The Murder Mystery Company in Cincinnati

So very expensive for what you get, 65.00 a person! Doesn’t include drink, and they will not have enough servers to even bring you water. Mediocre food, theater part was equivalent to a middle school play. Lack of service, and then pitching a photograph which they expected us to buy about did us in.

My husband and I went to this location (Spaghetti Factory Fairfield, Ohio) for the murder mystery dinner. People raved about the murder mystery show and the food would be better because of the location.
Based on the murder mystery dinner package!
No. 1 — food choices or selection for the food, is terrible. Choices for vegetarian is the one and only pasta and tomato sauce basically-​or in simple English! Nothing to rave about. And the other choices are spinach tortellini with Alfredo sauce. Both of the other choice have pork in in. Why can’t we just get chicken?! Or just chicken salad? Anyone with specific diet basically are forced to eat the vegetarian meal!
No.2 — the murder mystery show itself is… Boring. Some guests who were appointed to act, doesn’t have the theater voice, can’t hear them! Some doesn’t share the information that was supposed to be shared and the actors from the murder mystery company themselves are just… okay.
No.3 — we were offered to purchase the «gold tickets» totally NOT worth it! We get the food last, we sat just like everyone else, sharing table with everyone else, cramping location with everyone else, and nothing special came with it! Just pictures? We got two pictures in a cardboard that saysurder mystery company. Sure, but the picture wasn’t clear/it’s blurry and not professional. My phone did better with pictures. And we both are married, we got two sets of the same two pictures. What!!! Nothing fancy or special or acknowledged with the «GOLD tickets» Gold tickets means you pay extra you got nothing! Very disappointed and we regretted it!
No. 4 — let’s go back to the «3 course dinner.» This has to do with spaghetti factory itself! The salad itself was watery!!! I don’t even know what kind of dressing was that. Some kind of ranch but has no taste like ranch at all. The main course, as I mentioned before, no choices. Stucked with angel hair and tomato sauce. Dessert? They pun a table mat of cakes dessert and all we got was a scoop of Neapolitan ice cream! Seriously?! And we have to pay and order upfront. And oh, drinks wasn’t included in the tickets priced we have purchased in advance even with gold tickets!
I don’t like writing bad reviews but this one I just have to. I will not encourage anyone to go for the murder mystery dinner. Not on a date. Not on anniversary either. For the experience, sure. If you extra money to spare on nothing, sure.

I will start this off by saying I have never left a review for a bad experience before but this was just awful. Service was terrible. We showed up a half hour early as suggested in the information and waited 30 mins just to get a drink. Many other people did not get a chance to have a drink before the show started. Once we were seated it was another 30 mins before we were even offered a glass of water. There were only 3 servers for 90 people. It was some of the worst service I have had in a fairly long time. The food was also less than pleasant. In all honesty I have had frozen dinners that tasted better. I was really disappointed with the quality of the food that was served. Everything about the experience screamed a money grab. Corners were cut on service and food quality for what I can only assume was an attempt to make as much money as possible. This should have been a really fun and interesting experience and I was left beyond disappointed in every aspect of the event. The acting was horrible as well and it felt like the staff was given instruction five minutes before the show started and winged it from there. Please do not spend your money on this.

My group of 4 enjoyed our night with the mystery company at the Old Spaghetti Factory in Fairfield, Ohio. The actors were engaging and entertaining. We purchased them through a groupon offer and had to choose our dinner at our reservation time. Be prepared to spend the money for the event of the mystery only though! The pasta was horrible –tasteless! The only appetizing item was the salad! I realize they need to make money on the deal but I wouldn’t buy these entrees at a school cafeteria!

This was horrible! Please do not waste your money. I purchased this with a groupon for half off. I would not go to this if even if it was free. There are a total of three people that put this on. The acting is so bad, and the food was literally a rip off and disgusting. I feel like I wasted part of my life sitting there. I was pretty excited to go and check this out, but now it is just a big joke between me and my girlfriend about the worst groupon purchase ever. I would love to tell you more about how aweful, but figure I will keep it simple. SAVE YOUR MONEY!!! Don’t say I did not warn you if you decide to make the mistake we did.

I was very disappointed with the show my friends and I went to see in at the American Legion in Cincinnati. The food was very bad. The kinds you’d expect in a hospital or old-​folks home. The story was simple and easy to solve. There was not much mystery in it at all. In fact, the group at my table did not want to believe the final resolution of the plot since it was the most obvious and had no dramatic story telling at all. We thought we were supposed to be in a crime novel or movie. And while the actors were into it and trying to sell the weak story, they really were not that good either. I’ve seen better acting at school performances.
And to top it off, they present a scam via Groupon or other coupon sites where they sell tickets but then claim all of the shows are sold out… but if you pay another fee, essentially doubling the cost, you can have «special» seats to the show and will receive a picture. Everyone I knew that went to the Cincinnati shows had to pay the additional fee to use their Groupon tickets. When we got there, nothing special was offered at all. And everyone who attended got a picture. They are getting around the Groupon «bargain» by selling low-​priced tickets they then refuse to honor unless more money is given to them. They will tell you you can try to use them in another city that is not sold out. But I am not driving to Cleveland or Indianapolis so that I go to a bad show and eat bad food.
Maybe other cities are actually entertaining? I don’t know. And I will never find out as I felt so completely ripped off at every level (tickets, food, show) that I will never go to anything from this company again.
I noticed they are now also doing performances at The Old Spaghetti Factory (6320 S Gilmore Rd., Fairfield, Ohio 45 014.) I see they have a new offer on Groupon. Be warned if you use a coupon to book your seats as soon as you purchase it before they do the «sold out» scam on you too. But also be prepared for bad food and a lame storyline.
I have been to other events like this and they are not all as terrible as the experience I had at The Murder Mystery Company.