Busy Bee Café

This place is blatantly RACIST. Sickenly so. * * Did we miss the sign "no Blacks served"? Sure seemed like it! The food came with a huge black hair on the yellow, scrambled eggs. It could be seen 10 feet away. Older waitress, including 2 others coalesced in the kitchen, looked out and laughed, staring at my African American Black friend. A Citizen of the USA. An American. She didn't eat and waited. Finally the old white Waitress "offered" to replace the food, but clearly wanted her to leave. Seems it was their strategy from the start. Not only was the servers rude, but the general atmosphere is a bunch of older white people. Who have nothing better than to be nosy and stare. If you know anything about politics, you already know the demographic at this old dingy place. Truly shameful and deeply disrespectful place. To openly, mock and laugh to seemingly provide contaminated food...to get a paying customer to leave?? Who knows what else they've done to other customers over the decades... So, we left hungry - upset woman in tears - and Busy Bee-lined it to @@ The Pump café, @@ also on Main Street. It was pleasant, nonjudgmental, good service, nice customers, and fantastic food. After all the stress, my lady ordered a mimosa to calm her nerves. An excellent $80 breakfast and worth every dollar. Big tip of course! Anecdote: End of the day we realized that those people are miserable every day, no matter how many times they go to church to repent, have no clue what it means to love your brother and sister. Never mind common decency, and respect. While they are being paid on the job to serve others. Maybe I'll stop by in the near future to see if the owner did anything about it. She probably was the owner...🙄

I was waiting out the icing roads. Stopped in. Nice little diner! Good coffee! Had the biscuits and gravy with two slices of bacon. Very good! Fast friendly service! They were busy. I looked at other meals, the portions were good size!

A very good find for a quick weekend. No wait to sit, sat down with a refreshing cup of water. Food came out quick, hot and delicious. The staff was on it and very friendly. The chicken fried steak was perfect. Some of the best sausage gravy I've had, the steak was also super fresh. Only draw back were the potatoes, not that they weren't good, just not on the same level as all the rest. When I am back through Springfield, I will visit Busy Bee again.

My potatoes were not completely cooked, my eggs were to be tasted medium, they were medium well. The country fried steak was wonderful. Real meat not pressed. They asked if they could remake the eggs but it was too much food, but they did not charge me for extra gravy to take. Coffee was expensive for a diner.

Great meal for the price, my dog is going to love the leftovers. The sausage gravy is perfect, and the chicken fried steak seems to actually be hand made. I recommend to anyone. Service animal friendly, but make sure your animal actually is a Service animal. Nobody likes a disruptive dog while they eat.