Forks Cafeteria & Catering

The nicest cafeteria you'll ever eat at. Very clean environment hosting friendly folks serving heaping portions from a wide selection of southern favorites, Forks is the John Deere cafeterias. (That's Cadillac of cafeterias to you city folk)

Let me just start by saying I'm a long time fan of the food at the Forks having dined here for many, many years, particularly the Sunday buffet. I always recommend it to people and on social media. Since the thick of the pandemic they stopped letting people serve themselves on the Sunday buffet, which is understandable and I applaud all their efforts. However, when you can't take what you want yourself, you can't control the portions being dished out by the staff no matter if you ask for just a small amount. I brought it up to the son of the original owner, asked the staff to just give me a little bit, but to no avail. I'm not one to waste food, having grown up with parents who lived through the Great Depression, so I feel compelled to eat what's on my plate, begrudgingly, because I know in other places of the world starving people would give their life for it.I was hoping they would ease things on the staff doing the serving on Sunday's as things are getting better with covid and go back to letting customers serve themselves. Some restaurants provide disposable gloves for buffets now, but unfortunately I was told they are going to keep it this way permanently. We were there this Sunday and they had a new setup for cold sides, namely the slaw, beets, and cranberries being already served up in foam bowls for customers to take themselves. This took up a lot of space so instead of having the veggies at the beginning of the line and then the hot entrees, it was the opposite. They ended up not have room to put the turkey in the warmers with the other hot food, so they were serving it cold. Not okay! Then on the dessert table where they normally have each individual slice of pie or cake wrapped, none of them were at all and it was help yourself. It seems like with the help yourself area for unwrapped desserts and cold sides they're defeating their purpose of wanting to make things as sanitary as possible during covid. Plus they took down their sign on the door requiring customers to wear masks and most of their staff, including the owner, are not wearing them either. Sadly, I think this was our last visit to the Forks.

When the handicap spaces are all full, you know you're in a good spot. So much food. Delicious too. We got country steak and meatloaf, mashed potatoes and Mac& cheese, string beans, and a roll. Also yea, which was some of the best I've had (I prefer unsweet, sweet was also good.). We had to get a to go box... the portion size is huge!

Excellent home style cooking. Fried chicken, meat loaf, and pork chops are excellent combined with your favorite vegetables e.g., mashed potatoes, butter beans, green beans, macaroni & cheese, green beans, turnip and collard greens with hush puppies. Also the slow cooked smoked pork bbq is excellent and is flying under the radar among the local community...probably because it's not expected from a cafeteria. Highly recommend the chopped pork bbq sandwich.

Folks found a New Good Place for you to take your Family to. Yes a Friend of mine stop by and had a Good Lunch. So we went for Dinner and let me say I will be back!!! So many choices and then some. Staff is so helpful and prices are very reasonable too. Do yourself and family a favor stop and enjoy!!!

This place is a gem.Great food.Wonderful people.JR is great.Love the meat loaf.CatfishSweet Potato's

Finally visited Forks after living here for 12 years! As others have commented, prepare for a dated interior, very friendly employees and good ol' Southern cooking! Place was empty when we visited, lunch had just started. We got fried chicken, green beans, mashed potatoes with brown gravy and salad. Also, grabbed a slice of carrot cake. I grabbed some white turkey and stuffing for Thanksgiving, too. Perfect to bring home and heat up, in addition to serving ham. The lady serving the food was very friendly, she pulled up the menu and prices for us on the large tv behind the counter. The food was very good. Fried chicken was delicious. Mashed potatoes were darn good. Gravy was great, tomato cucumber salad was good. Carrot cake was just ok, but the lady pointed out that that was not made by Forks. Two lunches, drinks, and two servings of turkey and dressing came to $34 out the door. The cashier was very nice and offered to keep my to go order warm for me - nice touch. Glad we finally tried Forks. If you are expecting genuine southern cooking and friendly folks, you won't me disappointed!

Delicious. I hadn't been to the forks in years and had a hankering for cafeteria food. The forks did not disappoint. The chicken was so soft and flavorful, I ate it super quickly as it was so good. The green beans were also delicious. And the sweet potato casserole was amazing. It was just the right amount of sweet and savory. Score for the delicious meal and some extra points for the friendly cashier man and the friendly tray cleaner man. Big open floor seating and super clean restaurant.

It's a great cafeteria with good food and service. If you like a cafeteria or you just yearn for the nostalgia of a cafeteria by all means give it a shot.

Good food, large portions, moderate prices. Menu has much variety of choices of main course, sides and deserts. Staff is friendly and helpful.