Friendly’s

Too many unbussed tables at arrivale, of which seemed like servers were unwilling to buss ended up waiting a good 10 min to be sat since no one wanted to buss tables. Three people asked us how many in our party but still no one sat us. Asked if we were ready to order before we even had drinks. Coming from a server… staff needs a serious remodel!

First time here. We were just visiting. The service was friendly and good. We were promptly seated. We ordered the Oreo ice cream and the Philly cheese steak bagel which are both really good.

I took my 10 year old daughter to this Friendly’s because she loves it. I walked in with my guard up, but I must admit, I was pleasantly surprised. The servers were prompt and pleasant and the cod, fish and chips were as good as any I’ve had in the states. Queen St Chip Shop in Dunoon, Scotland is my benchmark. My daughter got the chicken strips and rice pilaf and everything was very good. Ice cream for desert and you can’t go wrong for the price.

We love Friendly’s with the kids but the service has been getting worse and worse with each visit. Lunch took almost 2 hours — even though they were not crazy busy. Orders were wrong at our table and others and I had to send a soda back with a bug in it. As much as the kids love their sandwiches and ice cream, this may be our last visit — at least at this location.

let’s face it… who goes to friendly’s expecting above average food or great service? certainly not me. but i continue to go back… because the kids love it & sometimes i crave the peanut butter cup sundaes. wait for coupons to visit because its a little overpriced for the quality.

Now I love me some friendly’s primarily for the ice cream. The food is typical diner food, so it shouldn’t be a surpise however the ice cream is sweet stuff in a milk like form that is to die for. The staff I wasn’t super thrilled with and customer service to me is very important. So I think if the staff stepped up a little bit this would be an excellent Friendly’s probably better then many of the other I have visited.

Off to Friendly’s with the grandsons for lunch. Have not been there since my kids were little. I usually had coupons and they ate for free or $ 1.99. Now the kids menu is about $ 6. They do get to choose a drink, a sandwich and a dessert. They even have healthy choices like milk, fruit or some vegetable as a side. These offerings are great but of course my boys opted for the waffle fries and a big tall Shirley Temple with lots of cherries floating around in the bottom. Don’t worry they had straws and lots of time to make a mess getting them out. They had fun drinking it. That is the key word. Kids do have fun at Friendly’s which is why I gave it three stars as our food was not the best
The kids got pages and crayons and had fun coloring away even though I think they only had about 4 – 5 colors… but enough to do a great one of the American flag. The waitress even hung the pixs up for them
A little hint be careful if this is your first time ordering with the kids. That big Shirley temple it turns out was pictured with the choices to drink but when I got the bill they were 69 cents more. Guess I should have brought the glasses for the fine print.
Their grilled cheese was nothing to rave about… One of them was a little over cooked not quite in burn city but just outside in the burbs. But they only ate half anyway.(Doesn’t grill cheese only have 3 ingredients?)
My meal was terrible. I ordered the fish wrap off the summer menu by the ravings of our waitress. Bad mistake. I smelt fish… that fishy smell you know when you are by the water and cant identify where its coming from. Well I knew where it was coming from. I was done. I took the fish out and had a lettuce, cheese and tomato wrap. Commented to the waitress that I did not like the sandwich she recommended.
The boys then got to pick a dessert from the list. Again they had a huge pix of a great giant chocolate sundae served with three containers of topping under it. Gotcha. They had to have it. 99 cents more each! I tasted part of what they could not eat and I can say I was not impressed with the taste of their ice cream. I remember it being much better… And So far our little lunch was over $ 25 dollars…
I have to say the waitresses were great. They put up with a lot from families and kids. They leave the tables piles high with messy napkins, leftovers, broken crayons and whatever the little darlings adventure into is left for them to clean up. I did not see many people leaving good tips either. Food was on the floor and I heard them say several times don’t worry about it.
So in conclusion my grandkids had a great time and lots of fun and I had some great facebook pixs. That’s all that matters when we are together. There are no 4 or 6 year old Unilocalers that I know of and I believe they would have given this restaurant a five star review so we will compromise with a three..

Always a great meal and wonderful service here in Perry Hall and Beth the manager is awesome too!!!