Applebee’s

«I’m not saying I don’t want to go to Applebee’s with you» — Couples Retreat.
Let’s be honest — its Applebees. I think when you go to this place your expectations are not too high to begin with. You know exactly what you get in theory! This place is located in shopping center which is really the only reason you would swing by this place. I am sure if I was 16 again I would think this place is great but sadly I am way past that age. To be this place is just not hitting the spot. Plus I always feel like everything is sticky (menus and tables) and needs a good cleaning.
The food is just blah — you know they are heading it up in a microwave in the back. Strangely their wings are the only thing that actually seem to be good but then again you only need to heat those up. If you are in a pinch and just need some quick food — or are with kids — this place will probably work for you. However being on Route 17 were there are 100 other options, I would suggest another one.
I will say the service is always nice and friendly! They are very attentive and always super quick which I can appreciate if I just need a quick bite to eat.

Good Service, Clean environment but the Food is below average compare to other Applebee’s! Not coming back no more !

I’ll probably be the only sucker to write more than a 3 star review. The only reason it’s not 5 is because no Applebee’s I’ve ever been to could possibly be deserving enough of a 5 star review.
Came here with co-​workers with big appetites on one of those busy highschool football game nights. (Friday or Saturday usually) it’s quite the mess of juvenile obnoxious kids during these days BUT Applebee’s was able to keep up with service, refilling our drinks and bringing out all our food which filled an entire table for 6– and quite promptly I might add. What else could a hungry party ask for really? I would pick this Applebee’s over another in the area in hackensack.

We have always had a great time here. Servers are always positive and well trained. Management should be commended for excellent training.

After being seated, our waitress came over quickly. Immediately ordered the pizza bread for our young son and drinks. Took 10 minutes for our beverages. I asked for a gluten free menu as I have celiac disease. After watching her, the bartender, other waiters and finally the manager search the place for another 10 minutes, I was handed a binder (obviously intended for employees) that was such a pain in the ass to read. If we were smart we would have left but I opted to read thru the binder as quickly as I could to order. They offer little to no gluten free food. I ended up with a rib appetizer that had a sauce that was GF. My hubby ordered a burger. By this point our son should have gotten his food. 30 minutes at least passed since we put in his order.
Within 10 minutes our food is delivered, no meal for our son. We flagged our server down and she said it would be right out. Obviously it was over looked and was left sitting.
Without going on and on… Everything was terrible. We sent back our the kids meal, it was inedible. My ribs were gross, hubby said the burger was okay.
The sangria both peach and apple were a disappointment and wouldn’t recommend.
Bottom line, service, food, and the lack of knowledge of food allergies were unacceptable. We won’t be back and I suggest you go some place else too.

Was expecting the worst after reading these reviews, but was relieved since it was far from awful. We went as a party of four for late night appetizers and were seated immediately. Two rounds of beers and four appetizers for 60 bucks! It’s not the best food — too salty — but what do you expect? Juan our server was great. It got a little busier around 11pm so get there a little earlier if you want a seat.

Waiting for alterations to be ready next door at lord and Taylor, so popped in for a «quick» bite. But after sitting at the bar for 5 minutes and not even getting a menu or seeing a bartender/​waitress I gave up and left. Didn’t expect great service, but did expect to HAVE service!

Went here on Friday night and you would have thought they were screening the new Fast and Furious movie by the amount of preteens at this place. I was expecting to see Chris Hansen pop up and bust a potential child predator. I’m a creature of habit so I order the same thing every time I go there (American Standard Burger). It’s not too bad but I don’t understand why they don’t have Angry Orchard on tap like other Applebee’s locations. It’s close to my job and convenient for the late night hunger craving.
Pros:
— Food is okay when you’re hungry, it’s late, and you have nowhere else to go.
— Location and Parking.
Cons:
— They seem to give less fries than they use to give before.
Another Visit:
Went there today 5÷2÷15 and ordered a Triple Bacon Burger w/​Sweet Potatoe Fries to go. I get to work and opened the bag to see they put my fries in this little bag (similar to what Starbucks uses for pastries). There must have been like 13 fries in the bag. I guess if I was a Hobbit or a triple bypass surgery patient this would be enough but 13 fries really? Yes, I counted them as I ate them. There were small tiny pieces in the bottom which were the burned ones I guess. I remember when they used to give you a sizable portion of fries. Gone are those days.

It’s Applebee’s. For once, I actually had something other than their half price appetizers since I was there before 10pm. We were seated quickly and had our drink orders taken.
The menu has changed significantly since my last visit to an Applebee’s. It looks like there are a lot of new appetizers. But I had the Napa Chicken and Portobello entrée. It was OK.
I still would only wanna do Applebee’s for the late night deal.

Love this applebees! Great food and great people!

Sometimes you have to wait, but that’s with any restaurant. Pretty speedy service. It’s your typical grab-​n-​go family restaurant. Good boneless wings. Never had a problem here. They used to do a half price appetizer time; not sure if they still do it, but I think it’s a chain-​wide thing.

My wife, daughter, and I use Applebees to meet and catch up with my parents. My daughter loves it there. The food is great, the service is incredible no matter who serves you. They are terrific with kids and the manager always stops at the table to say hi. We know we will have a great experience when we go to the Paramus Fashion Center location (we have not had good luck at the Hackensack location, poor customer service, no personalities, no management presence). Always a great experience at the Fashion Center location in Paramus.

Try the Cali Grill Chicken disk under 550 calories for dinner. It was amazing since I was counting calories on this trip.
Lunch time bar staff was not as friendly as the dinner. Luckily for me I knew the cooks would accommodate my request to have items removed from meal.
Menu definitely should be cleaned more often.
Dropped from 5 to 3 due to lunchtime experience.

We were seated very quickly. Our waitress was extremely attentive and answered all of our questions. The food was great and very reasonably priced. Will def return.

God I can’t even remember the last time I’ve been here. When I was a mall rat I would walk here with all my other mall rat friends to make it for the half off appitizers at 10pm. I think it is safe to say I may as well been on the payroll I was there so much. Mind you this was when I was about 11 – 16 years old, after we stuffed our faces we’d wait for our parents to come pick us up and drive all of us home.
It was my friends suggestion to come here and I was very happy he made us come here. We were a little annoyed with how our waiter had an attitude but watever we didnt let his negativity rouin our experience. We started off by ordering our drinks and looking over the menu for our appitizers. We chose to order the spinach artichoke dip which is one of my favorites mmm along with the potatoe twisters that come with a cheese dipping sauce. We also ordered the build your own samplers with the pretzels and beer cheese dip, bonless buffalo wings and the tower things that sucked womp womp. All of our food came out promptly for the appitizers at least. We ordered our meals I got the 9oz sirloin with mashed potatoes and a side salad it was very good. Two of my other friends got the 4 cheese mac and cheese with chicken fingers atop it. My other friend ordered a french onion soup it looked delicious.
I honestly cant wait to go back and eat some more food especially the tripple chocolate meltdown !

Nothing fancy or special but you can grab an OK meal quick. Service most of the time is good to acceptable.
Like the new appetizer of pretzel sticks. If you like burgers and wings, it is a good choice and option. I would not suggest getting any steaks as they are small and thin so you are not going to satisfy you beef hunger.
The ribs are another good option if you wanted something meatier than burgers.

The Service was great.
The 7oz sirloin I had was not good. The meat was tough and not good at all. Terrible quality meat.

I wouldn’t normally bother writing a review of a chain restaurant – you pretty much know what you’re gonna get when you walk in – but I had an especially interesting experience here.
I came here with my boyfriend when we were visiting his family in New Jersey. We saw the Onion headline («New Ad Urges Hipsters To Go To Applebee’s Ironically») about Applebee’s and started reminiscing about going to Applebee’s in our high school days, when we visited much less ironically.
So we get here and get seated quickly. Waitress seems nice, if a little slow. I start browsing the ridiculous drink menu and order some cocktail that has a name like a city in the Spongebob universe. Nuclear Baja Azul Ginsplosiontini or something absurd. My boyfriend orders a beer.
This is when things get weird. The waitress takes our IDs, studies them for a good minute or so. Not really sure why we had to help her find the dates of birth, that’s the most prominent thing on the ID. I’m from California and my boyfriend is from Washington state, neither of which are podunk states. I imagine she’s at least seen a California ID before.
So she goes off to get our drinks. A few minutes later she returns and asks to see them again. This is a little odd, I don’t like giving anyone my ID and letting them run off with it, but whatever. Also I’m 26 and my boyfriend is 29, so we’re not exactly the spitting image of youth.
Then five minutes later the manager, who looks younger than either of us, comes over and tells us he can’t take them. «Why?» I ask, as I’m sure you would have. He goes on to explain that some element of my ID was slightly wrong or off and my boyfriend’s ID had some tiny discrepancy between how his book said it should look. «They’re real IDs,» I say, as I’m sure you would have at this point. «Did you put them under the blacklight?»
«Yes,» he says, which was likely a lie.
«Okay,» I say, and then we argued for a minute about it. We were only 15 miles from the most cosmopolitan city in the world, it seemed unusual that a Paraman would be incapable of recognizing an ID from CALIFORNIA, the largest state in our country population-​wise.
At this point I didn’t even want nor care about my Thermonuclear Gin-​tanamo Torturetini™ anymore. It was all about preserving pride.
Anyway, he went on to insinuate that we were attempting to scam them, and said they’d call the police and have them confiscate our IDs. As funny as it would have been to see the mental midget of a manager get his comeuppance, we didn’t have the patience for that, so we bounced. As an added pleasantry, the manager shouted «good luck using your fake ID elsewhere!» as we walked out.
I’d be so curious to actually talk to the manager here and hear what the hell they were smoking. While an apology might be nice, I’d settle for an explanation.

It’s Applebee’s, you can’t expect greatness obviously, however the half priced appetizers have me coming back every now and then. I wouldn’t recommend eating dinner here but for a quick social event at night, it does the job.

The food here is disgusting. Considering that it’s Applebee’s and the majority of the food on the menu arrives in the kitchen pre-​packaged, pre-​cooked, pre-​seasoned, etc., you have to be a really bad cook to screw things up. Yet they do.
Tonight, I ordered my favorite thing on the Applebee’s menu — the chicken wonton tacos appetizer — and there were large chunks of burnt grizzle in the chicken, the cilantro and cabbage topping which should be on and in the tacos, was haphazardly tossed around the food. It’s also supposed to come with fresh limes, but they gave me lemons. Major difference when it comes to Mexican, or pseudo-​Mexican food. It was the kind of food experience where you question the cleanliness and safety of the food that you’re eating which is never a good thing…
I’ve eaten here a few other times before this and the food is always sub-​par compared to other Applebee’s.
Tonight was most likely my last time coming here. Avoid it if you can.