Applebees

 

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Craig M.

Greenfield, WI

6/4/2009

This is not a Neighborhood bar and grill.  It's a franchised fast food joint with rather bad food.  

Very disappointing for me.  We went for the 2 for $20 deal and ended up spending $52 on drinks, food, and tip.  First off they only give you a choice of 7 things on the 2 for $20 deal.  Most consisting of chicken.  The only real meat products were the burgers.  What kind of deal is a $10 burger?  Sounds more like a ripoff.

I had the Bacon cheddar burger.  I told the waitress I'd like my burger Medium Rare.  When the burger came out it was way over cooked, the meat was charred and well down, and the bacon was way to crispy and tasted burned.  The only thing good on my plate were the french fries and the lettuce garnish

My wife had the Chicken Caesar salad.  When I think of salad I think of healthy.  When my wife got her salad I thought, "Doesn't the fried chicken on top kinda defeat the purpose of a salad?"   It was a romaine salad _smothered_ in caesar dressing with crispy fried chicken on top.    Although, my wife said it was tasty, and she's usually pretty fickle.

After dinner we had the apple pie.  All I have to say is, no wonder there's an obesity problem in America.  The pie was huge with a monster scoop of ice cream on top.  It was very tasty but even for two people it was a lot.  I felt like a pig after I ate half of it.

But, the thing that creeped me out the most was the manager.  As I watched her move from table to table asking how the food was, she did something odd.  When she'd ask people the question, she would nod her head affirmatively.  It reminded me of psychological coaching.  If you nod affirmatively when asking a question you can trigger an affirmative answer from your subject.  Kinda creepy.  What are they teaching these people at Applebee's manager training school?

All in all, I will not be heading back to any of the Applebees locations anytime soon, but I had to give it two stars instead of one because my wife's dish and the pie were both good.

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