Applebee's Grill + Bar — Restaurant in Yuba City

We had a wonderful meal at our local Applebee's tonight. We got there around 7pm. The parking lot was packed but there were plenty of empty tables around us.

We ordered 3 starters, our main course and dessert. The wait for our order seemed a bit long but not enough to complain about. And , everything arrived hot from the kitchen.

Our granddaughter ordered Mac & cheese with a side of applesauce from the kids menu. Grampa and I were surprised to see the distinct pasta form from a box of instant Mac & cheese. The applesauce was a foil covered individual cup. For this we paid $7. I guess it's a fair price but, when you go out to eat, you don't expect the store bought stuff to be presented quite so recognizably. Then again, I suppose this way there's more chance of a kid actually liking it because, theoretically, that's what they got at home.?. .... maybe.

Unfortunately, each time a new course arrived, they didn't bother to take our plates from the previous course and we kept stacking and trying to move them to the table edge in hopes someone would take them. When our dessert arrived they were finally taken.

As scarcely as we saw our waitress (3 times;to order, receive our beverages and to drop the bill) we felt a score of 3 stars appropriate. We ordered dessert and paid our bill via the gizmo on the table. Our bill was just over $90 for a party of 3. While I don't believe in stiffing a waitress, I do believe in tipping based on the service we received. For that reason the tip was what was left from a hundred dollar bill.

As for the atmosphere grade of the four stars... We reserve a five star rating for fancy high end restaurants.

The photo? Our granddaughter had never had a mazarella cheese stick before. Now they're her new...

Me and my girlfriend are regulars here, since we are young and it’s cheap and usually the service is good, but there have been too many times it was terrible. On one occasion, my girlfriend ordered the ribeye (which she gets every time) and when she got the food she had one spoonful of mashed potatoes and soggy tiny pieces of broccoli, when she asked the waitress why she was getting such tiny portions, she said they were “rationing” since they were low on them. Which is ridiculous. On our most recent visit, our waitress would stop and talk to every single table next to us, have conversations and ask about the food then continue to WALK STRAIGHT PAST USSS multiple times to a point it got very annoying. She would say she was going to bring napkins, then wouldn’t come back for twenty minutes, we never got napkins. The only time she spoke to us was after she finished talking to other adult customers, and she would say “going good?” AS SHES WALKING AWAY FROM US she never once stopped to talk to us or ask about anything, and when we did reply she would have to walk back it was just weird. I get we are on the younger side and maybe waiters assume we wont tip, but we do and we shouldn’t get attitude the entire time. it felt like we were being as less important, it was irritating. We even finished our food and she checked on the people in front of us, then walked to the people behind us and had a whole conversation with them, while we waited on the check with all our food in boxes. If you want cheap food this is a good place, but if you want good service,...

Ah Applebees, the culinary equivalent of a Dollar Tree halloween costume that falls apart after one use. My recent visit was an exercise in patience, as i waited for the food that i ordered and didn't get, and the drinks i didn't order and did get.

Let's start with the drinks. I ordered a refreshing strawberry margarita, but what i recieved was some sort of orange vodka concoction that tasted like it was made by a toddler with access to a liquor cabinet that had filtered it through a gym sock. I think they might have mistaken my order for a dare.

And then there was the service, i must have been helped by every server in the building and never saw the same one more than twice. It was like a game of musical chairs, except instead of music, there was a continuous loop of recorded messages telling me to try the new Irresist-a-bowl.

When i finally did manage to get my order in, between the two times i had to call a server back to finish my order, the food was a disaster. The mozzarella sticks, which i assume were supposed to be served warm, were colder than a polarbears toenails. And the Mac n Cheese? Let's just say it was so watery i could have used it for a makeshift kiddie pool.

In summary, my experience at Applebee's was like a bad magic show. Things appeared and disappeared without explination, and I was left feeling confused and slightly violated. The only thing missing was a rabbit in a hat, but im pretty sure that was in...