Senior Discount?

Reviewer: joyce

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Review Date: 03/11/2008 02:20PM

Rating: 0/+3(Ho hum)

I can't believe you have to pay for tickets for Senior Discounts. We were only there for one meal-out of towners-but no discount if we did not buy their discounts. Something like $1 for 3 tickets. What a lousy way to treat Senior Citizens

WOW, this place really does suck

Reviewer: Deb

Review Date: 03/06/2008 10:26PM

Rating: -1/+3(Crap)

Because it's near where I live, I've been here 4 times. Each time this restaurant has reached a new level of suckitude. The first time I dined here, my sister was treated with broken glass in her food. We called over the waiter, then the manager. The response was, "Hmmmm.... don't know how that happened. We will remove the rest of the beans from the buffet." No apology, no refund, no nothing. The next two times we ventured in, the food was sub-par. It's amazing that a person can leave a buffet still hungry but when the food sucks this bad, you don't have much of a choice. The last (and I do mean last) time we went to Ryan's, I had to open three different silverware packs before I located clean utensils and napkin. Once again, I requested the manager. Once again, some pimple-faced 19-year-old said, "Hmmm.... I'll speak to someone about this." Trust me on this one - - other than Thomas Super Buffet on Parmer, this is the worst place in Austin that I've ever eaten.

Better than starving

Reviewer: John

Review Date: 01/16/2008 04:46PM

Rating: 0/+3(Ho hum)

I can only compare this Ryan's location to paying to eat at a self-service high school cafeteria. Food was cold, there were evil-looking skins on the "hot" fudge and caramel toppings for the soft-serve, and I have never seen supposedly hot tortillas so cold that they were welded into a single mass. (No, they weren't frozen, just congealed.)

The desserts are spotty, and are almost certainly all from mixes. Very low end mixes, at that.

I suppose it really IS better than starving, but not very much. I really, really should have believed the other reviews of this place.

it is good

Reviewer: vanessa

Review Date: 09/16/2007 04:01PM

Rating: 0/+3(Ho hum)

food is good macroni is nasty tastes like soap, but all in all it is delicious. mostly the desserts. but i recomend golden corral

Ryan's WAS good...

Reviewer: John S.

Review Date: 01/10/2007 02:21PM

Rating: 0/+3(Ho hum)

I used to eat at Ryan's in SA. It was decent as long as you stayed away from the buffet area. Order a steak when you go in. They are no Ruth Chris' but the meat is quite edible. I got turned off from them one night sitting next to the desert bar/buffet. Some people's kids shouldn't be let out of the house. I say this because one kid came up to the desert bar..grabbed a ladle and started stuffing his mouth with puddin', and the parents did not do anything but tell him to stop. They did not even tell the waiter to change out the stuff.

Maybe OK but--one of the worst Ryans locations.

Reviewer: m.gambrell

Review Date: 08/16/2006 02:13PM

Rating: +1/+3(Not bad)

I happen to like Ryans, in principle, due to developing cravings, from time to time, to gorge myself on rolls, chicken, and ham. Ryans rolls are very, very good. Their roasted chicken is very good, and their ham is.. good enough for ham. Their steaks, if you are there on steak night, is pretty good for a fellow like me who does not like anything fancy and so thinks that steaks, after good enough meat is chosen, can only be ruined by too much attention. Their cookies are gooey and warm.

--but--

This is the worst-ever Ryans location. They are incredibly busy and understaffed, and they inexplicably run out of rolls. They might run out of ham, also, if you happen to be there on a night they serve ham. You might get two refills in 20 minutes, if you wait on the server (I get my own refills, if my glass is ever empty for too long. I just love that paranoid look the employees get when they see me doing it.)

Try Ryans in another town, if you must. I rate them Not Bad after making it clear that if you enjoy plain fare, this stuff can be good... at other locations.