Benchwarmers — Restaurant in Ranson

Summation from a few visits. First visit with the kids was a pleasant experience. Mostly fried bar fare, but executed nicely. Wait staff was friendly and attentive. Second visit was later night with my brother. We had a great time at the bar. The servers were super friendly and fun to talk to. They did skip a couple songs on the jukebox I added. There were a bunch of college kids there that night who didn't care for 90s punk rock. Most recently went with the kids again around 630pm. Kids are welcome there until 9pm, or so I was told. Typically, sports bars ("bar and grill") that welcome children until a certain hour will limit the the allowable shenanigans until after that time. Here, not so much. Someone decided to queue up a number of songs that would make a stripper blush (think WAP) and the staff turned up the volume. I strongly advise against bringing your kids to this establishment even if you have done so in the past and had a pleasant experience. You are at the mercy of the manners of the other patrons. I ended up sending the family to the car and I just got our order to go. The food was okay. One of our burgers was raw on one end, so keep an eye out if you get one of their larger burgers. The chicken wings...

We've been to benchwarmers probably a dozen times, including the new location. Half those times have been good experiences, the other half not so much.. The food is pretty good. The drinks are good. Service is timely. Meredith is a great bartender.

About a week ago we showed up at 11am. When they open. The guy who delivers the alcohol was waiting for them to open up. No one was there. We waited 10mins for someone to show up and open the bar. Longshots got our business that day.

The other day we went at lunch time. The bar smelled like vomit. There were three children, probably around 7 or 8 years old sitting at the bar with their mother, spilling powdered sugar all over the place. Apparently that was cool with the owner who sat across the way drinking excessively. A lady came in after the mother and children left, and sat in one of those seats. She complained about the sugar being all over the counter, the seat, and the floor. The owner told her she should just clean it up herself, then said "How do you like that for an answer?" The bartender whined about how hungover she was the whole time. No doubt it was her vomit we smelled. I will not return after that. I won't support someone who doesn't respect their customers or their...

Tom the owner puts his hands on me and my buddy who are conversating and asks us if we've seen a phone. I take his hand off of me (not aggressively) and tell him no I havnt seen a phone and tell him im already very uncomfortable and dont like strangers touching me i already paid my tab and wanted to leave. My friend, Chris, sticks up for me when the owner tries to start problems from nothing at all and Tom tells him to leave. I try to calm down, I'm already overstimulated before he even came up to me and 5 seconds later he tells me I need to leave i ask for what and he couldn't give me an answer and his significant other tells me I need to leave. I get up out of my chair to leave and he then shoves me twice. Very unprofessional and hostile. Bar tenders there know I never cause problems. The owner is entitled and rude please do not go there and...