Again: Overpriced, Pictured Menu Items Grossly Hyped Up, Poor Cooking, & Waitresses Need Better Training
PLEASE LOOK AT THEIR IN-STORE OR ONLINE MENU TO SEE HOW THEY GLAMOROUSLY PICTURE THEIR ITEMS... IT IS NOT WHAT THEY END UP SERVING YOU!!!
Me and my husband were headed back home to Ohio from shopping at Three Springs Drive in Weirton when we seen the sign from the highway for Huddle House restaurant and since we didn't want to hurry back home, we got off the exit and stopped in.
It was around 5:00pm and they were only moderately busy with maybe 5 other tables having customers. The hostess quickly took us to our seats and we liked how the table and booth was actually clean.
Menus were conveniently placed at the side of the table and so we started looked through them when the waitress came and asked what we wanted to drink. My husband got Dr Pepper with no ice and I had their peach ice tea. She came back holding our glasses with her hands right around the rims where we put our mouths and so we IMMEDIATLEY chose to use a straw when most often we don't use them. My peach ice tea was pretty good and tasted like actual brewed tea :o) whereby most places give you either those powdered drink mix teas or syrup flavored teas. As usual the Dr Pepper had very little flavor as if they also turn down the flavoring to the least possible amount on their fountain machine.
So after getting our drinks we got back to the menus and everything in the menu looked very appetizing but as we have been noticing over the past several years, more and more restaurants make sure they glamorize (otherwise known as grossly hype up their pictures of their food in the menu) and we immediately noticed the prices seemed quite steep for a lot of what was on their menu but we held back our views on this until seeing what we actually got after ordering our meals.
We started off with their Huddle Up side sampler which consisted of a very small handful of very slim-cut fries, 3 jalapeno and cheese bites, 3 very small mozzarella sticks, several pickle slices that were breaded and deep fried for 8.00
My husband seen the pictures in their menu for the burgers and said WOW if that's what we really get for nearly 8.00 then maybe it's not overpriced and so he got the double burger asking for just diced onion and ketchup on it. I got their Mushroom Swiss burger and both of our burgers came with a side but nearly every side we chose to go with our meal they said were out of or there was an additional cost for it. We obviously didn't want more fries for a side with our burgers when our Huddle Up sampler came with fries. They said were out of chili, out of fresh fruit, and they were out of a couple other things and when my husband said I'll have the onion rings, the waitress said those are an additional cost, and so for us to avoid anymore BS from this restaurant so we can just get our meals ordered, prepared, and finally get to eat, my husband said just give me the onion rings then.
So our burgers came and WHAT A PATHETIC EXCUSE for a burger....their patties were THE SAME SIZE if not SMALLER than McDonalds and the cook shouldn't be there if he can't even cook a burger.... the patties were charred to a crisp making you have to CRUNCH through them and they were completely dried up like chewing on a piece of leather!
BOTTOM LINE: so after all of this and THEN seeing the bill where they charged us NEARLY 1 DOLLAR for just the table spoon of diced onions on my husband's burger, WE SAID NEVER AGAIN!
Dr. Pepper.............................2.30
Ice Tea..................................2.80
Huddle Up Sampler...............7.00
Huddle Burger.......................7.60
+ .90 for tablespoon diced onion
+ 1.60 for substituting onion rings as a side
Mushroom Swiss Burger.......8.60
Tax........................................1.80
The above costs were rounded up to the nearest .10cents... example of the soda was actually 1.29 and so we just call it 1.30 It's like most everything else on their menus and in our stores whereby they put a 9 at the end of the cost which is just a scheming marketing strategy that COUNTLESS businesses have adopted to trick our minds into thinking "oh hey it's not actually a whole 2.00 but 'ONLY' a 1.99 which costs so much less somehow.....if not, ask yourself how everything made today would somehow come out to having a 9 at the end of the cost
....but the actual TOTAL GARBAGE BILL came to 32.57 read more
