Food is excellent. The staff is very friendly. The food is served quickly. Great at refining drinks when needed We recommend the southern barbecue always good. Get there early or it'll be all gone. read more

Rita's has great Southern cooking. My favorites are the BBQ chicken, BBQ pork & hamburger steak. Their desserts are the best! The potato salad is good, also. I usually call my takeout order in and it's ready with 10-15 minutes. The staff are so friendly & the sweetest people you will ever meet. The decor is very cute, too! read more

What a lovely little country restaurant, with good food, friendly service, and reasonable prices.

Found Rita's on Yelp but the map had it on the opposite side of the road so I had to turn around. Glad I did. Great food and friendly, prompt service. I ordered "Chicken and Pastry" thinking it might be a pot pie. It was chicken and dumplings! Yummmmm! They even threw in complimentary peach cobbler. read more

This adorable off the beaten path restaurant has delicious home cooked food. I enjoyed the fried chicken which was awesome! Additional stars were the hush puppies and the coleslaw. I ordered two pints to take home it was that good. read more

Second timers and it was just as charming. From the tiny paper menu to the 4 entrees with all the trimmings, this place is adorable. I ordered the fried chicken and they did North Carolina proud. Crispy, juicy and tender. Just perfect really. My hubby and I ate a true southern supper for under $20. AWESOME! Can't wait til our next trip thru Mt. Olive! And the service? Southern hospitality all the way. A gem! read more

Rita's Place - a plate of fried chicken, mashed potatoes, peas, and a drink - Southern Near Me - Mount Olive, North Carolina

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I came here for lunch today. Its a nice sit down southern style restaurant that has the look and feel of being here awhile. They only take cash or local checks, no credit or debit cards. The staff is short in talking but courteous and friendly overall. The food also came out pretty timely from ordering. They have different menus every day that the post on their Facebook page, some sort meat accompanied by two sides. Two pieces of BBQ chicken with portions of string beans, apples and banana pudding would run you $8. I wish the portion was bigger and I hesitate to give it 5 stars as a result, but would give the place a solid 4.5. Facebook Page- www.facebook.com/Ritas-Place-362844990579551/ read more

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Did not care for the small size of restaurant and sound bouncing off everything, quit noisy. Limited menu and some of the food just looks weird not Southern just weird. Most of the food they say is home cooked looks like it's fresh out of the can or freezer, That's why it's not all that costly! read more

Excellent place for breakfast or lunch.. good people and very reasonable prices... weather one or twenty, this is the place to go. read more

Rita's Place - the front of the restaurant - Southern Near Me - Mount Olive, North Carolina

We ate at Rita's today for the first time. We were passing through town and starving and not wanting to grab fast food. Found Rita's on Yelp and sat down to another great find. The menu was limited. Limited as written on a piece of paper the size of an index card. Today being Friday, it was also seafood heavy. My boyfriend is not a fan of seafood (and I'm not a fan of eating seafood this far inland), so we both chose the only non-seafood option...BBQ chicken. The chicken came with two sides, a drink, and a dessert (banana pudding). We both upgraded to white meat for an extra $.25, making each plate cost a whopping $8. We both choose cole slaw and fries for our sides from the standard southern side order selection menu. The food came out hot (except for the slaw, of course) and was great. The chicken was juicy and the sauce was not thick or overly sweet (not Buffalo style, but had a little kick to it nonetheless). The fries hot and crisp...not greasy at all. The slaw was great...not overly creamy but sweet and crisp. The waitress also brought out a basket of hot hushpuppies, a nice surprise. The decor is casual but clean. Think small town diner. The motif in the dining area we sat in was definitely chicken heavy (I counted 14 appearances of the barnyard fowl in the surrounding decor). The only reason I held back a star was because of the small menu. I'd like to go back on another day and see what they offer instead of all the seafood options. Who's kidding though...I'd probably get the chicken again...it was that good. read more

This place is amazing! Inexpensive and great good as well as service! A must for mount olive.

This place has the greatest down home country cooking where everything's NH is homemade and will make u wanna slap yo momma the tea is sweet and the service is better great family environment you should check them out LOVED IT read more

Food was excellent. Southern all the way. Couldn't ask for better unless my grandmother had made it herself.

We had a great breakfast. I loved the grits. The atmosphere was warm, inviting and country. Thank you!!

If you want some down home, made to order, southern cooking then Rita's Place is the restaurant for you! The waitresses are super friendly and the food is delicious! Rita is open 6 days a week for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Normally she has different menus for lunch and dinner each day so call ahead to see what the choices are. As I said earlier, EVERYTHING is homemade, and is fresh each and everyday so remember you aren't getting any left-over food from the day before! Check out RITA'S PLACE! You will never regret it! read more

My friend and I went out of our way to come here for breakfast. Disappointing to say the least. In a sit down restaurant, I expect actual dishes; since I am "green," I don''t like everything service on Styrofoam. The meal was well below any reasonable expectations. One of the things I judge a place that concentrates on breakfast is the coffee. This was cheap coffee, and God only knows how long it had been sitting in the pot. It had that nasty burned flavour that any coffee gets, but it was also tasteless as far as coffee goes. I actually wondered if I was being served the the water to clean the pot. My friend and i ordered the breakfast special - eggs, bacon, country potatoes or grits, toast or biscuits. She ordered over-easy. I said I wanted the same but with a biscuit and scramble the eggs dry. I got dry toast and half-cooked scrambled eggs. I pointed this out and waitress said "oh, I thought you said dry toast," and walked away. I did not bother with any more complaints. I left the half-cooked eggs, ate the dry toast and girts, left the coffee, and thought, "never again." read more