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Applebee's All You Can Eat Boneless Wings, Riblets & Double Crunch Shrimp + Fries

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Applebee's Grill + Bar [restaurant locator] offers its All You Can Eat Boneless Wings, Riblets & Double Crunch Shrimp + Endless Fries for $15.99. Valid for dine-in only at participating locations

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Note: Offer availability may vary by location.

Includes:
  • Boneless Wings
    • Breaded, crispy boneless chicken
    • 6 sauce choices: Classic Buffalo, Honey BBQ, Sweet Asian Chile, Garlic Parmesan, Extra Hot Buffalo, Hot Honey Glaze
    • Served with fries, coleslaw, and bleu cheese or ranch (refills come without coleslaw)
  • Riblets
    • Slow-cooked, tender bone-in pork riblets
    • 3 sauce choices: Honey BBQ, Hot Honey Glaze, Sweet Asian Chile
    • Served with coleslaw and endless fries
  • Double Crunch Shrimp
    • Crispy battered Double Crunch Shrimp are fried golden brown
    • Served with cocktail sauce, coleslaw, and endless fries

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  • More information about this offer can be found here.
  • Dine-in only; no To-Go orders. For a limited time. Price & participation varies. No substitutions. Offer valid per person, per order. No sharing.
  • Please see the original post for additional details & give the WIKI and additional forum comments a read for helpful discussion.

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Applebee's Grill + Bar [restaurant locator] offers its All You Can Eat Boneless Wings, Riblets & Double Crunch Shrimp + Endless Fries for $15.99. Valid for dine-in only at participating locations

Thanks to community member SickerDealer for sharing this deal.

Note: Offer availability may vary by location.

Includes:
  • Boneless Wings
    • Breaded, crispy boneless chicken
    • 6 sauce choices: Classic Buffalo, Honey BBQ, Sweet Asian Chile, Garlic Parmesan, Extra Hot Buffalo, Hot Honey Glaze
    • Served with fries, coleslaw, and bleu cheese or ranch (refills come without coleslaw)
  • Riblets
    • Slow-cooked, tender bone-in pork riblets
    • 3 sauce choices: Honey BBQ, Hot Honey Glaze, Sweet Asian Chile
    • Served with coleslaw and endless fries
  • Double Crunch Shrimp
    • Crispy battered Double Crunch Shrimp are fried golden brown
    • Served with cocktail sauce, coleslaw, and endless fries

Editor's Notes

Written by qwikwit | Staff
  • More information about this offer can be found here.
  • Dine-in only; no To-Go orders. For a limited time. Price & participation varies. No substitutions. Offer valid per person, per order. No sharing.
  • Please see the original post for additional details & give the WIKI and additional forum comments a read for helpful discussion.

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Its certainly possible that this is how it is now or post-pandemic etc, I am not saying you are wrong. I do want to add that I worked at Applebees for about 10 years around 2004-2014 or so, and during that time, they cooked most of the things you would think any normal mid-range casual dining chain restaurant would cook. Certainly they had and used microwaves for some items but not all that many, and the majority of the popular items were grilled on an actual grill, cooked on a flat top, or fried. This included all the steaks, burgers, grilled shrimp, and chicken items, and the adult pasta was boiled in a pot of water on a stove. Fries, wings, fried shrimp, and chicken fingers were fried. The main popular things that were microwaved were kids mac and cheese and kids hot dog, and the mashed potatoes and mixed vegetables were microwaved to warm up but were previously cooked/mashed in the store earlier in the day and refrigerated.
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TomH2437
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just went there Saturday. the wings give me fire sh.ts the next day but i like them
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abstractedpudding
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Perhaps things have changed, but this was my review here in 2024 when this deal came around:



I suppose the upside is that's it's only gone up a dollar in two years.
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Community Reviews

Applebee's all you can eat for $15.99 is mainly about cheap sit down variety, with riblets standing out as the strongest item and boneless wings still getting praise when paired with dipping sauce. The wings and fried items can be satisfying, but the chicken quality on boneless wings gets called out as poor, and the meal can feel heavy enough to cause regret the next day. The offer also runs slower than expected, with small follow up plates and long waits between rounds. It works best if you want a lot of food and do not mind a processed chain meal.

  • Riblets can taste terrific and can make the AYCE experience worthwhile.

    MrConsumerMICHAELSD

  • Boneless wings can still be tasty when paired with dipping sauce.

    masterz13JCman7

  • The AYCE flow can let diners request more items by sitting near the kitchen.

    PilotDillon

  • The $15.99 AYCE can be competitive with local NJ pricing for pho, ramen, and bar entrees.

    yayboogers

  • Chicken items can taste seriously bad and can be worse than cooking frozen chicken bites at home.

    DelightfulFang4108

  • Boneless wings can have poor chicken quality, with skin falling off and flavor not tasting real.

    BrightCemetery5374

  • The AYCE offer can require waiting about 15 minutes for the next plate, which can limit how much can be eaten.

    BrightMusic932

  • The meal can exclude a drink, which can push total cost to roughly $18-20 before tax and tip.

    MrGreed

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May 11, 2026 9:08 PM
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JCman7May 11, 2026 9:08 PM
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I do love their boneless wings even if they are just nuggets.
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Quote from alokkola View quoted comment :
Had it been bone-in wings, I would have been all over it. Boneless wings are just oversized nuggets.

Problem where ?? Confuseddrool
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Quote from dxxvi View quoted comment :
I guess that they'll let you wait for about 1 hour between the 1st round and the 2nd round of unlimited wings and they'll give you 5 wings each round.

Just order another round when they bring your current round.

Bring a group of buddies and diversify your orders. Each person will get to try a diff type and be merry and jovial.


Guaranteed recipe for a good time!
May 11, 2026 9:18 PM
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mostsleekMay 11, 2026 9:18 PM
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Quote from Slimeyface View quoted comment :
Problem where ?? Confuseddrool

Maybe they wanted them Dino Shaped? laugh out loud
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May 11, 2026 9:20 PM
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May 11, 2026 9:20 PM
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Quote from mostsleek View quoted comment :
Maybe they wanted them Dino Shaped? laugh out loud

Valid!! wootLMAOlaugh out loudApplause





Edit: I'm so glad you came out of 22-year hibernation to contribute that wonderful nugget of humour. Repped and respect CheersHigh Five
Last edited by Slimeyface May 11, 2026 at 02:22 PM.
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abstractedpuddingMay 11, 2026 9:35 PM
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Perhaps things have changed, but this was my review here in 2024 when this deal came around:

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Tried this one a whim tonight. The service was good, the food came out fast, and the server asked what I wanted next before I finished each plate. I tried all three things. You get a full size order for the first and a half order for the subsequent plates.

All and all, it was a good deal, save for one thing. The food was terrible. Just awful.

The chicken was enrobed in a thick flavorless batter. The garlic Parmesan sauce was ok and I did like that there were actually large flakes of Parmesan. But the chicken was actually a chore to eat. Sadly, it was a full portion as it was my first selection.

The shrimp was like just about any fried shrimp at any budget restaurant. Harmlessly unremarkable.

The riblets with the sweet Asian chili (oddly spelled Chile on their page) sauce were reminiscent of warm, gooey, teriyaki-ish beef jerky.

The fries reminded me of the awful fries from my high school cafeteria. The coleslaw was inoffensively bland.

I was not expecting fine dining. I was not even expecting it to be better than middle of the road. I set the bar low and Applebees valiantly slid cleanly underneath it. I said to myself "It's only $15, how disappointed can I be?". Well friends, the answer is "very".

The poster above who said that Golden Corral is a better idea is spot on. The price is about the same and the quality and variety of the food is an order of magnitude better. And Golden Corral is not great food by any stretch of the imagination.

Don't do it. Spent that $15 elsewhere.
I suppose the upside is that's it's only gone up a dollar in two years.
Last edited by abstractedpudding May 11, 2026 at 02:39 PM.
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Quote from alokkola View quoted comment :
Had it been bone-in wings, I would have been all over it. Boneless wings are just oversized nuggets.
Just as tasty with dipping sauce though

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May 11, 2026 9:39 PM
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Quote from dxxvi View quoted comment :
I guess that they'll let you wait for about 1 hour between the 1st round and the 2nd round of unlimited wings and they'll give you 5 wings each round.
if you ask to sit near the kitchen, then you can request more all you can when your server passes by to get into or out of the kitchen.
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May 11, 2026 10:05 PM
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MegaMaidMay 11, 2026 10:05 PM
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Maybe if it included bottomless chocolate shakes.
May 11, 2026 10:19 PM
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DrumminD21311May 11, 2026 10:19 PM
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Train as a competitive eater then go.
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May 11, 2026 11:10 PM
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EdbmsmMay 11, 2026 11:10 PM
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Quote from TomH2437 View quoted comment :
just went there Saturday. the wings give me fire sh.ts the next day but i like them
Everyone needs a super-power they like.
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May 11, 2026 11:14 PM
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ZalupashvilyMay 11, 2026 11:14 PM
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Unlimited microwave food
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May 11, 2026 11:15 PM
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long_time_lurke
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May 11, 2026 11:15 PM
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does it come with Imodium?
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EdbmsmMay 11, 2026 11:24 PM
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Quote from Friedsushi87 View quoted comment :
Applebee's is just microwave food. They don't cook anything there. Everything is frozen And precooked and just warmed in a microwave. Their steaks have char marks pressed into them and then warmed.
Kinda. The "anything" statement made me curious, cuz there are commercial combo microwave/convection/air-fry ovens that run a sequence for max speed from frozen-to-plate, but this article seems to be the middle truth:

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/a...00725.html
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May 12, 2026 1:45 AM
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SiennaFang8851May 12, 2026 1:45 AM
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Wouldve tried this, but not a single restaurant near my stretch of the tri-state

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