I just went into an IHOP today to have an enjoyable and fulfilling meal, but instead what I got was a very disastrous and disappointing one. not only was the waitress EXTREMELY rude but the food was surprisingly inadequate and disgusting; I couldn't finish it. not only was the meal horrible but i had to wait extra long for it. The restaurant wasn't even that busy and the waitress seemed to be busy with everything and everyone but my table. when i pointed that i had been waiting at least 10-15 minutes, she gave me a million and one excuses and an attitude on top of the excuses. one of her excuses to me was that the meal was taking so long because the chicken that was part of the dish was frozen and they had to re-heat it. i should have left at this point but i was extremely hungry; little did i know that the food, along with the waitress, would be horribly distasteful. i will never go back to that IHOP again and i may never go back to any IHOP ever again. that was, hands down, the worst restaurant experience ever. i probably could have dealt with the horrible food, but the waitress just topped it off and sent me away from that IHOP forever.

Employees are often asked to work shifts such as 4 PM to 5 AM. They are given little to no notice of their schedule. Often times employees will receive calls or text messages 2 hours before a shift to inform them that they are scheduled to work, and this is while there is absolutely no schedule posted. Overall, this establishment is run very poorly, but employees are frustrated due to the disrespect they receive from management which creates an environment of workers harboring deep seeded resentment toward those who are supposed to manage them but aren't.

Can anything be done?

I went to Ihop on Colerain Ave. across from northgate.. at about 2 am... me and a few friends went after a concert and we were the only one's there besides a family who already had food on their table. We ordered drinks after having to call the waiter over to us 5 minutes after we got there. It took about ten minutes to get our drinks brought over. Mind you, there were two servers and a manager walking around. We had ordered pancakes, chicken, salads, a bunch of munchies becuase we had a little to drink. So, about 25-30 mintues come by and the waiter brings us a hotdog which we did not order and left it there on the table when we told him it was wrong and he didn't even apologize. We ended up eating it because the three of us were at a 5 hour concert and starved. Anyway, another 15 mintues rolls by and we ended up leaving without even paying anything because we ordered waters and the manager stops us to pay for this hotdog we didn't even order. Long story short she calls the cops and tells them we ate and ran and we explained the whole story and the cops took our side and told us just to leave. We called the main Ihop number to complain but no one ever did anything. It's a bunch of rejects and crack heads working there.. don't go there!!!

My ex-employer are bouneing check. i had 4 bounce checks.2 of them where takin care of and the other 2 are being missed handel.when i talked to my boss he said he im getting sick of all these bounce checkbut i will fix it. he said this in march, 2008 so 2 weeks later i asked him about the check he said he needs proof so i gave him the proof he said he will send a money order and i never got it. about 2weeks later i asked him about it he said the money order got lost. and he said i need proof of the bounce check. told him i gave it to you he told me that he had lost it and he needs more proof. know that was the only proof i had and i gave it to him cause i trusted him.and its been 3 month later and i still have not got any money for my ckeck. and with my last check was bonced for (nsf) so i called them and asked them what was going on and one of the managers told me that it was not his proplem and he hand up on me so i called back he picked up the phone and hung up again.

The other night my five friends and I decide to go to IHOP to get something to eat in early hours of the morning around 1:30/2 a.m. It was a mess from the moment we walked in. We were aware that IHOP was going to be jam packed and FULL of drunk cowboys but, we have always has some-what decent service so still wanted to go. My two friends arrived there about 10 minutes before me and the other four so my friend put her name on the list for us. After we got there and about 20 minutes of waiting for our name to be called the manager at the front gives me and the four friends who got there late a mean glare and says not only very loud, but very rude, "EXCUSE YOU. ARE YOU WAITING FOR A TABLE OR SOMETHING? YOU HAVE TO PUT YOUR NAME ON THE LIST IF YOU WANT TO BE SAT!" so we replied back saying we did. She looked at us like we were stupid. Then my friends cut in and said, "uh I did...Amanda for 6?" the manager then looks down and says "oh, s**t". So yeah, that made us angry but we didn't say anything.

So anyway, we're sitting there under a cheap hawaiin umbrella (the ihop is decorated in this theme) and attached to a taped monkey. So a woman, a drunk one, comes up to and pulls on it, making the umbrella fall on top of us. So of course we're not just going to sit under it, we try and put it back up. But, something is wrong with it and we are unable to keep it up so we're sitting there holding it up, trying to make it stay and all of a sudden the manager turns around quickly and literally YELLS at us, "HEY! DO NOT TOUCH THAT! YOU CAN'T JUST HELP YOURSELF TO WHATEVER YOU WANT!". We were absolutely shocked. Who does this woman think she is? We weren't trying to make trouble, we were simply fixing someone else doing.

So yes, my friends got extremely mad and the woman now wants to kick us out! After we all exchange many mean words we start walking to our car and remember hey, we need to get her name. So my friend and I walk in back inside and ask for her name. She gave us her first name and absolutely REFUSES to give us her last. My friend and her say a few things to eachother and as we are walking off the manager says, "Act your age, not your IQ.". I think that was very rude, childish, and far beyond unprofessional.

Then we leave, go to Denny's and honestly have the most kind server we have ever had.