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| - I went today with some coworkers for lunch buffet. When I saw the first Yelp review of this place for 1 star, I thought, "Give these guys a break! They just opened!" Now that I have been to Rafters, I think 1 star is closer to accurate than 5. I go with 2 stars because the service was kind and attentive and the pizzas came out quickly. The salad bar is a neat idea but freshness and variety were extremely lacking--shredded iceberg lettuce, slimy carrot sticks, several types of cheese, bacon, croutons, diced tomatoes, diced celery. You'd find a comparable serving of fiber on a Big Mac. As for pizza, the dough and red sauce were to me, excessively sweet, trending towards discount supermarket frozen pizza. Thin crust lacked any noticeable crisp, bordering on spongy. Thick crust was occasionally undercooked, reasonably cheesy but generally not delicious. Some interesting topping combos, including liberal use of bacon, but somehow even the bacon lacked flavor. Old Chicago is better in almost every respect, and that's saying a lot. Maybe less greasy than Old Chi but that's the best I can say. Nice space and lots of TVs.
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