Hershey Farm Restaurant and Inn
240 Hartman Bridge Rd, Ronks, PA, 17572
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Address :
240 Hartman Bridge Rd
Ronks, PA, 17572 - Phone (800) 827-8635
- Website https://www.hersheyfarm.com/
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Specialities
- Takes Reservations : Yes
Delivery : No
Take-out : No
Accepts Credit Cards : Yes
Good For : Breakfast, Brunch
Parking : Private Lot
Bike Parking : Yes
Wheelchair Accessible : Yes
Good for Kids : Yes
Good for Groups : Yes
Attire : Casual
Ambience : Casual, Touristy
Noise Level : Average
Alcohol : No
Outdoor Seating : No
Wi-Fi : No
Has TV : No
Waiter Service : Yes
Caters : Yes
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Christopher C.
(We didn't stay at the Inn, just grazed at the Grand Smorgasbord.) Hershey Farm is kind of like a little brother or a fourth cousin eight times removed to the big boy powerhouse smorgs in the area of Millers and Shady Maple (moment of silence along with reverential bowing of the head). All of them have the same basic premise of tons of food along with gift shop/bakeries and other things to try and jingle every last coin out of your pocket before you leave. Let's start with the gift shop. Millers is small but it's well stocked, clean and organized. SM is bloated to the max with every possible piece of Chinese plastic you could ever hope to find and the place is mind boggling in terms of its size. Hershey Farm on the other hand reminds me more of walking into a flea market or a Goodwill in that it smells musty and looks like nothing has changed in forty years including everything from the items of the shelves down to the staff. Worth noting here is the bizarre reservation policy/practice that they use. We attempted about two hours before we got there to call ahead for a reservation time but we were told that they were full for reservations that morning but if we wanted to walk in the wait shouldn't be more than twenty minutes. OK, so we get there and a few people are hanging around in the lobby area waiting to get seated but not twenty minutes worth yet all I hear is the hostess calling out names for people on their reservation/wait list yet out of the ten names she called maybe one party was actually there ready to get seated. Because of that we moved from maybe number twelve on the list to number two in a matter of four or five minutes. #Winning As for Grand Smorg, it's on the smaller side as in I would hate to be here when the place is packed during summer because the lines must be real SOB's to have to navigate/wait in but the food quality is very much there. This stuff is far closer to the homemade-ish ness of Millers versus the hospital cafeteria from a can stuff over at Maple (don't forget that quantity is not quality). The guy working the omelet station knew his stuff! His omelets were nicely done, a very generous size and had more filling options than I expected. Between the french toast, sticky buns, ham, sausages, home fries and biscuits all was good. If I have to pick nits, and I do, the bacon was very much under done like it was still squealing and the baked oatmeal had the consistency of dirt but they had the ice cream machine on so that added a great ending to a surprisingly good gorge. Past all that the service from our drink refiller/plate schlepper was great and of course it goes without saying that when the kids eat free in terms of pricing that will get another star out of me any day.
(5)Hannah H.
The Hershey Farm Restaurant and Inn offers a sit-down/AYCE buffet of PA Dutch cooking, a bakery that offers pies and breads, outdoor markets, boutiques, lodging accommodations at their Inn, a little mini farm with goats and chickens at the front, and is also the main site of their annual Whoopie Pie Festival in September. They have some parking on the premise, and the folks here are pretty friendly! +little farm of chickens and goats :D +site of the annual Whoopie Pie Festival +some parking on the premise
(4)Adam H.
I'd really like to give this place more than two stars -- and I'd likely stay at the Inn again in the future. Let me explain. The Inn (3 stars) The folks at the Hershey Inn -- and I mean everyone who wears the uniform -- are as polite and accommodating as can be. Everyone greets you and genuinely seems to hope that you are enjoying your time there. The rooms (in the Carriage House section) aren't so accommodating, or at least they weren't what I expected. Sure, there is a refrigerator, microwave, work desk and comfortable bed in every room. And the housekeeping folks know what they're doing. But I've had more room in an RV. And I've had better water pressure from a dry well. The good: Clean rooms. Excellent housekeeping. Manicured grounds that are far enough from the highway that you can get some peace and quiet. Polite staff. Air conditioners that work like a dream. Nice flat-screen TVs. An arrogant turkey who wanders around in a fenced area near the rooms. The bad: Poorly laid out rooms with no place to plug in a USB charger (c'mon folks, it's 2015) and electric outlets that require an acrobatic feat to reach. Toilets that were built for Munchkins (I'm only 45, but getting up off that toilet was like trying to do situps). No ironing board/iron in the room (had to request it). Water pressure in the shower is akin to poking holes in a can and letting gravity do the rest of the work. And finally, there are two large trash Dumpsters facing the end section of the guest quarters. The management here goes all out to display their hanging baskets everywhere (all of them for sale), place comfortable benches beneath shady trees with the view of a meadow and pond. Then, there's those bright blue oft-filled Dumpsters. Hmmm. The Restaurant (1 star) First things first. I'm in the minority here because this place is packed to the gills at all times. So be it. The service: Albeit polite, the hostess (manager?) is not personable. She works her butt off and can constantly be seen giving orders as she chomps on her gum. I prefer a friendlier host ... especially in a venue such as this. Her demeanor is more appropriate for working airport security. Our servers on the other hand were always friendly and helpful. Period. The food: Keep in mind that I'm a bit of an aspiring food snob. Though this place bills itself as a smorgasbord, I still expect quality. I experienced quality in some areas and total failures in others. The good: The grill (for breakfast and lunch) is the spot to get your most freshly cooked options. Just keep in mind that they are line cooks -- not chefs -- and your over-medium egg might as well be called over-easy. Not a deal breaker though. -- There are some food items that hold well under heat than others. Bacon, sausage, potatoes and even the creamed chipped beef held up well over the burners. The available fruit, oatmeal and other bread items also held up well. On the lunch/dinner side of things, there are plenty of vegetables and meat dishes (I was particularly fond of the ham balls). The bad: Of all the meat dishes on the lunch/dinner smorgasbord, only the ham balls were tender and fresh tasting. The pot roast had the consistency of beef jerky (no exaggeration); the baked fish was way overcooked; the fried chicken (supposedly the specialty of the house) tasted like someone cooked it and placed it under a warmer for a few hours. Also, being from the South, I can tell you that there's superior fried chicken at about 8,000 restaurants elsewhere. Finally, and this is the thing that bothered me the most, there was no scrapple on the weekday breakfast menu. This place advertises scrapple in more than one medium, but it wasn't to be seen until Sunday morning. And the scrapple itself was among the most overcooked (looked like brownies) and oversalted concoction that I've ever had the displeasure of sampling. A complete fail. Remember those Dumpsters I told you about? Well, on Saturday morning they were overflowing with trash -- mostly containers of all the pre-prepared and canned food served on the smorgasbord. I understand the need to go to cans and other foods when you're serving in such bulk, and I guess my sights were set way too high to expect a restaurant that was better than your average school cafeteria. But, alas... They serve the same foods to their patrons. Except this place charges you an arm and a leg for it so that you can gorge on it. If there's a next time, I'm taking a 10 minute drive to civilization and eating at a mom & pop place.
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