Perkins Restaurant & Bakery

This will be our last visit here. The food was good but service was extremely slow. Cleanliness was okay. When we finally ran down our server for our check we went to pay. The manager asked but didn’t really care about our experience. He rang up our meal but walked away before taking the sales slip. We could have walked away without paying!
Bob Evans is 3 miles away. Guess where we go next time!

This place used to be incredible — both food and service were fabulous. However, our last few dining experiences have been disastrous. The service falls significantly short, regardless of the server. We have waited 15 minutes before our server greeted us, only to be told we’d be waiting longer for our drink order. Our last visit, we waited 10 minutes to be greeted, and when the server came, we told her we were ready to order. She told us she could only get out drink order, that we’d have to wait to place our food order. When we reported this to the manager, her response was lax and unconcerned. As for the food, our orders have been wrong, cold, or just bad — undercooked or overcooked eggs, doughy pancakes, and burnt, black bacon. My recommendation? Avoid this place until they get new management, servers and cooks. I find it difficult to even give a one star rating.

Stopped by on the way home from work in the morning. Now I’ve had minimal difficulty with Perkins before. The service at the North Port location is phenomenal. This Venice location however, the server was a bit rude, and absent. There were a lot of flies, and the table wasn’t clean. After sitting for a long while waiting for the check, I debated on just leaving. I eventually made my way to the front and grabbed someone to check me out. Even the coffee was poor. Bad experience had on all points.

Perkins is decent. The food isn’t bad and the muffins are always delicious. The service here is always lacking in personality. The price is reasonable an breakfast here is always good. That about sums it up for Perkins. Better then Denny’s not as good as crackerbarrel

I like Perkins. Muffins goood. Cookies gooood. Pie gooood. Service mediocre. Food gooood. Cleanliness. Soooo sooooo. Cookies goooooood.
Upon examination more info may be needed.
1^st: They have 3 good servers. 2 ok servers and the rest are terrible. Make it a common practice to ask the host for the best server available or you may never see a drink refill.
2^nd. The baked goods are fantastic. Just not in summer when for some reason the cases have flies in them. Since flies vomit and poo on everything they land on I think they should either have a daily exterminator or stop offerring delicious pies and cookies while the flies are on them.
3^rd. There is a whole section of seating which faces directly into the kitchen/​dishpit. If that doesn’t bother you, no worries. It turns me off to my food so I request alternate seating when possible. It is the last section in the restaurant in case you see the host leading you there.
4^th. Sign up for the email club. I get discounts by email all the time and I don’t have to print them just show them to the cashier on my phone. This is a huge plus for me.
5^th if you can avoid the bathrooms. I know they try to keep them clean but for the most part they need a major remodel.
All that having been said if you like reasonable priced food in a friendly atmosphere with good cookies this perkins is for you.

Good wasn’t bad but I couldn’t help to notice how many flys they have there. I kind of made a joke to one of the workers. I asked how do you get your flys to behave so well. She slightly laughed and said it’s because they got a new refrigerator and my friend under her breath said why were they in there?!? The amount was insane stuck up on the ceiling and on the chains on the light fixtures just crawling around.

Great service and yummy food!

slow service, order mix up. Had a grilled cheese, bread was toasted and drinks where also mixed up.

Surprisingly good food, at all hours of the night. I’ve never been to a restaurant where chicken breasts in their sandwiches are cooked *perfectly* — every single time. The breakfast food is incredible as well.

SLOW Lunch Service. All the old people in Florida live in Naples, but their parent’s live in Venice! Guess where they all came to eat today. It was funny to see the waitress accidentally dump a large glass of ice water down her top. Lunch and a wet t-​shirt show. I can’t wait to see what she does with my breakfast scramblers!