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| - My family and I don't normally go to Applebee's and now i remember why.
We stopped in because we had some gift cards to use. It took our hostess 5 minutes to seat us in a less than 35% full restaurant. We asked for a booth and she said she had to wipe one down. Didn't seem busy to me, why were the tables not ready to begin with? There were more than half a dozen open booths. She walked to the table and then walked to the other side of the restaurant to get a towel to wipe it down. Another family had come in and without greeting them she shouted "I'll be right with you!" She walked to the table wiped it down and walked all the way back to the front. She proceeded to walk BACK to the table without waving us over or letting us know she was ready. The second family did not look over our way so out of confusion, because the hostess did not communicate, they thought that table was for them. We corrected the situation, since the hotness kept walking and not paying any attention. We got to the table and she only had 2 menus and 2 sets of utensils. We stated three in our party. She said I'll be back with another menu. I told the girl, we don't need another menu we can share but we do need another set of utensils. 5 minutes later she came back with them. Not very efficient start to lunch. I should have took the hint there and left.
By the time our waitress came over for our DRINK orders we had already decided on our food. When we got our food, I was less than impressed. The 4 cheese Mac with honey chicken was more like dry Mac and cheese. In the description I didn't read that there was bacon in it. I'm that person that doesn't like bacon. I get more cheese from Kraft. The "salads" were a portion for turtles. They werent even in a bowl but, a small sauce plate. The chicken was dry and flavorless. When we were over the meal, we tried the "call server" button on the little handy computer on the table, come to find out it just blinks red, and doesn't help when your waitress isn't on the floor to see it. We waited 5-10 minutes for her to come over and asked us if we wanted boxes, I said yes and the check. It took her a few minutes to come back but, she only came back with the boxes not the check. At this point we have been there over an hour and a half, not a good use of my time waiting more than half the time for a less than impressive meal. She finally came back with the check and we left. Yes we could have paid on the computer however we had a discount card to use as well as gift cards so we needed her to process that.
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