Pizza Inn

3.8
36 reviews

About

Buffet Restaurant
America's Hometown Pizza Place™ since 1958. Home of the Original Thin and Original Pizza Buffet. Pizzas are hand-made daily with fresh dough. Choose from a variety of pizzas, pasta, salad, and desserts!

Location

Pizza Inn
1346 1st Avenue Southwest, Hickory, NC
28602, United States

Hours

Reviews

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    Cindy Rhame
    1 day ago
    2.0
    Had I seen the open area where the dishwasher is with nasty water FLOWING all over the floor toward the dining room (nothing blocking the view- no doors or anything) prior to eating, I would've left immediately. The pizza was mostly gross & all hard, thin crust. The salad bar was ok but nothing fantastic. Pasta? Spaghetti that had been sitting there forever & some yucky marinara sauce on the side; Mac & Cheese, that was surprisingly good. The dessert pizza was a nightmare-- something that looked & tasted like marshmallow creme stuck under a broiler; gross strawberry pizza with some icing & globs of cinnamon on it & another dessert pizza that was maybe apple? Undetermined what it was. The hostess/server was a true delight, but I'd advise her to seek employment elsewhere. This joint needs to be closed down by the health department based on the kitchen area alone. Surely won't go back, no matter how cheap the buffet is (they're running an $8/person special). You couldn't GIVE me a pizza from this nasty dive. If the health department doesn't get them, I give them a maximum of 6 months tops & that's being generous. I wish I had taken my phone in with me-- i'd show you some pictures that would turn your stomach.
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    Debra McLean
    3 days ago
    1.0
    My family and I went to eat here since it was new.We had to wait 45 minutes for a table Then the table was right smack in the middle of where people wait in line for tables. I couldn't even sit down in my seat to try and eat with all these people standing over me We left will never return
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    Ken C
    Dec 23, 2025
    2.0
    My wife and I went there to eat today. I will say the food was good. The pizza was good and the salad bar was good. My wife and I usually don't eat the thick crust on the end of the pizza, so we saved to to bring home to give to our dog. The waitress asked us if she could take the left over crust which was on a napkin, we told her we were going to bring it home to our dog. The waitress asked if we wanted a box to put it in and my wife said sure. We put the left over crust in the box and went to the front to pay. He only charged us for one buffet. I paid and then thought that he didnt charge us enough because it was 2 of us, and it was 2 buffets on the ticket as well. I told him he didn't charge us enough( Being honest about it) so he rung up another buffet and then asked about the pizza box. My wife opened up the box and told him it was just the hard part of the crust that we didn't eat( Which they would have thrown away) and told him we were bringing it home. He said no he didn't allow that, then said he would allow it this time and but not the next time(Won't be no next time). Then he said the box it was in cost $1, my wife told him that she would give him $1 for the box and he said no go ahead and take it. That was kind of petty in my opinion and sorry to say we won't be going back because the food was actually good.
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    Christopher Francis (Chris)
    Dec 20, 2025
    4.0
    Overall 4.5. Tried taco, pepperoni, Hawaiian, meat, cheese, cheeseburger pizzas. A pepperoni stromboli, cinnamon stromboli dessert. Everything was amazing. Far exceeded expectations which was around the same a village inn. It passes village inn with ease. The buffet was lined with hot food the entire time. Only once was it cool and that was due to me getting the very last scoop of a pasta. Sneeze guards are a little bit bulky. I'm about average height and had trouble reaching the middle salad bar line and the pizza's further back. If I needed to find a complaint: the traditional styled pizza (pepperoni, cheese, and meat lovers) had less sauce than I'd like, but the marinara was readily available. Price: around 15 per person for a buffet and a drink. Buffet was around 10 if I recall.
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    Brenna Ryan (Shae)
    Dec 17, 2025
    2.0
    Food was decent, actual pizza was good but the dessert pizzas could use work. Absolutely nothing was labeled; You have to figure out what is what. As a party of 5, Our server was slow, inattentive, and did not give us condiments. I had to seek out somebody to give us such items. There was two other tables in our section, she stayed with one table, so much so that we had to flag her down to get refills. We ran out of drinks twice and our plates stayed until a different server came by and picked them up. She didn't remember what drinks she put in what cup. She apparently absolutely had to refill the napkins while we were eating, they were still completely full. At the end of all this she messed up our tickets. We regretfully left a tip.