PrairieBistro and Java Creek Cafe, Cedar Rapids IA

If you want a great dining experience, this place is not for you. We literally entered the restaurant to the sound of a “hmph” from the waitress at 8 am. Basically was sad she had customers. We then were asking about what they had to eat and got the answer “we got some food”. They did not have chicken, did not have cheese, did not ingredients to make any single item on their menu. We waited patiently for the food (took 30 mins as the only customers in the store) and also got coffee while we waited. We asked for creamer and go figure, they did not have creamer. We were told they would get it and 20 mins later we still had not gotten it. So the waitress being innovative decided to grab a random jug of milk from the back to let us use that in place of creamer (found it hilarious how they mentioned how people need creamer on the sign in the front). Then we had to use vouchers we got from the airport and to save a long painful story, math was very hard for her. Honestly not sure why this place bothered to open. If you are in a hurry you may be lucky enough to order a piece of bread. I will say, the food was actually decent when they managed to actually send the chef running around the airport to get the ingredients to make it.

Wish I could give 0 stars. Bought a 5 dollar hibiscus lemonade tea with no lemonade and no sweetener. The gal at the front told me that I had to "mix in the sugar" in my ICE COLD DRINK. There was a line to the elevator at 4am so she was annoyed while offering to remake it, which is understandable. But I was annoyed paying 5 dollars for something literally undrinkable. I just took a bottled pure leaf tea at 2x the price instead. Actually kind of upset right now. It's your only option at this airport though unfortunately, be very clear with what you want, just saying the order off the menu isn't enough