My husband and I don't eat at chain restaurants very frequently...we try to avoid them when possible. Saturday night when trying to decide where to go out for dinner (we are running out of food in our house), I had a list of places I want to try. However, my husband didn't want to spend more than $30 on dinner (no clue why), so all of my ideas were out the window. We decided on Applebee's since I had a slight craving for a mucho mudslide.
The only highlight of our trip to Applebee's was my mucho mudslide (it was yummy). My fried chicken salad was large for a half-size and was pretty good. I'd be concerned if a place could really mess something up as simple as that. My husband got the ultimate trio (basically he got to pick three appetizers)...he ordered the mozzarella sticks (blah...they were barely hot and not as good as they used to be back in the day); the sliders (what is up with every place, not fancy and fancy, having sliders on the menu nowadays??), and chicken wraps (Chris said they were OK).
Our service was worse than the food. It took over 10 minutes after we placed our drink order for our drinks to appear on the table. No clue why it took that long because the bar area wasn't busy and the bartender didn't look backed up. Second, it took our food forever to come out...we have no clue why. A mother and daughter walked in after we placed our dinner order and when I glanced over wondering where our food was, I noticed they were eating! They got food before we did!!! GRRRRRRR.
Our bill came to $28, but it was hardly worth it. On our drive home, we said we should have just gone to Wendy's for dinner...better quality food at a much much cheaper price.