Yikes!
This will be a very detailed review into why I unfortunately had to give this place 1 star, which is generous, if Yelp would let me go lower, I would.
We ordered online on a weeknight around 10PM. The location is open until 11. When we arrived there was a small group that got in the door just ahead of us and they didn't seem to have any idea what they wanted. Our order was ready and sitting on the counter. We had already paid online. There is one person running the register while 4 employees shuffle around in the back. As someone who has been a slave to these types of jobs, I am very understanding and patient with understaffing and poor staffing at peak times. While this was neither a peak time, nor could they have been understaffed based on how some of them were acting, it was super annoying to have to wait for the party ahead of us to finally decide what they want, go through all the questions about customizations and sides, pay, and then we could easily present our ID and receive our food. Surely one of the 4 people in the wide open back area could come up and done that for us. There also was no one behind us.
That said, a total side note, but I've never touched a more disgusting door in my life. It was so sticky I think I lost a layer of skin.
We got home with our food, 2 orders of 15 piece wings and two orders of fries. Neither box of wings was labeled or marked in any fashion. I don't need stickers like Buffalo Wild Wings, just a sharpie or some sort of mark to differentiate them would make total sense. The fries come with up to 2 seasonings and neither package of fries was marked. Aside from the fact that the fries are in a very open trey which leaves them completely cold and soggy in just a 5 minute drive home, I didn't taste any bit of either seasoning on my fries. It's ok tho, I threw most of them out since it was basically a rotten potato sliced up and left to mold over.
My mind was already on the review by time I started the wings. Where's my ranch? Oh wait, they didn't give us ANY. When ordering online we saw there's a charge for extra ranch, just assumed they did give you some for free...nope. Now I'm not sure if that was error, laziness, or just really pathetic business.
The wings - I first bit into a bbq which of course had a sauce for the flavor. The flavor was pretty good. The chicken, however, hit me weird. I couldn't figure out what it was. I moved to lemon pepper, which has a dry seasoning. I bit in and didn't taste even the slightest lemon or pepper. I did however get much of a mouth full of breading and almost no chicken. I was down to 3 stars at this point. I go back to the bbq, same thing, good sauce, something off with the chicken. I go back to lemon pepper, no lemon, no pepper, something very wrong with the "chicken" that came with all the breading. One more bbq, the same thing. I go back to lemon pepper and I bit in, it's almost 100% breading but then I get hit with some lemon pepper! LOTS of it! Yuuuuum, I would have thought if there was actually chicken involved. I put down that piece and went for the next lemon pepper in hopes of finding that magic combo of CHICKEN, lemon, and pepper. I bit in and grease literally splashes onto my face and I realize the chicken is literally SOAKED in grease. Like not your normal fried chicken, but they somehow lock in so much of the grease underneath the breading. I held it over my plate and squeezed the grease out. It was the most disgusting thing. I realized the "off" taste in the chicken was just the fact that it was drowned in grease and then stock-piled in breading. A side note, there was no lemon or pepper on that last piece. Why did I even order flavors?
Unfortunately I had to give up, the garbage ate the remains. My roommate had given up long before me, but I truly do hate to waste food, I just made it as far as I humanly could.
The sad thing is I saw the low yelp rating while we were ordering, but I ignored it as Buffalo Wild Wings and other chains often do have low ratings on Yelp regardless. The price seemed much more reasonable, but never again will I go there. Even if they saw this and wanted to refund my money and give me a gift card. I can't even think of a coworker or acquaintance I would detest enough to give the gift card to.
I really hope we were just victims of a random unfortunate order, but if the other reviews are any indication - we're not. read more