I’d give it a 2.5 star if I could. There isn’t much variety for a buffet. And for a pizza buffet, there isn’t very many pizzas out on the buffet line. Now, they do say you can request any pizza and they’ll make it and bring you the first slice, but when you’re at a buffet… You just want to eat and go, not sit around waiting for a request. Even the pizza hut buffet has more pizza variety on the buffet line.

We showed up 45min before the restaurant was closing. We had never been here before and when we arrived we were just starred at by the staff, like we knew what we were supposed to do. Sit? Be seated? Order? No directions or a «hello, welcome, have you been here before?» The buffet was full, yet we weren’t allowed to order from it. Yet when we were leaving, it was all still there. We were told that the soda machine was shut down, only after we were trying to use it… Where’s the customer service here??? I know you close soon, but why make us feel so unwelcome? If you’re in such a hurry to close up, why make us order from the menu and then sit and wait for the food to be prepared? We could’ve been in and out of there if we were just allowed to eat from the buffet. We ordered garlic cheese bread and two small pizzas, buffalo chicken and chicken bacon ranch. The food was good, so maybe this place could be okay if the management worked with their staff on customer service and closing operations. I think we’ll try this place again someday, and hope for a better customer service experience.

About what you would expect from a pizza chain in Sun Prairie. We had a coupon for a free regular pizza, which was pretty good. The buffet looks like a solid deal, especially if you are there with a family.
Service was very friendly and nice.

I’m kind of addicted to this place. Love coming here to get my pizza fix in. Definitely recommend the buffalo chicken and the Mac and cheese pizza. And always get the cherry dessert pizza! My fiancé really likes their fried chicken. Only wish is they would have toppings the kids could put on their soft serve icecream.

Great place for pizza or chicken. The restaurant is clean and the buffet is always well stocked. It’s a family favorite!

I LOVE the Pizza Ranch in the Dells. It’s my favorite place to after going to water parks. I went to this one after going there. I was hoping it was equally good. Unfortunately it’s not. They use a different crust which is my biggest disappointment. They still have two of my other big loves though. The cheese sticks are probably my favorite from any pizza place and the cactus dessert bread thing is stupidly good. The pizza is pretty good. The staff usually gets out your requests pretty quickly. Sometimes they’re slow on weekday lunches.
The weird part? How Jesus-​y it is. I didn’t notice in the Dells or even the first few times here. My boyfriend and I went to lunch one day and he noticed a few things. Then all of a sudden we noticed it everywhere. From the weird Jesus country music to the wall plaques. It makes me a little uncomfortable. Not enough to deter me, but enough to make me want to weirdly talk about liberal things which I don’t normally do at restaurants.

Want to stuff your fat face? This is the place. Want good pizza in Sun Prairie? Easy since there are so many great pizza places. Just Unilocal it

I went for lunch here with my husband. I had weight loss surgery several months ago and my eating is very restricted. I showed them the card from my doctor and told them I could only eat a small amount. Could I please have the children’s meal price. They out and out refused. So I was made to pay the full price… for a buffet and a drink I can’t drink! $ 10 for two chicken wings and ¼ cup mashed potatoes. NOT a very Christian place when they can’t accommodate someone and need to be greedy by charging what they did. I don’t mind paying full price when I can take home the leftovers and have another 4 meals out of it! I’ve never had this done to me at any other restaurant since I had my surgery! Done with Pizza Ranch!!!

One of my daughter’s single requests for our weekend away was to eat at Pizza Ranch.
I think the food is decent. And the garlic cheese pizza is our favorite. It wasn’t out on this visit, so we had to request it. And it did take quite awhile… but it was a busy Friday night.

The pizza is pretty decent overall. Plenty of different choices on the menu. However, I’ve been there on days where they keep the pizza fresh and a variety available on the buffet, and I have been there on days where they are so slow and keep bringing it the same pizzas, leaving little variety.
The rest of the buffet choices are what you would expect from a buffet. Fried chicken, fries, corn on the cob, mashed potatoes ect. Fried Chicken is good but the rest leaves little to be desired. They also offer a cold area with your standard salad choices and fixings.
Don’t bother with the soups.
Desert buffet is good, have to admit the Cactus bread is amazingly gluttonous. The soft serve on the dessert buffet is made with real milk and isn’t that weird cheap ice milk crap. And goes great with the fruit pizza and Cactus bread.
Service is ok. Staff is always around to clear dishes. But occasionally it seems as though the staff are being in the kitchen.
Great deal on Tuesday if you have kids under 11.

I like this place solely because I’m a fat guy and when I compare myself to their average clientele, I feel better about myself.
It’s all you care to eat. That’s nice. You can eat your fill. You won’t feel cheated.
That being said, you’re eating cardboard pizza that’s no better than Little Caesar’s. The fried chicken is okay, but it’s paired with that nuclear green gravy and instant potatoes, so that takes it down a notch.
You go here when you feel like gorging until you have to buy a new a belt, not because it’s good or anything.
That is its only gift to you.

This Pizza Ranch is no different than the Baraboo or Portage location. For the folks complaining you obviously didn’t enjoy the chicken. I agree the pizza selection is slim pickings, however I rarely eat the pizza. I’m all for the chicken here which is way better than anything Colonel Sanders could have ever touched.
The restaurant is large and is exactly like the Portage location. Ample parking, buffet prices are kind of high, $ 10 for lunch buffet? Really!
I’m sure I’ll be back, I had been making the drive to Baraboo/​Portage to enjoy that chicken. Now I can finally enjoy it closer.

I went on a Saturday for lunch several weeks after they opened. The parking lot was full which I took as a good sign, but popularity is not a sign of quality. When you arrive you don’t actually get to see the buffet before you order as it is around the corner. I thought that it would be like a better Cicis pizza but it wasn’t even that good. They only have 6 small pizzas on the buffet for a dining room that seats hundreds of people, but they are actually doing you a favor. The pizza itself is not very good, it tasted like food service pizza you might have gotten from a high school cafeteria. They add exotic toppings to make it a little more palatable but the crust cheese and sauce are so poor that it is a failed effort.
The other aspects of the salad bar don’t fare much better. The pictures of the salad bar show a hearty looking spring mix, but the reality was that the salad was shredded iceburg like you might put on a taco. This is not an exaggeration, that was the actual lettuce that was present. Even though the name of the place is pizza ranch there were a lot more non pizza items present like fried chicken etc. This place must bank of one time visits, because I can’t see anyone going more than once.