Applebee's Neighborhood Grill & Bar

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  Salty.  Unoriginal.  Typical.  If you need to read any of these review to decide whether you should eat here... I'd say give it a go.  I think most people know what they're getting into walking into this place.

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  Posted on 02.07.13 Edwin B.

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  I came here in 09 I think because friends insisted on coming here. I think they had a coupon for it, or it was because there was some sort of special deal.
  
  Applebee's is probably my least favourite place to eat in the world. It epitomizes everything I despise about American chain brand name culture. The food has made me sick almost every time I've been there, this location included. The prices are supposedly great for families - of course they are great when all the food is pre-packaged and frozen and toilet standard. And the fact that it is just so insanely popular with kids and families everywhere, as well as all the cool kids and young adults of the new generation, is the most depressing aspect. It's all in the advertising, the branding. And these chains, that's the one thing they know how to do well. Sob. Sob.
  
  I should mention, I only rate national and global chains on a scale of 1-2. I rate family businesses on a scale of 3-5. Here is why:
  
  Would you rather support the local family, or the multi national corporations and the rich men on yachts in the Carribbean? Why are the parking lots of the awesome local places usually half empty (or completely empty)? Why are the chains always so busy? Why can they afford to open so late and get all the TV advertising and all the prime intersection locations? Why are they always in shopping malls? Why go and support Denny's, Chilli's, TGIF, Olive Garden, or the horrendous Applebees? These places have systematically and coldly taken over the national food scene by using the cheapest ingredients, pre-packaged frozen systematic meals that are identical across the nation, overly high prices, rude underpaid servers on way less than minimum wage, and a ridiculously expensive mass brand advertising campaign that gets inside the heads of all the kids and the 20somethings and keeps them under the illusion that if it's not a brand name, it's not worth visiting. They spend all the money they should be investing in food and service, in advertising and cornering the market - the local places can't compete - and someday all we will be left with is the same chains serving the same food all over the world. That is our future. It's the way we're heading and you know it. Every time you eat at a bland national chain, you buy into that, you support that. Boycott chains. Support your local eateries. It's an embarrassment that generic brand national chains are even listed on a proper foodie website like Yelp, let alone getting 4 and 5 stars from so called foodies. Wake up, America, before we're all just batteries in the matrix.

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  Posted on 01.10.12 Fox E.

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  This is the Applebee's I grew up going to. The food is typical American chain restaurant but it brings back memories of after 9pm half off appetizers and coming with your girls and trying every dessert on the menu. The wait can be long but you can always sit at the bar and get a drink while you wait! If you go to Delta Sonic for a car wash you can get $20 gift certificates to Applebee's!

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  Posted on 12.26.11 Diana S.

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