Stow Café — Restaurant in Stow

A quaint diner, but incredibly slow. We sat ourselves to an available booth. It was not busy with a few (about 8-10) people, the two waitresses were standing behind the counter doing nothing but chatting with each other and it took about 5 minutes for the teenage waitress to give a menus and ask if we wanted coffee. I got coffee and my partner got hot tea. We gave our order (I got eggs, sausage and pancakes and my partner got corned beef hash omelette). It took a while for the waitress to write down the order as she did so in longhand. Obviously not taught how to write quickly or use shorthand or abbreviations. While waiting I asked for a coffee refill. The waitress went on to do other things and forgot. I had to ask again. While we waited we couldn’t help but notice the two teenaged waitresses basically stood around and did nothing. When they did anything there was as no sense of urgency or hustle at all. About 30 to 45 minutes after we place our order my pancakes arrived. A couple minutes later my partner’s omelette arrived. Then, a few minutes after that my eggs/sausage arrived. My partner’s tea had gotten cold. My eggs, sausage and pancakes were okay. But, my partner’s omelette was bland and no taste in the corned beef hash. The coffee was okay. There was about a 20% upcharge due to Covid (which was posted on a handwritten notice on the wall). So, $40 and 90 minutes later we left. Not horrible, but not good either. You could tell the wait staff wanted to be anywhere but there and the kitchen placed a higher priority to DoorDash and To Go orders than those inside the diner. It was our first time there and we doubt we...

Two friends and I were visiting the area from Pennsylvania for a reenactment and wanted breakfast. We stopped there on the way to our event. We walked in, were greeted, sat down, and a waitress took our drink orders. After that, we chose our food order, but our waitress never returned. We waited for nearly 20 minutes and watched most of the waitstaff stand behind the counter. One waitress was on the floor serving others, but no one came back to us. They wouldn't make eye contact with us so that we could get their attention. After a while, I went up to the counter and explained that I was paying for the drinks and that we were leaving. The young man at the counter asked if we had made our orders; I said we had made our choices, but no one returned to take our orders. The young man didn't even apologize; he only said, oh, ok, and took my payment. No apology or no offer to rectify the situation at all. If we ever return to the area again, that is one establishment we will not return to. One of the very few low points of my visit to...

Went for breakfast for the first time recently. Asked for a menu of the man behind the counter. Told him that I would sit down at a booth and was told that he had to do something out back. Read menu for a couple minutes. Waitress walked into the restaurant (from outside) and asked if I had been served and said not yet. She asked if I wanted coffee, said yes. After ordering, I decided that the drink coolers and refrigerated case were blowing cold air at me, so relocated into a back booth instead. After asking for another coffee refill, was told that I had too many and when she filled my cup was told that this was the LAST ONE. This may have been my 4th/5th cup, but was needing to wash down breakfast. I looked,on the way out, if there was any signage about a refill limit, but didn't see one. Never - in my entire life- have I been at a breakfast place and told that there was a limit on coffee refills! Needless to say, I will never go back to this...