This review is strictly about the dessert and not any of the menu items.
I see so many 5 stars and I guess if you would want average desserts that load up the sugar and chocolate sauces to mask the flavor then hey this is the 5 star place for you!
Had their Godiva cheesecake and since I wanted something with WOW chocolate decided on the chocolate blackout cake. Now, would one except a dark chocolate almost slightly bitter taste of real cocoa when ordering the Godiva Dark Chocolate? Or instead how about just giving a really over sweetened chocolate cheese cake with no real homemade texture that may perchance resemble a taste similar to Hershey's ?
Chocolate Blackout Cake- increase the portion size to feed 3 people, decrease the quality of the ingredients and add again the sweet chocolate syrup with an almost artificial chocolate taste upon the cake that is like a box mix. Voila...charge $9.00 for equivalent of Betty Crocker box cake!
Don't mean to go hard on the CF, but most of their menu items on their appetizer side and small plates are fried (one or two healthy ones only), and again from what I see, if you want a ton of food for not a lot of money then sure its great. I haven't tried their entrees yet, but am a bit hesitate to do so. Just don't want to set myself up for disappointment.
For the service side- seen the same service issues everyone else talks about. For some reason these corporate chains either hire managers who don't know what they heck they are doing, or decide to offer a pay scale so low that no one takes the job seriously and could care less if they work there or not. How about pay a few more dollars per hour and hire people who take their job seriously? And find a real manager, which again might cost a few more dollars but could be worth it.