Applebee’s

came in with my husband to grab a quick bite to eat with ZERO expectations. this trip managed to rank itself lower than that. (for reference, we went a little after 4:30pm, and the restaurant is barely ¹⁄₃ full.)
we get seated quickly enough, and get our drink and food order in as well. hubby ordered the bourbon chicken and shrimp and i ordered the 7oz sirloin cooked medium.
while we were waiting, a party of 5 was seated next to us and started receiving some of their orders/​appetizers incorrectly (they were fairly nice about it). we received our orders in a decent amount of time, but we noticed we got our meals before the elderly couple behind us. (maybe the orders got put in backwards?)
my husband’s meal had dry potatoes (the kind that look like they’ve been under a lamp for too long) and there was no bourbon flavoring on the chicken whatsoever. my dish looked fine, until i sliced into it – my sirloin came out RARE. :(i love me some meat, so i ate as much of it as i could, but that’s not how i wanted my meal.
on top of that, we had 2 different servers (in addition to the one who took our order) drop off our food and walk away. we couldn’t even flag anyone down until a manager finally walked by towards the end our meal to get some steak sauce. there was also a promo for a perfect margarita that we didn’t get pitched, but we couldn’t find our (or any) server to claim our free one.
they offered to refill my husband’s drink multiple times (3 times in maybe 5 minutes) at the end of our meal, but by that point we were pretty over it. maybe they’re understaffed (or overworked) because they seem like nice folk, but the service was not there at all.
TL;DR — the food and service was FAR LESS than ‘OK’ #sorrynotsorry

Slow to take our order then cold salad on s hot plate and a server wit an attitude really!
The cheese on the lettuce was melting and the lettuce wilted really! And then at (band camp) seriously the wait person reached over my plate and drug her sleeve through my cedar plank chicken. Which is new and not all that good.
Over all this experience was ok at least.

Went in last night on a first date with someone. I’ve always enjoyed their food. The variety can’t be beat… and neither can the service.
The only issue I’ve had with the service is that sometimes the wait staff are slow on refills.
Have not had anything to drink (alcohol) in awhile, but the bartenders here are always good. Polite. If they don’t know how to make a drink, they’ll figure it out for you.
Good place to meet friends! It really is a neighborhood kind of place.