By Another Unsatisfied Customer

January 27, 2010 8:05 PM | Link to this

My sister, girlfriend, and I decided we’d try this place out, so we headed in for what would soon become our horrible dining experience at All Star Sports N Wings. First, we put in our drink order and my girlfriend received an “iced tea” that tasted like the teabag was probably brewed twice, as it tasted like hose water with a hint of tea. We put in our appetizer order and asked for a couple extra sides of sauce for our wings. The foodrunner brought our apps out and forgot napkins and plates for our wings and a side of ranch, didn’t speak or make eye contact, and promptly walked away. After requesting napkins and ranch from our server, arriving 3 minutes after our apps were dropped off, we received both about 5 minutes later. By then, the wings were polished off (and I will admit they were very tasty wings), so we were all sitting there with greasy wing sauce all over us and nothing left to dip our ranch in. I had actually gotten up to get paper towels from the restroom a little before our server returned with napkins. The server then apologized to my sister because the kitchen was out of the ribs she had ordered because “the morning cook forgot to prep them”. She decided on the pulled pork sandwich instead. A few minutes later, our food arrived. My sister’s pulled pork sandwich was “mediocre, but edible” according to my sister. My girlfriend’s philly cheese steak was dried out and lacked the mayo she had ordered with it. My turkey burger was charred. The tomato contained the stem pit I know all kitchen managers require be removed from the tomatoes. The lettuce was brown and wilted; overall a very sad looking sandwich. Our waffle fries were over-cooked and our chips were stale. We got our bill and then realized how expensive it was to dine in such a failure restaurant. And then noticed, she didn’t leave a pen to sign my card slip with. Nothing on the menu was any different from any other sports bar. It looks as if they hadn’t remodeled anything after buying the old Grindstone Charley’s building. The only difference I noticed was they had different wall decorations, bad service, and worse food. I understand that none of these things are inexcusable individually, but the fact ALL of these things occurred together, makes the overall experience a bad one. Bad enough to look it up at home and write a crappy online review about it. A Charley’s Oreo bombshell would really cheer me up right now.

By Very Unhappy Customer

September 30, 2009 8:45 PM | Link to this

OK where do I start. My wife and I wanted to try this restaurant since it was new. The inside of the store was very nicely done. Now to the bad parts. My wife and I both ordered Chicken Philly’s and we both received Steak Philly’s, not a huge deal. Next it took forever for our fries to come out. My wife ordered waffle fries and received funnel cake fries. This was the waitress’s fault but stuff does happen. So the waitress said the owner/manager would come out to talk to us. The waitress comes out with our bill and nothing is done and my wife ask to talk to the owner/manager but she tells us he will not come out. She did say he got on the kitchen staff but would not come talk to us. I understand having rough days but with this being a new restaurant I feel the owner/manager should have made a better showing of what his place is. The rest of the staff was very nice but it seems like the owner does not care about keeping the customer happy. Also I have been in the food service business for years so this does come with out knowledge of what goes on in a restaurant. So take this for what you want but I would not recommend this place. I also feel bad for the owner’s family because this place will not be open for a long time with how he treats customers. Also we got charged for the funnel cake fries instead of the waffle fries which cost us an extra dollar.

By Sully

September 16, 2009 1:11 PM | Link to this

The new place probably doesn’t, either, ROOSTER’S. But my own ignorance makes me want to smear anything I have no clue about. But I’m a customer for you guys. Aren’t you proud?

By ROOSTER's

September 15, 2009 3:53 PM | Link to this

ROOSTER’S CHICKEN WINGS ARE NOT PREPARED IN A MICROWAVE.

By Chicken Feather

September 15, 2009 3:12 PM | Link to this

Good luck!

By please

September 15, 2009 2:52 PM | Link to this

Please hire some cute girls with good personalities!!

By kontender

September 15, 2009 2:28 PM | Link to this

hooters is the best for real

By McRib

September 15, 2009 2:13 PM | Link to this

Hooters is the best hands down! And their wings are dynamite, also. :-P

By Barry

September 15, 2009 1:40 PM | Link to this

I hope they do well here. I had been hoping to watch some football at Duke’s. My advice to restaurants in the area is to take anything with Italian dressing off your menu before some goofy judge shuts you down.

By FreedomWriter

September 15, 2009 1:12 PM | Link to this

I say good luck, and we hope you make it work. Good to see someone trying to bring business back into the area instead of reading about another place closing each and every day. Kind of a tough location though. Id bet alot of people drive past that area without giving a second thought to their being businesss there. Tell Kettering city council you need a slightly bigger sign to get noticed and see how those idiots react.. LoL

By flipper

September 15, 2009 12:53 PM | Link to this

Why not just call it Sports N Wings. There are no all stars around here. /Reds/ /Bengals/

By btw

September 15, 2009 12:51 PM | Link to this

Hey PB: Browns are the only “Pro” team in Ohio. Mark my words-that will be the only game the Bengals will win - against the Browns!

By AW

September 15, 2009 12:33 PM | Link to this

If you want good wings, try Elsa’s. They have the best. I will check this place out though.

By pb

September 15, 2009 12:32 PM | Link to this

Why are you all talking about blackouts when CLEVELAND (Ohio’s only pro football team) is over 150 miles away. GO Browns and Good luck Todd. His wings at 8 Ball were some of the best I’ve ever had.

By bb

September 15, 2009 12:05 PM | Link to this

Hey XU96 FYI The games now are blacked out to 75 miles of the Stadium, and if a station inside of that zone reaches out of the 75 mile radius it also is blacked out…

By Realist

September 15, 2009 12:02 PM | Link to this

The more sports bars we have within walking distances to neighborhoods, the less OVI/DUIs we have - put one on every corner!!!

By directvlover

September 15, 2009 11:41 AM | Link to this

A regular-season, Sunday afternoon home team game will be blacked out in a home team’s territory if the game fails to sell out at least 72 hours before the game. If it is blacked out on your local broadcast station, it will also be blacked out in your area on NFL SUNDAY TICKET. This is what most bars have. Each stadium’s local blackout area is defined by the broadcast signal of the local affiliate carrying the game, not by the mileage surrounding the stadium.

By Sheryl Cowers

September 15, 2009 10:29 AM | Link to this

Roosters lives by the microwave. I wouldn’t be so haughty about them before even trying this new place. For such a dying town, we sure have a lot of judgemental people who expect everything their way here. No wonder it’s dying.

By Jim

September 15, 2009 10:29 AM | Link to this

I hope it goes. It’s better than having an empty building sitting there. I plan on checking it out.

By Sully

September 15, 2009 10:09 AM | Link to this

Rooster’s has the best wings in town - no contest!!! We don’t need another generic sports bar with microwaved wings. Thanks anyway.

By Strykervenom

September 15, 2009 9:34 AM | Link to this

I think its cool becuase friends and family members can relaxe watching good All-American football, drink beer and party all night long!!!

By InconvenientFacts

September 15, 2009 9:20 AM | Link to this

Wow! A bar that concentrates on sports? I wonder why nobody’s tried THAT before! It’s a market niche that’s just BEGGING to be filled.

By xu96

September 15, 2009 9:19 AM | Link to this

Yep, if the game is blacked out in cincy there is no way for anyone in dayton to get it even with Directv game plan. You have to be outside of 50 miles to be able to get the game. On the other hand, with the kind of play calling I saw last week at the Bengals game, who would want to watch it anyway??

By SK

September 15, 2009 9:19 AM | Link to this

I also wish this place well and I will try it out. But, it had better have awesome wings especially since the name of the restaurant has ‘wings’ in it. Although there are many of these types of places, I will go because I think most of them have awful food. One in particular is BWW’s. Not sure what happened, but their food has gone way down hill. Best wishes to this new sports place.

By BTW

September 15, 2009 9:14 AM | Link to this

Blackouts apply to bars also, so I’m told.

By Hank

September 15, 2009 9:08 AM | Link to this

Once the ticket sells for the games go bust, and the blackouts are set in, sports bars will be booming.

By JJ

September 15, 2009 9:01 AM | Link to this

I wish this place well, but sports bars are a dime a dozen and the local pro teams are’nt gonna be much of a draw the way things went last weekend.