My vote goes to AppleBee's. For the last two years, friends of ours have given us an AppleBee's gift card for Christmas. Last year when we used the card I ordered a hamburger and my wife had some fancy schmancy salad. When the waitress eventually brought the food, the burger was slightly larger than something from White Castle...mmmm Sliders (Crud..now I have a taste for White Castle and there isn't one anywhere around here) and about 11 french fries. I was hungrier when I was done eating than when I started. My wife's salad was little more than a few pieces of lettuce and some stale chicken. We just kind of chalked it up to either the chef just getting out of prison or maybe they were almost out of food and had to make due until the truck showed up in the morning.
We tried AppleBee's again the other night with this years gift card. I even went to a different AppleBee's just in case the one from last year was always bad. I ordered Chicken Tenders, which according to the picture on the menu had these huge mutant size pieces of chicken. When it arrived I had the equivalent of a Happy Meal at McDonald's. I somewhat jokingly asked the waitress if she ate some of my chicken on the way to the table....she had no sense of humor. My daughter ordered a slab of ribs. When they came they looked like they were some type of processed rib meat concoction. As she started eating them there were all these strange little flat quarter sized pieces of bone scattered in the "meat". My wife ordered some type of sandwich that came on bread that was like cardboard.
When I go to a Burger King or a Wendy's I'm not expecting much. If I even get something close to what I ordered I figured I'm ahead on the deal. Going to a sit down place like CrappleBees's or some other chain, I figure I'm at least entitled to something edible with some decent service. Since I haven't gotten either of those at my last two trips, AppleBee's wins the SlapBet award for word restaurant chain ever.
P.S. Next year I'm giving my friends a gift card to AppleBees's to teach them a lesson
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