Looking for that homey, old style diner feel? This is the place. Darn good biscuits and gravy, and flapjacks. Always a fan of good ole local restaurants.
Poor service . Didn't offer many selections. People smoking. Won't go there again.
I've never written an online review for anything before, but this place compels me. Bob's is quite literally the worst restaurant I've ever had the pleasure to eat at. I'm by no means a food snob. I'm a guy that will eat most anything. But two major reasons you go to a restaurant is "I dont really feel like cooking" and "even if I did, odds are good that someone who gets paid to do it could do a better job than me." This is a reasonable expectation when one walks into an eating establishment that at least isn't a gas station. I don't know where to begin with describing this place. I've been several times and every experience gets worse and worse. I don't know why I keep going. It's like a train wreck hit a sharknado. I cant stop. The thing that first strikes me about this place is that it's a bit old and worn down, and I'm willing to look past this. It's even somewhat charming. But when you do, you start to notice other things. Like there's this sign behind the cash register addressing the use of personal checks. Now it's one thing to have a sign that simply says "No personal checks". But is that a prevalent problem anymore? I don't think I've seen someone write a check for a restaurant bill since I was sitting in a booster seat in the smoking section of a Pizza Hut during the Clinton administration. But Bob *really* doesn't like checks. The sign says they'll take your shoes as collateral till the check clears. I would take this lightly if it weren't for another sign behind the counter posted on what I believed to be a soft-serve machine written in red marker "THE NEXT WAITRESS TO HANG THEIR PURSE HERE WILL BE FIRED"... Like, who runs this show? F-ing BOB. It doesn't stop there though. You sit down, you order your food from a list of breakfast dishes that literally lists every different combination of eggs, bacon, toast, pancakes, and hash browns that is mathematically possible though many are the same foods just listed in a different order. Okay so we've ordered. Great. Here comes the OJ my wife ordered. She sips it and gives me this look. "It tastes sour" she says. I take a sip. She's not wrong. I wave down the waitress and explain the situation. She then defends the OJ by saying "that can't be right, this is my FAVORITE orange juice". After debating our objective views on the matter, she finally takes it back. We didn't ask for a replacement. The food arrives. It took a reasonable amount of time. However, the during my first experience, it literally took an HOUR AND A HALF to get our food. Granted, they messed up the order twice. So. Food arrives. Eggs, hash browns, toast, and pancakes-- combination number 2,331. Syrup is served with it. I look over my wife's shoulder at the table behind her. They also have syrup, but it is not in a dispenser like mine, it is in a clear, plastic Great Value bottle. Yes, Walmart syrup. I begin to see what's going on here. The food is obviously garbage. I get the bill. They of course charged me for the OJ. $1.99. Oh they're doing that retail thing where they try to trick you into thinking you are paying a dollar-something when you're basically paying two dollars. Classy. We go to pay at the counter. I reach for my checkbook, but then remember I'm wearing my FAVORITE shoes. I mention the OJ debacle to the cashier, who agrees not to charge me for the OJ. Okay, I feel a bit better. Then I see behind her another waitress opening the cold case where they store milk, OJ, etc. She reaches for a jug of Great Value OJ. Another waitress grabs a half-filled jug of Great Value milk and a bottle of Great Value chocolate syrup and arbitrarily pours the syrup in the jug to make chocolate milk. Firstly, I know for a fact that Walmart OJ is like $0.99 for the ENTIRE gallon jug, which you could easily get like 10 glasses out of. Also, Walmart is just across the highway are there servers shuttling food over to this place 24/7 or do they have a tunnel? I have so many other bad experiences here but I'm running out of characters. This restaurant is basically the Chum Bucket run by Mr. Krabs. Good 4 laughs.
Better than IHOP or Denny's for sure. Good local place popular for breakfast but the lunch/dinner menu is pretty good too. Wait staff are extremely attentive like as soon as I take a sip of coffee, they're there with more.
Always love coming here. Great food at great prices.
Bob S Diner is a US Restaurant based in Manhattan, Kansas. Bob S Diner is located at 1103 N 3rd St, Manhattan, KS 66502, USA.
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