Wow Zone

Where do I begin?
Way understaffed. Customer service lousy. Spouse had honors dinner here once… cramped side room, food was cold chicken breast, pasta bar was noodles. That’s IT.
Also, beware of mini golf… very dark and dangerous. Fell down in there.
Sat 15 minutes in the bar and NOT EVEN A SECOND GLANCE BY THE WAIT STAFF. NO MENU, NO SERVICE. Left without eating… this was Sat., Feb. 13^th. Was also told a three hour wait to bowl. No bowling.
Extremely poor service, lousy, over priced food. (Have eaten there before.) No pro shop… it was closed. It’s always closed.
With Dutler’s closed I have no place to bowl in Mankato. Can’t go to Victory… same outfit there. WOW ZONE needs to go out of business. Simply stop going there. I have. How does such a place with such incompetent management stay in businesses? I mean, they are really, really awful here… clueless.

Some of the best food in Mankato! Everything out table ordered was spot on!!! BBQ sandwich the best!

Food was great! I know I know it’s an arcade but we are from out of town and staying at the hotel across the street and gave the restaurant a try. Our party ordered the Cuban sandwich, pulled pork sandwich, burger, chicken salad and a 2 different pasta dishes. All were tasty. Not much for presentation but it is an arcade after all. Our waitress (Jayla) was great and the cook even stopped by our table.
We mentioned it was one of our party guests birthday and she brought ice cream for the whole table. Super sweet touch.
Didn’t bowl but did play laser tag. Great fun and reasonably priced.
Ordered a drink from the bar after. Dirty martini — not all the great but AGAIN we are talking about an arcade. Next time we are in town I’ll come back and try a beer!

Love the pizza! The Rainbow pizza is my favorite and it’s even great leftover. We’ve been coming here for years and really enjoy the variety, from bowling to the arcade to just hanging out in the bar listening to live music on Friday nights.
We have pretty good service each time and it’s gotten better, think some new managers were hired.
Food recommendations include any of the pizza– you can’t beat the brick fired fresh pizza! My husband is a huge fan of their homemade soups, especially the Italian Tomato, it’s his favorite. The prime rib on Fridays is good too.

We had our High School Reunion at the Wow Zone and it couldn’t have been a better experience. Much to our delight the food was cooked to perfection and very tasty. Cheesy potatoes and pork roast were delish. The atmosphere was great for our reunion as we were jamin’ to the 80s music and videos while cosmic bowling. The staff was helpful and the whole night was so much fun. I recommend the Wow Zone for group events and family gatherings.

Nice place to take the kids and have some good food. The bowling is fun and the arcade is fun they have a little bit of everything. The only thing I didn’t like is the black light mini golf was way to dark we couldn’t even see our golf ball and the course was super small. Overall not a bad place

Tricky place to review because it has many components that range in quality. I’ve been here many times. Overall, good for bowling and laser tag, making it worth checking out, but bad for everything else — especially food.
Badly understaffed, however, staff outside the restaurant seem to do a good job and a few are truly outstanding. Restaurant and bar staff are consistently out to lunch.
I wish wow zone would get its act together because it could be great, so I’m going to take the time for a detailed review. Here’s my breakdown:
Arcade — 1 star. A significant number are always out of order, or aren’t working properly. Too many games of chance with long odds. Needs more skill and actual games to play instead of these things that are essentially slot machines for children.
Mini golf — 1 star. Worst mini golf course I have ever seen.
Restaurant — 1 star. Except for pizza, the food is poor. Occasionally terrible. Service in the restaurant is always too slow. It’s bizarre that so many square feet are dedicated to the bar and restaurant, with a nice layout, but no investment in kitchen and service staff to match.
Laser tag — 4 stars. Excellent! What a blast. This is why I go back. Missing a star because equipment doesn’t seem to be maintained well and a queuing process is needed.
Bowling — 4 stars. Best bowling in Mankato. Now if they could just get regular bar service to the lanes.
Generally, pricing is a bit on the high side. Check package pricing before heading in.
Come on Wow Zone… you have the location and facilities to rock Mankato. What’s slowing you down?

It’s a great place to waste some time with people. There are good video games, the laser tag is really fun, and the mini golf is neat with the black light features. The bowling alley has the option of private lanes which are much nicer than the regular lanes, so if you want to bowl in style, this is it.
I agree with the other review in that the service can be poor– it seems like they are either perpetually under-​staffed or that the staff just don’t care. We took a group in for laser tag, and it was like pulling teeth to get someone to come over so that we could start to play. So that kinda blows. But the place as a whole is really a lot of fun.
The bar is also an okay place to hang out with groups– there are hardly ever any people in it, and when they shut the giant door out to the arcade you wouldn’t even know there are screaming kids out there… :)

This place was a sponsor of a hockey tournament and gave a «free» play card for laser tag to the teams. Figured sure why not try it knowing the idea is to drag in others and spend some money while the team played laser tag.
Looked like a good place for kids to play but I never had such poor service. Had a group of 10 people that wanted to drink and eat. The place was NOT crowded. Not very inviting, beer and drinks a bit pricey. Food orders were placed and people that showed up last actually got their order first.
Food was mediocre at best. One woman ordered a chicken wrap and it looked huge and good. She started to remove the lettuce inside of it and I could not believe how much was in there. It literally shrunk the wrap to less then half its size. She offered me the other half and the chicken was bland. Nothing giving it any taste I did not even finish it.
We then waited unbelievably long to get our checks. In fact if the staff paid any attention to us they would have sold at least a $ 100 plus more in drinks but no one was there. Some food came so late they had to put it in a takeout container. Several members in the group were ready to walk out without paying, of course they didn’t but even walking up to the bar and asking for the check didn’t speed them up.
We asked for them to put a playoff hockey game on and instead they turned on an infomercial for some body shaping product. I can’t image
that place being busy and keeping the customers happy.
ZERO chance of me heading back there.