I know this review is long, but please read!!!
I work at chilis, but a different location. Therefore I know all the policies, and WOW was I disappointed. Actually, that's an understatement. It was the worst dinner experience of my entire life. If possible, I would give this place 0 stars. First, the host told us it was a 20 minute wait. 35 minutes later, after we watched 2 parties that walked in after us get seated, we went to talk with the hostess. She claimed they were call a heads, but we were sitting right by the host stand and I watched those 2 groups be put on the waiting list, not check in as call a heads. When we finally got seated, it took a long time for our server to come and greet us. When he did he was kind, but very short with us. He was obviously in a hurry. Understandable, but still slightly frustrating. After he got our drinks, he ran away even though we were ready to order our food. After he didn't return for 15 minutes we asked the server helping the table next to us to get him for us. When he finally came out, all our drinks were empty. He quickly took our food orders then left without even offering refills. Our food took a good 45 minutes to finally arrive, and when it did some of it was cold. At this point I was pretty fed up, but we decided to order dessert. We got a cookie skillet. 25 minutes later we received our cookie. The skillet was cold (although the cookie was decently warm) and our ice cream was almost entirely melted. Ridiculous. Then we looked at the ziosk as we were preparing to pay, and noticed our server had charged us twice for chips and salsa, even though they are bottomless and regardless of how many baskets you get it is one charge. We waited 20 minutes for him to come back in order to try and resolve the problem, but he kind of blew us off and instead helped the table next to us. At this point we didn't even care we just wanted to pay and get out. As a team member, I receive a 50% discount at any chilis location. The server is supposed to tell the manager, the manager runs it, and you're good to go. But 30 MINUTES LATER we still hadn't received our discount. My husband stood up and walked toward the kitchen asking to see the manager. The manager came out and was instantly rude, telling my husband he was busy and we needed to be patient. ARE YOU KIDDING ME? WEVE BEEN FINISHED WITH DESSERT AND JUST WAITING TO PAY FOR OVER 30 MINUTES. My husband was very upset with the tone this manager used as well. My husband told him he needed to discount the food now, or we wouldn't pay at all. After cussing under his breath (but still loud enough we could hear him), he finally gave us the discount. All he had to do was swipe his manager card and my team member card and it was automatically discounted. It took maybe 10 seconds and when it was done he left pissed off, grumbling about what a waste of time it was. How unprofessional!! I'm embarrassed to think that people like this and service like this can be associated back to me because we work within the same company. I've literally never had a worse experience. And as one bad chilis can bring down the rest, I feel this needs to be taken care of. Do not eat here. read more