Golden Corral-Columbus

This is my first time and the last I come here… sour faced rude people work here… they serve cheap overcooked food and they refuse to serve butter… only cheap toxic margarine… paid $ 12 without a drink… this place is terrible! I would have given no stars if that was possible…

This is my first time ever to any Golden Corral and I love it. I had fried fish, shrimp, corn, hush puppies, all kinds of desserts, french toast and a cinnamon roll. They had soooo many options to choose from. I will be rolling out of here quite happily. The servers were kind and hard working. Taking our used plates as fast as we could empty them and giving us refills before our glasses were empty. Add in the affordable pricing and we will be coming here every time we visit Ohio. Everything tastes good except for the corn that was a little bland. My daughter loves the pizza so huge points there. I wasn’t a fan of the chocolate fountain but there was so much desserts to choose from it didn’t matter. I would recommend this place for sure.
I do have to downgrade it a little for the bathrooms. If they would just clean them better.

Worst most disgusting place ever. No silverwear for us, no bowls, floors were disgusting, food was disgusting, the place was a mess, servers were rude to one another. They don’t even diseerve one star. How does that place even remain open? Dirty dirty diner! We payed $ 25 and walked out with disgust.

Pros:
Sells food…
Cons:
Gross gross gross!
Review:
Oh. My. God. So dirty!!! This place makes me cringe. Their bathrooms are the absolute worst. My picture shows splattered mensural blood on the seat, which was dry, meaning it had been there long enough to actually dry. No soap. One working stall. The entire facility is dingy. Meat is not cooked how it’s labeled. Never going back.

Very disappointed with our experience tonight. As we came in the door and were asked what we would like to drink, the lady filled our cups by scooping the ice with our cups instead of using the ice scoop. Not very sanitary! We arrived at 4:57 and the buffet was missing several of the main items such as bourbon chicken, pot roast and fries. As I write this at 6:15 and we are getting ready to leave, the food is finally stocked. The bathroom looks like it hasn’t been cleaned in days. There is more toilet paper on the floor than on any of the rolls. The only highlight of our dining experience was that our server kept our drinks full and our plates cleared!

This place is so disgusting! I liked coming to this restaurant for years, until tonight. While I sat down to eat my salad that I made from the salad bar, I raised my fork to my mouth, and looked at it just before taking a bite… there was a bug sitting right on top of my salad-​filled fork. Gross! I put my fork back down on my plate and told the 3 other people I was with to look. We were all disgusted! We took the plate over to the manager and showed him what was in the food. He ended up comping all 4 of our meals, but none of us really had much of an appetite anymore, and we were looking at every single bite we were about to take. My fiancé told me that the bug that I saw in my food was actually a baby roach! So if there was one that I found, I can only imagine the infestation that is back in the kitchen. I will never go back there again, and I am mortified that I may have eaten bugs, droppings, or germs from those bugs in the past.

My wife and I decided to give Golden Corral on more try; which proved to be our last try. Sneeze guards only work if you’re tall enough to sneeze on them and not under them. Parents turn their children loose in there like some kind of day care playground. So you have all these kids wiping their snotty noses and digging in their butt cracks then handling the serving spoons. Trust me when I tell you that most of the adults weren’t much better. People were walking right by the stack of «clean» plates and refilling their dirty plates at the buffet. One individual emptied the macaroni and cheese bin onto their plate and then put it all back into the bin. People were walking around and eating off their plates. Overall a disgusting experience. I think that some of those people will be the first ones to turn to cannibalism if things ever go south.

The worst place ever ! They have awful service and poor attitude I will never go there again.

I used to live this location and all golden corrals but food has gone down hill. Food taste flavorless and some just awful. Used to be my favorite restaurant. Never going back til things are fixed

My husband seriously dragged me back here again this past weekend. Please believe me, I did NOT want to go. I would have rather eaten a frozen pizza, but nonetheless me being the trooper that I am, I let him «talk» me into going back.
Yep, just as before, still disgusting, only this time was even worse (please see previous review for the full low down). The floors were gross. Looked like they hadn’t been vacuumed in months. There was a line out the door and they just kept letting people in EVEN THOUGH THERE WERE NO CLEAN TABLES IN ANY OF THE 3 DINING ROOMS. The poor waitresses are supposed to bust tables, refill drinks and wait on customers. They had not 1 bust boy in the whole vicinity (total bull pooh).
THEY WERE OUT OF EVERYTHING at the buffet. I seriously asked my husband if we could just get our money back and go. Then I politely (HA!) reminded him that I told him not to come to this filthy place anyway (with a big smile of course).
We tipped the waitress $ 10 to make up for all the others that I am sure didn’t bother to tip her a penny even though she was working her petunia off (my heart bled for her).
No way will I go back. I don’t care how much my husband wants to go. I’d rather lick the bottom of shoe! (true story)

It is a bit overpriced for a buffet (especially after 4pm), but there is a great collection of food. I can’t say everything is good, but most is good if you like that certain food. The salad bar lacks topping options and they make you pay $ 2.75 or something for a drink that you have to rely on a waitress to refill (and too no doubt).

I’ve been here three times in my life and I won’t be going back.
The food has never been that good but it’s cheap. The worst thing is seeing these slobs go up and touch the food then put it back. I get that golden corral can’t help this, but it’s still really nasty. Finally, I’ve been sick twice after coming by waking up in the morning and either throwing up or having diarrhea. The only reason why I’m not giving it a 1 star is that it’s actually an all you can eat buffet. There is so much food out there and they keep it out the whole time– unlike most other buffets.

I don’t expect much from Golden Corral, but dinner tonight managed to fail to meet even those low expectations. It was terrible. Not to into ALL the details, but the selection was terrible and what they had was bad and tasteless. But hey, at least there’s all you can eat dessert, right? Sure, if you want sugar free jello, because everything else was gone, broken, or both. Ice cream? They were out. Cookies? Nope. Also, this may be a small nit, but every single item nametag was over something else, unless the definition of «cabbage» has changed since I was a lad.
I tried to change my daughter in the men’s room (which had a helpful sign informing me that it had a changing station inside): no changing station. Or counter. I had to change her next to the sink and I had to stop halfway through to pick an insect off her. Needless to say, we will not be back.

I am a self-​proclaimed buffet lover. Seriously. I love buffets. I’ve eaten at buffets that are incredibly sketchy and most people would hurry on out. This place is disgusting. It’s the only place I’ve ever eaten in my entire life where I ate about ¹⁄₃ of one plate and then left. Not one good thing that tasted remotely edible.
Do people just drop their kids off and then leave? Kids were running everywhere, sticking their disgusting hands in everything, and no adults to be seen. THEY HAD A CHOCOLATE FOUNTAIN. Just think of all the kid hands in the chocolate fountain!!! How is this place still open?!
It’s gross.

I’m not one to complain about a restaurant… but this one deserves a HUGE one!
I went last night (early Friday evening) with some of my family. I had doubts about it even when walking through the door. It smelled like a dirty hotel room.
Anyway, about the buffet: disgusting! The salad bar had more salad on the floor than it did on the salad bar. Lots of the various salads (potato salads, etc) were empty, dressing was spilled all over and it wasn’t maintained at all.
They ran out of silverware at both silverware stations, the dessert bar was bare and almost empty. And did they restock any of it??! NO.
I will say, the hot food was «good»…as far as the fried chicken, the wings, veggies, etc. The nicest way I can describe our experience… it was kind of like having dinner at a hog trough. Management should be ashamed! It was obvious the employees were just there for a paycheck… NOT to make our dining experience a pleasant one!
Don’t waste your time on this «squat n’ gobble!» Nasty nasty NASTY!!! I’ll never step foot in this place again!

I’m going with two stars. Like it matters. I don’t think Golden Corral’s usual clientele base decisions on Unilocal reviews.
Our first Golden Corral experience was about 7PM on a Saturday night. The usual crowd had definitely already shuffled through, and the place was on the messy side. The desserts station in particular had ice cream and assorted toppings everywhere, no bowls available, and the white chocolate fountain looked more gray than white.
The food itself, not bad. Plenty of variety, and steaks are included in the price, not extra like some other buffets. (This may be good or bad, I think it amps up the competition to get to steaks and they get cleaned out quickly until the next batch).
Someone had left a carving knife at the ham. When my mom picked it up, it was met with a terse «ma’am don’t do that», instead of «can I help you with that?» Ah, well. Not likely he turned down a job at Ruth’s Chris to work here.
The tables and chairs seem to be perma-​greasy after years of heavy use. I actively avoided touching anything but what I hoped was clean cutlery and dishware.
But, hey we survived. Yikes. «Survived» probably isn’t a word commonly used in restaurant reviews. We didn’t leave hungry and the kids all found something to eat. (Although they said the pizza wasn’t great.) Our «server» was friendly and efficient.

I came here one day to meet my girlfriend before she went to work. I read all of the reviews on Unilocal!before coming. I noticed that it seemed the majority of the attacks are based upon two principles: first the buffet concept, that it’s «gross» or can be… and secondly the type of people that frequent Golden Corral. Yes there are some comments addressing the food but it seems that the issue is more about the type of people in the restaurant and the entire concept of the buffet and whether or not it’s conducive to sanitary eating.
Well once you are able to move on from those two points the food isn’t bad here or at any Golden Corral I’ve yet to eat at. Is it delicious? No, it’s satisfactory though. Most of it is pretty bland, I suppose because older people tend to eat here and that is how they prefer their food. Some of it, including the fish, is really not that good at all. But most is pretty decent and if you are smart and use your first plate to sample small pieces of food you can figure out what you like and what to avoid.
I tried a little bit of everything and as I said above came away with everything being fairly good, the catfish was not very good, too mushy and very bland, needed some seasoning, and the pizza didn’t even look edible… but the veggies I ate were all good, the wings and steak were passable and the bright spot, by far, was the fried chicken. If you like fried chicken and you come here that is what you should eat I think. Try to hit it right when they put it out, it’s the best then (as most buffet food is)…
This restaurant is pretty clean, at least when I was there on a Wednesday evening about 6:15pm. The staff is plentiful, helpful and friendly and the price ($ 11.19) wasn’t too steep if you’re hungry.
So if you read the reviews again, please take note of what people are actually criticizing. Personally I don’t care if the people that go there are fat and eat a ton, that’s their business… and I didn’t see any kids running «wild» like others have mentioned. As for the sanitary aspects of it, I got news for you, just about any buffet is not completely sanitary. If you’re worried about that then why are you at a damned buffet?
This place is just fine for an occasional eat, although I’d not make a habit of it, especially if you’re trying to watch your waist line.

I love Golden Corral. In that regard, I feel like a jerk for giving two stars for this location, but my most recent visit left me feeling kinda… I dunno, dissatisfied?
When we were seated, we were seated at a table where anyone and everyone could walk into us. It took forever to find someone who worked there to relocate us to a quieter area — one without lots of traffic. When we DID find someone, we were brushed off. Three employees later, we finally got someone who was understanding and willing to help us.
Traffic at the buffet was typical, but it would’ve been fantastic if parents would’ve controlled their hellspawn. I saw behavior from children that my parents would never have tolerated — kids running at top speed, not watching out for other patrons, picking something off the buffet and throwing it on the floor… ugh. This was a family outing with my brother and parents and my irritation was NOTHING compared to the outrage radiating off my parents.
The area this location is in is pretty well-​off, yet I saw a lot of uncultured swine hanging around. I’m not from a wealthy background but I at least know how to behave in public, especially in wealthier areas. Very few of the other patrons seemed to know how to behave. The parents of the wild children were every bit as bad as their produce.
So let’s talk about the food. There wasn’t any. The kitchen couldn’t keep up with the demand. Steaks were not cooked to order — my dad wants his medium rare and I want mine medium. We both got shoe leather. Chicken wings? Completely non-​existent.
Before we left, my dad finally found the manager. It was excuse after excuse, and the manager kept looking at me with the utmost disdain. It was a very bad first impression for my dad, and a disappointment for my mom, brother and I.
My previous visits here were lightyears better than this last visit. I doubt I’ll be going back.

Sub par buffet
I used to like buffets. I used to like golden corral restaurants. This location though, has spoiled it. I’ll start with the positive: the area attendants refill your drinks quickly and the bread is still delicious. However, they don’t bring bread to the table anymore, it is in the bread section of the buffet. The salad buffet is alright, their sides I usually don’t like. Their proteins I don’t care for either except sometimes the fried chicken. Even when I get meat from the carving station it is usually dry. The desserts don’t do it for me either. Just not a good buffet.

This was a sad experience all around. In so many ways. I’m all about all you can eat buffets, just don’t overdo it. Know your limits. People here do not know their limits. I actually saw a man go to the buffet, take an ENTIRE cake and go back to his table and eat it. It was just sad. I like buffets and I’d been begging someone to come here with me for *years* and I finally baited a friend in to going, and it was one of life’s biggest disappointments, ever. I was so depressed and let down.
Anyway, to add to the experience I had some orange soda – I mean what else are you going to drink at a trashy buffet? The interior is just so gross. There was food all over the floor, all over the place. Tables everywhere just piled with plates and plates of bad food. And people just going to town stuffing face.
Here’s what I had:
Salad starters were pretty good. Rolls were bad, like they hadn’t risen. Bruschetta was surprisingly good. Had pasta salad, pickled beets, regular salad, and seafood salad.
Next up had some pot roast that was wonderful, but a little salty. Mac and cheese was very oily. Fried chicken was okay. Brussel sprouts, and mushrooms were good. The mashed potatoes were instant, and the gravy had a fecal taste to it. Yes fecal. Also had some nachos – that were the standard fare you would get at a ballgame.
When we went they were having some kind of seafood special. These were the only items I saw that looked edible: the tilapia, popcorn shrimp and the coconut shrimp. The tilapia a la florentina was soaking in a rancid buttery goop. The popcorn shrimp were just little turds of fried dough. The coconut shrimp? Taste like Hawaiian Tropic tanning oil. Yes, I’ve tasted it. It smells good, and I have dabbled in it only to find that tanning oil actually tastes nasty and bitter. Thus, they were inedible. There was just an overpowering chemical-​ly, artificial coconut taste to them that I couldn’t handle.
Dessert: By this point in the meal, the heavy, greasy, nastiness of the previous plates of food is beginning to settle in. My friend Boomer was sweating, and having shortness of breath, and my stomach was cramping up big time. But, I paid 9.99 for this meal and I was damned if I wasn’t going to have any dessert.
The «Tartlette» was okay. Red velvet and chocolate cake were very dry and artificial tasting. Ice cream was standard. Banana pudding was good. Gummy bears were soft and fresh, but didn’t have the flavor I’ve come to love in name brand bears, such as Haribo, Brach’s or Trolli.
All in all, this meal really sucked. My friend Boomer got sick ON THE WAY HOME, and I got sick after I dropped him off. I had to pull over on the side of 161 so he could get sick. That’s how bad this was. Luckily I made it home before things started seeping out of me.