Applebee's (Utah Valley) - These are some of the worst managed Applebee's in the state! The food is a surprise best left on the kitchen floor! I cannot count the times I could have built a wig from the cooks hair in the food! Service was also horrible. The servers had more fun in the kitchen flicking each other with towels and heading to smoke breaks every 5 minutes than taking our order. My standard wait time before walking out the last two times was 15 minutes.
Black Bear Diner (American Fork) - I have tried this place 4 times and it fails everytime. This last time I ordered hashbrowns and half or a little more were black (This means they did not cut off the mold on the potatos and just cut them up and served them! Then to top it off it came out cold eggs bacon and hashbrowns. So it is best to stay away. 10-28-24 update - Still serving moldy potatoes for the hashbrowns.
Chili's (Utah valley and West Valley)- They were getting better and then some bonehead decided to get rid of the flame grills and put in flat grills. Service was also horrible. The waiter was more worried about answering texts than taking care or our orders. So if you love a grey steamed steak with no flavor this is your place!
Mi ranchito (American Fork) - This place is horrible! Carne-asada to them means tasteless steak cooked to unchewable perfection! The service is bad unless you have been going there a long time and they know you. My average wait for food to order is 15 to 20 minutes.
Amber Family Restaurant (Spanish Fork)- I had a very small hope this place might be good! Alas I was smacked in the face with disappointment. It turns out you have to have lost all your taste buds to eat here. My arm was so stiff from trying to wave down any type of help. It was a bad case of tennis elbow! The food was cold on arrival. We drove quickly to leave the bad vibes in the parking lot!
(Closed Down) Gecko's Mexican Grill (and Drama House) (South Jordan)-Have you ever gone to a restaurant and it was so packed that you said why wait 2 hours? Then you look around and see another restaurant that does not look as busy. Okay let's try that one over there. While we left our names at the other awesome seafood establishment!
Walked over to the Gecko Grill and waited about 10 minutes for someone to approach us. The hair on my neck started to tingle like a spider sense warning me. So of course I brushed it away (Warning sign one ignored).
Once they got to us, a fight between who was going to take us was next. I should have tipped just for the show we had watched. The lady took us to our table and tossed our menu's on the table and walked off (Warning sign two ignored). Then the wait to see the anticipated jerk as the server was called by the host. The wait was over in 10 minutes. Once she got to us she stood there without a word, expecting us to relay through ESP. Once we ordered I asked if she got everything. She turned away and said sure (The last warning sign ignored)! I thought did she just answer with sure! I kind of laughed and thought tip starts at 20% when I walk in and goes down from there .
Sometimes I wish we could charge our servers for the time we have invested in doing things ourselves. Now I started to dip into the chips. Needless to say the chips were stale, the salsa tasted like store bought pace salsa. We waited for 40 minutes and still no food (we started talking about something and lost track of time).
Then it started, The where is the food? Have you seen the waitress? I then decide to walk into the servers area. Not one person. I head to find the hostess. She in turn goes to look for our waitress. Here comes the waitress and she looks pissed. I smile! She proceeds to tell me that she forgot to put my order in! I proceeded to let her know how awesome that is!
Since all warning signs were depleated, we madeour get away to the door! I would give some advice here. If you are looking for a interactive drama starring hormonal servers and a brash and confusing hostess then you might want to go here. They include you and make you feel like you should be in the nut house. Needless to say we had 25 minutes left on our wait time at market street grill and had a wonderful dinner with no more drama!