A staple here in the Midwest, it remains one of the busier dining establishments in the Greater Peoria area. While Steak and Shake was started in Normal...the 2nd Steak and Shake was placed here alongside the Illinois River. The original SS in East Peoria sat about 100 yards from the current SS. A few years ago they tore down the originalEast Peoria SS and built this one. Most every SS is uniform in shape and size, but this is the largest SS! It features over twice the dining space as ordinary SS's. When the weather is nice out this SS features outside dining with a great overlooking view of the Illinois River If you have never been to a SS, it is kinda closest to diner fare. Very good burgers made in plain site on a large flat grill. Milkshakes made from real hard ice cream and some of the best chili this side of Cincinnati. Of course that's most peoples opinion. The food here is average for a SS. I've had pretty good luck with the service. Just depends on the time of night. Being they are open 24/7 and right across the river from downtown Peoria, it can get real busy between 12-3am. Overall I like this particular SS and it stands out as being a bit different from most other SS's you may encounter. read more

WOW!! Just WOW!!! Walked in to place order to go....4 ordering stations open. No one but me in there. I press the button to start.... First one...second one...third one....fourth one..... None worked. A kid behind the counter said tap it several times..... I said I already did. I know how to work one of these. So another came out and fiddles and got one up and running. Placed order to go and there was a request to tip!!!! WHY???? This was to go and there was no special service that required it... All employees are already paid full min wage plus. So giving them a tip.... they do not claim it.... I did anyway because I do not want any issues with my order, you would understand if you watched "Waiting" and "Waiting 2".... I place order and wait. I am watching the youth on the grill cooking. He trades off with another. This other kid is just murdering the meat. Shredding the patties like they were to be loose meat instead of fully formed. One had bacon and it fell off when transitioning to dressing station. It lost one piece on the floor and the other was caught on the stainless steel. The one on the floor was left and never replace so someone else who paid for a tip got screwed.... I get my order.... I ordered a Frisco meal deal.... They left my fries out.... I pointed it out and said " This is what I get for pre tipping you all?".... I got no answer.... I did get the fries shortly.... They were luke warm.... Went to get my soda.... Wanted RootBeer..... out..... Went to other machine....out.... Got a sprite and left.... Get home...Sandwiches not dress according to my instructions. Missing tomatoes and pickles. I ordered chilli.... Absolutely no spoon or crackers no ketchup for fries.... I sent a complaint in 3 days ago.... No reply. Nothing.... People save you time and effort.... DO NOT PRE TIP!!! ALWAYS PULL COMPLETE ORDER OUT IN FRONT OF EVERYONE TO INSPECT... Horrible!!! Not the SnS I grew up on, cooked at, Managed, nor won the first state grill cook off they ever held read more

After they went cheap and shrunk their menu and changed everything about them everything has gone downhill. I used to look forward to eating here, but now I just don't ever go. I don't know what idiot came up with that idea but I hope they got fired read more

Service is no longer a thing at Steak 'n Shake which is fine I have no problem with it being a typical fast food restaurant. However if I have to order pay and pick up my food you do not get to ask me to tip. The food was okay typical Steak 'n Shake but why do I need to scan a receipt to get my drink and only get half a drink. The worst part was the restrooms as a drunken sailor I have been ti many many bars and everyone had cleaner restrooms I had no idea a urinal could mold and I mean the entire inside of the urinal was molded. The floor gross and needles on the ground. read more

I'm from out of town and miss Steak n Shake. Went for dinner and was extremely disappointed. I ordered at the kiosk and paid $12.02 for a single hamburger, cheese fries, cup of chili, and a soft drink. There were only about 3 tables with people seated. 80% of the tables were dirty. My food came out in good time. They call your name, and you pick it up. No employees in sight when I picked up. I didn't received crackers for my chili. I waited, no one came. I decided to go back up for crackers later. I ate my burger and fries, and headed back up for crackers. No one around. I waited again, and waited, and waited. I called for the people in the back room. No response. Finally I decided to take 2 steps toward the back room door, which was slightly behind the counter. A manger, named Jacob, immediately reprimanded me for being behind the counter. I asked for crackers. He said, we'll get them and headed back to the back room. I told him I had been back twice, didn't get crackers when I got my food because there was no one to ask. He again said, we'll get to them. At this point I was done with this man. I asked for a refund for my chili since I couldn't get crackers. He stepped back out of the back room, reached into a container under the counter and gave me the crackers and then said, "when you leave today, don't ever come back." Im a 66 year old lady, who for the first time ever, have been thrown out of a restaurant! There was another party who had just gotten seated and saw this happen. The lady was outraged and said she'd never be back either. This manager, Jacob, was very rude, not customer friendly, and I can see why the place was dead on a Friday evening at 7:30pm. Very poor customer service. Good radiance to Steak n Shake in East Peoria, IL. Jacob needed to take a course in customer service and common courtesy. read more

Steak 'n Shake - Business was not booming on Friday evening. I can understand why. Jacob, the manager, is rude to customers. They aren't coming back! - Fast Food Near Me - East Peoria, Illinois

I wish I could give this place a review lower than 1 star. The bathrooms were disgusting, the tiles and ground were turning black. The staff have no positive attitudes, one of the girls gave attitude when asked to wipe a table and a guy was yelling "damn it" in the back and getting frustrated. You have to order through the kiosk and the whole place looks filthy. The adult combos are basically the same size as the kids combos. We got our kids shake and one of them was served with a low amount of shake and the table wasn't wiped down, shown from the picture. Paid extra for the 99 cent grilled onion but was disappointed since it's cold and grimy. Took off all the veggies from the burger since they were gross and not fresh. The grill looked nasty and everything was disorganized. One soda machine side wasn't allowed to be used and you had to scan a QR code for even fill your cup. The exterior of the restaurant was disgusting and clearly doesn't have attention put towards it. Very disappointed! read more

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Used to be good cheap greasy food now the burgers taste like bleach. There's not even an echo of the glory days in their food anymore. Felt like I was eating cleaning supplies read more

Beware. Poor service. Food is subpar. What used to good burgers, shakes and fries is no longer what Steak n Shake used to be. If you want any success with your order at this location, go to the drive thru. read more

Got great service today from Vestee. Family were seated right by the windows by the river. Fast friendly service and great food. The store manager Kim was outstanding as well and has a great team! This was one of our first trip to steak 'n Shake as we live in Phoenix and it was a great one. We hope to be back soon. The kids and our family had a great dinner! read more

Me and my family went up here for dinner today. Disappointed is an understatement. Well I'm already disappointed with steak n shake as a whole for removing my favorite burger off the menu. First it was the jamaican jerk but now the jalapeño crunch is gone too ‍ well we get there, my grandpa orders a salad which is shown on their menu online. They tell us they don't serve salads anymore. Well take it off the menu then! I ordered a butter burger with swiss cheese instead of american and they gave me a sandwich with no cheese at all. When we drove back around they took my sandwich, and picked it apart with their bare hands to tell me it did have cheese I just had to look between the buns. As you can see there was no cheese on my sandwich. And then they just gave it back to me which by this point it's cold now so I had to reheat it to even eat it. I asked if they could put some steak n shake seasoning on my fries (since they conveniently quit selling seasoned fries too) and they tell me they don't serve that anymore. what do you serve? i'm super upset with steak n shake overall for constantly ruining the menu but this location in particular I don't think I'll be going back to read more

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My favorite place to eat when I come to Peoria. Unfortunately they only had drive through available. It's not the same and the food wasn't as good. read more

If I could give zero stars I would... We got in the drive thru at 11:20pm and got to the window at 11:45pm, the website said they closed at midnight yet refused to take our order when we still had 15 minutes till official closing time. Worker was extremely rude and did not apologize or anything for closing early. On top of that, when I went to call their number to speak to a manager on this matter they decided to hang up on me which makes the situation even worse. Do better Steak 'n Shake, this is unacceptable read more

A coupon was denied: The coupon said: "Free side item with the purchase of any Sandwich 'n Fries (at regular price)" The Manager, General manager, and their computerized cash register all said that a "steakburger", which I had ordered, is not a sandwich. I have used identical coupons several times over several years. I will not be using any more of those coupons, as I will not be dining there anymore. read more

Waited 10 minutes for cold dismembered burger. Tomatoes and pickles literally frozen. Cheese and burger cold as can be. Also forgot our soda and persons fries that were waiting beside us. Should've went to taco bell read more

I've come to this steak and shake several times and it has recently declined severely. They always seem to be understaffed or have staff standing around, sometimes on phones. My friends and I received food poisoning from the chicken strips which seemed undercooked, and although running a fast food restaurant is stressful; we barely saw our server and she seemed unhappy. I still will go if i'm nearby and enjoy eating there, but some of the employment and the atmosphere of certain servers makes the meal unpleasant or uncomfortable. read more

I love Steak N Shake but everyone that works at the Ep one needs fired. I sat in the drive thru for about 10 mins just for a fuckin straw while there was a women just standing there on her cell phone. She completely ignored me and obviously heard I was trying to get her attention. I'm not one to complain but it's absolutely fuckin ridiculous when you just get off a 9 hour shift in a hot ass factory with no air conditioning just to deal with this shit. I hate to say it but I've worked in the food industry it's not that fuckin hard.. read more

The service is prompt, friendly, and pretty attentive. The shakes are the real thing, and the chain has been experimenting with product diversification to see if they can stir up interest in some new varieties (Butterfingers shake pretty tasty, Snickers shake much less successful, two-toned shakes okay depending on your choice of flavors. Hard to suck those Butterfinger chunks up the straw). The chain has also switched to an approach where they are selling the bundle of the double steakburger with fries plus one side, perhaps to make things easier than having the customer pick two sides (takes too long? too confusing for the average customer? More profit on the bundle with the fries included? You can discern the MBA's hand at work). They've also been promoting 4 meals cheaper than $4, which suggests that they're hurting from the recession or are targeting the customer who isn't spending quite so much on eating out this year. Still, the product is pretty high quality. I'm glad they're all non-smoking now, and I'm doubly glad that they brought back the little glass jars of pepper sauce. The East Peoria location of this chain has a great big parking lot, which is a nice feature (though often quite busy at lunchtime), and the building itself is newish, having supplanted an old one a couple of yards down. Nice views of the barges going up or downriver, if you get the window tables. If you don't get a window table, lunchtime is good for people-watching of the East Peorian species, though if you're obviously an out-of-towner (as I am) they'll stare right back at you. For no particular reason there's always a horde of house flies buzzing around in one corner of the room (the northeast), which is worth avoiding. The kids love the little gumball or hard candy vending machines at the entrance. read more

This place is great! I came to the area for a sports tournament and I can't even count how many times my teammates and I came here to eat. Sometimes we'd get a full meal - burger, shake, fries and all - and sometimes we'd just order a shake. Either way, the food was outstanding. They bring out your food pretty quickly. The fries and burgers are good, but my personal favorite were the shakes. Every flavor that I ordered was awesome. Especially after a long day playing ball out on the field, the shakes were the perfect ice cream-y treat to end the day. The overall atmosphere of this place is pretty cool, too. It's casual and it was a great place to just hang out while drinking a shake. Another thing that's nice is that, at least when I went here, they were open pretty late. I'd definitely recommend! read more

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I miss Patty, she was the best waitress a man could ever ask for. She knew my order by heart. She even gave me a fun nickname and every time I walked into the restaurant she made my day a little bit better. Then out of the blue she was fired for no good reason. Her dog had passed away and she requested a little time off. She practically ran this place. Now I'm stuck with servers who come to the table once a hour and don't refill my drink. All I can say is they lost a good customer and a better server. read more

Hot! Fast! Delicious! Our waitress Shaaliy B. was a doll! Ordered the Frisco melt, Patty melt, chicken strips, and shakes. Everything was perfect! And the view was phenomenal. Great job Steak and Shake! read more

Sad to see the decline of Steak & Shake owned and operated by an Indian that has ruined a mainstay restaurant that has been a life long staple from the past. Went to East Peoria today and the staff, although short staffed were friendly, however they were out of fries, one bag of onion rings left, and never offered silverware, dishwasher must have called off for the day, have not given up on S&S but they may be out of business soon Someone bought the business not knowing how to run a business. This was for lunch! read more

Had the absolute worst service! Took over 20 minutes for a refill and then we were asked by our waitress if we could hurry up and pay our ticket because she was ready to clock out while we were still eating! Then the manager acted as she didnt care. We will not be back! read more

I waited 10 minutes to be seated after the waiter told me he didn't want to take another table, however he was nice about it. Proceeding this my friends and I got 4 waters. 3 of which had mosquito-looking bugs within our waters. Disgusting. Wouldn't recommend, go to another Steak n Shake, it's worth the extra drive to another Peoria location. read more

If I could get this restaurant 0 review I certainly would. Not from this area. Stopped in to order food asked the lady for some extra crackers she threw a fit. I asked if I could speak to a manager I just wanted two things of extra crackers she went back and young man came out screaming and cussing at us because we asked for two things of crackers. Employee dropping the F bomb in front of my very young grandson and then threaten to call the cops on us because we were just waiting for the crackers. The manager was standing there the entire time listening to it trying to get that young man to stop and the young man still kept screaming and cursing at us manager end up walking away from the situation. Very sad. Will NEVER EVER return to this. Then got back to where we were staying only to find cold half filled fries and the thinnest burger I've ever seen. Was extra surprised how the manager didn't take control of the situation and just walked away. read more

This place is gross. My wife and I took our 3 toddlers here a couple weekends back for lunch. You walk in and the first thing that you notice is how dirty the floors are. They are so greasy that you almost slide as you walk. Once we were seated I continued to noticed the floors and under other table. It was really bad. Our waitress was nice but did not seem too bright. We ordered a few kids meals, my wife got a apple / chicken salad and I got some sort of bacon lovers steak burger. When our food came out she brought my wife a side salad. Seriously...She apologized when we asked her about it and she took it back and brought back some grilled chicken salad. It still was not correct but it was not worth the fight so my wife ate it. My "Bacon Lovers" burger, however is another story. I take the bun off to throw on some mustard and the "bacon" that was on there was (in total) the size of a quarter. I am not sure what happened here but they shriveled up so small that you would not have even known they were on there. The patty's appeared to have broken apart in the cooking process and they pieced a whole bunch of small pieces together to make my burger. It was not appealing to look at. In the middle of me getting this my son had to use the restroom. I took him in the men's room and let me tell you after this experience, my new rule is to check out a restaurant restroom before I eat there. This was disgusting! The greasy floor problem continued in the restroom and actually got a lot worse. There was a garbage can over flowing, 2 of the three stalls had been "used" and left unflushed. If it was just me I would have not even used the room. But since it was a 3 year old, you don't have much options. We used the last stall. He finished and wanted to wash his hands. The sinks were so dirty I would not even let him touch them. We skipped the hand washing that day. I went back to the table and after the bathroom experience I decided I could not bring myself to eat that burger. I asked our waitress to take it back, because it looked nothing like what I ordered. The manager came over and I explained all of this to her. She offered to make me a new burger or a milkshake and I declined. I honestly question the sanitary practices of all the staff there. It was so gross. We will never be back to that place. read more

Another one of our family traditions, we always stop here after a cruise through the festival of lights. I recommend requesting a table along the windows, the river at night is so pretty. Lost a star because even when the place is empty, it always seems to take forever to get waited on and for food to come. for a burger place I feel like service can be a little more prompt. The other Peoria location is a bit more speedy, but the river view is worth the wait. Typical order would be some fries with cheese, a steak burger, and a big holiday milkshake! Many of my friends get the frisco melt as well. You can also request half vanilla half chocolate milkshakes, I like to get hot fudge drizzled on top. O and a cherry, always a cherry! read more

Steak N Shake used to be a grand experience and I used to look forward to going. Unfortunately, our favorite server, Patty no longer is employed. Since then, evening staff is unorganized and it is utter chaos. One man waited over 20 minutes for a single shake. Patty would never have let this happen. read more

I love their burgers and the shakes are even better! I had the guacamole burger which melted in my mouth. Washed it down with a Heath bar shake. The waitress I had seemed to actually enjoy her job,making an extra effort to speak to her customers and make them feel welcome. Service was quick and effecient, food was tasty, prices affordable. read more

I stood at the front area waiting to be seated for 5 minutes while the server stood nearby staring at something behind the counter. She was too engrossed in whatever she was watching to come offer me a seat, and while she didn't notice me standing nearby she noticed other employees to her other side moving about. I left without service. read more

Was ignored for 5 minutes while the cashier talked to 10 of his friends who blocked the entrance. The 20 year old manager was useless as she tried to make a lame excuse for the cashier. I then walked out and the drive thru line was 12 deep and getting angry. read more

well i went thru drive thu in east peoria waited for at least 20 min or more to get my taco salad got it home started eating it and ther was spagettie noodles o maybe 10 or more at the bottom of my salad .so i have to ask ask when did they start putting noodles in taco salad that many noodles was not a mistake we had been there earlier that day and they are not very clean but we at least had a good waiter had a party of 9 and waited over 30 minute read more

I've been coming here ever since I was a young girl. I've never had any problems with the food. It's always been excellent. The service however could use some improvement. I stood at the front door for about 5 minutes before getting sat and then a server didn't even come to get my drink order for another 10-15 minutes. I really do love this place, it's a tradition in my family. But the service could be better. read more

Ordered a original double cheese with pickles ketchup and mustard to go. Waited 15 minutes and received cold food with no cheese on the burger. Worst steak and shake I've been to. The manager obviously did not want to be there. Hope they turn things around. Won't be back. read more

We came at about 2am, the service was rude, and I waited until the end of my meal to get my milkshake. I spilt my entire drink on me and none of the servers offered me napkins or anything to clean it up. Also there were only 2 people working and one server, when there should be more. Nobody came to ring people out and they had a line of people waiting at the counter. We waited 30 minutes to get rung out and even then we had to track someone down and ask to take our money. read more