Ground Round

Great buffalo chicken wrap with ranch & fries.

I must admit that I worked a Ground Round 25 years ago.  So my meal here was tinged with nostalgia.    
I had the hickory burger and egg rolls as an app.  Just like I remembered.  This particular place has very friendly staff, and a nice professional bartender.

Oh. My. Yuck!
I don't know what happened to this place.  It use to be good and fairly priced for what it was.  However, everything we had was horrible.  Just plain horrible.  It's been a long while since I ate here but when I did it was far better then chains such as 99' Applebee's, Chili's , TGIF etc.  Something has changed and not for the good.  I looked up their website after our horrible meal and saw that they are now affiliated with Best Western. I'm not sure when that happened but I now see why the change in quality.
My meal was very bad.  I ordered a "Prime" strip steak at $22. What I got was a shitty quality steak that was brined and tattooed with fake grill marks then micro warmed .  And it was luke warm because I ordered it MR and that meant they could only nuke it to heat it for a few seconds without it over cooking. Trust me, I know my steak.  this was not prime.  And I've had better quality steak from places like Golden Coral which is an all you can eat buffet.  It reminded me of a steak from the former Ponderosa restaurant only much worse.  It was rubbery from the microwave reheat and totally fake tasting from the fake grill marks and salty brine.  For my two sides I chose the "fresh steamed broccoli" and grilled "fresh" asparagus.  the asparagus was a $3.50 up charge but I knew that when I ordered it.  What I got for veggies might at one point in time been fresh but I doubt it.  both the broccoli and asparagus where obviously frozen.  They were watery, rubbery nasty bits of something that could have been good.  But they were not.  obviously frozen at one pint and reheated for my order.
next, the nachos.  A huge pile of heaping sogginess.  They were awful.  If you like a huge mound of stale tortilla chips topped with very wet ingredients such as bottled salsa and runny chicken, then these nachos are for you.  Everything was mushy.  And the toppings were only on the top leaving a huge heap of stale tortilla chips under the messy top.
I'm giving this place one star because I ordered their blueberry lemonade and it was decent.  A bit over the top sweet but it actually had real, fresh blueberries in it.
So in a nutshell, this place was once good for decent, simple, inexpensive eats.  Not so much now.  The prices have skyrocketed and the quality really sucks.
I'm now saying "farewell" to a longtime favorite spot for eats on the cheap.  Sorry Ground Round but you're no longer my cup of tea.  And I blame Best Western for your demise.