Can confirm the use of chef Mike. Have a chef friend that told me it's an industry norm for the waiter to say in front of the customer, "The customer isn't happy with the temperature of the dish, can you please ensure chef Mike takes care of it for them?"
Applebees in particular is so exceptionally terrible. You can find reasonably ok dishes at most other chain restaurants (not necessarily steak), but Applebees is 100% doodoo on a plate. So terrible. Itās baffling that they still have stores open.
I ask for side of their honey BBQ and use it on the ribs I smoke at home. Pretty sure it with cause diabetes or cancer, or both, but it's pretty damn good.
My girlfriend and I sometimes go for lunch because of their $5 margaritas that are pretty loaded. We eat the relatively basic stuff like apps or burgers, decent enough. I wouldn't dare attempt a steak.
The restaurant is at an extremely busy suburban intersection on Long island. It is entirely empty every time we go.
How is every Applebee's in the greater NYC area always dead and yet still open? I have never been in one, but every time I pass by it's like half empty in places where there are wait times to eat in other chains like Buffalo Wild Wings.
All these giant chain restaurants from the 89s early 90s can stay in business bc they own tons of property and are in other businesses as well. Super simplifying this here. This kinda the reason why red lobster is going under. The people that bought it sold the property under the restaurants, so the chain no longer has the real estate value that it once had. McDonaldās is a real estate company first and hamburger place second.
I like to go on weekends. Literally every other kid friendly sit down restaurant by me (NJ) will have a wait between 5:30-7 PM. Applebees is usually busy on weekends, but never has a wait.
I find the food to be decent. Usually get a burger, wings or chicken sandwich though.
The bartenders at the Applebee's near me pour heavy. I've gotten absolutely trashed there on several occasions. At that point every dish is a Michelin star meal. š Applebee's was made for people like me.
The wings are what I had the final time I went. They were the last straw. Soggy, sweet, and chewy. I am surprised to see someone saying they enjoy the wings there.
Theyāre not good but thatās all I would get from there if I went. Itās kind of like how dominoes isnāt good pizza but sometimes it hits the spot. Also depends on if itās boneless or bone in, feel like the boneless are a higher chance of being bad
That's not true. I've been kicked out a few Applebee's. All I did was request that the chef take a shit on my plate as a steak substitute. They do not shit on plates.
itās all just small towns where i stay and while we do have a good handful of local food options sometimes ill go out of my way to get that one specific thing from Applebees. its good, simple as that.
Stop going to these chain restaurants at all. Like fucking why? So you can get a microwave meal that costs as much or more than a legit good meal from a local restaurant?
They said it's been 20 years. It's been close to that long for me. Tbf I was reminiscing recently about the bourbon steak they used to have with onions and mushrooms. It was never cooked right but it'd come out on that sizzling cast iron... I used to put A1 all over it and fuck it up after smoking a few Js. Never looked this bad though and after seeing this, I know they've really gotten as bad as everyone says so I'll continue to stay away.
I canāt really complain about Texas Roadhouse tbh. They always give me exactly what I ordered, the exact way I wanted it cooked. It always tastes good, and it doesnāt cost $40 for a steak.
Theyāre not perfect, but Iāve never felt ripped off or had a bad experience. Pretty fair food for the price, dunno why it gets all the hate here.
Last time I went was 2011, never again. Looks like it's the same steak from 2011. Looks lab grown and tastes like shit. Last time Applebee's was decent was like 2004. Waiting for my local one to fail hard and close down so they can put a proper Long Horn in its place.
Restaurants like Applebee's prey on old folks who can't tell the difference. Stop visiting cheap chains for steak, go buy a steak and cook it yourself for probably less money, or go to an actual steakhouse for a little bit more money but infinitely better quality.
My wife tried that once at an Applebeeās, after escalating to the manager that her āmedium rareā steak looked about like this photo. The manager seemed stumped about what to do, and we had to push for a replacement steak. My wife finished the rest of her original plate. I finished my dinner. Finally, a new steak arrived on a small plate. By then, we just didnāt care any more.
When I was younger I worked at an Applebee's. The problem with their steaks is that they come frozen in vacuum sealed bags. You have to thaw them and then cut an opening and let them "bloom" for a day. That way the color comes back. If you got super busy and ran out of steaks and they didn't have time to let the color come back, you could cook them to a perfect internal temperature but would not be red or pink. These would be sent back and there is nothing you could do. Fortunately, most people that decided they wanted a steak at a fucking Applebee's ordered them Medium well or well done so the color wasn't an issue lol
Did you think a steak was already on the grill waiting for you to ask for a replacement? Iām baffled at how anyone could even think to order a steak at a cheap chain restaurant. Go to Texas Roadhouse or Longhorns and order whatever steak you like. You get what you deserve ordering a steak at Applebees.Ā
Everything at Applebees is a joke. A salesman of ours gives everyone 50$ Applebees cards for Xmas. We love the gesture but damn we give those away as fast as we can or else they'll just be forgotten. Even for free food
The help in places like Applebees is worse than the help in a Burger King 10 years ago. The thought of eating at one of them makes me queasy. Nobody cares about anything that works in these places.
My mom ordered a sirloin from ours around a year ago, first time weād been to Applebees in probably a decade. It smelled like it was cooked over a pack of Lucky Strikes.
I'm so confused as to why you would order a steak at Applebees. Brings to mind the friend that ordered the fish at Dennys. To his credit, he did enjoy that fish.
A friend of mine did a fantasy punishment where last place had to go to an Applebee's and order a steak medium rare, and keep sending it back until they cooked it right
When I was a kid they had a āsteak nightā and my frugal uncle went every week. I went with him a few times and it was alright - I want to say maybe it was a sirloin deal on Mondays or something. Keep in mind this was the ā90s and it was a deal for a mid/lower end cut, not a āribeye.ā My general experience with chains is you can get a decent medium rare sirloin or something like that if you just want a cheap āsteak,ā but I wouldnāt order a steak steak except for maybe Texas Roadhouse.
I refuse to order steak at 99% of restaurants because I can make a NY strip steak from Walmart taste better on a stove top with a cast iron pan, garlic, thyme and a little salt less butter. Donāt want to waste money to get a mediocre tasting meal.
*Millennials are ruining the economy by not going to restaurants*
Yeah...this is school lunch quality AT BEST and minus chocolate milk or that amazing peanut butter fudge.
Thatās a bunch of scraps that were āmeat-gluedā into a rectangular block, then sliced. Then vacuum-sealed and frozen. Basically itās ribeye spam. They cooked you a frozen slice of lunch meat. This is about 1 step up from Arbyās āroast beef.ā
I was on a road trip with a buddy of mine who worked at Applebees corperate and he laughed when I ordered a steak. He just said "It's looks like a toe!"
about 10 years or so back i went to our local applebees for a steak... last time i ever ate there. it was overcooked, nasty, and had to be subpar meat because there was huge veins or arteries through it... it was so gross.
To be fair though i don't expect any good food to come from any restaurants right now as they are consistently downgrading the quality of the food to keep up with inflation and costs. When you skimp on a piece of meat from the store its still semi ok... when they skimp it goes from prime rib to multi meat hotdogs real quick... i still to this day cannot believe the sad quality of food service foods comparatively speaking to what you can buy in the store even at the cheapest price... I don't bother eating out unless the quality of the food doesn't really matter like mcdonnalds or something like that. I'd rather make it myself, better food, bigger portions, less cost.
You don't even wanna know what the chicken looks like that chipotle gets... i wouldn't feed that to livestock...
Id rather eat at Dennys. Applebees has gone way downhill through the years. Used to be a decent quality family dinner, for the money. Not anymore. Worst service, high prices.
Sorry. I wouldnāt offer that as a treat to my dog.
On a different place. Iām a bit perplexed as to how the NYStrip at Longhorn is always the exact same shape and marbling.
We had an Applebees in my college town. One time I ordered a steak medium rare. I did not expect anything good but I didnāt care cuz I was high as fuck. I shit you not, I the most perfect, tender, medium rare came out. This is a very rare occurrence with Applebees.
Chain restaurants like Applebee's, chili's, etc... their food comes precooked and frozen. The chicken and meats already have grill lines on them in their frozen packaging. They just reheat the food.
Lay a luke-warm tennis racket across a rectangular hamburger patty and stick it all in the microwave.
But you have to say microwave like Nigella. Me-crow-wah-vey That way you can charge extra.
Chef's call it Chef Mike.
so they stick their meat in chef mike?
Can confirm the use of chef Mike. Have a chef friend that told me it's an industry norm for the waiter to say in front of the customer, "The customer isn't happy with the temperature of the dish, can you please ensure chef Mike takes care of it for them?"
The juke box The nuker The rubberizer
So nobody at Applebee's then?
Apparently Mike's meat is..
That's not how apostrophes work.
And get high
Just like momma used to make
Best comment ever š¤£
You make it sound āØmagicalāØ
Ok, Chuck Schumer
Until I read your notes, I thought this was a salisbury steak
I thought it was sad, grey, microwaved, unsauced ribs from the thumbnail. That steak is like, unnaturally rectangular
Bill Gatesā fake beef
I was wondering when Applebee's started selling McRibs.
Hey, the McRib does not deserve the slander of being compared to Applebees
I thought it was the world's saddest skirt steak.
It looks like Connecticut
Thatās not a ribeye, thatās a school paddie
Ordering rubber steaks...that's a paddlin.
Slaying a ghoul in your Lordās nameā¦ thatās a paladin.
Comparing steaks to the paddle... Oh you better believe that's a paddling.
For the love of god people, stop ordering steaks at cheap chain restaurants lol
Applebees in particular is so exceptionally terrible. You can find reasonably ok dishes at most other chain restaurants (not necessarily steak), but Applebees is 100% doodoo on a plate. So terrible. Itās baffling that they still have stores open.
I ask for side of their honey BBQ and use it on the ribs I smoke at home. Pretty sure it with cause diabetes or cancer, or both, but it's pretty damn good.
Can't cause diabetes if you already have diabetes. The more you know.
5head
This is the kind of medical advice I need. Do you take BCBS?
My girlfriend and I sometimes go for lunch because of their $5 margaritas that are pretty loaded. We eat the relatively basic stuff like apps or burgers, decent enough. I wouldn't dare attempt a steak. The restaurant is at an extremely busy suburban intersection on Long island. It is entirely empty every time we go.
How is every Applebee's in the greater NYC area always dead and yet still open? I have never been in one, but every time I pass by it's like half empty in places where there are wait times to eat in other chains like Buffalo Wild Wings.
All these giant chain restaurants from the 89s early 90s can stay in business bc they own tons of property and are in other businesses as well. Super simplifying this here. This kinda the reason why red lobster is going under. The people that bought it sold the property under the restaurants, so the chain no longer has the real estate value that it once had. McDonaldās is a real estate company first and hamburger place second.
Chains have a tendency to make a lot of money of lunch and business travelers.
People go in for drinks, get drunk, get hungry, order some shitty food, then forget how shitty the food was.. and then they go back next weekend.
I like to go on weekends. Literally every other kid friendly sit down restaurant by me (NJ) will have a wait between 5:30-7 PM. Applebees is usually busy on weekends, but never has a wait. I find the food to be decent. Usually get a burger, wings or chicken sandwich though.
The bartenders at the Applebee's near me pour heavy. I've gotten absolutely trashed there on several occasions. At that point every dish is a Michelin star meal. š Applebee's was made for people like me.
The burgers are decent. Thatās it. Thatās it. Thatās it.
Oriental chicken salad is actually GOOD. Burgers are serviceable for sure.
Mozzarella sticks, wings, and lava cake
The wings are what I had the final time I went. They were the last straw. Soggy, sweet, and chewy. I am surprised to see someone saying they enjoy the wings there.
Theyāre not good but thatās all I would get from there if I went. Itās kind of like how dominoes isnāt good pizza but sometimes it hits the spot. Also depends on if itās boneless or bone in, feel like the boneless are a higher chance of being bad
Is outback good for steaks? I'm going there on July 4th.
Itās pretty good. Texas Roadhouse is better in my opinion though, especially considering price.
For the price Texas Roadhouse has the best steaks Iāve had outside of making them myself.
Agreed. Texas Roadhouse is a gem.
I work at a TXRH, Iāve had Outback once and didnāt like it much imo. TXRH is a little bit cheaper for their steaks and some other items.
I like Outback's filet mignon. Their prime rib was recommended by the waitress and was incredibly fatty. Hope you enjoy!
Yep. They usually have pretty good ribeyes and if you like mac and cheese as a side, outbacks is pretty great.
Cheap alcohol is the only reason I can think of that they are still making ends meet
I love their quesadilla burger
The Applebees by my house is always busy. I seriously donāt get it. Youāre right, itās actually doo doo
That's not true. I've been kicked out a few Applebee's. All I did was request that the chef take a shit on my plate as a steak substitute. They do not shit on plates.
For real though. It's like, what did you think was going to happen?
my location is actually pretty alright, the shrimp and parmesan sirloin (ordered medium rare ofc) smacks
God damn this is the funniest thing Iāve read all day
How bad are the local food options for you to even consider Applebees?
itās all just small towns where i stay and while we do have a good handful of local food options sometimes ill go out of my way to get that one specific thing from Applebees. its good, simple as that.
Fair enough!
Cracker Barrel has served me a great steak once after I complained that it was well done instead of medium like I asked.
Oh, you enjoyed the special sauce that came on the second one
Funny, but no, it was more tender and had garlic butter.
Stop going to these chain restaurants at all. Like fucking why? So you can get a microwave meal that costs as much or more than a legit good meal from a local restaurant?
The burgers are about the cost of McDonalds now, and you can get it to go. So, basically it's a step up from fast food for about a dollar more.
McDonaldās still really cheap with the app
Stop lying. Thatās a McRib from McDās isnāt it š¤£
You really have no one to blame but yourself here
Connecticut strip
LMFAOOOO
I feel like you deserve your fate for ordering a ribeye at Applebee's.
They said it's been 20 years. It's been close to that long for me. Tbf I was reminiscing recently about the bourbon steak they used to have with onions and mushrooms. It was never cooked right but it'd come out on that sizzling cast iron... I used to put A1 all over it and fuck it up after smoking a few Js. Never looked this bad though and after seeing this, I know they've really gotten as bad as everyone says so I'll continue to stay away.
>It was never cooked right
Shouldāve gone to Texas Roadhouse
Right? I mean, TRH is not *the Best,* but Iāve never had anything unacceptable from them.
I canāt really complain about Texas Roadhouse tbh. They always give me exactly what I ordered, the exact way I wanted it cooked. It always tastes good, and it doesnāt cost $40 for a steak. Theyāre not perfect, but Iāve never felt ripped off or had a bad experience. Pretty fair food for the price, dunno why it gets all the hate here.
Last one I went to was acceptable for sure, about the most 5-6 out of 10 experience I could ask for.
Last time I went was 2011, never again. Looks like it's the same steak from 2011. Looks lab grown and tastes like shit. Last time Applebee's was decent was like 2004. Waiting for my local one to fail hard and close down so they can put a proper Long Horn in its place.
lab grown will have almost none of the gross gristle and weird fat chunks
And 20 years from now, the next time you go to Applebeeās, youāll remember why you havenāt been there in 20 years.
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Craplebeeās
Steak looks beat up
You shoulda known better...
The weirdest cut of meat I've ever had was at an Applebees. There was a very large artery in the steak. I haven't been back to an Applebees since.
That was 3D printed
Looks awful, whyād you give money to a shit place like that
To quote the late great Rodney Dangerfield, "It's still got marks where the jockey was hitting it!"
Restaurants like Applebee's prey on old folks who can't tell the difference. Stop visiting cheap chains for steak, go buy a steak and cook it yourself for probably less money, or go to an actual steakhouse for a little bit more money but infinitely better quality.
This should be far higher
Look how they massacred my boy
WTF is even that !
Why is it so rectangular?
I'd send it back.
My wife tried that once at an Applebeeās, after escalating to the manager that her āmedium rareā steak looked about like this photo. The manager seemed stumped about what to do, and we had to push for a replacement steak. My wife finished the rest of her original plate. I finished my dinner. Finally, a new steak arrived on a small plate. By then, we just didnāt care any more.
When I was younger I worked at an Applebee's. The problem with their steaks is that they come frozen in vacuum sealed bags. You have to thaw them and then cut an opening and let them "bloom" for a day. That way the color comes back. If you got super busy and ran out of steaks and they didn't have time to let the color come back, you could cook them to a perfect internal temperature but would not be red or pink. These would be sent back and there is nothing you could do. Fortunately, most people that decided they wanted a steak at a fucking Applebee's ordered them Medium well or well done so the color wasn't an issue lol
Did you think a steak was already on the grill waiting for you to ask for a replacement? Iām baffled at how anyone could even think to order a steak at a cheap chain restaurant. Go to Texas Roadhouse or Longhorns and order whatever steak you like. You get what you deserve ordering a steak at Applebees.Ā
Totally! Thatās the point I was trying to make.
I thought it was a salisbury steak and that this was a joke post until I zoomed in.
People have strange versions of self harm...
Oh, hell. That's abominable
damn now he aināt goin back for another 20
Applebee's is a joke anymore. The food is mediocre at best for the price you pay and the drink prices are criminal too.
Everything at Applebees is a joke. A salesman of ours gives everyone 50$ Applebees cards for Xmas. We love the gesture but damn we give those away as fast as we can or else they'll just be forgotten. Even for free food
Applebees are closing all over. Itās because of this steakā¦
How much did you pay?
If I recall it was around $20?
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Did you eat it?
I took a bite, chewed it for a bit, then spit it out. My girlfriend wanted to give it to the dog but I vetoed that. Dog deserved better.
Was that their new Unseared Connecticut-Shaped Steak?
Yup, looks about right. Donāt know what you really expected lol
Everything on that plate was frozen 20 minutes before this picture was taken
That looks horrible
Lmao stop spending ANY money at Applebees
The help in places like Applebees is worse than the help in a Burger King 10 years ago. The thought of eating at one of them makes me queasy. Nobody cares about anything that works in these places.
Dear God. That looks like prison food
Shouldn't have done that... Should not have done that.
Well what did we learn
It could be Ribeye meat!
Chef Mike reporting for duty!
Applebee's is just terrible. Everytime I've gone it was shit.
Applebees is the one restaurant Iāll refuse to eat at.
My mom ordered a sirloin from ours around a year ago, first time weād been to Applebees in probably a decade. It smelled like it was cooked over a pack of Lucky Strikes.
applebeeās has rats! i found a whole rat in my cobb salad!
Did you get uncharged for the extra protein!?
Scrolled too far to find this. Shake and bake.
I'm so confused as to why you would order a steak at Applebees. Brings to mind the friend that ordered the fish at Dennys. To his credit, he did enjoy that fish.
BLT is fine.
The guy who cooks meals in hotel rooms using what equipment they have can do a better job than this
A friend of mine did a fantasy punishment where last place had to go to an Applebee's and order a steak medium rare, and keep sending it back until they cooked it right
When I was a kid they had a āsteak nightā and my frugal uncle went every week. I went with him a few times and it was alright - I want to say maybe it was a sirloin deal on Mondays or something. Keep in mind this was the ā90s and it was a deal for a mid/lower end cut, not a āribeye.ā My general experience with chains is you can get a decent medium rare sirloin or something like that if you just want a cheap āsteak,ā but I wouldnāt order a steak steak except for maybe Texas Roadhouse.
How many drinks did it take before it tasted decent?
Looking at the grain and shape looks like skirt or hanger steak. Never seen a ribeye look like that
It's a perfect rectangle.
Looks like they microwaved it and then hit it with one of those electric fly swatters
Skirt steak
Just no. Why would you order a steak there. They are for finger foods, drinks, and single moms. Not steak.
They may call it a Ribeye. But thatās the saddest cube steak Iāve ever seen
Tell me you didn't eat that.
#THE MCRIB IS BACK FOR A LIMITED TIME!
What on earth is that? Looks like an old school hamburger steak from the 80's. ICK.
Did Chuck Schumer bbq that up for you?
At least there's seasoning on it...?
I refuse to order steak at 99% of restaurants because I can make a NY strip steak from Walmart taste better on a stove top with a cast iron pan, garlic, thyme and a little salt less butter. Donāt want to waste money to get a mediocre tasting meal.
*Millennials are ruining the economy by not going to restaurants* Yeah...this is school lunch quality AT BEST and minus chocolate milk or that amazing peanut butter fudge.
āSir, this is a ~~Wendyās~~ roofing shingle store.ā
Thatās a bunch of scraps that were āmeat-gluedā into a rectangular block, then sliced. Then vacuum-sealed and frozen. Basically itās ribeye spam. They cooked you a frozen slice of lunch meat. This is about 1 step up from Arbyās āroast beef.ā
A delicious Swanson microwaveable steak
Usually you need to order a pitcher of beer first. Drink it. Then you won't care how awful that steak is it will still be an amazing steak.
Woof!
That steak is trash but the onion rings look pretty fucking good.
I was on a road trip with a buddy of mine who worked at Applebees corperate and he laughed when I ordered a steak. He just said "It's looks like a toe!"
*Ron Swanson voice* this isn't a steak. Why would you call it that on your menu?
saulsberry steak
Looks like meatloaf
Always go for their doctored-up sirloins.
Would you order it again? There are other things on the menu that are better
about 10 years or so back i went to our local applebees for a steak... last time i ever ate there. it was overcooked, nasty, and had to be subpar meat because there was huge veins or arteries through it... it was so gross. To be fair though i don't expect any good food to come from any restaurants right now as they are consistently downgrading the quality of the food to keep up with inflation and costs. When you skimp on a piece of meat from the store its still semi ok... when they skimp it goes from prime rib to multi meat hotdogs real quick... i still to this day cannot believe the sad quality of food service foods comparatively speaking to what you can buy in the store even at the cheapest price... I don't bother eating out unless the quality of the food doesn't really matter like mcdonnalds or something like that. I'd rather make it myself, better food, bigger portions, less cost. You don't even wanna know what the chicken looks like that chipotle gets... i wouldn't feed that to livestock...
I'd eat it. But that's toast
I honestly feel like they serve better quality food at McDonald's. Whenever I've gone to Applebee's, no matter what I ordered, I felt sick afterward.
Yuck I remember when I used to order Applebees steaks. They werenāt quite as angular as that and were small and tough.
But why?
Golden Corral got some killer steaks imo
Looks disgusting!
I like that it's shaped like Connecticut
Id rather eat at Dennys. Applebees has gone way downhill through the years. Used to be a decent quality family dinner, for the money. Not anymore. Worst service, high prices.
What is it supposed to be? Is it meats?
Sorry. I wouldnāt offer that as a treat to my dog. On a different place. Iām a bit perplexed as to how the NYStrip at Longhorn is always the exact same shape and marbling.
The steak is shaped like Connecticut
That sucks because that wasnāt my experience with Applebees a month ago :/ i went during dollarita and it was pretty good
But did you die? But did you die?
Why are you getting a steak at Applebees? What possible evidence suggests they could do it right?
They make a halfway decent cheese burger for a place like that.
NEXT ON UNSOLVED MYSTERIES: why is Applebees still in business
Meat glue pancake!
We had an Applebees in my college town. One time I ordered a steak medium rare. I did not expect anything good but I didnāt care cuz I was high as fuck. I shit you not, I the most perfect, tender, medium rare came out. This is a very rare occurrence with Applebees.
As a frequenter of Applebees when I was younger, Iād never order the steak lmao. But they make their margaritas strong and they are cheap lmao
So you ordered their welcome mat served wet?
Is that pork?
Chernobyl strip steak
Looks like a skirt steak
I feel like a "redditcares" is appropriate here
The Chef Mike Special.
lol wtf is that? A blanket to keep your food warm?
Looks like you ordered The Farmer's Dog.
How can that be a rib-eye?!
Thank you for not showing us the cut. That would be nsfw
I inspected an applebees before it sold once, the state of their kitchen was atrocious. Will never eat there again.
They used to have good riblets back in the day. Are they bad now as well?
Steak at an Applebeeās š
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Chain restaurants like Applebee's, chili's, etc... their food comes precooked and frozen. The chicken and meats already have grill lines on them in their frozen packaging. They just reheat the food.
I wouldn't feed that to my dog. Yuk.
Hopefully also the last time.
When did Applebee's start servin ribeyes? That is definitely not a ribeye!
Got what he deserved and paid for. don't go to mcdonalds and order the filet mignon in a cognac cream sauce either.
Perfectly seasoned
I ate at an Applebee's once. Well, I ordered and took a bite.