Jennifer W.
Yelp
I've had problems with this place for at least a couple of years now. I always get carry out. Calling in to place an order is a nightmare. We are leaving from a place a half hour away--heading home. Cracker Barrel is on the way home. So I call before we start driving away. Sometimes it takes 20 minutes to get the food ordered!! Then, I get there and about 50% of the time my order is wrong. So I started unpacking the entire order at the counter and checking it all. That helped. Cause this place is about 25 minutes from home--no going back if you got the wrong order or didn't get all your stuff.
Well, this time, today, same problem with ordering, but I got the order placed and they told me it would be ready in 10 minutes. We got there about 12-15 min later. First, I had to check if my order was ready or not--and there were about 12 people in line. I asked at the hostess desk. They weren't allowed to check--only the ONE cashier was allowed to check for orders. But they went and looked anyway. The one order waiting was not mine. Different name and different food. Ok. After waiting about 25 minutes in the store--I finally begged a server to go back in the kitchen and check. She said she wasn't allowed to do that. But she did anyway. They told her TWICE that it was already up front. All that was there was that other order. Well, she finally opened the bag and looked in the containers and it was MY order! She asked me all the stuff I got and she checked off each item. They had put the wrong receipt on it. So I waited over a half hour for food that was already there. Now it was ice cold. Then, I get home, starving cause I'd been outside all day, with no food and it was late afternoon. I get the food out and wha????? I ordered chicken fried chicken with Sawmill Gravy and mashed potatoes with sawmill gravy. No gravy--on anything. No containers of gravy--NO GRAVY! Dry chicken, and dry mashed potatoes. Not even butter on them! The mashed potatoes were like rubber cement. Hard, cold and like dried glue! Awful. Even with a 1/4 of a stick of butter and cheese on them, they wouldn't moisten of soften.
I called to report this and ask for a refund. I explained the whole thing, he took the receipt order number, my name, all of it. I get a call from the General Manager and the only message was "call this person". Seriously??? So described the whole thing again. All he could offer me was a gift card in the mail--for more crappy food! He is sending me a gift card for 2 meals, but I will probably gift it to someone since I don't even want to give this place my business again. I am sick of two years of bad service, rude service, slow service and wrong orders. I don't know how this location stays in business.