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Applebee's Neighborhood Grill & Bar has operated a chain of casual dining restaurants since 1980. The menu features American cuisine, including burgers, steaks, salads and appetizers. Applebee's offers a family-friendly dining experience with neighborhood-inspired themes and community engagement across its numerous locations.
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Reviewed April 30, 2025
An employee there, Amber, was incredibly rude. I don't think I'll ever go back. She cursed at me because I knew someone she knew, & since she did that, I was scared to eat there, so we left. She was extremely threatening.
Reviewed April 11, 2025
Waitress had green booger coming down her nose and dirty bk shirt. As a manager you should check servers to make sure they look clean. Manager gave us $10.00 dollars off. But our appetite was ruined. This Applebee's was on Joe Battle and the Waitress had.
Reviewed March 25, 2025
I go to this Applebee’s all the time. I’ve never had such great service as I did today. Aly was our server and she was downright amazing. I would go back there to see her anytime. Very kind, informative, and helpful with helping us. Decide what to order today.
Reviewed March 5, 2025
This Apple could be better if they don’t have managers like the one they have in Chicago Brickyard. Didn’t get seated until a hour later when there were tables open and Manager was no help. The servers were good but Candy had the worst manners, she is not nice, rude, does not know how to speak to people especially employees screaming at them in front of customers. And instead of her helping she is sitting and eating on company time. Applebees, do better in hiring leadership because Candy has none!
Reviewed Feb. 25, 2025
Smelly, poor service, food just OK. Very disappointed. My wife and I had hoped that it would be better. This will be the very last time we will waste our time and money at this restaurant. We live in a small town with few choices, but still no for this one!!
Reviewed Feb. 23, 2025
I ordered a pickup order tonight. The app said my order was ready on time. I live .55 miles from the restaurant. I get there at the pickup time. It's busy. I go inside to let them know I'm there. My pick-up time was 7. I received my food at 7:45. I sat there trying the be patient. The guy that was giving us our orders asked me for my name again at 7:45. He said, "Oh, it's right here." "We're just waiting on ice cream." "No, I'm sorry for the long wait." He only said have a nice night. It takes me 3-5 minutes to get home. My food is completely COLD!!! I also ordered extra sauce. Nope!!! There is none. A waste of my money & time.
Reviewed Feb. 23, 2025
This was not good, the food was cold, undercooked and the last two times my family and I went, we did not have a good experience. The first time they left us for two hours and the second we left hungry and the food was cold. This was not a good experience, thank you and have a good day.
Reviewed Feb. 19, 2025
I was so excited to have real food. It was the worst steak of my life. It was a pile of slop. I was unsure what I was eating. I’m so glad I decided to order fries on the side because I couldn’t even finish the steak
Reviewed Jan. 20, 2025
My family went to Applebee’s in Dundee, MI. Three of us had the burger and 1 the chicken sandwich. The food was delicious. When we walked in from the bitter cold day, Nancy had a cheerful smile. Our server, Raylynn, was like a ray of sunshine on an extremely cold day. It’s nice to come into the restaurant greeted and served by such lovely people! Thank you!
Reviewed Jan. 19, 2025
Went to Applebee's Monday. They were quite busy and there was only two ladies Jamie and Arianna half the day. They were AMAZING. Had good conversation. When I walked in sat me. Fast food was hot. Always had a refill without having to asked. Easy to pay. Best service!!! Definitely coming back!! Amazing work ladies. 😁
Reviewed Jan. 14, 2025
The manager Rick at the Florence, Ky Turfway location is not willing to help fix an issue his employee created. He would not even get up from the booth he was sitting in the entire time we were there. The waitress we had apparently did not know how to use a holiday bonus card to pay for our meal. She was not able to use it and just used our gift card instead. The guy in the green shirt as she put it which was the manager Rick was just sitting in a booth not doing anything however would not help us at all to try to get this fixed. He just kept saying it can be used through March which is true but we specifically came out that night to use it. We did not want to come back out and spend even more money to get the full value of using it another time. Rick would not put in the time or effort of getting out of his booth to fix the issue that his employee created.
Reviewed Jan. 13, 2025
Applebee's Big Clucking Chicken Sandwich advertise as the best chicken sandwich in town.. Double-Glazed Baby Back Ribs Full rack of ribs slow-cooked to fall-off-the-bone tenderness. I went to Applebee's on 1300 Corporate Drive, Westbury, NY 11590. The first time I went was the day after Christmas and it was so packed I walked out, went back the next day determine to get that big clucking chicken. I order the BCC AND RIBS. What I got was a huge piece of breaded tasteless chicken breast, not even salt. The ribs were charred dried bones with sauce (literally dried bones no meat!). I wanted to leave a good review, but the food rated a 0. Truly disappointed with Applebee's on Corporate Drive, I expected the quality of food to be much better than what was serve based on its location. I sent this complaint to corporate request my money back. Have not heard anything regarding this complaint.
Reviewed Dec. 21, 2024
Applebee's Crestview Hills, KY. My husband and I went to dinner together for the first time in a long time because we are parents of four children. I now understand while their parking lot was empty and everyone else was on a wait. I am not one to typically complain as I was a server for 20 years and really don’t have a problem cutting some slack. I had a waitress name Fresley, who continued to blame everything on everyone else and would not take responsibility for herself as a waitress. I had to ask for my glass of wine twice after my husband already had been through a refill of his Pepsi.
I explained as I ordered a gluten sensitive item that I have celiac disease and to please let the kitchen know. We ordered and received our food first and had to ask for our salad salads because she was so unaware that we got them… When she finally sent her “helper” who was supposed to be at the front seating people, I received my salad, which had croutons on it. The server never wrote a thing down. I get my food and there is a long blonde hair in it. To make things worse, “helper” came over and apologized that it had to be her hair!!!! Are you serious? You don’t even have blonde hair!!!
There were tables open everywhere and still the server blamed everyone else except her own poor performance. I asked for my second glass of wine because at this point, I couldn’t eat any of my food, I didn’t even get that. I had to ask for it again and she acted like she was the first time she ever heard of it…. I actually worked for Applebee’s for a few years, totally unacceptable! Oh, and I forgot this part… if it couldn’t be any worse… she delivered my husband’s fries to another table because I watched her do it, she left that table and then returned, grabbed the fries and brought them straight to us. DISGUSTING!!! As I’m watching my husband, eat his dry ** ribs that look like they sat for 15 minutes in the window, I noticed, as I looked directly to my right, the nasty windows covered in dead stink bugs. I left you a nice picture below. DO BETTER OR SHUT DOWN!!!!
Reviewed Dec. 8, 2024
I ordered a medium rare steak with mashed potatoes and broccoli online. I DIDN'T RECEIVED what I ordered, so I called Applebee`s and the lady said that she would send me a coupon in the mail for $26. That was on November 27,2024. I'm still waiting for my coupon.
Reviewed Nov. 25, 2024
My family had a surprise bday party for me at Applebees in Ottumwa yesterday. I ordered med-well steak. I had to send it back 3 times. The steak had an overload of seasoning. Drinks and service was great.
Reviewed Nov. 18, 2024
Ordered shrimp Caesar (full salad). They must have run out of lettuce. It was the most pitiful salad! Wasted my money! Looked like a toddler made it! Paid extra for extra dressing. Didn’t have enough salad to use even half of one dressing!! Awful, awful!! Won’t be back to Applebees in Decatur Al
Reviewed Nov. 17, 2024
I decided to order some Applebee's for delivery. It's been a while. Well now I know why I stop. Chicken straps were dark brown looked and tasted old. And I get 2 ribs and fries for $12. Everything was cold to touch. Never again. Honey mustard tasted bad and smelled too. Barely any salad.
Reviewed Nov. 16, 2024
I have been to Applebee's many times and loved it. This time not so much. I usually order the salmon which is delicious and take leftovers home. This time the serving was the size of my thumb and had no seasoning at all. The broccoli side was perfectly cooked but small portion and the mashed potatoes were chunky. I will not go back.

Reviewed Nov. 11, 2024
I would like to say in October 2024 of approximately last week I visited an Applebee's out at 4917 Dixie Highway in Louisville Ky and ** was our Host, Waitress and she was doing the online ordering at the same darn time. I walked in with a gentleman and he and I and another guest was served within minutes. Again she was the only one on floor. Once we all were seated I notice 4 guests ….2 at each table was already there. Apparently she took care of them as well. We all were satisfied but a gentleman walked in and was very rude after he found out that the bar was no longer opened and decided to get an order to go. She did assist him but he kept asking questions plus she was taking care of already 8 people. This customer got so rude and indignant with her it made us uncomfortable but we all stayed because we wanted to make sure Ms. ** was protected.
For one thing she tried to go to back but evidently the manager was on the phone and they only had the cook and another employee not able to come to help her. I commend her on trying to make the situation stable but he insulted her and began to treat her badly. The situation did not escalate further but she had every right to go into defense mode and I’m glad she did not get hurt. I understand the new franchiser did not get the liquor license but that’s no reason to take anger out on this productive and caring young lady.
I had not been out in a while and she made all of us feel good and the food was tasty and good as I remembered. I give her an A plus for handling the situation as she did but he could have done something bad to her but I prayed and we would have tried to call police or try to keep her from harm. Her and the manager had some words but like she said he could have done something horrible to her. I hope she was not fired or reprimanded because he could have stopped before it went that far. Good Lord the other gentleman didn’t get that mad because bar was closed down.
Reviewed Nov. 4, 2024
Went into the Applebee's in Greenwood, SC. Went to the bar. I sat there for 5 minutes. No bartender, no big deal. After 5 minutes she came into the bar work area. Never acknowledged I was there. 3 minutes later 2 ** females and 1 **male came and sat at the bar. Bartender (** female) immediately ran over to them and began taking their orders for drinks.... REALLY??? I guess Greenwood, SC is racist to ** Males!! I left!

Reviewed Oct. 11, 2024
On 10/10/24 at approx 12:57 or little before myself and family visit the Applebee's establishment located at 2071 West Eight Mile Rd, Detroit Mi 48203. I see there's a different address from the check 2111 8 Mile Rd. I want to express that we are very dissatisfied in the service of the food. The waitress we had not problem with; but whomever the cook is NEEDS TO BE FIRED, OR GO BACK TO SCHOOL LEARN HOW TO COOK PERIOD, AND I WILL TELL THAT TO HIS FACE. PERIOD. The food was very distasteful, not hot, and it was dry, it seems like it was re-cook and sat out for a long while. The host that sat us at our table should know how to handle drinks after touching menus. DON'T TOUCH THE RIM. Now I know I may not hear from no one which is fine. Nevertheless we have to let people know how this location operates.
I hate to say this as an African American maybe this location was just built for the **, none class people, because it seems to me there was no integrity, morals, standards, when it came to who cook the food. Maybe he/she is addlepated. I must ask why people don't take pride into what they are doing. (Think on this, if YOU and your family goes a restaurant you would/expect your food to be right.) The employees represent management and seeing how the food is, lets me know how the manager is. As stated I don't expect a call back, heck why should I? It's in Detroit.LOL. I should've knew better than to take my family there, but wanted to give a chance.
Reviewed Sept. 26, 2024
LOL! There is an Applebee's on Maysville Road, by Meijer. You go in the bathroom, no paper towels in the holders, they just leave a roll on the sink counter. Same with the toilet, the huge roll sits on the baby changing station when it could easily be put in the holder. The toilet is trashed, paper on the floor, even rubber gloves one time. And, I was sitting at the bar last night and heard an employee say that when he was mopping a few nights before, that there were ants down at the bottom of the bar.
Then there is the restaurant part, lol. They are out of everything there too. Out of napkins, drinks, a lot of food items. I was in there last night, I saw at least ten people walk out because their food took too long. The group of three women waited an hour and a half for their food and finally told them that they were leaving. Meanwhile, the district manager comes in, doesn't help at all, but goes back to kitchen, tells the cooks that they are very lazy. So two cooks leave, leaving them with one cook that is new to the job. Lazy workers, always calling off work, when they do show up, they are whing about working, lazy, and not doing their job, especially cleaning. I just go in there to drink a few beers. I would not dare eat there because of how long it takes for food, and how unsanitary the place is. All of last night, I never saw the bartender clean the bar counter after people left, lol. I think I go in there for the laughs.
I have never seen a restaurant that is managed so badly! And I mean the management up higher. They were bought up by people from Texas and every since then, the place has gone down. They act like they don't care about service, workers, or if the place closes down completely. All the management does is blame the workers for everything, they never have restaurant meetings, because they say that they don't want to pay them during the meeting. I remember when you could hardly get a seat in that restaurant, it was so packed! It is just a matter of time before it closes.
Reviewed Aug. 25, 2024
One star is too much for our experience. It started out ok, we were seated fairly quickly, but that's the only good thing about it. We apparently had come during shift change and sat there for 30 minutes without being acknowledged. Finally, I had to get up and tell the host that we wanted to be moved to a server who wanted to wait on us. After finally being waited on, we ordered all you can eat wings, shrimp, and riblets. Don't bother. It took around another 30 minutes for the food to come out so my husband requested the second round when the first round came. When the food arrived, about 20 minutes later, it was just a small saucer with some food on it, not impressive. Husband then order riblets....They brought out 1 riblet on a saucer. Ridiculous! I understand why 90% of the Applebee's have closed in Tennessee. I will never go back.
Reviewed Aug. 20, 2024
I went in with my boys for dinner around 7:45. They told me to wait about 5 minutes, but when I told the waitress that I had been waiting for over 20 minutes, they said they were too busy. It wasn't busy at all. What's even funnier is that they gave the ** couples who came in after us a seat right away. This is blatant racism. I couldn't even imagine it. Even though we were about to leave, they just stared at us and no one even apologized or offered us a seat. I felt really bad.
Reviewed Aug. 15, 2024
New policy. they charge customers for using credit cards. They don't tell the customer this. The customer shows their loyalty and Applebee's does this. There is a little note on this at the bottom of the tag. They should tell the customers of this shady policy. I know things are good at Apple Bees and I can turn my loyalties to other places.
Reviewed Aug. 7, 2024
How cheap can you get with a Chicken Garden Salad? I can't believe I paid 13.99 for that! Ordered a Sundae for my granddaughter, who did not know what a Sundae was, she still doesn't! I think I will be going elsewhere for meals.
Reviewed July 27, 2024
We came for dinner after a long drive from Ky. Very dingy but staff was friendly. We ordered 3 kids meals 3 appetizers (as meals) and a chicken sandwich. Everyone’s meal came except a child’s pizza with yogurt. Our waitress came to check on us to see if we needed anything. We told her we needed 3 kids' drink refills barbeque sauce and the kid's meal. We waited at least 20 minutes for the drinks and sauce.
When they finally brought the drinks and sauce we didn’t even need the sauce anymore. All of our food was finished and still waiting on the kid's pizza with yogurt. We had to ask several more times and when she finally addressed the situation she did apologize but blamed her problems on another table. (And actually they were no problem at all from what we could see). We asked her to box up the pizza and yogurt as we were finished eating and so we could take her food back to our room. The manager didn’t even come over to ask if everything was ok and they didn’t even offer to take the kid's meal off our check. This was the straw that broke the camel's back for us eating at Applebee's. We always say that we are never coming back but we always seem to do so. This will be the last time we eat at any Applebee's anywhere!!!
Reviewed July 22, 2024
The first thing that bothered me was the lady dropped my husband's plate in his lap burning his arm so she got him some more food then she brought the wrong thing back to him so she had to go try again and finally got his food. By this time I was almost done with my food and then she brings the check and his food was still on there for me to pay for it after she had dropped it on him. I was not happy about it at all.
Reviewed July 22, 2024
Food was good. We finally got it. Took 20 to get our drinks after we order drinks. Waitress was horrible. They were not busy. Highland heights ky location. Server name was Caraline. She hiding back corner restaurant not checking on customers.
Reviewed July 21, 2024
I arrived at Applebee's tonight 07/20/24, and discovered that I must have come at the right time as no one was waiting to be seated. I come into this Applebees once a week or so. I sat down in the waiting area for around 10 minutes when a waitress walked over to me and said that I left the restaurant without paying my bill sometime in the past. I asked what date she is referring to and offered my card and said to her I don't do that. She charged my card today but failed to give me the date that she claims this was done first. My card should not have been charged before I was given the day-date she is referring to. I said to her I need to check my card records by date to see what was charged or not charged on that date.
Tonight, I noted that at least 3 or 4 parties came into the restaurant after me and all were seated while I was still in the front of the restaurant waiting to be seated. I said to another waitress that regardless of what they claim occurred in the past I should have been seated promptly. I said that I'm leaving and will chalk this up to another poor experience at this Applebees.
The first bad experience occurred around 3 weeks to one month ago when I caught the bartender being overly attentive to one customer and ignoring all the other customers at the bar. I reported this to the manager. The next bad experience occurred around 2 weeks ago when I was seated and immediately felt something sticky on the table. I noticed there was no place I could place my hand where it wasn't sticky on the table. The restaurant is apparently reusing wipes on multiple tables instead of using one per table and tossing the used wipes. I reported this to the manager. Each time I visit this Applebee's there is a problem. Weeks ago I asked for the general manager's name and phone number. I called and left a voice message which wasn't returned.
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