RACIST! Against white people or possibly just everyone except black people, I wouldn't go here if I were you, unless you're black and you love terrible food.  Asians, Latin-Hispanic, Native, anything else, steer clear!\n\nSince I've lived in Vegas I've had problems with finding good food, off the strip, that I don't have to shell out hundreds for.  This means that sometimes I go to a chain restaurant, which generally, I prefer not to do.\n\nAlso, I've never before accused an entire establishment of being racist, nor have I ever asked for any part of my meal to be comped until this visit to Applebee's.\n\nIf you are of European descent, I wouldn't recommend going here.  If you are a college student and your writing a paper on experiencing racism, this may be a good place to do some research, if you're white.\n\nAMBIANCE: 2 It's just Applebee's, casually comfortable except for that feeling that if it weren't illegal, you'd be the victim of a hate crime.\n\nSERVICE: Sh*t show.  I hope the f*ck better than they make food, serve food, bus dishes, and manage restaurants.\n\nFOOD: Not sure if this qualifies as food.\n\nLet me elaborate.  I'm a white, female, only parent, to a half Latin, adorable, little, six year old, girl.\n\nOn my daughters birthday I brought her to Applebee's b/c my daughter always wanted to have the staff at a restaurant sing to her on her birthday.  It was a busy evening in May.  I worked all day and was exhausted, so at this point, I was tired, and soft spoken, but totally patient, and reasonably friendly, as you should be to the people who handle your food.\n\nA couple came in behind us, with a child.  They're African-American.  They were seated in the booth directly across from us.  Also, all of the staff that we worked with that evening were African-American.\n\nWithin two minutes of being seated we had decided on our drink and food orders.  Our server came to take our drink order and I informed her it was my daughters birthday.  Then 15 minutes later she showed back up with drinks.  We made our food order and shortly after that the family in the booth across from us were being served their food.  We waited for about another 30 minutes and then they brought our food.  About this time the family across from us were getting their bill and getting ready to leave.  \n\nI ordered a steak.  It was totally disgusting.  It was so greasy my whole plate was like a pool of grease mixed with a little blood.  Every time I cut into the steak more grease would come running out.  Also, it was strangely seasoned.  It was like they took my steak and dipped it in the gutter of the grill, where they sweep all the extra grease and debris off the grill, in between cooking each item.  It was too gross to eat. If I would've eaten it, I'm pretty sure I would've needed emergency gall bladder surgery that night.\n\nMy daughter ordered the grilled cheese.  There is not a grilled cheese this child won't eat!  Except the one from Applebee's on this particular night.  She said it was gross.  I told her to just wait to have them sing \""Happy Birthday\"" to her, and then we would go.  While we were waiting my daughter needed to use the restroom.  We went to the restroom and when we got back our table had been completely cleared.  The busser was still there.  I looked at her.  We had even left my daughters backpack at the table so it wouldn't appear as though we'd left.  The busser asked if we wanted our food back?  No Thank you!  Then the waitress brought our check.  I told her our food was terrible and we didn't want to pay for it.  She checked and came back and said she could only remove the charge for my daughters meal, $5.  That still left a $20 balance for my steak and a beer.  I told her I didn't mind paying for the beer, after all I did drink it, but that I wasn't going to pay for the food.  The manager came over and aksed what he could do.  I told him I didn't want to pay for the inedible food I didn't eat.  He said he couldn't refund it so I paid the bill and left.  I also reminded them that they forgot to sing to my daughter. They asked, after we paid, if we still wanted them to, we both just wanted to leave.\n\nI called the restaurant when we got home and told the manager that if he didn't refund my bill I would go to the manager over him and tell them about our experience.  He said he would gladly give us a meal credit to come back.  I was like \""you're kidding, right?\"".  He said If I wanted to take the weekend to think about it, we could come back in the next few days and eat free.  We passed.  He agreed to refund our balance to my debit card, which he NEVER did.\n\nGo to Outback Steakhouse, it's just down the street and the service and food are way better.