Outback Steak House

Went to Outback last week.  Our local Outback is located in Springdale (or as the Beez calls it "double-north Fayetteville) which makes it kind of out the way for us to visit regularly.  But when we get a gift card to Outback as a Christmas present we are all about driving the extra 5 minutes (folks in large cities can keep their comments to themselves).

Okay, so we asked for an "order" of fries as an appetizer.  The kid/waiter was confused.  Apparently us ordering the fries and asking a bunch of questions about what beers they had tripped some kind of alarm with the kid/waiter, cause he ran off and obviously told the management that we MUST be some kind of "secret shoppers".  We knew this cause for the next hour we were visited by 3 different waiters, the section manager, the hostess, the bartender, the general manager, and (I think) the owner.  All smiles and "how is everything-can I get you anything else?".  VERY suspicious.  We kept expecting balloons and confetti to drop from the ceiling and for everyone to congratulate us as the 1 millionth customer or something.

Anyhoo, this is what the fries looked like.  Skimpy, wimpy, and meh.  They couldn't even fill up the plate? 

Straight outta the bag-and not even from Australia!  $2.49 for this?  5 out of 10.

I hear they have steaks, though.