Sonny’s BBQ
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First Bad Experience With Sonny's :(. Now my husband and I have been avid Sonny's customers for decades and have enjoyed their awesome smokey barbecue…
Linda Stuart White
Sonny’s BBQ
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First Bad Experience With Sonny’s :(. Now my husband and I have been avid Sonny’s customers for decades and have enjoyed their awesome smokey barbecue chicken, ribs and pulled pork. However, when we dined at this Ocala location over the weekend, we encountered our first disappointment with this chain.First let me say that the pulled pork platter I ordered was okay. The pulled pork was tender and already sweet so it didn’t need any of the assorted sauces that were on the table. My husband had a taste of it and said that it was cold. (Although it was not piping hot, I didn’t think it was cold..) The sides of cole slaw and garlic bread were adequate. The baked beans, however, tasted like they had been sitting around for a while.The main problem was with the bbq chicken that my husband ordered. Normally when we order chicken at a Sonny’s restaurant, it comes out dark, smokey and fully cooked to the bone. At this location, the chicken was barely a golden color and when my husband cut into it, it was blood red near the bone. It also didn’t have that smokey flavor that one usually associates with Sonny’s. It almost tasted like it was baked in an oven. Our server told us that it was red because it was smoked. We didn’t buy that for a minute but she had such a pleasant tableside manner that we just gave her a pass on the issue.Oddly enough, we overheard a customer behind us tell our waitress that she also had to send a dish back on a previous visit because it was not done enough to her liking. That should have given us a clue. I have contacted Sonny’s and made them aware of our experience in the hopes that the kitchen will improve. As for the service, it was flawless. At least the front of the house is in good order.UPDATE: An HR rep from the company which now owns the Sonny’s franchises contact me and was very concerned about our experience. She asked a lot of questions and seemed sincere about correcting the problems. So there might be hope for this particular location yet!