The Filling Station

"Amazing little fueling station style restaurant with a buffet. Our lunch was fresh and homemade. I felt like I was at a family dinner. Everyone from the staff to the guest was friendly and glad to show us around. Our waitress basically went through and explained everything on the bar and desserts, but once I tasted the banana pudding, I was hooked! I definitely recommend stopping by if you're passing by Dalton, GA."

"Where do I start...I have waited for a while to leave this review because I wanted to give a fair overall opinion and not a review based on one visit. However this last visit has caused me to go forward with my review. Pre-covid The filling station was just pretty good and their food was never really hot, just always luke warm(this hasn't changed over the last several years). Before covid there were condiments on the table. Now you get your luke warm food from the buffet line immediately after paying, then you have to find a table, then return to get your drink and then you have to ask one of the very few folks that help with cleaning tables for condiments (Stop acting like we did during covid as an excuse not to have condiments at each table.) After that your food doesn't have a chance to be warm especially when it only starts out luke warm. Then there's the chicken, it's like a box of chocolates, some pieces are tough and inedible and some are edible. Then there's yesterdays snafu. They explained after you paid that one of there fryers went down and that they only have one fryer and asked us to be patient. Seeing how their fried chicken is their main meat it looks like they would have slowed the line down or not let as many folks dine with them as they normally do. But they didn't. They let folks in at the same pace with no chicken on the buffet. So instead of holding the entire line up waiting on chicken we took our vegetables and started eating. It wasn't until we were almost finished with our vegetables that someone came out of the back with chicken which means I had to break in line to get our chicken which means even less chicken for those in line making everyone have to wait even longer. Then a few visits ago I asked one of the employees if they received the tips left at the register since you are asked to leave the tip while prepaying for your meal and they responded by saying that Stephanie (the owner) does not pass them along to the employees. They stated that Stephanie feels that she pays the employees well enough and that Stephanie keeps the tips. Seems to me that over the years that we have been visiting The filling station that the quality and service has gone downhill while the prices continues to rise. I feel that it's all about the bottom line to Stephanie."

"Southern goodness!!! We went on Sunday for lunch. It's a buffet with all the southern fixings momma has at Sunday lunch. There's fried chicken, turkey and dressing, sweet potato souffle, mashed potatoes, broccoli casserole, Mac n cheese, creamed corn, and the list goes on. There's a wait, but it moves quickly."

"Was a fantastic meal! The service and staff are thoughtful and generous. The dessert was definitely the cherry on top!"