Pizza Buffet of Anderson, SC

The Facts:

Pizza: Pizza Buffet of Anderson
Business Category: Single store
Website: https://pizzabuffetofanderson.com/
Location: 3420 Clemson Blvd. in Anderson, SC (beside the Shell and in front of Ollie's)
Date of Review Visit: January 2024
What I Ordered: adult buffet and drink
Price: $14.00 (includes drink and tax but not tip)

 

The Micro:

Crust: Pizza Buffet offers 2 types of crust: regular and pan.  The regular crust is hard and crispy, and it is of the low quality you typically find on buffet pizza.  The pan crust is thicker and has a nice spongy texture.  The pan crust is better than you would expect for buffet pizza.  Score: 7/10.

Sauce: the sauce comes in sufficient quantity, but it has an almost bitter taste.  I like sweet tasting sauce, so while I can see why some people would like this sauce, it isn't for me.  Score: 5/10.

Cheese: this pizza is somewhat undercheesed, and the cheese produces quite a bit of grease.  Score: 4/10.

Toppings: of course the quality of the toppings varies by the type of pizza chosen, but the options are actually quite limited (see "Taste" below).  The sausage is of the horrible pellet variety.  The pepperoni is unremarkable.  At least the toppings appear in decent quantity.  Score: 3/10.

 

The Macro:

Appearance/Atmosphere/Service: this pizza looks like the low to medium quality pizza it is.  Pizza Buffet has a large but somewhat dated dining room.  The service was excellent: they refilled my Dr. Pepper regularly.  Score: 9/10.

Value: pizza buffets usually shine on this metric, and this one is no exception.  In a world where $14 will barely buy you a small pizza and a drink, to get all the pizza you can eat for that price is a real bargain.  Score: 10/10.

Taste: the overall taste is not the best due to the toppings and the sauce.  Bafflingly, there were basically only 3 types of pizza on the buffet: cheese, pepperoni, and sausage.  Most pizzas on the buffet were some variation/combination of those three.  Thus, there was little variety in pizza choice, and there were no "signature" pizzas (ham and cheddar, barbeque, etc.) that made me want to come back.  Score: 11/20.

 

The Final Judgment:

Pizza buffets always seem to sacrifice quality for quantity, and this one is no exception.  That said, I like Pizza Buffet better than Pizza Inn, another pizza buffet in this area.  While I prefer higher quality pizzas for regular pizza eating, for the occasional mandatory self-gourding via pizza, Pizza Buffet gets the job done.  Score: 49/80.