Steak 'n Shake — Restaurant in Florida

Had a rough day at the circus. The lion called in sick and the clown over slept. Just wanted a good meal to eat in my neighbor's convertible that i "borrowed". I walked up and first thing i noticed was no valet! .. No that was the second thing. First thing i noticed was two beetles on the curb fighting over a cigarette butt. Worst part is neither of them got the door for me. I hate opening doors. I'm not a germophobe or anything, i just have a huge fear that I'll open a door and it leads me right off a cliff and I'll walk right off it and splat on the ground. Not into anything cool like grape jello.. That would be fun. Anyhow, the food i ordered, well it doesn't matter what i ordered cause at this restaurant they have this neat rule where they let you order what you like, but then turn around and make you what they want. For instance they have this delicious drink. You have to order it in a secret code. Anyhow it's a cup filled half with fruit punch and half with lemonade. And they call it.. Get this.. A cherry limeade!! Don't ask me how it's cherry or why lemons are an acceptable substitute for limes.. But by golly it's refreshing! Kinda how drinking baby spit out of an old hiking boot might taste. And if you question their phrasing of menu items or how they cut corners to their liking, you get to meet their manager. A grizzly bear.. Err, i mean, lovely young woman that tells you that she thinks you don't know what you're ordering and that's why they hijacked your selection in the first place. Also the nice young fry cook i arm wrestled in the bathroom was nice enough. Even though he didn't use the western Missouri grip ties we agreed on, he greased our hands with the baby oil that my grandad used when we was little kids.. (Sigh) good times.. All in all, my experience was about as pleasant as walking in on Santa Claus choking a puppy. High five ✋...

We arrived and there were several empty tables. Even so, it took hours for them to call us through a microphone with the laconic voice of an underpaid teenager and worse, for an order of just a few medium fries and 3 chocolate milkshakes that no matter how different they were in the first instance in the order, it would have been impossible distinguish them within 3 exactly alike disposable cups. “Yes, there are 2 of Nutella and one of chocolate.” The guy in charge was definitely having a really bad day because of his unwarranted dog face and treated us to a pretty nasty signature just because we misheard the number one of the underpaid teenagers said into the 30's style microphone in his laconic voice. “Do not understand? It's not your turn. What do you want?” he asked in broken English to 2 Latin girls who were perplexed not knowing what to answer. Then the bad face sovereignly ignored us while he busied himself rudely cleaning and picking up scraps from the empty tables and asking what seemed to be repeat customers if everything was alright, in Spanish. It is definitely not a good place if you are in a hurry wanting to satisfy yourself with fast food. There is fast food there, only the boys are taking a slow motion course. Great design, pretty bad service and food. Definitely not clean, at all and not good for kids, at all. I think there anti people there. Just get out of the place if you want to stay...

My friends and I call this place Steak and Bad Service. At this point, the attraction of this place is knowing you'll be there for hours. It's truly a spectacle to behold. I've been coming here on and off for almost 10 years, 95% of the time it takes forever for anything, even the drive thru. You'll walk in, and on a good day it'll take you 10 minutes to be seated unless the place is literally empty. You'll be asked about 20-30 minutes later what you want to drink. Those drinks will take about 15 minutes to get to you. Then you'll order food (maybe, if they ask right when the drinks are brought) then you'll be waiting on food for about 30 minutes on a good day. Then after you're done, you'll walk up to the register and pay. It'll take about 10 minutes for someone to ring you up. Honestly, the food and shakes are good and cheap. Open 24 hours. And the wait staff is usually kinda nice. I just don't understand why everything takes so long. Even to clean up tables it takes hours. I once was seated next to a bunch of tables that weren't cleaned yet. I had my entire dining experience (mind you, this takes a long time due to wait times) and when I left the tables still weren't cleaned... I really...