Applebee's

Great central location in Silverdale Washington. You can always expect good food at reasonable prices and friendly fast service. Today we had Ari as our server and she did a great job taking care of us. The food came out promptly and was delicious. I always enjoy their Asian crispy noodle chicken salad with a cold strawberry lemonade. My wife enjoys the grilled salmon, a Northwest favorite.

Since COVID and the great resignation, finding later than 8 or 9 pm dining options has become more and more difficult, so the fact that we were sat to eat and they had the full menu available at midnight was amazing, but the service was definitely not the best. The food was decent enough, it was rather tasty actually, but our server literally was nonexistent. Aside from taking our initial order, she didn't come by the table again our entire visit. A food runner dropped our salads off, but we had no silverware.... and eventually the table next to us informed a busser that we needed some utensils. We then had to order drinks from the food runner when she dropped off our entrees, because we still hadn't seen our server, a different person dropped our drinks off... our server never came by to see if our food was good or not. We didn't see her until she came by to drop the bill off. So, I give a one-star for the service, five-star for being open late, and a 3 star for the food.

When we first got there we was standing waiting to be seated. They was not busy at the time (11:10am) and the first person that was going to seat us was acting as if she didn't know what to do and what started off as afew minutes then was told it would be 5min. Then she walked away and another waitress came right over and she seated us with no problem. The rest of the meal went good. The service was quick and they even gave a free ice-cream because it was my birthday.

Confusion from when we first entered at around 5:30pm. Was told we would have to wait for a table. Noticing the restaurant was 1/2 empty but seemed to have enough staff to cover any type of rush in patrons. I think the confused look from our party , we were quickly told we could now have a table, near the inner section close to the bar. We were approached fairly quickly with menus and cutlery but it was awhile before our server approached us to take our order. The service rapidly went down hill after our first interaction with the staff. Our first course was delivered and another drinks order taken. However the next interaction with the server was when the mains were delivered which they nearly walked away without taking the first course plates away, they were prompted by ourselves picking up the empty plates and handing them over. We also then had to remind them they had forgotten part of our order and to have it removed from the bill. It then took them another long time to remove our finished main courses plates. This was then promptly followed up by another long wait we had to prompt the servers if we could have our bills. Would not visit this establishment again.