Applebee's - Merrillville

We hadn't been to an Applebee's in years, and while the food was decent, the overall experience just isn't what it used to be, especially considering the money spent.

My son and his friends went to dinner last night after looking forward to it all week. He ordered the all-you-can-eat fried shrimp, while his friends opted for buffalo wings. Unfortunately, it took ONE HOUR for the food to arrive. They immediately ordered more, and it took ANOTHER HOUR for that to come. They decided to place one last order, which took an additional 45 minutes. In total, it took nearly three hours for dinner, and that's just unacceptable. You really need to improve your service.

The staff and the waitress were fantastic, but the Hip Hop music was uncomfortably loud. The burgers and bone-in chicken wings were tasty, but the steak dinner was dry, and the shrimp dinner had an excessive amount of breading.

Sticky tables, dirty restrooms, rude seater. My waitress was ok, but everything else 1/10. Never get our money again.

Ordered the all you can eat shrimp rib boneless I only got one of each and I was full I did not Gorge myself. Because I got barbecue sauce they charged me extra siting inventory reasons, but had I got a refill and ordered the sauce on the Boneless tenders I would not have been charged. So I saved them money by not ringing out an additional order for boneless tenders. I told that to the waitress so because I got the sauce on the side and didn't order another set of boneless tenders you're going to charge me for the sauce and she said yes for inventory reasons. Sorry but for the attitude problem I won't be back and I definitely made sure she knew that her tip sucked. It was just the principle of charging me for the plastic cup in the sauce but I did not order the additional tenders to save them money and because of the promotion I would have got those tenders included with the barbecue sauce as part of my meal deal.