Village Inn — Restaurant in Fort Dodge

My wife wanted to go to Village Inn, Fort Dodge, IA for Mother's Day dinner. My family & I showed up around 5 pm & was seated. Our drink order was taken about 20 minutes later and we were told our waiter, Lance, would be over in a couple minutes to get our order. 30 minutes later, Lance showed up, smelling of alcohol, to take our order. We placed out order with no special requests other than no tomato on a salad. An hour went by (with Lance passing our table multiple times but not stopping to check on us or let us know if there was a problem) & I got up and asked one of the managers how much longer it would be until we got our order. She went and checked and came back to our table and told us that she could not find our order anywhere and had no record that it had ever been submitted to the kitchen. She told us we would not pay for our meal, we asked for the bill for our drinks and told her we would go somewhere else & she told us there was no charge for our drinks. I mentioned to her about smelling alcohol when Lance came to take our order and her reply was that they had talked to him multiple times and it is still a problem with him! If, and that is a HUGE IF, we ever go back & if Lance still working there and is assigned to our table, we will request another...

I will not eat here.. every time over the years growing up we'd go here when family was in town and EVERY time i got sicker then a dog.. i will not

so 2 years later update. Went to village in with my family and we waited 30 min to get seated once seated we never got asked for our drink order we waited another 30 min before getting someones attention after many many more tables have been seated to get our drinks.. a young guy came out took our drink ordered and then brought us our drinks and took off with out letting us order or food we thought he left to get the drink he had forgotten after 30 more min of waiting and a 1 year old who had been sitting going on 2 hours was doe with the whole thing.. we took off with out even getting food order or all of our drinks 1 and a half hours.. if i could rate zero stars i...

We just got here at 11pm. The lights were off in the parking lot. It looked dark and destitute. We knew it was open because we called ahead knowing we were having a late night. I let the server know and her reply was, we are close to closing so we shut off the lights. REALLY, CLOSE to closing? You close at midnight. And how many customers did you lose because you looked closed. We only came in because i Knew they were open. I guess we'll see how the food is after I made her turn the lights back on.. lol let me state it was someone from the kitchen calling the shots on the parking lot lights, not the server. Plus it's not safe for customers. Ok, the food...