Applebee’s

This was the worst experience I have ever had in a resteraunt, in my intire life!!!
The service started out extremely bad and got even worse.
First the hostess asked if i was alone. I told her i was expecting someone else, but wanted to be seated, and start my order. She said she had to drop off silverware at the bar first and would be right back to seat me. If that wasn’t rude enough, i had to sit there and watch her bus an entire table before she came back to seat me and then she proceeded to try and seat me at the bar. I asked to be seated at a booth, and she walked me past two empty booths, before deciding to seat me at the furtherst booth possible, away from the door.
I ordered the parmasian encrusted serlion with shrimp. I spacifically ordered the steak rare and when it was finally served it was well done. I sent it back because i like my steak rare. Then the manager had the ordacity to come to the table and say he heard me say well done. First off this was the first time i had seen him so i have no idea how he could of heard anything let alone heard it wrong. I always order my steaks rare. When the steak was finally re-​served it was not only a smaller steak but the worst cut i have ever seen. It was so tuff and full of strings of grissle that even with the seratted knifes they served it with, you could hardly saw through it.
This was by far the worst steak i have ever had. I have ordered rare steaks from Black Bear Dinner, Sizzler, and the Branding Iron, all in the past week or so, in Merced, and they all served me a rare steak, the way I ordered it, and they all three served a way superior steak, a tender steak you could cut without having to saw through.
The steak from Applebee’s tasted like it had gone bad and was so tuff you could hardly cut it or chew it.
Then to top it off I ordered a strawberry margerita and asked for additional salt as well as a salt rim on the glass. Guess what, there was no salt on the rim or in the margarita. The place was not as busy as the other resturaunts I mentioned earlier so I don’t understand why the service and food quality was so poor.
I’ll never eat at Applebee’s again, and I will make it a point to discourage anyone else from eating there as well.

This place is getting worse and worse every time we come here. It’s almost comical how horrible it has gotten. Mediocre service but the food… the food is getting so gross and nothing better than fast food. Tonight I gave them another chance and ordered car side to go. When I get home there is no creamy sauce on the dry plain pasta and no bacon at all. What is going on Applebee’s? Last time I told the waitress that the pasta was too dry and she said I could have some of the sauce but it would be $ 1 or something more. What? Wow. Merced Applebee’s is THE WORST. Don’t waste your time or money here. Might as well go to McDonald’s.

Applebees in Merced sucks! From the customer service, food, cleaniness and To Go service is all horrible. Dont waste your time and money here. Zero stars zero but have to place 1star for this review to be posted.

So… came here with the girls today for lunch. Our waiter was the highlight of this visit. Mark has only been working here for a couple days but you would never know it! He was funny, personable, and had his shit together… unlike so many of the wait staff that I have encountered here. Now… the food… absolutely nothing good to say. Hamburger not cooked to order, onion rings burned, fries soggy… ugghhh. Now .will I come back? Yes… but only because of Mark. You need to hire more wait staff of his caliber!

Food was average. I went today with my Asian family and the server with a Kaepernick jersey was blatantly racist, and he was getting a kick out of it – his expressions and body language was enough to know that this person looked down on us. When we finished our meal, he put his palms together, bowed, and said «thank you.» This place is an American style restaurant, so I see no reason for his bowing. Yes, we’re Asian. No, your behavior is not welcome. Yes, you’re being racist. I’ve once lived in the deep South and became a minority among minorities – my experience here reminded me of life in the South. I came for food, not to discuss racism.
Negative experience, average food.

Seems as if it is going a bit down hill in food quality. Ordered two meals; my guest was served burnt food and I got fries that were cold. Use to be one if my favorite places to go, right now I’m looking for a new one.
They are also are allowing a time share company to use their restaurant as a sales center. I saw numerous tables with people being solicited. Two things I see of this; they need to make money renting out tables to supplement income and are they turning customers away because their tables are now sales centers.

This apple bees has got to be the worse the manager is rude and there always so
Unproffesional customers always come
First and they fucking always do
Something wrong and expect you to pay for it shaking my head I’ll be going to Atwater from now on

What’s your man and it wasn’t a bit it would be crowded the service is great the staff was attentive and the food turned out excellent me and my companions really enjoyed and I will personally be coming back.

This is College Station, TX version of triple berry crumb. Looks alful noting like many other Chili’s restaurants. I walked out. The other chili’s has eal berrys you can see and real berrys and crumb topping in the skillet looks just like photo in menu. Smiles to the copy cat crumb guess that’s what you get in a College Town. Chili’s doesn’t train the managers well.

The last 3 times I’ve have been. Twice the new staff has been rude and untrained. Food quality has become slop on a plate. At least try to make it look as pictured. and hot.

I have to ask, who the heck doesn’t like Bee’s? I love the food, the sevice, and the prices. It is a casual place to enjoy a good meal with family and friends. I am glad to see a New one is opening in Atwater as well. Way to go guys.

Even though we are often in Merced, this is the first time we have eaten here. We were very pleased (for the most part — see below*.)
We were promptly seated (a Monday PM — 5:30). Our server, Gina, was VERY nice and as she went by to deliver something to another table, she let us know that she’d be right w/​us.
My husband and I actually shared a few items — an order of sweet potato fries (at 50% off until 6 PM) that came with 3 different sauces — 2 sweet and 1 spicy. I think I’d ask for «plain» Ranch next time — a personal preference. We also had a cup of French onion soup which was very good — not lots of onion, but. . sometimes the saltiness of this soup can REALLY jump out at you — this did not; the taste was very good.
And we ordered their cedar plank salmon w/​artichoke sauce and squash and potatoes. It was very good. We usually only eat wild salmon, and while we did not ask if this was, for the price, I am sure it was not wild — but the taste was excellent.
The server checked back w/​us a few times — and was always very pleasant and helpful.
*we were seated on the right-​hand side of the restaurant at a booth (per our request.) Whenever the door to the outside would open, the cold night air would come it. We finally asked to be moved as it was SOOO cold as more and more people came. We were moved to a table where we didn’t get the cold air.
From 6:15 on, there were LOTS of people waiting to be seated — a busy place!
We will be back.

Service and food was absolutely incredible. Our waitress was amazing. I just don’t remember catching her name but I believe it was kacy. She provided great service and she was so nice and attentive to us. I don’t really eat at Applebee’s often but it was a good experience when I did. 5 stars

Terrible! Food arrived cold and the bread arrived stale. They said they would «put it in the microwave». The meal was so unsatisfying, neither my Fiancé, nor myself finished it. The only good thing about this $ 50 trip was our overpriced beers.

Applebee’s can be good during the week early afternoon. A couple of their servers are top notch and will do their best to make sure you’re happy. I use to like coming here more often to spend time with family and friends while having a nice meal, but the last few visits here have literally left a bad taste in my mouth.
I’ll start with week visits. Like I said there are a couple really good servers there. The food is pretty decent when ordering from these servers, they make sure drinks are good and we have everything we need. But any other time and with the different people we get, yeah not so happy. I’ve found weekend visits here are just too busy and blah to eat there. It’s too noisy for my tastes but it’s the food and service that just fall to the floor.
What really took them down a notch for me was a to-​go order. After a long day at work we decided to order curbside. We went in to pick up our order and didn’t think to check it because of how tired we were. Got home, and the order was incorrect. Not only that but it was cold and they took 10 minutes to have it ready when it should of been ready 15 minutes prior. It wasn’t a weekend and they weren’t that busy, an extra 25 minutes for an order I placed super early is unacceptable.
So we decided to call the manager. Took 10 minutes just to get a hold of this guy and he was one of the worst managers I’ve spoken to. He didn’t apologize for the problem whatsoever. All he said was «Okay, what do you want me to do about it?». He didn’t offer to comp the order, or a coupon, or hell to fix it. We live far off enough where heading back that late was not worth it, and he didn’t offer to fix/​replace it anyway.
A call the following day got us a manager who gave us a 10.00 coupon in the mail. Not too shabby I guess, but not worth the trouble or the cold meal. I did meet a manager at this Applebee’s about a year ago who was very courteous and a pleasure to speak with. Wish this manager would come back, they need his help at this location.
During the weekdays I will probably continue to go here once every long while to see how it goes, but the service is definitely going downhill here for now.

Worst Applebee’s I’ve ever been to. Every time we go here it gets worse and worse. The food is disgusting and even the drinks were gross. The service is decent but I definitely will never ever eat here again

Your typical busy american diner. Disappointed as far as my «curb side to go» order. Decided to take my mom here for mother’s day and my poor mom ended up with FOOD POISONING!!! Terrible! So I call and talk to the manager, which her response was that she had never heard of this case before. Lies, lies LIES!!! Then had nerve to send me a 10 off coupon card that expires in 3 weeks. I do not recommend this place to anyone. Apparently someone isn’t properly handling food safely!!! Gross! Will never eat at this location again!

My husband and I came here for a late lunch here last week. We figured that this was probably a safe bet and unfortunately we were wrong. The positives were that the waitress we had was nice and attentive, which is why it got 2 stars. The food, however, was very disappointing. My husband’s steak was just awful– he ordered it medium and it came out charred on the outside and completely rare on the inside. This after taking a LONG time to be made. The waitress took it back and brought another one that was not as bad. My Chinese chicken salad was made with bad lettuce and was not tasty at all.
In the future we would not choose to eat here unless there was no alternative.

Let me start by saying, I love the Perfect Margaritas and Bourbon Street Steak. I like the variety of foods available, both healthy and not so much…
My first disappointment at Applebee’s was their limp sweet potato fries, (I am a SPF LOVER). Yesterday was my second disappointment. We were finally able to try the new Shredded Brisket Nachos, and all I can say is, we thought they forgot the brisket! Shouldn’t the star of the show be out front and larger than life? Anyway, I still love you Applebees… you’re not normally stingy.

Have had a pretty good experience most times I have been to this Applebee’s. I like that they always add new things to the menus. This time I got the Steak and Shrimp Parmesan. Pretty good. My wife got the same, and my daughter got the Cowboy burger. Both said they were happy with their food.
Staff was friendly and place was clean.