TGI Fridays

Was greeted quickly but that was about as good as it got. Was then seated and the waitress walked off. After sitting for 20 minutes in a very quite TGIs in Braehead with the staff not up to much, I then had to leave my seat to find a waitress to ask for some drinks. As soon as the drinks order was taken she left before we could give her our food order. By the time the food came it was totally underwhelming.
I’ve been to other TGIs and always had good service, but today this one sucked.
2 stars as the food was at least edible and reasonably priced.

TGI fridays was a pretty good restaurant they had great service and nice employees! the interior design in their restaurant was also amazing! but the food was bland. I got a bacon bbq burger and it didn’t really taste spicy or tangy it was just really bland.

I’m generally a fan of TGIs. They tend to do what they do well, if a little expensive.
So, with that in mind, I visited the TGIs at Braehead.
Sunday night, about 18:45 ’twas petty busy and we had to wait at the bar for 15 mins or so. Fair enough, we hadn’t booked. Anyway, we were given a little «pager» that alerts you when a table has been made free, so off it went and we toddled off to our table via the very helpful front-​of-​house host.
The first thing that struck me was that our table was STICKY… like, really sticky. I put it down to the type of varnish (?) used, and without obviously going around touching other peoples’ tables, there’s no real way of telling. Either way, I wasn’t too impressed with it.
So, we ordered around 19:05 (yes, I’m being precise here for reasons that will soon become obvious). My good lady plumped for the «INFERNO», I went for the «MONSTER» burger. On the menu, both looked awesome and gnarly and all those bodacious overly-​American words that I’m pretty sure no-​one says. To my supreme disappointment, I was informed some 5 minutes later that they «had no monster burgers left». Eh? I thought a monster burger was simply a double-​burger, not made of wild boar or something (incidentally, there was wild boar burgers on the menu, I do wonder if they had them that night?!). Anyway, I re-​chose and opted for the Jack Daniel’s burger.
We then waited.
And waited.
And waited.
And, at 19:55, just as we were about to consider eating the increasingly appetising looking sticky table, they arrived! Two sumptuously glistening, steaming examples of wondrous burgers. Except, they weren’t. The bacon on my burger was COLD. Not just luke-​warm, but cold to the touch, like it had come directly from a fridge. The cheese on the burger was similarly cold, and looked as though it had melted, then re-​set. The burger itself seemed to have retained it’s heat, so, the bacon and the majority of the cheese were cast aside, and the burger was then munched without further ceremony. Interestingly, I was also missing the much vaunted slice of tomato. Perhaps they had ran out of those too?
Anyhoo, the good lady’s burger was similarly lukewarm, but having waited FIFTY minutes for two almost-​cold burgers, there seemed little point in complaining (I’m of the school of thought that when something is returned to a kitchen, there tends to be a window of opportunity for «extras» to be added (not that I’m accusing anyone of anything here…)).
As for the burgers themselves? Yeah, yummy. The INFERNO burger was more of a SMALL PAPER FIRE burger (don’t think that would look as good on a menu though), and my Jack Daniels burger did exactly what it said it would (allowing for the AWOL tomato slice).
Other criticisms? The music was a touch loud, the menus themselves could do with a wipe clean etc.
So, there you go. A thoroughly disappointing time was had, and I can’t see myself going back to this branch any time soon. It’s really the combination of all the «little things» going wrong (poor stock control, getting the food out asap etc) that let this place down, and that’s quite a shame. As secretly, I still like it a bit.

I had a TGI phase where me and the bf usually went between this one and buch st one.
There’s not much to say about TGI’s that hasn’t been said before. It’s quick, so-​so priced and it hits the spot when your hungry. The 2 courses for £9.99 is well worth it and what we usually go for, but i really do hate the décor and the waiting staff are sometimes just plain annoying asking way too many times «is everything ok for you» I do find when it’s busy it all starts to fall apart and you end up getting drinks 20mins later than ordered but this has only been a one time thing.
I recommend this chain purely for it’s JD glaze and tasty burgers.

Located within the Xscape building, TGI Fridays is usually fairly busy. I arrived on Christmas Eve and met up with family for a meal. Inside there aren’t many tables which seat more than 4 people. Staff are friendly enough though run off their feet. I choose from the Christmas menu and had to remind the waitress to give me the free cocktail offered. Others at our table ordered from the Christmas menu and also had to be reminded to bring the cocktails. The food itself left much to be desired. Chips looked as though they had been fried twice, as did the onion rings. It seemed that anything that was fried was soggy, including the vegetable fajitas I had ordered. Not a place I would be quick to visit again.