Applebee's Grill + Bar — Restaurant in Galesburg

First off, we've ate here before and the food was really good despite the kind of run down look of the place. But it's been awhile and the visit we had this weekend was bad. I'd like to point out that the employees were all very nice and did a good job so I have no complaints with them. I do, however, have a complaint about the chicken breast which had the consistency of what I imagine raw meat to be. It was cooked through but I couldn't choke down more than three bites. Thank goodness for the loaded mashed potatoes. Later, I googled it and found out it was probably "woody" chicken (like chewing on a tough, fibrous wood). This equals chickens that have rapid growth rates which causes a muscle abnormality. Which I believe also involves steroids. The table also had a very old sticky spot on it, right in front of me, and I had to dislodge a long hair from it. AND in the midst of our dinner we heard a dog bark in the restaurant. On our way out I could clearly see a couple with a small dog in a carrier on the seat. Clearly not a service dog. I can't believe this was allowed. We will...

The food was great and the service the bar was awesome, however everything else was just sad. You have hosts and hostess that are clearly under trained and lack even a low level of social skills when addressing the public and maybe not the clear understanding of how to seat for the servers. So as a result the services stand in the middle of the bar area in a huddle and complain loud enough for me to hear instead taking it back to the kitchen or off the floor or even to the Management who just seem to stand at the end of the bar a bit clueless so it would appear. Unfortunately I got choked on the salt from the drink I was drinking to point where I was about to black out and a manager who sitting behind me looking at a tablet said nothing, the bartender heard it from the other side of the room and ran over to address me. Maybe it's COVID or maybe it's just the area not sure I am not local but overall observations for two encounters while in town point to poor management. Good...

I haven't been to an AppleBee's in a long time and after a long day of driving we decided to walk from our hotel room to catch a hearty meal. We splurged and got drinks to relax. The bartender was not on his game as we waited quite a while and when I ordered a second drink (which I shouldn't have) it took FOREVER and we were ready to go at this point, and it didn't taste quite the same as the first one. The Cajun salmon was really good!! The server seemed like it was the end of her shift and was kinda ready to go (it was a little late, but not that late). My husband noted his food and whiskey sour were ok, not great. The atmosphere was really the same AppleBee's you find nationwide, which I'm sure is standard. I know inflation and all that, but it really seemed expensive to me for an average person's nice dinner establishment and what we got for over $100 ( 3 drinks...