Applebee’s

Okay-​ish better than my previous Applebee’s experience, but still has problems. It the food is cooked properly now, but the chairs create cramps on your buttocks.

I dislike giving low ratings but I am being generous in my stars.
I went out for a bite with my father and my child. Ordered tea, water and kids lemonade. Waiter brought my child a lemonade in a large glass, I didn’t think anything of it as sometimes they run out of the children’s plastic cups. So we get out food which was an artichoke app, entrees were sirloin steak, lime chicken and kids chicken nuggets. Kids meal had three sad small chicken fingers with a small handful of fries barely covering the center of the plate. My chicken was inedible, they had put some kind of ranch dressing on it. I have ordered this entrée in the past and always enjoyed it.
Server was pretty bad, he came to check up on us once when we were almost done with our meal. He never bothered asking if we wanted dessert or anything. We asked for the check and server came over and plopped out receipt on the table. I had never in many years dinning at Applebee’s had a server give me my check without a check cover; but he didn’t say anything about it so I assume he has given checks to patrons this way before. No worries I am a roll with it kind of gal. well that was until I saw he had charged me for an adult lemonade and the 75 cent refill for that size drink) I called him over and explained he had accidentally charged me the adult lemonade with adult refill, to which he said «yeah but your child drank the lemonade» and I said yes but she ordered a child’s lemonade you delivered the wrong size drink. He said he needed to talk to his manager and came back telling me he switched the adult to a child but he would still have to charge me the refill. I wasn’t about to argue for 75cents vs 49 cents for the kids drink refill so I left it at that.
The funny thing is I was a waitress for many years and always tip generously upwards of 30% + of the bill. Instead of pulling a fast one on a customer charging them for an adult sized drink ordered by a child, he could have easily upsold in other ways like liquor or desserts.
The food was the worst Applebee’s, and servers were very young and seemed to be more interested socializing with one another than attending to customers. I will continue to eat at Applebee’s just not this one.