Country Pride

Today my husband and I went to have dinner at Country Pride. The place was not busy, and although the service wasn’t the best, it was acceptable overall. The problem was that the waitress only came to our table about three times and never asked if we wanted more drinks. Before we were about to leave, my husband asked for a refill to go, and she had the nerve to tell him that he had to pay for the drink because she had already closed the check even though we were still sitting at the table and the receipt was still there, since she had not come back to pick it up so we could request the drink. It is not the server’s obligation, but it was in very poor taste.

My three star reviews comes down to portions for the price. Not nearly enough food for the cost. It was tasty, wait wasn't too long, service was acceptable. The broccoli was cooked perfectly and the mashed potatoes and gravy were excellent. The iced tea was not good at all however. I really don't know how you mess up iced tea.

Country Pride is a chain restaurant in the TA truck stop. We dined here on a Monday evening at 8p. We wanted a quick stop for food before getting back on the road.
We ordered waters, chicken-fried steak with a baked potato and green beans, and smothered steer burger with tater tots and broccoli.
At 8p, they put all their soups away, and they were out of French fries.

The server was fast as we sat ourselves and ordered our water. Then it took her a few moments to come back and get our order, and then our food took (not kidding) 30 minutes to come out. There was hardly anyone in the restaurant so we don't get why it took so long- once again we thought it would be fast since it was a truck stop and wanted to get back on the road.

Once we got our food, the smothered steer burger, with a description of "half-pound chopped steak, mushrooms, grilled onions and beef gravy" does not come with burger buns. It was in the steak and fish section, but called a burger so we were a little annoyed about that. It was okay, and was made "pink" as we asked. The tater tots were double fried and very tasty. The broccoli was a great portion of the plate which we appreciated.

The chicken-fried steak is beef, deep fried with a fried chicken coating. It was okay, lets of "air" between the meat and the breading. The baked potato was very good, served with butter and sour cream. The green beans were crunchy just as I like them.

Each dish is served with garlic bread (if you want to call it that). It was more like Texas Toast, and was kind of sweet. Not the normal garlic bread I would think.

When the waitress had delivered our food, she also brought the check, which I was thankful for. However, I put my card down so she would come back to check on us, and take it so we could leave when we wanted to- but she never came back to check in on us. When we went up to her to pay, she said sorry that she was in the back doing the dishes. She then asked well did you like everything was everything okay? And we just wanted to get out of there so we said yes.

I wouldn't come back to this location, or to be honest any of their other locations again.

Check for two people: $37

I will come here again. The price is decent and the food was wonderful. My only ONLY gripe is it took a while to get noticed at my table, then another small while for my server to get to me. The two women working were very sweet and polite, just very slow for how empty the place was. That being said it took all of 5 minutes for my burger to come out, and MAN did it hit the spot! The steakhouse burger is amazing. I got some brown gravy for my fries and oh boy. Cleaned the plate.