Friendly's

Michelle Shaw

This isn’t a review based off my experience dining here but rather my experience trying to work at this location. I applied in indeed and got a callback within 20 minutes which was great because we immediately scheduled a time for an interview. However, I called back the day of the interview just to ask if they’d prefer I bring in another hard copy of my resume or email it to them (a lot of places always request another resume just to ensure it’s up to date no matter how recently you applied) just to find out the interviewer, Jackie, confused when we’re supposed to meet. She listed it for the day prior meaning I already missed it but I repeated back the date and time to her during our first call. I tried to explain this to her and then suggest we schedule a new date and time, hopefully via email so there’s concrete proof, and she cut me off annoyed before I could even finish and just doubled down on me having missed the interview. Of course, I could have continued to try and plead my case and insist on rescheduling but from her tone of voice it would clearly be a waste of time even if I did get her to agree because she had clearly already made up her mind about whether or not to hire me. I am especially annoyed because I made sure to not only repeat it back to her but also because I missed out on another interview since the time they wanted to meet may have conflicted with this interview because I was unsure of the duration and I also understand that others interviews may run long and I’ll be unable to be seen on time. Clearly, I was foolish to try and prioritize this interview and will not consider this company in the future. One of the main reasons I look for jobs via Indeed is because they tend to use that platform to have you schedule an interview so it’s automatically added to both parties calendars or they’ll follow up with emails, this is partly because they want another copy of your resume as previously stated, this whole experience was truly a waste of time.

Tom

I live in East Islip and recently noticed that the few times I've stopped in on the ice cream to go side there are all teenagers working making the Sundays and they seem to cater to the Uber eats/Doordash orders rather than the walk in to go orders. They will take your order, your money and forget your there, they will even put your order in the freezer instead of giving it to you, you'll find your self waiting 30 minutes for a Sunday that's sitting in the freezer already done. Unfortunately that side of the restaurant is all teenagers and some seem to work kind of slopy, with no adult supervision that they seriously need, something should be done about that, I won't be getting my ice cream to go from there any more. On the other hand I recently took my son there for ice cream and appetizers and the service on the restaurant side was on point, The food and ice cream were good along with the server's. The servers were swamped as the restaurant was packed, they did a great job and the kids were all having a blast like they should at friendlys.

Mrs Finnin

I haven't had Friendly's in 3 years and it was worth the wait. We finished our meals and it was good! Just as good as STEAK AND Shake in Tampa on Bruce B Downs! The Fribble Shake hasn't changed at all! Onion Rings were good and Burger! Hubby had the turkey meal and didnt complain at all!Thanks for the great review about our East Islip family restaurant! We appreciate the kind words about our food and service 💞💞

Miriam Vadillo

Went to Friendly's East Islip this past Sunday. It was empty except for one table for 6 in the back. The tables at the entrance were dirty. We waited over 5 minutes because the servers were all in the kitchen. No one came out to seat us or …Miriam, it breaks our heart to hear that you had a bad experience at our East Islip restaurant. Please visit talktofriendlys.smg.com so that we can get in touch with you directly.