text: My wife and I paid for the buffet and like everything else at the Rio it was deserted There was an outbreak of the norovirus at the Rio this past weekend and I assume people were worried that it came from the buffet because it was dinner time and the place was way less than half full nnThey have a velvet rope where they make you wait before being seated There were three employees standing there staring at us behind the rope One of them acknowledged us asked us how we were doing and then just stood there and stared Not even ten feet away was a section with about ten tables for two and only one of them was occupied As visible as these tables were to us they were even more visible to the three employees staring at us Also visible were the buffet lines with maybe five people total getting foodnnWe waited about ten minutes and finally it just grew absurd We decided to ask for a refund For at a secondrate offstrip casino it is ridiculous to make anyone wait Especially not when the place is basically desertednnThe refund process was a hassle The employees all took nasty tones with us and the manager who gave us the refund did not even apologize for the whole ordealnnAvoid this place like the plague Actually with the norovirus already present maybe the plague is next