The River Buffet - Norman

This evening left a lot to be desired. I understand a new company took over on 1 May, so I'm willing to excuse some of what happened as growing pains. I guess the single biggest problem was not enough floor staff to handle the workload. I waited in line over an hour a half. Whenever I had a opportunity to look inside I saw many empty tables. One table was empty the entire wait. There used to be buckets on the table to put the shells in as you ate. Someone decided to do away with them and use regular plates instead. All that does I put more pressure on the floor staff constantly having to go back to the tables more frequently. Using plates for the discards only caused a shortage of clean plates at the serving line. Which by the way happened way too frequently. I had to resort to desert plate just to be able to have something to eat. There seemed to also be a shortage of staff behind the serving line. There never seemed to be enough food on the line, even though there seemed to be less of an overall selection of food items available than in years past. They just couldn't seem to keep up, not from lack to trying but lack of them. There was one plus however, they did seem on top of serving the crab legs. One complaint I heard by a good number of people and I agree with was how much the salad bar has shrunk in size. What food I was I was able to eat when I had a plate to eat it off of, was actually pretty good. The management company that ran the buffet prior to 1 May, maybe the current people should learn a lesson from them, sometimes things don't need to be fixed if they aren't really. To sum this all up, it was less than satisfactory. I am willing to give them another chance provided some time goes by and some lessons learned.

Seafood Fridays...skip the casino (Neverwin).. Much better than the casino it is in and a better experience. The options were awesome in variety. Tillapia, cod, haddock pollock, 3 types of salmon. Crab Legs, oysters mussels popcorn shimp and coconut. Roast beef, lobster bisque, peel and eat shrimp. For Oklahoma this is great. Our time was better spent at the buffet than in the casino, 90 minutes there, then the machines drained us in 15 minutes flat and we left. Not even long enough to buy a drink. Buffet was fun, casino was not.

Friday night seafood buffet. Crab legs were plentiful and delicious, coconut shrimp was heavenly paired with the orange marmalade. Service was very good. The dessert bar was average. The same as all casino dessert bars . I thoroughly enjoyed my meal. 08 Aug, 2014 Crab Legs and Coconut Shrimp. Hot, fresh and delish.

Friday buffet with this ribeye steak. No one can beat this taste. only a few fridays so bad can they wait for a table for 45 min. the card gets it 10% maybe 15% of its buffet. make sure that one takes less than 5 minutes and saves them some. Do not forget that children are welcome in the all ages. they can't be there while they play. also have to go to the wall on the next carpet. when you look down, you will see what I mean

I eat here about once or twice per month. I find enough variety to get something new everytime, if I want to switch. Sometimes the prime rib is a little dry, but I just add some of the au jus usually get the horseradish sauce, as well, which makes a huge difference.