. . "2011-01-26T00:00:00"^^ . . "2"^^ . "0"^^ . "2"^^ . "I gave TGI Friday's a good review back when it was a great value. Well, things have changed.\n\nMy mother is a seasoned citizen. She collects her coupons from Smith's grocery store, and loves to use them. One of the coupons is a two-fer-one at TGI Fridays. Her youngest son was going out of state for about six months, and she wanted us to send him off, with full belly off a comped meal. Oh my, she was in for a surprise.\n\nIn the past, if four adults had two coupons, two could eat free. The coupons were laid out on the table, and the waiter (very polite...we can't kill the messenger) advised only one coupon per table. When confronted with value versus togetherness, value won, and we sat at different tables. Seems a little silly, huh? It didn't stop there. This TGI Fridays advertises steak and lobster for $13.99 if you are there before 6:00 p.m. When me and the hungry wife both ordered that meal, the waiter swooped in with more bad news, since we were using the coupon, we would be charged the regular price for the steak and lobster! So, now it's $18.99 for two steak and lobster dinners. Well, we'd get some of that back, because we had the kid with us, and kids eat free on Tuesday night. Well, not exactly. The waiter offered the final apology, stating that the customer must chose one promotion. If the kid eats free, then the steak and lobster dinners will be charged. \n\nThis was quite upsetting to my mother. She loved to land upon this restaurant and abuse the freebies. \n\nOkay, on to the food. The steak was tiny, but it was cooked right. It had garlic butter on the top. A nice, tasty addition. The lobster tail was also tiny, but tasty. They didn't gyp on on the baked potato, it was big. There was some steamed broccoli, most of which was neglected. Maybe they should promo \"all you can eat steamed broccoli\"? The broccoli was fine. The wife had a margarita. It was still happy hour, and the waiter had no bad new for us on the discount for that, $5, and a good value. \n\nI'd say that we got what we paid for. This meal at full price is not worth the money. For those of you who frown upon coupons...you better bring them, and try to use them, if you are going to try to get value at this place."^^ . "0"^^ .