Been awhile since I've been at any Applebee's; after today's adventure, I suspect it'll be awhile longer before I venture there again. Took time to look over the menu, nothing really stood out except noticing prices have gone up-no surprise there, right. Also noticed that they still like to call throwing some seasoning on food then calling that Blackening; BTW, it's NOT! Look up what true Blackening is, it was created in New Orleans using intense heat and creates a ton of smoke. The food is cooked in mere seconds and is soo good. Spicy but very good... anyway, I digress. Ended up ordering the Tomato Basil soup and the Chicken Fajita rolls. The soup was fair, Applebee's tried to improve on it by adding some cheese and croutons. I've had amazing tomato basil soup before but not here or this was not. Cheese was lumpy, taste seemed a bit off, and value of the 4 oz dish vs cost is not there. Nope, won't have that again! As for that Chicken roll with so called spicy sauce on the side, well I left half of it on the table. The flavor was confused, with the lettuce (of all things) being the dominant flavor. Texture again mostly of lettuce swimming in some mediocre sauce with the chicken MIA. The only item that I really did enjoy were the French fries; I had asked for extra crispy and they arrived as requested. Service at the table was fair to good, so no complaints there. As for their greeter at the front, this gentleman seemed to be still working on figuring out his job of greeting me, and then taking me and a menu to a table. Maybe their Bourbon St steak is still as good as I remember, I can only hope. For me, it was just too early to order that and I hadn't wanted a burger hence the rationale of my order for lunch. Oh well.😕