This establishment's service is horrendous. If I could give this negative stars I would. Many employees inattentive and the ones that were decent were carrying the restaurant. We got our food before our milkshakes. I waited 40 minutes for a milkshake it was ridiculous. I work in fast food that should not happen. Employees are very unprofessional and openly call each other r*tards. Not to mention the waitress gave my friend the wrong change and messed up our forty minute wait milkshake order. This place is way below in performance and honestly it's disgraceful that Steak 'n Shake doesn't genuinely want decent employees. I would rather go to Denny's... read more

Worst Steak 'n Shake in America. Everything that you want in a fast food restaurant was bad. It wasn't even fast; our food took nearly 30 minutes and we only ordered two burgers and fries, no drinks. Incorrect food unprofessional staff including the manager and even the food was prepared horribly. I wish you could give zero stars. read more

My sister and I ordered stuff with guacamole and when the server gave us our meals she said they were making more and it'd be out soon. We ate our fries and waited and asked again when it'd be ready and she said the same thing. Finally after our entire group had eaten, but my sister and I. The server came back and said that they were actually out of it. So we waited to eat our food, didn't even get the guacamole when I ordered a guacamole burger, and by the time we ate our food it was cold. On top of that, they didn't put the cake pieces in my sister's shake and even told her about it, but didn't fix it or make her a new one. Plus it took them forever to seat us and their bathrooms were absolutely disgusting. read more

Off season and the SLOWEST drive thru I have ever been in my entire life! After the obligatory "one moment please" we waited an additional 10 minutes before having to say "hello" to get their attention, and an additional 5 min til atrempting to revive the crack smoker working the drive through to no avail. An additional 5 minutes passed..."one moment please".....again we waited. FINALLY after 20minutes our order was taken. When we went to pay, the girl working the window didnt even know we hadnt paid for our order. We could have walked with free food, which we should have had after the painful wait. Whoever owns this franchise is a moron & needs to hire people who have more than 2 brain cells or can keep off the pipe. Clearly the workers in this location have 2 speeds...slow and stop. Pretty sad. The food was terrible. Two double steak burgers over cooked, dry and crunchy like shoe leather. A complete waste of time and money. I'd give it ZERO stars if that were an option. read more

Steak N Shake is normally a restaurant we enjoy, however the service was horrible. We were in town for a long weekend and went around 9pm on a Sunday evening. Upon walking in the restaurant, they were at 75% capacity. After waiting a couple of minutes and seeing the couple ahead of us not be acknowledged, we asked if we could sit at the counter and the worker said yes. We waited another 5 minutes before finally flagging down a manager to ask if we could be waited on. She did bring us menus a few minutes later, and took our order. We ordered a burger, a grilled chicken salad, and a chilli, no shakes. 15 minutes in the grill guys in front of us were caught up. When asked if they were always this busy at 9pm on a sunday evening, he sais actually they are slow and usually never get a break. At about the 25 minute mark we got up to leave, as noone had checked on us, refilled drinks, or brought us our food. As we reached the door, our food arrived. My dressing was suppossed to be on the side, but overall the food was just like every other steak n shake. We also witnessed customers waiting 5 minutes at the cash register to pay. They seemed to not have enough wait staff. Many other customers were obviously just as frustrated with poor service as we were. read more

The service was extremely slow. It took almost an hour and a half to even get our order in. That doesn't even include the time that it took for the food to cook. The food was okay and the prices were fine but they got our order wrong twice. I do not recommend coming here, especially if you want decent service. read more

The food is awesome. But that's about all this place has going for it. The employees here like to stand around talking not taking care of their customers. You will wait five minutes to be seated when they are not busy. You will wait 10 minutes for someone to come take your drink order. The last time I was there and was asked if I wanted breakfast or dinner, I said well, let us sit down and then we will decide what we want. The girl starts leading us to a table with no menus! read more

Absolutely horrible experience tonight. We travel for our baseball and softball tournaments and we decided to check this place out. While we seated right away tonight, we watched four other families come in. We waited 20 minutes and the other families that came in after us were taken care. We went to complain to the manager ( Kayla) and she told us she would look into who was waiting and take care of the matter. She continued to talk to other customers and we left. This was horrible and a very disappointing experience. I would not recommend ever going to this restaurant and will definitely make mention to all other families we travel with to not give business to this location. Terrible! read more

Do not visit this establishment. Horrible horrible horrible. This is a 24hr location that needs to shut down for a through cleaning. Almost every employee including the manager needs to wash their uniforms.. (Nasty). The cook was eating while making food. This night they had one waitress who was also the host. The cook had to stop cooking to take money for checks. My first experience in a Shake and Steak....Not Good!!!!! read more

I ordered food from here through the website and it says 24 hours on the door but apparently down for maintenance and I'm forced to go call some number for the refund. All lights and signs are on and doors are not locked. People are pulling in the parking lot then they tell customers they are down for maintenance. They could be making money but they are too busy doing nothing but sitting there pretty much telling there customers to go away read more

Actually if it were an option I wouldn't give them any stars. It is really too bad because, I like their food. But, forget about eating here in the summer time! Drive-thru is a joke, and the inside is small and crowded. The service is SLOW. They all act like they are on a Sunday stroll. No one cares about getting your food out. How hard is it to put hotdogs on a bun! Inside is "ok" kinda dirty - defiantly has that greasy feeling to everything you touch. Needs better management and leadership. read more

last Saturday evening about midnight, my wife and I went to your establishment. We were seated, sat there 20 minutes and were not waited on. Another couple came in and received the same service. a group of young black kids came in, we seated and within 5 minutes they were waited on. I stood up and rather loudly I said 'Hell No" and as I walked out I told the waitress that the people who came in before the kids deserved better service. She told me it wasn't her section. My thought was the other waitress deserves to be fired for not doing her job, the manager deserves to be fired for letting this happen. The other couple walked out with us. I have always liked Steak and Shake, but I'll never go in there again. If this is the type of service I will get get you've lost my business forever. I do not live in Sandusky anymore but am from there. I frequent there often and can eat other places. read more

Service sucks soooo badly I left because I stood there waiting to be seated for 20+ minutes. Nobody acknowledged me at all.

Was just in drive thru at steak and shake and they are usually slow but today I waited 30 minutes before we got to the window then she doesn't know our order and when she slides my card hands it back with no receipt gives us a bag with the wrong food that was all cold didn't give us drinks then gave me attitude cause I didn't know what I was charged for because of the fact I received no receipt needless to say we got our money back which was guess work at best now I have to wait for my bank statement to even find out how much I've been charged absolutely rediculous read more

Why is zero stars not an option? Waited 10 minutes to be seated, even with workers all over the place. Got seated, placed our order and got waters. 30 minutes later, we haven't seen our waitress at all. It was so late and not very busy. Just ended up leaving. I have never had service as bad as it is there. read more

This is the first time I have ever been to a Steak n Shake and I was very let down. My boyfriend went to this location a few days ago and we just went back today in a party of six. The other day, they waited to get sat while there was only one other party in the restaurant, along with many dirty tables, and the manager told them there would be an hour wait. When they were served their food it was cold. Today, we waited over 20 minutes to be sat, along with three other parties crammed in the entryway. There were only 3 servers on the floor, no hostess, and no manager on duty. There were many dirty tables along with a good number of clean ones as well. The party in front of us had left because they had been there so long. When we were finally sat (at a table that had been clean the entire time we were standing there), the server did not come to our table for almost ten minutes. Meanwhile, we watched as tables were sat and not served. I also watched food go up in the window and sit there for very long periods of time (18 minutes was the most time I counted) before being served to the tables. As we were sitting, more and more people were entering the restaurant and not being sat. I counted about 20 people waiting at one point, while there were plenty of empty tables. The servers had no sense of urgency, seemed uninterested when talking to customers, and were clearly overwhelmed. We sat for about 40 minutes before we were served our food, and some of it was cold. Also, we had ordered everything together (drinks, shakes, and dinners) and the shakes had still not come out by the time we had finished our dinners. When the server brought the bill, she had our shakes in to-go cups and apologized, saying "When I went into the back to get your shakes, the person that was supposed to be making shakes was cleaning up and trying to leave!" When we paid, we voiced our concerns to the person on the register (the same person that was cooking on the grill), and we got our shakes for free. Unfortunately, this was the only positive thing about the night. I was very disappointed with my first Steak n Shake experience and will not likely go again. :( read more

I would give this 0 stars if I could. My family and I stopped at this Steak and Shake drive-thru after a long day at Cedar Point and we were there for almost an hour. We gave the lady our orders after waiting for 10 minutes for her to tell us to go ahead- and then was told they were all out of noodles for my chili 3 way. I then ordered chicken tenders and had to wait a half hour for them. When we received our food, it was cold and they forgot our milkshakes. I felt bad for the lady working because she was so nice and clearly stressed out. I believe Steak and Shakes are always understaffed and don't give the right training to their employees. I have been to the one in Akron that had to close at 11 PM once when I was there because they were too busy and didn't have enough people working. Stay far away from this place. read more

Terrible service. The waitresses are terrible at their jobs. The entire establishment screams laziness.

The food is good but you'll have to wait 1 hour 30 minutes to get it. Parking wasn't that bad basically what you'll expect out of an average restaurant and the waiters/waitresses won't pay attention to you. And the worst part one time I found a hair in my food which was disgusting. Otherwise I'd eat here if I was going out with friends or family this is based on all of my experiences I've been there many times because my family seems to love this restaurant. read more

Do not go through this drive through unless you have time to waste your life away sitting in your car hungry. We have been sitting here for 30 minutes and just got our order, well our messed up order. What happened to the fast part of fast food? read more

Had a terrible experience.... waited 30+ in the line in the drive thru when the line was only 3 cars deep when I got here. Don't come if you have anywhere to be in the next 2 hours. read more

As I live fairly close to this particular Steak & Shake in Sandusky, Ohio, I have had many opportunities to visit. The food is usually acceptable or better, but something has happened in the last year to their service. Today I visited at 1:20 PM. I was the third car in line to order. I did not get my food until 1:42. I would like to say this was an isolated incident, but it is VERY much the norm for this location. If you can't do FAST food Steak & Shake, then don't do a drive up window. read more

This is a place to just drive by and not stop in. The restaurant was so cold when our food was delivered it was cold. We had to go to the car and get blankets for our kids. The service was so slow my son fell asleep before his food came. Half way through our meal my child had to go to the bathroom it was so dirty. The restroom had stuff on the walls and dirt caked floors it was so bad that it rivaled some of the more gross gas station bathrooms. It is a shame because my kids love the shakes but if the bathroom is this dirty where people see I hate to see what the kitchen looks like where we are not allowed in. read more

Service is rude if and when you get any. Person at drive thru can't even greet people with any semblance of politeness. Burgers are not very thick but they still can't manage to cook it all the way through. read more

We were in Ohio for the Summit races and after a long day decided on something quick. Last year we stopped here and everything was good so we thought we'd stop again this year. I wish we would have read the reviews before we did. This place was AWFUL!!!!! We were seated pretty quickly but it went downhill after that. The waitress took our order and never came back. After about 10 minutes we asked another server if we could get drinks. He sent someone else over with the drinks, and one was wrong. After another 10 minutes and the table beside us getting our order, we asked a server about our order. The same initial waitress came back over, said she didn't know what happened to our order, the person who took it quit. I said that she took our order and she said yea, but I gave it to her and I don't know what she did with it. She was not apologetic or even that polite. More irritated that she had to work I guess, or she could see her tip going away. After another 20 minutes we asked the server who brought the drinks out to get the manager. Didn't see the manager. Asked another server to get the manager and finally she came out of the back room, looked our way and said they have food. They were like not that table the other one. She never gave her name and seemed bothered that we asked for her. Told her the story about our order and she was like "I'm not making excuses, but I've had someone quit and been dealing with fights since I got her at 5 pm". Sounds like an excuse to me. She never said sorry, we're just really behind because we got slammed, never offered money off, nothing. We asked what we owed for the drinks and she said nothing, so we said good we're leaving. She again said nothing, but moved to the next table and asked them what their issues were. I have never waited at any Steak and Shake for 45 minutes for a basic combo meal. Never seen it take 45 minutes for people to get milkshakes (no food, just shakes) and never seen such an unprofessional manager. We will not be going back to this location EVER. read more

Been to a few SNS restaurants and get basically the same level of food and service: decent food, slow wait time. I go there because it's cheap. One waitress (not ours) was rude and certainly not professional in the minute of interaction we had with her. However, our server, Kate (spells it K8 on nametag) was phenomenal in recovery, made sure we still had a great experience, and was already doing her best as a good and efficient server. Best I've had at this establishment. Just writing the review to make sure she gets the good recognition she deserves. read more

Probably the best service ever by an excellent man named Jordan, the highlight of my year.

So much better than the typical drive thru. This location is always clean and has good service. It's right next door to Meijers, so you can walk off your burger and frys. The shakes are GREAT. It is fast food, but a notch up from McDs. Great place for kids too! read more

We was here last Sat about midnight old lady was complaining about how they need to shut doors and how she had worked a 14 hr shift the day before we waited nicely till it was 1:30 am. Then it just be came way to much. No place should treat there customers like crap and complain the whole time working when I asked for a discount for waiting so long she ripped the recipe outta my hand and rudely said don't frigging worry about it. Our waitress who was a bigger girl we only seen one time all of us had our drinks as one of us never received there till we asked u ever going to bring her drink? I guess this place is a self serve because there waitresses are useless. No way two people can not handle a small place like that. read more

took forever to help us order our food and then had us and 3 other cars pull up to wait for our food for over 20 minutes. this is ridiculous

This is probably the worst place I've ever been to, and Ive been to sketchy areas with better service. I understand that it was very late, like 1am-2am and that no one really wants to be there but come on, rude managers and people who just ignore you!! The waitress was by herself and there were 3-4 other tables there. It took her about 8 minutes to acknowledge us and sit us down, it took her another 20 minutes to greet us and ask what we want. The milkshake was good and the fries were too but my friend got a burger with mayo NOT mustard. It was covered in mustard!!! We didn't even want to wait for another to be made because it was so slow. After we went up to pay we got ignored for about 5-8 minutes until we finally said something. The machine wasn't working and the MANAGER was very snotty and rude about us being in a bit of a rush. My friend asked her simple questions and she replied with a very rude tone and attitude. I did not enjoy this place AT ALL! I don't even think it deserves 1 star, that's being generous. read more

Took 45 minutes to get our shakes, an hour to get our food. Then when the food finally arrived the burgers were as hard as hockey pucks. Then when I tried to explain to the waitress she cut me off and said "if you don't want to pay for it then don't, have a goodnight" and walked away. read more

This resturaunts services has gone down hill. The waitress came and took our order and we didn't see her for 35 mins until she brought our food. Then she handed me a burger that she didn't know what was and was not mine. Asked her to just bring me a side of guacamole instead of making a new burger took her 10 mins to do that. My kids were finished eating by then and we still didn't received our water or milkshakes. After 50 mins upon arrival we just got up and had them take our drinks off our bill because we still have not received them and people that arrived after us recieved their milkshakes. Thankfully Meijer gas station was right there so we could get a drink. They didn't seem to care that they messed our order up and I still had to pay for a burger I didn't receive. Won't be going back there. read more

Steak 'n Shake more like Steak 'n Suck. This place is terrible. After a long day of Cedar Point adventures 6 friends and myself stopped at Steak 'n Shake for a quick and cheap dinner. Little did we know the train wreck we walked into at 10:40pm. As we walk in we noticed the place was moderately busy but nothing a normal restaurant couldn't handle, as we stand there for 10 mins we notice no one said a word to us, except for one waitress who seemed to be busy bussing tables spoke up and told us someone would be with us momentarily. It was NOT momentarily, it was another 10 mins to be exact. So we sit down at our table at 11pm and we scan the menu. Many of us had been at steak 'n shake before so we knew what we wanted but NO one came to us to take even our drink order let alone our food. After another good 15mins we see a friendly face who assured us earlier that we would be taken care of, she AGAIN was taking care of other waitresses duties and told us that she would notify our waitress. Another 10 mins later we catch a glimpse of our waitress, Kim, who stumbled to our table asking if we were ready. Well Kim after searching the menu for 25 mins, yes, yes we are ready, Kim. So we order, each of us getting a meal and a milkshake. Pretty standard at this restaurant KNOWN for their meals and milkshakes. About 10 mins after ordering we received our water, after a few death stares and head turns we eventually received our meals, but NOT by Kim. It was by the waitress who was so helpful and kind. I was not able to catch her name but she was our saving grace. After receiving our meals, where one was not correct, we finally received our milkshakes, which were miraculously hand delivered by Kim herself. Kim passed our milkshakes out and forgot one. By the time our milkshakes that had melted due to them sitting out for so long arrived our meals were gone and we wanted out ASAP. We did not leave steak 'n shake until 12:30. As we get to the register we stand there for a quick 5 mins when then we were again greeted by our guardian angel waitress who again helped us since our waitress seemed to not care. Overall, I do not recommended this steak 'n shake and if I could give this restaurant 0 stars I would. read more

inconsistent food, waited in to go line 30 minutes. Not kidding. couldn't leave because we were boxed in. No apology from manager who was at the check out. And then order wasn't correct. after getting the food it was cold, which I was assured by manager it would not be. read more

Service slow; restaurant very cold; got order wrong! I don't think I will return to SnS. This is my second visit and the other was also slow. read more

So this was my first time eating at a Steak N Shake. I ordered a burger, fries and shake given the diner's namesake. I was not let down. The shake was great and the food was on point for a diner burger. read more

Worst Steak and Shake I've ever been to and that's coming from someone who loves the franchise. Management and service was terrible. When we got seated we waited 15 minutes and still didn't have any service. We asked the waiters and even manager for service and they just said "wait" rudely. Eventually we just walked out because we still didn't get any service. Don't go here if you want a good experience at a restaurant. read more

Best burgers and milkshakes in Sandusky. Came for Kalahari and now every time I come, I will make sure to come here to enjoy a nice refreshing milkshake and cheese burgers. read more

I showed up with a group of friends after a long day at cedar point. It was already 9:54 by the time we arrived and were seated. It then took us 30 minutes to get our milkshakes and they weren't even what we ordered. Meanwhile, our waitress was nowhere to be found so we could not ask for an update on our meals. Currently, we are an hour into our wait since we arrived and there is no sign of our food anywhere. People who arrived significantly afterwards received their food before us. The wait staff has not yet apologized and I honestly doubt they will. After this experience I can assure anyone coming here will have to wait at least a month to get their meal along with the check. read more