TGI Friday’s

Typical Fridays, inside resort hotel on Cedar Point property. Overall, we had a decent experience. The service was ok, prices seem to be slightly elevated due to the resort, but to be expected. The fried shrimp I ordered was fantastic. I would definitely go back if I was at Cedar Point.

It’s a TGI Friday’s. What more can I say?
Well, for dinner I had grilled salmon with spinach. Great!
I also had two margaritas. GREAT!
It came in a reasonable amount of time. Yeah!
But keep in mind it’s a TGI Friday’s. I don’t expect to be knocked off my feet. I just expect decent service and food. And that’s exactly what I got.

Normally I’m harsh on chains, but your best bet for a dinner salad and evening fun food in Cedar Point is TGIF, in the Hotel Breakers. The pecan chicken salad was fresh and had good balance. Drinks and desserts are super fun for rents and kids, and bachelors who like sweet adult beverages. We loved our waiter, Mike. And the Jack Daniels grill sauce is both nostalgic and taps out your salty sweet cravings.

I hate that we have to give any stars for my dinner. But my star will for lunch and to my servers who were phenomenal they both deserve 5. Fridays is something to brag about at home but its def nothing to brag about out of state lol I came with a group of people came to this location twice. Once for lunch and then later that same day for dinner.
Lunch was good, but I also did only order chicken fingers and fries. You cant really screw that up, or maybe you lol. This had me feeling more optimistic because i have been to this location before years ago where I had horrible food and horrible service. And if you read the Unilocal reviews its overall an bad choice. This lunch experience made feel like this location has made huge changes. Maybe it was no management this park season and that they actually care about food quality.
Now lets jump hours later on this same day. While this still wasn’t my first choice for dinner this was my only choice since we had stayed in the park until closing time and everything had closed. I came in with good expectations because lunch didn’t go bad. Boy was I wrong, the quality of food did a total 180 in the opposite direction. I ordered the Jack Daniel’s burger. Its a simple burger with jack daniels bbq sauce on top. You would think this would be easy to make but nope somehow they couldnt get this together. Burger was luke warm at best. The beef had no type of flavor or seasoning. Not even salt or pepper. The fries weren’t even at the same caliber as earlier. Just overall disappointment. I probably should have gotten chicken fingers again but who knows those might have been worse also.

Walked right in, right around noon. No wait. Server was on the ball and friendly. Food came out really quickly and was pretty damn good. Why eat in the park when this is a short walk?

Horrible TGI Fridays. The front staff is racist. Two days in a row we came here and we asked for «booth». Both times we were advised «that section is closed» and we don’t have booths. Yet, within 3 minutes of being sat the empty booths were then filled. When this happened a second time we asked for a manager who didn’t care. We weren’t even offered an apology.
As white patrons walking into a restaurant and being greeted by all African American females it was apparent we were discriminated against because of our color.

We arrived around 930 pm after spending a fun day at cedar point. It started out well enough, our waitress was friendly an took our drink order. We received our drinks and placed our food order. That’s when things went bad.
People that ordered salads did not receive them, drink refills weren’t provided and our waitress disappeared. The food orders were incorrect, having the wrong side dishes, at one point one member of our party asked for some bbq sauce for his burger once he received it, he waited and waited while we ate. The manager finally appeared and made things right but the food was only mediocre at best,
I’ve eaten at this chain before and this is my lowest rating,
The value for the price was not there.

Well it was a Friday’s. The staff here was much better than those employed by cedar pointe (the crapiest place on earth) I did appreciate that they were in the hotel trying to treat people with kindness and respect. Good job staff!

After walking through Cedar Point for 9 hours we were hungry. Checked out one of the restaurants inside the park who were wanting $ 15 a piece for a chicken strip and fries meal. Yeah right!
We decided to hike over to TGI Fridays located on the beach inside Hotel Breakers. This place is amazing! Okay, so the menu is priced higher than your average TGI Fridays… Big deal, I’ll pay a dollar or two more for the beach views and the ambiance of the beautiful hotel the restaurant is located in. Got to think, your average TGI Fridays are located outside cookie cutter strip malls in bumtowns like Mansfield, Lima, & Erie.
Our sever was courteous and prompt, the views from eating on the outdoor patio were amazing, and the food was delicious. Priced higher than average, but much cheaper than buying overpriced crap food inside the park.

In general everything was pretty good except a small mistake on the order that was fixed right away. Much better that everything around here in cedar point

Me and some friends decided to have lunch at Friday’s. Well the menu was overly priced, I ordered a turkey burger and a salad. The turkey burger tasted like a pinch of seasoning hadn’t touched it, the salad tasted fine after I drenched it in Caesar dressing. The waiter was very pleasant and had excellent customer service.

Let me just say I love Fridays restaurants but this particular location is completely overpriced. The service was average, the waitress was nice and made sure my glass was always full. But the prices are just ridiculous. I understand that this is «cedar point» and a vacation spot but I don’t care how good the burgers are I shouldn’t have to pay $ 60 for four burgers, fries, and soda. Save your money and pack a cooler.

Paige was a great waitress overwhelmed by horrible management, pricing, and a greed grab. I get the fact we were sucked in by a tourist trap but really? TGIFridays being so horrible? Overpriced? Miserably portioned? Before this if I had to do a chain restaurant, I thought I could count on TGI’s to be reasonable (with guest experience integrity) but this visit makes me want to hunt down an IHOP, Denny’s, Chilli’s, or Waffle house to use as a go-​to. Pretty sure the next trip down 75 between the Midwest and Florida will not include a «Friday’s». Take your greed in Sandusky and enjoy because my credit card will most likely never include a register of the Friday’s experience!

It’s what you expect, regular TGIF, yes it’s more expensive than your average tgif, yes accept that as it is, you’re paying premium for the convenience of mediocre food instead of the nasty grease overtly sugary stuff you only find in the park. So it’s worth the cost I guess. Service was horrible though. Really really really slow service, but I don’t blame the bartender, I actually felt bad for them, (we sat at the bar), I guess it’s management’s fault for understaffing. The bartenders seemed way overwhelmed. I ordered water through our bartender Corey, when I ordered my beer. The bartender forgot our drinks as the guests who arrive 20 min after we did already got their drinks before we did. He even said, «oh sorry, forgot your drinks I’ll get that for you», but got the drinks for the couple next to us first before he finally made our drinks, which by the way the couple next to us ordered drinks way after we did. We got our food and ate half our meal before we got our drinks, I’d say it was 30 minutes till we got our drinks, and that is not an over exaggeration. The bartender did forget my water though as I was getting dehydrated. He checked on us and I asked for water. Minutes later, I still didn’t get my water. By then we were done with the meal and the other bartender (older english gentleman) checked in on us, and I asked for water and the bill. The bill came first, water didn’t come yet. I paid the bill with cash and left 30% hoping the high tip would catch the bartender’s attention and finally remember my water, but I guess it didn’t catch their attention much, because the older gentleman collected the bill, and the water came a lot later than I would have like, (about 10 minutes after we paid our bill). I understand that it was busy, but asking for water that many times, and treating you nice on the bill, only having to have my water much much later than we paid our bill, leaves me really disgruntled. It’s server 101, to provide guests with water when asked as hydration is an importance to guest experience. Food came out fast, and it was at the quality that I expected. Faster than our drinks apparently. And way faster than my water.

3.5÷5 stars so I will round up to 4.
PROS:
–Smaller menu that your neighborhood TGIF but still some good food. I got the half-​rack of ribs with French fries. I wanted it with the Jack Daniels sauce too and they were able to provide it on the side.
–Friendly service. Since Hotel Breakers just re-​opened, I felt like they were trying extra hard to make it a good experience.
CONS:
–Prices are a bit higher than your neighborhood TGIF.
–They do NOT take any coupons or provide Stripes chips (normally you get free tortilla chips for being a Stripes member). I will say that they DO give you your Stripes points for dining there, though, so that was at least good.
This is the only «casual upscale» dining actually IN the hotel (the other two were Perkins, which I’d compare to a Denny’s, and Tomo, which is a bit pricier), also. Food and service were good, though, and it was worth it not to have to shlep outside (in the pouring rain) to go somewhere else for dinner.

Negative one please! Wow this place is so overpriced I can’t even begin to tell you. 15.00 for a craptastic burger? Get out of town! They do not accept any coupons because they are not a corporate store. They do not run any specials… At all. Oh wait if you count the $ 5.00 beer special… Please that’s not a special! Then when you decide you just can’t pay the 16.00 for a salad and you choose to leave. They will charge you for the sodas that they just brought to the table and you didn’t even take a drink. $ 3.00 a pop! Save yourself the trouble and go to the Japanese restaurant. It will be the same price! And you get good food!

A peach flavored wine was $ 13. So basically a cheap white wine with peach flavoring. $ 13. Are you kidding me?! I guess thats why they don’t put prices on the menu. Also, a tiny bowl of mac-​n-​cheese with a few slices of fruit was a kids meal for $ 8. You’re already getting ripped a new one for everything else at the park, is it necessary to rob us because we have to eat? Despicable. Service wasn’t that great either. And no Togo service. What’s the reason for that?!

Horrible service and no apathy. My Caesar salad was warm and sour tasting. No refunds or exchanges were offered. I would not recommend eating here ever.

Pricey Fridays. Being a chain I thought the pricing would be close to the others, but it was definitely high. I guess it has to be high to pay for the fifteen employees it felt like were just standing around doing nothing the entire time I was there. Our server was decently friendly and got our orders right and everything, but it was a disappointing experience. It was a learning lesson that if I was staying at Bay Breakers to go down the street and get better food for a better price.

Ugh. Crappy $ 10 margaritas are passable in Times Square or Disney, maybe, but Cedar Point? Really? They also forgot to bring my fries out, so when they finally arrived after I nagged the bartender, they were room temp.