J. Buffalo Wings

This place is awesome. Not cheap, but well worth the price.

This used to be Teriyaki 101 in the small Shopping Center in front of Lowe's. I have eaten at Teriyaki 101 dozens of times in the past which had excellent reviews at first and then quickly degraded. This is my second time eating at this restaurant under the new name J Buffalo Wings. Both visits I ordered a 10-piece combo with house fried rice. The wings had lemon pepper seasoning which was good, but can be strong if the wings sit in the sauce for a long time and the house fried rice was excellent! I was sad to see during my last visit that there was no one inside eating. During my entire 30 minutes I was there I was the only one in the restaurant dining. There were a few call-ins, but it was a bad sign to see that at 7 p.m. dinner time the restaurant was slow on a Tuesday evening. Since the transition from Teriyaki 101 there have been some changes. Not all of these changes however are for the best and I recommend management to make some of these changes back to improve customer experience and hopefully also improve repeat business. First I think that in today's age providing bottled water should be a necessary requirement for any restaurant. So many people want to drink healthy, but do not want to drink the city water coming out of the soda fountain. For the amount of money a pack of water cost at Sam's and the resale value of bottled water alone makes it silly not to sell bottled water. Even at a dollar a bottle you can make excellent margins. Sure you may have to get a frigerator to keep the water's cold if you don't already have one, but it would help trust me. Second, to upgrade to house fried rice is now $2 instead of $1. I also find this is a ridiculous change because the amount of meat in the fried rice is not enough to warrant a $2 increase. Actually since J Buffalo has taken over the amount of meat in the fried rice is definitely less. The fried rice however is still good so I'm not knocking how good the fried rice was, but if I'm going to pay $2 more for house fried rice I expect to have $2 worth more of meat in my fried rice. Third, when the restaurant is as dead as it was when I was there I highly recommend that the person working the front counter to check on the guests to see if everything is fine and if they can get them anything. When I see a tip jar by the cashier I expect extra work to be done by the cashier otherwise please remove the tip jar. Lastly, the phone. I can't tell you how many times I've tried to call to place an order to pick up when the phone was never answered. While I was there dining in this time the phone rang a couple times and it took them forever to pick up the phone and there was no one in the restaurant other than myself who was already eating. Takeout orders is a big part of any restaurant especially a restaurant with a menu like J Buffalo Wings. Management seriously needs to do a better job of having the phones answered and orders taken. So with all that said I like the food, and don't want the restaurant to close because it really is good. Now I can't vouch for the other kinds of food because I've never ordered anything other than the wings and the fried rice and both of those are really good. So management please address my concerns as I'm sure I'm not the only one. If you do this you just may be able to make this a successful location.