text: I have eaten here a number of times, & a while back this place was pulling 4-Stars & everything was fine, but lately it has really been going down the drain.  Today, for instance, Mike C. & I stopped in for lunch.  You pay first, & then when I went to set my table place there were no teaspoons.  I entered the kitchen are & asked for one, which led to the manager telling me that they don't have them anymore because he tried to order some on the Internet & got tablespoons instead!  (Why wasn't he correcting the problem 2 minutes later, whenever that was??)  Fine, so I'll get along without, & just go get some salad.\n\nNo, I won't go get any salad.  The spot where the lettuce serving tray belongs is empty...  not even an empty tray, but just some ice down in the hole there!  Back in the kitchen, I ask for some lettuce to have a salad.  This leads to the manager bringing out a bowl of lettuce & a tray, & pouring the lettuce into the tray.\n\nAlong with my salad, I'll have some cottage cheese & a little of the seafood salad they always have.  Well, no, I won't.  They don't have either one any more.  In fact, there is little of anything on the serving table that used to always have a big bowl of the seafood salad, one of Hometown's signature dishes.\n\nThe rest of the food was weak, too.  Dishes overcooked, empty serving trays, watered down tasting soft serve ice cream, blah Lava Cake, & so on.  I have eaten at Hometown all over the country many, many times & I know exactly how they are usually run & exactly what most of the food is supposed to taste like!  They need a new manager here who will bring this big restaurant back up to the excellent place it used to be!     :-(