Randall L.
Yelp
I was wondering why we, my wife and I, didn't frequent Texas Roadhouse that often, and then tonight I remembered! We went in for the meal, doesn't matter what we were getting, at least at the moment. It was clean outside and inside. Only waited about 10 minutes to be seated, not overly busy! They have started putting bags of peanuts in the small bucket, instead of filling bucket, which is actually better in my opinion. Waitress said she would be right with us, and that was only a couple of minutes. She took our drink order and I asked for couple minutes to decide what I was getting. She brought our drinks, non alcoholic, and we had decided on the potato skins for appetizer. My wife ordered the crispy chicken salad and I decided on the 6oz steak with salad and baked potato. Now we showed the waitress our veteran"free meal" coupons, and THAT is when it all went downhill! I got my salad in just a couple of minutes, snd then didn't see our waitress for about 10 minutes. She brought us our meals, but no appetizers! A manager stopped by to see if everything was ok and we told her about no appetizer, but that waitress was getting it. Still no refills on our drinks and we didn't see her again for another 10 minutes when she dropped off the appetizer, didn't ask if we needed anything else, just dropped off plate and left. When we saw her again , my wife wanted the special margarita, and waitress brought it over in less than five minutes. But we never saw her again! Why wife got a managers attention and told her our dilemma. She said she would get us our bill. Now remember, both of us were using "vouchers" for veterans "free meal" including drink. Manager said she was charging us for appetizer (will discuss that in due time) so bill should have been about $7.56 for the margarita and tax. Bill was $28 and change. They charged us for one of the meals and the drinks (included with meal). After correcting the total, my wife paid the bill, $5.36! Now for the potato skins, they tasted like someone put garlic on them, instead of a shredded cheese, they used sliced cheese which, naturally didn't melt and was sliding off of the potato! Overall only a 1 star out of five, but only because they don't give option of anything lower than 1. The service, quality and overall attentiveness is why we don't frequent Texas Roadhouse! Would I recommend it to friends, no, wouldn't even recommend to enemies! So I guess another restaurant hits the toilet!