CiCi's Pizza Cici's Pizza Bad Food Bad Service & Dirty Dishes EAST RUTHERFORD, New Jersey

To say it was unpleasant is an understatement.

First this location was charging $6.49 for the $4.99 buffet & its NOT in a major city like NYC or LA. Right after we paid I picked up a plate & it had dried food stuck to the eating part of it, I picked up a 2nd & it happened again. 3 tries to find a clean plate should have served as a warning to me.

We got our food (1 cherry tomato in 2 whole bowls of salad on your buffet line was very underwhelming)  & sat down. I took a bite of the carrot & it tasted like it was washed in soapy water & not rinsed (That would be the only thing that got cleaned with soapy water it seemed in this location!). The salad itself we both agreed was the worst tasting salad we ever had. The lettuce just had a washed out 3 day expired taste to it.

Your Pizza was ok. I would equate it to a Pizza Hut type Pizza so for a buffet that was ok. However you should have sauce on the side for the breadsticks & calzone (If thats what that piece of bread with a slice of pepperoni in it was supposed to be) as most people like to dip them in sauce. I had to get the spiral macaroni just to use the sauce from that for dipping.

Then came the fun part. I went to get more pizza & this guy without a name tag so we will call him Mr Grouchy Plate Police says "you cant reuse plates as its against board of health rules". Ok that would be fine (more tactful would be having a sign noting this instead of A GROUCH!) but as I was telling him why I was reusing the plate as it took me Not 1 Not 2 But 3 YES 3 tries to get a clean plate he YANKS it out of my hand & says our plates are clean. Unfortunately for Mr Grouchy Plate Police he hands me a SO CALLED Clean plate Which had DRIED CRUSTY FOOD ON IT!!!!! When I pointed this to him he Blatantly Lied to my face & claimed it was "WATER SPOTS", I then took my fingernail & scraped off his so called waterspots. He then gets another plate which had gunk on the bottom side but he said all your plates are like that as you cant get the stickers off.

Now remember when I was saying about using the sauce from the macaroni for dipping. I had to get more macaroni for the sauce, I then made the mistake of eating the macaroni before the sauce as your worker then WITHOUT ASKING just took the sauce covered plate off my table & put it in his dirty dishes (Gee thanks for ASKING first!).

Between the food, lack of cleanliness, & the service (With a special award for How NOT to act to a customer to Mr Grouchy) our First impression will most likely be our last impression & the impression we will be telling our friends about when they ask "How was it?".