Perkins American Food Co. — Restaurant in Oakland

If you're a local, ask a local, the opinion will be different. If you're a visitor read on.

If you want coffee, avoid this place at all costs. Yes, I know it was Sunday and the locals all flock here. I got there for a 2 minute wait - nobody in front of me. I don't doubt the lack of tables - they seemed occupied. What I didn't enjoy was a simple meal off the menu, that with nobody in front of me took a full hour to be delivered to my table including the wait for the table.

Then the worst part, with nothing to do for the longest time, i drank coffee. Just 3 cups, but I have to say it's the worst stuff I've had in over 20 years - restaurants, military mess hall.galley, work including the "honor system" coffee pot (everybody brings in coffee, creamer and such, all the supplies). I guess I didn't think it would be that irritating to my stomach, but it was, and no, it wasn't the food which was C+ - fine but nothing to recommend.

Since the volume was high, coffee should be the easiest thing to get right. You just keep making fresh and keep handing it out. I spend a few summer jobs to help pay for college working at a chain family restaurant so I know that much.

When I go to a restaurant for breakfast, I expect at least one cup of coffee (maybe 2, 3 was due to the 40 + minute wait - I ordered immeddiately). This place fails on that completely. If they'd had a big name chain steak house / buffet with a weekend breakfast I'd have done that as at least they have decent coffee.

I recommend to anyone from out of town to just go down the road to McD's and order a breakfast sandwich or pancakes. Their coffee is an order of magnitude better than this place, no matter what state I've had it in. IF I had this to do all over again that's what I'd do. On this road trip I am hoping to do most meals at Diners-Drive Ins & Dives like places, not chains (there are no bkfst places like that in this area from what I can see on Google). Now I'm going to put a praise and many stars in for the local dinner place I visited. I like to give stars...

Worst Perkins we've ever ordered from. We ordered the Triple Egg Dare Ya and the only thing they gave us was the pancakes and French toast. We stayed at the Wisp so we were only 3 minutes away and as soon as we got back and realized items were missing we called and the first lady was nice and said that she found the missing container and to just come back and she'd have it waiting for us, however, she then put the manager Brenda on the phone who accused us of lying over a few eggs, bacon strips, and sausage links. By the end of the call she eventually told us to come back, after the firsl girl kept saying "the container is right here it never got put in the bag", but after being accused of lying for 5 minutes straight we decided we weren't in the mood to eat spit for breakfast so we just disputed the charge and will never order from there again. Such a shame. No wonder Eatn' Park is so dominant...

We stopped at the restaurant on 10/21/23 at about 8:30 this morning. The greeter was very friendly she said that she would seat us. Right as the greeter got ready to seat us the manager told the greeter to have us wait 5 minutes. My husband asked you all are not that crowded can you tell us why we need to wait to be seated the greeter stayed I am doing what she asked. We waited for about 15 minutes and then manager finally got ready to seat us and another couple came in and was seated right away. (Caucasian ) We ask to speak to the Mgr and she made an excuses of why, were not seated. The Mgr tried to Apologize because she realized what she did.we are an African American and it is sad that we still deal with racism today. This...