We were escorted to a table right away as soon as we arrived. The table was one of those booths that have 30" of room on one side and about 12" on the other side. I had to trade sides with my girlfriend right away. Why don't the people working there see this? We both had chicken salads which were good but expensive. The raspberry tea tasted like a fake powder to me. The waitress was hard to understand because she mumbled and talked fast. We only received one breadstick for 2 salads which we had to wait for because they had run out. The breadstick tasted bad to me. How can you mess up a garlic breadstick?Maybe one $13 salad provided a breadstick and the other $13 salad didn't. I don't know because I didn't read the fine print. Not impressed for the money. read more

The service was horrible, waited 1 hour and a half for cold food then the waiter was very disrespectful and the Manger had an additude

How does Applebee's stay relevant. They have a decent menu but I've always had a less than great experience at any of their stores including this one. The service here was awful. Server letting folks order stuff they don't have. I'm done with them and promise not to ever eat there again. $4 for a handful of chips and two small caps of salsa. Good grief. read more

We come here all the time mainly out of convenience. It's very close to home. Applebee's is what it is - pretty much your typical casual dining chain restaurant - the kind they made fun of in Office Space. But, sometimes it's just what you want. Relatively cheap, decent quality, and convenient. The Trio that I had was great. Nicely presented and everything was just right read more

Applebee's Grill + Bar - The Malibu Red Tropical Rita. Outstanding. - American Near Me - Ft. Wayne, Indiana

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Ok so, it was a Saturday, and as we all know, Saturday's are for the boys. Being a Saturday, me and the boys decided to go get some a-bee's. We sit down, get our drinks and are ready to order our appetizers. The time was 8:07. Half price apps start at 9:00. So, I'm trynna finesse some half price apps before 9:00. I ask the waitress, "yo, you wanna help a boy out on this fine Saturday night and give us some half price apps even though it's not 9:00". She says no, I couldn't believe it. I asked so nicely. All I wanted was a good night with the boys, but it was ruined by some lame waitress. read more

Piss poor service! Plain and simple. I felt like we were at a seedy, low class bar. Ticket time was close to 35 mins. The manager, Tyler, was drinking alcoholic beverages while working. A server sitting at a table with other patrons talking about his recent OWI arrest and how he often wakes up drunk in his back yard. Absolutely unprofessional and no longer will have our business. read more

Our waitress was very nice and welcoming. The facility was very clean and busy! We came for drinks and dessert - the brownie was good. It's a good place to go for a quick dinner or good mixed drink, they seem to get the food out quickly. read more

My last two visits to Applebees have not been very good experiences. I ordered the Riblet platter the first time. My Riblets was mostly bones. They had very little meat. Yesterday, I ordered the small steak. It was so tough that I could not eat it. It was like shoe leather. I was very disappointed in both dinners. read more

We have given this location a try twice in the last 2 months and I will never go back there again. Last time we were there we waited over 2 hours for our food. We thought maybe it was a fluke. Tonight we waited an hour and a half and I didn't even get my whole meal. It was cold and did not taste right. Our waitress could not fine the 2 managers on staff. The glass between the booths was absolutely disgusting like it had not been cleaned in months and they even brought us a dirty plate. I wish I could say the waitress was overly pleasant and tried to make up for it but she didn't. Beyond disappointed and never returning! read more

Terrible place!! Wait for over an hour for appetizers. They forgot our order than bring out wrong thing!! Who runs this place. Service is terrible. Try to flag someone just to get a drink refill. I hope someone alerts the owner. Applebee's is no longer the place to be! read more

I always find something great to eat here . Full flavor menu with all the appetizers you could possibly want. The menu has something from all the food groups. The atmosphere is just right with music everyone can enjoy. Can keep up on sports with the many HD TV's on display. Management strives for perfection. read more

So ordered a steak that came with sautéed onions and mushrooms, but there's a customization to state no mushrooms. Well, they do not bother reading the notes and still put mushrooms on anyway. Why give customers options to remove when you ignore everything? Gave survey with feedback and absolutely no reply back with compensation other than 5 off 35. Well, you'll get $0 of $0 from me dince you lost my business. read more

This is Applebee's. A standard eatery of all sorts of people. Sometimes you get Amish and other nights there are college kids. You know what you've come here for- good food that you know will be consistent every time. Nothing to write home about but a guilty pleasure that reminds you of who you are inside. Love the wings. read more

I've been to Applebee's many, many times in my life and I know there are some semi decent things on the menu but my food I had the other night was just gross. I went straight from the airport to Applebee's to have dinner with my parents. My dad and I got the 2 for $20 deal where you get 2 entrees and an appetizer for $20. Our appetizer was onion rings which were good (they better be, I mean how can you mess up an onion ring?). For my entree I chose the riblets. The meat just didn't seem to be very good quality. It was really fatty and had little chunks of cartilage in it in addition to the small bones that are supposed to be there. I know I am picky when it comes to fatty things and I know ribs are supposed to be a little fatty but these were just not good. And I have had riblets that are good before. I am glad that I didn't go there being super hungry. My meal ended up being a fry fest of the onion rings and the fries that came with the ribs. Applebee's sure knows how to make some fried food. I had a white peach sangria with my meal that wasn't all that great either. It was huge and came in this large glass goblet but it wasn't very strong. On a positive note the Applebee's employees were really nice and the service was good. After that bad fried food meal at a bad chain restaurant one thing was for sure: I knew I was back in Indiana. read more

Applebee's Grill + Bar - riblets - American Near Me - Ft. Wayne, Indiana

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Terrific, terrific, TERRIFIC! Applebee's has branded itself PERFECTLY as a family friendly, neighborhood bar and grill. My husband's and I come to Applebee's quite frequently because their daily drink and appetizer specials are a great, economical, spontaneous date. We are regulars there and have many, MANY staff (JOSE and the Jareds') and manager (Amanda and Carson) favorites. The new grill combo meals ARE an EXCEPTIONAL value and are absolutely DELICIOUS!! Overall, it is a great experience literally EVERY TIME we visit. The servers are personable and attentive and that's honestly the most important thing to us in a perfect dining experience. A+ read more

Takes forever and the manager only came at the end when we were boxing our stuff to tell me I couldn't take my drink to go.. but, maybe if they didn't take so long I would have it finished... read more

The two of us stopped in here for a late meal on our way home in another state. The restaurant was nearly empty and, even though we were seated promptly, it took many minutes for our server to come greet us and take our drink orders, then a long time to come back with them. These long gaps in service were probably explained by the fact that he was hanging out with his friends in a back booth. The women's restroom was in bad shape too. Our burgers were nicely cooked, though. read more

I've been here quite a few times, & the best experience i've had was plain mediocre. The waitress I had was a delight, but we had waited 45 minutes just for APPETIZERS. A friend hadn't gotten his side he ordered, and ended up waiting an additional near 20 minutes after he got his initial meal just for a plate of overpriced fries. This place is overrated, overpriced, and just chaos. Friendly staff as far as I've seen though. read more

If only there could be a zero star. Waited 40 minutes for a salad that looked like they had swept it off the floor. The fried chicken was ice cold. Never ever again!!! read more

I must preface this with my wife and I went this location last week, we had a wonderful time, service was fast and friendly. Today 12/13/18 was a completely different story, we arrived at 730 pm the place was a little crowded but we were shown to a table right away. Things went down hill from there the server took our order and drinks were brought to the table 30 minutes later no food and we have not seen our waitress. I decided that I had had enough. We left and the manager caught us at the door, his explanation was that our server forgot to order our food that the drinks were ordered 30 minutes ago and our was ordered a mere 3 minutes from the time we decided to leave. So this maybe a isolated incident, but I caution you not to expect any better when visiting this est. read more

Had a bad experience. Poor management. Poor decisions by wait staff. Food took too long to get to begin with. Under cooked steak. Sent back. Took 15 min to get back the steak I sent back. Not even a new steak. Instead i received the same steak i sent back but now it was charred and over cooked. Also the bill was not comped in any way. Won't be back. Never had this kind of experience at this location before. read more

Have been here several times with good service but last night was not one of those times. Really slow service and the food was not so good. My wife had a pasta dish that had mystery French fries in it and very dry with no sauce, I had the new brisket enchiladas that were more like tortillas covered in cheese. The rice side was dried like it had sat out under a heat light for awhile. I was nice giving them a 2 star. read more

I won't be back for a while. Too much deep frying. Not enough actual good taste. The chicken entree' was tasteless. The chicken wing appetizer was like deep fried chicken nuggets. The dipping sauce options were horrible. No mild buffalo sauce? What's with that? read more

You know what your getting with Applebee's. I happen to like the open layout and atmosphere for casual dining.

Immediately after walking in the door, the couple in front of us get seated and there are open tables. However, we get told 10-15 minute wait. Service is the typical sub par that all Applebees have. The food was okay, what is expected from a chain restaurant. Only reason I went is because poor college kid daughter wanted to take me out for dinner. read more

I was there about 2 months ago the bartender , and a cook walk out they came and told us are food would take a while like 40 min , go there today ask to be seated in the Bar they stayed there a waiting list 35, 40 min and I asked if I could set at the Bar they said NO Realy there seats available and the 2 of us could not seat at the Bar but there was seat available at that time , I also asked so wen did you have waiting list for Bar they said as of today ? There is NO open seating at the Bar , so at this point there's something going on here at this apple bees don't care to Avery go back again !!! And last time too wen I was in there they had cook , bartenders , walk out and the told us are food would about 45 min ! read more

The menu had been updated since my last visit. Service was quick and the server attentive and timely with drink refills. Ordered the 2 for $20, which was as expected. The three cheese chicken penne was a little dry. Kobe meatball appetizer was not as flavorful as I had hoped; I would not order it again. However, the chicken enchiladas and chicken won tons were delicious; definitely recommend them. read more

If I could do 0 stars, I would. So we get there, they say 10-15 min wait, we wait 30 minutes... okay that's fine. So we get seated and wait about 10 min before our waiter (Quinten) even acknowledges us. When he comes to our table he sets the appetizer plates, forks, and knives on our table... nearly hitting my daughters hand with a knife as it fell off the plate. By then we were ready to order so we ordered two drinks, a kids water, an appetizer (so it would come out fast for our daughter), and two entrees. I have to ask for my daughters water because it was never brought to us. After 45 min, we check the little iPad thing on our table to see if our order was in and nothing pops up. After seeing other tables getting there food and trying to entertain a one year old for about an hour, I ask our waiter how long it'll be, and he says about 5 minutes and apologizes. A couple minutes later our order pops up on the iPad (so he forgot to put our order in). After waiting another 10-15 minutes I ask another waitress if she could check on our order because our waiter never once came to our table other than to take our order and give us our drinks. The manager shows up and apologizes and gets our app out in the next 5 minutes. By now, I've asked for our entrees to-go because we have to get home. So we wait another 30 minutes for our entrees... by now we are livid. I'm in the car with our daughter, who is very hungry. THEN, they bring our food out on plates... absolutely ridiculous. They did pay for our food but that was not worth the wait. I would've paid double the price to have even semi better service. Luckily, our daughter was a trooper for most of it. We will never be going to this Applebee's again. read more

I like this place but geez, can I get a menu uploaded? Why is it that difficult for restaurants to post their menus?

New menu but still ate things we have had before. All in all good experience for a quick bite after seeing Luke Bryan. Fast...friendly...hot tasty food. Pleased. 5/5 As far as Applebee's goes. read more

Chelsea was the best waitress ever! She had the best sense of humor and made us feel special. Her smile was inviting and warm. The food was good, had the chicken caprese with garlic mashed potatoes. I asked for the mashed potatoes to be in a separate bowl and it was but you could see that it may not have been as there was residue on the plate.... and no basil. I still say that Chelsea rocked!! read more

Usually Applebee's is my favorite place to eat, but this trip was terrible. The service sucked. It took 20 minutes to even get someone to wait on us. Then it took another 25 minutes for me to even get my drink or a straw. The lady who said she would wait on us didn't even wait on us. Today was just a terrible day to go there to eat. read more

Had a fantastic experience tonight with a big thanks to Gloriana! She was a fantastic server, very attentive, very friendly and knowledgeable! We never go out, but decided to tonight. We are so happy we did! Thanks Gloriana for a great customer experience! read more

My friend and I have frequented this particular Applebee's for the last 2 and a half years and have had some very good experiences and have often had the same servers who got to know our order before ever giving it. We happened to go there the other night and upon ordering two items off the half price appetizer menu, I stated I wanted one brought out as the appetizer and the other for my meal. My friend ordered the pretzel sticks with the cheddar dip. We waited and waited and waited. I finally caught the attention of the server and told her perhaps she hadn't heard I wanted the chips out before hand. She said she didn't know and proceeded to return to the table with ALL of the food. The cheese dips both my friend and I ordered were both "set" on top - like the cheese had cooled and "coagulated" into a clumpy covering. When I saw the amount of cheese my friend got with her pretzel sticks, I commented that the amount was pretty skimpy. The queso blanco (which I order every time I go) was so spicy it was barely edible. I asked the server for some sour cream to mix into it to help tone down the spice. She suggested mixing salsa in it. When the manager came to the table to check on us, I stated that the dip was pretty spicy (more spicy than normal, because I like spice!) she just kind of shrugged it off and said someone was probably just heavy on the pico that day. When my friend mentioned her issue with the cheese she received, with having the top part of it "set", it didn't leave enough cheese for dipping all of her pretzel sticks in, the manager shrugged that off as well, stating that everything is pre-measured. Between the server and the manager, this is the first time in two plus years coming to this Applebee's that we felt apologetic for being there. It was like we were in the way. Not to mention what we assumed were off duty employees sitting in our section flirting with on duty servers and using language I don't prefer to hear. I stared at something that looked like a fruit rind on the floor in front of me the entire time I sat there. Maybe it's because we didn't go on our regular night, but should it really matter which night we go? All the times we have gone, we don't normally complain and are not high maintenance customers. Why should I feel apologetic for being at an establishment I am PAYING to eat at? Definitely a poor experience. read more

Took my son and grandchildren. There were 5 of us but only 4 of us received our meals. My son ordered onion rings and received fries. I ordered baked potato and it was raw and barely warm. I told the waiter and he managed to fix his mistakes and the manager came to our table and he seemed unconcerned about all of the mistakes. We won't be eating at this location anymore since this was not the first time there were issues. read more

my wife & I often eat here & we haven't ever had a bad meal. Our daughter worked for Applebee's when in college back in the 90's. As a veteran I really appreciate their giving us a meal in appreciation for our services. Thanks a Bunch! read more