text: It is certainly not the best food but it is close to our house usually prompt and pretty cheap with the for and kids eat free So it was an OK choice on occasional nights when we did not feel like cooking or just wanted a change of scenerynnThat is until last night After first waiting for minutes for any wait staff to appear then waiting an additional several minutes for our waters to arrive not to mention the additional minutes for the single beer to brought out then waiting for quite some time for our meals to arrive we discovered that somehow order was not placed At this point it was a full hour from when we were seated I waited an additional minutes for my salad to arrive The manager stopped by to offer chips and salsa but we would already had an app with the for so we declinednnAt this point the kids were tired and restless and ready to head home I packed my salad in a to go box and asked for the check They offered a discount which amounted to less than on the total bill Unfortunately at this point we discovered that the restaurant had stopped the kids eat free plan as well nnSo all told the meal took twice as long as we planned with a lot more hassle than necessary and we spent more than the quality of food warranted and certainly more than the overall experience warrantednnSince the primary reasons we chose Applebees on nights like last night were the convenience and relative cheap cost we will not bother going back in the future