This was the grand opening weekend for Fuji Grill Buffet in the Midtown Plaza in Parma. I hate to give a bad review on a place that has just opened and hasn't worked out any of its kinks yet, but this place has some issues.
First of all, there are no prices posted anywhere. Not a big deal, but you have to ask, as you pay before you are seated. One of the 2 hostesses was wearing flip flops. I don't care how cute your pedicure is, if you're working anywhere near my food, I don't want to be looking at your bare feet. I'm not sure how to word this next part. I know that restaurant work of any kind is hard, and maybe it had been a long day for all of the staff. That being said, most, but not all of the staff didn't look very clean to me. Here again, maybe it being the grand opening everyone was just exhausted and dirty from working so hard.
The decorating and atmosphere were as bland as the food. There was almost nothing to the surroundings that hinted of Asian dining. Staff stood at the periphery, staring at the eating customers.
Way too much of the food was American. I expect there to be some American at a buffet place like this to appease picky eaters, but this place was about 50/50 as far as the actual buffet tables.
None of the dressings were labeled at the salad table. Only one dressing looked to be an Asian-influence recipe - everything else was typical American stuff.
The soup area is a disaster waiting to happen. Seriously, someone is going to get hurt if they don't change that up fast. Giant vats of soup on a ledge that is just barely 2 foot tall, and those vats were very close to the edge. It is just going to take one inquisitive 6 year old. or an elderly person with bad balance, and we are talking some 2nd to 3rd degree burns that will be happening. My husband and I had the hot & sour soup. It was a gelatinous, bland bowl of yuck. I opened the lid labeled "Seafood Soup", and the smell was overpowering. I closed the lid and moved on.
At the ice cream area, there wasn't one of those little wells with the running water to put the scoops in to keep them clean. My hands were covered in ice cream after scooping myself a small bowl. It's baffling to me that the ice cream would be kept up high and safe, while the boiling soup kettles are kept low and precariously positioned.
I did not like the food. I felt it was bland, dry, and of low quality. All of my selections were from the buffet tables, and I did not try the sushi or the hibachi stuff. My husband said that he was happy with what he got - a honey chicken and a whitefish. I found it odd that there was no vat of the special soy sauce used specifically for sushi anywhere to be found. There also was no sliced ginger (unless it was somewhere I didn't see), and none of those little sauce holders you see at most places serving sushi. There were little plastic disposable type cups available, though.
I'm giving a 2 star rating instead of a 1 because my husband was happier with his food than I was, the restaurant was clean (buffet table ledges wiped down, floors were kept up with, ladies restroom was stocked and clean), and the person who waited our table was very nice.