The worst service I have EVER experienced ANYWHERE..........
I agree with the first reviewer, Rachel, that the food was decent but the staff are "OUT OF IT".
First, just a little info..... Me, my fiance, and my 3 yr. old daughter went to this Steak N Shake on Ridge Ave. We had never been to this one before but we were in the area and hungry. It was Saturday night at about 9 p.m. When we walked in the waitress seated us but didn't even acknowledge my fiance. She asked for the drink order then went to another table to take their order. Then she came back to us and asked what we wanted to drink like she didn't even remember that she already asked. It took about 10 minutes to get the drinks. When she finally brought them out she told me she was waiting on my daughter's milk and she would bring it shortly. 10 more mins. passed and my fiance already needed a refill so he asked her to get him a refill and asked where the milk was. She said hold on let me get it......and didn't come back for 10 more mins. when she brought out the food. When she put the food down and I noticed there was no milk I asked her where the milk was. She said that she had forgot it and went to get it.....FOR LIKE THE FOURTH TIME. While we were waiting for the milk the kitchen staff was joking and goofing off. We could hear them laughing very loudly and profoundly all the way in the back. My daughter, who just turned 3, was very thirsty and her milk kept getting forgotten, and they had nothing better to do than to goof off and act like a bunch of fools. SERIOUSLY? She finally brought the milk for my daughter who was already almost done eating and by that time extremely thirsty.
The food was OK except they forgot the cottage cheese I had ordered. I had to get the other waitress's attention to ask for them to bring it because our waitress was too busy waiting on another customer that she had payed way more attention to than us. Don't get me wrong, but it was blatantly obvious she was favoring him over us. He got his drinks and food before us but we were there way before him! At one point I even noticed our waiter NEARLY JOGGING to go get stuff for him, and trust me it is not an exaggeration. And let me tell you, she sure wasn't jogging to get my thirsty daughter's milk that she forgot 4 times or anything else.
After we ate our food we debated getting milk shakes but wasn't really down for being there another hour for the waitress to forget them several times. But my 3 yr. old daughter was hell bent on getting her milkshake so we ordered them. They didn't take too long to come out but my fiance ordered a Berry Strawberry shake (supposed to have pieces of real strawberry in it) and she brought out just a regular strawberry shake (no fruit pieces in it). Now if she would've had the decency to come back to the table and explained that they were out of the fruit pieces my fiance would've ordered a different shake. But no, she waited until she brought out the wrong shake to the table to say 'sorry, this is the wrong shake but we are out of the fruit pieces'. So, not wanting to delay the visit any longer he accepted the shake instead of ordering a different one.
By the time we were done we had been there for about an hour and a half or a little longer. We went to pay the bill and the server had charged us for my daughter's food which was supposed to be free according to the big sign hanging outside that read something like CHILDREN EAT FREE ALL WEEKEND. And, we even verified with our server before we even ordered that my daughter's food was going to be free. She said 'yes, it will be free as long as the total bill is over 8 dollars', which it was. So the girl at the register didn't seem to know about the giant sign hanging outside and didn't know how to take the food off the bill. She had to get another guy to come do it. Took about 5 whole minutes to check out because then the manager came over to assist because he was having trouble doing it too. By the end of it all my credit card was swiped three different times and I was worried that they had charged it more than once. They promised it was only charged once but due to the overall experience and the poor staff, I was still worried. I am definitely checking with my bank tomorrow.
The people they have working there do not need to be working there. They need all new staff because none of those IDIOTS know what the hell is going on there!!!!!! Needless to say, we will never eat at this location again. Next time we will go out of our way to go to a different Steak N Shake just to avoid this HORRIBLE ONE and their IDIOT EMPLOYEES. read more