IHOP

The one star was for the potato soup they have! The only thing I like. Other than that this place need to be more organized… Everything was not right… The food the service… Only come here when everything else was close.

Horribly mismanaged. Waiting for drinks for over ½ hour. Only 2 waitresses — ours here 1 week.
Place smells like a nursing home.
Stay away

I took my daughter there for a birthday breakfast. We were ignored by the manager when we came in and a senior couple shoved us aside and were seated before us. We sat in a booth. The carpet below us stunk like stinky feet. The omelet I ordered was cold and the pancakes were hard as if they were left over from someone else plate. The food was tasteless. One server for 15 tables. A very bad experience for a reputable name. Never again

The food is good, service isn’t to bad. But the quality of appearance for the waiters/​waitresses is horrible. I don’t want to have to stare at your bullring nose ring, obnoxious ear gages, black and brown teeth, and yes tattoos are awesome, but not to be shown during work. The professionalism of this place has gone down.

Place was less than satisfactory on numerous occasions and it’s only gotten worse. As figured, count on super busy weekends, especially Sunday afternoons before and after church… Many times my wife and I have even considered it, it was too busy and we had to seek an alternative. Note: we probably wouldn’t if it weren’t for the following reasons:
1. The food, much like everywhere else, has gone up in price. This wouldn’t be a problem if it weren’t for that fact that:
2. The quality of the food is sub par at best. Avoid lunch and dinner items and stick exclusively with breakfast items or you will likely be severely disappointed. Even breakfast is inconsistent. It seems like every time we go the bacon is a different brand, likely due to the fact that their provider ensures a cheaper brand to cut on cost. Sausage links are the same way.
3. Service at night is even more atrocious than their dinner menu. Avoid this place at all costs at night or you will likely be met with some shallow clientele, including obnoxious high schoolers, and even worse servers that chat it up and spend more time texting than serving. My base tip for a waitress is $ 5.00. If they provide good service, it goes up in dollar increments. However, when bad, or worse, horrible, they will likely receive anywhere from 2.00−3.00 tops, and a note on the receipt copy explaining why they didn’t receive a more generous tip, and how to better themselves.
4. Had great coupons for by one meal get one free of equal or lesser value, but there’s a catch, or two… They don’t accept them on weekends or holidays, and you must by a drink. However, recently, these coupons have all but disappeared, making it even less worth it to pay a visit to the Mchenry IHOP.
Summary: if you expect an empty beverage glass while waiting a sometimes obnoxiously long time for you food all whilst the waitress is more occupied by her cell phone only to receive sub standard yet moderately expensive food, this may be the place for you!
Last time I wanted to add toast to my meal only to be told it would be a $ 2 charge. Could have bought two loaves of bread at that rate at the store and had breakfast for the next two weeks!
Looking to treat yourself yet stay healthy at the same time? Don’t try subbing their «fresh» fruit for hash browns! Another $ 2.50 charge!
Looking for an alternative? Either stay home and eat an affordable breakfast or pay visit to the little chef in Mchenry. Or, take a drive out to Richard walkers pancake house in crystal lake.

Absolutly horrible. Food tasted nasty and the service sucked. We waited an hour for our food just for it to come out horrible. If you ever get a waitress named Jay run the other. Ask for someone else. She was horrid.

Terrible food! The service was OK for what it was. I had the Colorado omelet with hash browns. The beef was totally dry as were the eggs. The hash browns looked disgusting so I don’t know how they taste. Waste of time & money.

So… this place is a waste of money. The food isn’t too bad, but the service was horrible especially the manager. I over heard him let a disabled little girl go because «she was not going fast enough» for them. I was offended at the way he treated this girl who couldn’t control what she was born with. I will never go there again and I hope that the people reading this will consider the same.

Tasty food and hot coffee. Note: I tried the eggnog pancakes and they were too sweet for my liking. But you should try the pumpkin pancakes.

I have to agree with the other posters. I ate here once and that was enough to ensure I’ll never return.
The food was tasteless, the service indifferent (and that’s being charitable), and the place was a dump.
The only people who like this place are the guys at Denny’s because of all the business they send their way. :-/

I don’t know what these people are complaining about. The food is fine, the staff is friendly. The bathroom could stand to be updated. It’s a typical IHOP/Denny’s style establishment.

My husband and I went there for breakfast. I thought how could you go wrong with IHOP… they’re everywhere. I was sadly mistaken. It was dirty and smelled bad (i thought the smell was another customer, but when they left, the smell stayed.) The food was substandard and I was ill all afternoon. My husband took some medication that upset his stomach so he did not eat… fortunately! We were sat in the front next to the cash register and all I could hear was the manager and greeter apologizing the whole time, and another customer sent her food back because she found a hair in it. I will never go to this IHOP ever again. This place is a train wreck.

I love IHOP, so it’s terribly disappointing that the IHOP in McHenry is so consistently bad. The food is somehow not as tasty as in other IHOPs, and the service is never great. We’ve given it the benefit of the doubt several times and made the mistake of going there again, only to regret it later. Now we make the drive to the IHOP in Crystal Lake, despite the fact we live in McHenry because that one doesn’t disappoint.