Rodie's Restaurant & Pancake House — Restaurant in Tarpon Springs

I am very saddened to report that this local establishment is lacking in organizational leadership.

Our experience today was very disappointing. Even though we are local residents for the past 30 years.

I ordered the chicken Greek wrap and explicitly indicated that I would not want it to have any tomatoes as indicated in the menu, since I am allergic to these, among other foods.

When my order arrived, I looked at my first half of the wrap and proceded to eat. It looked good and I was able to eat it along with the warm luke French fries it came with.

Upon picking up the second half of the wrap to eat it, I noticed small red diced pieces of vegetables. It looked like these where red peppers. Closer inspection revealed it to indeed being very small tomato pieces.

I brought it to the attention of the waitress and she was surprised and upset at this mistake. She immediately offered to replace it. I declined because I didn’t want to eat more as I was felling full and was also upset I may have ingested food that will affect my health later today.

At the check out my wife explained to the cashier our experience with the wrap. By the way, my wife enjoyed the waffle she ordered.

The cashier was more like a “deer in the headlights “ and had nothing to say while proceeding to process our payment for everything we ordered.

My wife had to ask the cashier if she “understood” what my wife had said to finally get a reaction. And after completing the payment, the cashier stated that she could have given us a discount if she would have known earlier about the incident.

We asked to speak with the manager and the cashier said that they “don’t have a manager”!!!! There is no one at the restaurant in charge. The owner’s wife, who is Also a waitress as well “comes in occasionally to waitress and is the one to give credits”.

Oh, yes the owner was in the office, but he doesn’t want to be bothered since “he doesn’t speak English”.

We are taken aback at this lack of leadership in a restaurant that has been in this area for so long.

The fact that customers can’t share concerns or praises (which we often share at many establishments) tells us something is wrong at Rodies.

We wish Rodies customers will fare well in their future visits and don’t need to contact the non-existing leadership here.

Now I’ll have to go and take my medicine to minimize the effects these tomatoes are having in me now.

By the way my rating is not due to the food or their mistake in preparing my order. It is due to the lack of leadership and courage to meet with customers who want to share...

We ate here about 4 years ago. I don't really remember how the food or service was then, but the food and service today sucked. I ordered the chicken fried steak, hash browns, 2 eggs up with an English muffin. Part of the food came out pretty quick, but the quality of the food left a lot to be desired. The gravy on the chicken fried steak was not white gravy like it is supposed to be. It was instead kind of a tannish brown color and tasted odd. I think it was either old or partially burnt. They poured the gravy over portions of my hash browns and eggs. Needless to say I took one bite of my chicken fried steak and left the rest. I cut up my eggs and put them in my hash browns. That was a huge mistake. I should have tasted the gravy before I mixed in my eggs with the hash browns. We were almost done with our breakfast when the waitress brought out my English muffin and my wife's dry wheat toast. the easiest part of the whole breakfast and they couldn't get the toast or muffin out with the rest of the meal. This was a 30.00 meal for both meals. The cashier asked how our meal was and I was totally honest with her and told her the food and the service sucked. I left a 0.00 tip. Won't be returning there...

I will never come to this establishment again…Recently relocated from PA to Tarpon so I’m trying breakfast places in the area and this is the only establishment I had to leave a negative review on…We were seated right away but our waitress took 15-20min to come over to us and take our drinks and she didn’t even apologize when she came over I got the vibe she didn’t even want to take our order but only did because she had to / Another lady brought over our food (may have been the owner owners wife) not sure but she made sure we were all set. Our waitress didn’t come back to check on us NOT EVEN ONCE to make sure our food was correct or anything…at that point I was ready to leave I had to go up to the front counter to ask for our check since my waitress was no where to be found…our waitress finally cane back to our table with the check didn’t even ask how was everything etc . I held up the check I already received from the front counter and said we have it already thank you …and the food was was ehhh I’m much more satisfied with Troulias and Hotcakes their service and food is better in my opinion…I didn’t get the waitresses name but she should really practice customer service and tend to her...