Gotta say, had the worst experience at the Zion Crossroads IHOP than I have ever had. It wasn't the food, the food was great. It was the service. It was horrible, and I mean terrible, neglectful, rude service.
When our initial order came it was without the pancakes which were to come with the orders. I reminded our server that we also had pancakes coming. She said 'sure, they will be right out'. More than ten minutes later, no pancakes and no server. I tried to find our server, no luck so I stopped another server, showed her our table (at her request) and she told me, 'they will be right out'. Again, more than ten minutes went by and no pancakes. I stopped another server, got the same answer, 'I will have them brought right out'. That's three servers in far more than twenty minutes.
Finally, no service, no pancakes. I then actually saw our server and asked if we were ever going to get the pancakes (I didn't get her name, young server, dark hair, wearing a black face mask). She lit into me telling me how she had a 20 top (which she later, miraculously, turned into a 30 top) and she was too busy, blah, blah. I told her that we were also her table, that she had said she would get our pancakes, and that if she couldn't serve our table she should have handed it off. Her only response was she had a (now) 30 top in the back and she didn't have time to deal with us. Not an apology, nada, zip, zero. She was just damned nasty and rude.
Well, needless to say, our table was not happy. Finally, an older server came over to help us. She was very helpful, tried to get us pancakes, but by this time we were all ready to leave. She got us our check, I explained I was not upset with her but that our server was horrible, terrible, rude and I would be leaving NO tip, period. She said she understood, and that I was right, we were also that server's table and should not have been ignored.
She did give us a small discount.
Want to know why some customers leave notes on the check, now you know. I left a statement on the tip line "NONE, ZERO". Have to say, first time in my life I have done that.
We eat here frequently, just because we like one or two of their breakfasts, but gotta say, no more, period. I had enough of that server's crap for a lifetime and IHOP pays the price.
Ah well, one good thing is there are lots of other alternatives in that area now. Goodbye IHOP at Zion Crossroads. read more