re: Being forced to grat at a restaurant with a small group :-(

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If you're cheap enough to go to Applebees for a birthday, you deserve what you get. (Not saying it was the OP's choice in this case)

Don't know why people are continually surprised when this happens.

Applebee's is the bottom of the barrel as far as chain restaurants.

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I have been dating a girl for months. She is a divorcee with two daughters. This was my introduction to them. I let them pick, they picked CiCi's she vetoed it. Then they picked AppleBee's, I tried to Veto it but was overruled.

It is bottom of the barrel. I hate most national chains.
I do like the Mellow Mushroom because I was going there in College, and I like Copeland's because it's local and was my first job. But I would much rather go to a Mom and Pop eatery. I like Chef hopping. Like pick a month and do Besh restaurants that month or Adolfo Garcia (huge hi-hat fan)


I am going to start a thread eventually asking for kid-friendly dining spots. I so recall eating at Commander's a few years back and this table next to me had a really young kid and they made her chicken nuggets and french fries, but they were Commander's pretty.

The service isn't even the reason I wouldn't go back to applebees the nasty precooked and then reheated food is.