Help maintain reasonable prices by not taking foods or beverages from the restaurant. Use a clean plate for each trip to the buffet. For safety purposes, each child under 10 must be escorted to the buffet area by an adult. Since it opened less than three years ago, Hometown Buffet has been resoundingly popular and currently serves about 1,800 diners every Friday, with up to 2,000 on Saturdays. Everything from the two daily hot soups such as chicken noodle and a great bean and ham soup are prepared.
Menus follow a weekly pattern, but with many changes per day.
Aside from breakfast, all meals include soup of the day, mashed potatoes, bread dressing, gravy, rolls, assorted vegetables, beverages, hot and cold desserts, sundaes, warm cinnamon rolls and bread rolls. There are two salad bars, with excellent fresh greens. Food containers, kept warm over hot water or chilled in cracked ice, are replaced frequently at all hours with just-prepared foods from the adjacent kitchen. It's a generous, family-oriented restaurant, with a welcome for all diners. The Desert Sun.