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The Honey Baked Ham Reviews Summary

Positive Highlights

  • The ham is frequently described as tasting good.
  • The Tavern Club sandwich was praised as great by one reviewer.

Negative Highlights

  • Prices are considered high and not worth the value by multiple reviewers.
  • Customer service was unhelpful and refused to honor coupons or resolve delivery issues.
  • Meal portions have shrunk, with sides like potato salad described as bland.
This summary is generated by AI, based on customer reviews from the past year

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Dec 22, 2025

Went online to look for yearly coupons. None unless you spend a 100 dollars. Went to their Huntsville store and asked for the smallest ham. It was 7.3 pounds and cost a whopping 88 dollars. Paid and then my wife asked about coupons. They had one for 7 dollars off but didn't honor it because we just paid. This came from the so called manager. I have a high income but won't return because of the price gouging. Not worth it. A poor value. The hand taste good but are unhealthy and severely overpriced. The stores want to overcharge as a fair profit isn't good enough.

Nov 26, 2025

This company has literally denied my mother what may be her last Thanksgiving meal and they don't care. My mother is battling cancer. Thanksgiving Day is also her 74th Birthday. With her cancer it may be her last Thanksgiving. I ordered a full honey baked ham meal with sides and desserts to be shipped as she is not well enough to cook. A portion of the ordered arrived. A cake and a few of the sides. I called "customer service" and was told there was nothing they could do. Even with a store 20 minutes away, they could not figure out a way to get a ham on a dying woman's table for Thanksgiving. Despicable. Honey Baked has been a part of our family's holidays for decades. NEVER again will I give a dime to such a heartless company.

Nov 26, 2025

Visited the Honey Baked Ham at Southridge in South Charleston WV for the first time in about three years. I ordered the meal and was very disappointed considering the price. The Tavern Club was great. I ordered it with Swiss instead of Cheddar but, that was the only thing that was good. It use to be when you ordered a meal it came in a box with your sandwich, side, a pickle, and a cookie. Apparently you no longer get the pickle and cookie. The Tavern Club was really good but the potato salad was bland and tasteless, no seasoning of any kind, not even salt. They were very limited on choice of soft drinks also. Considering I paid $16 and change for this thing the value of the meal is just not worth the price for a sandwich with a couple slices of meat with tomato and lettuce. I more than likely will not be back.

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North Carolina
1 review
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Not worth the money
December 23, 2023

Over rated. I could have bought 70 lbs of ham for the price I paid for a 4.5lb. Never again. Just made someone else rich! :(

Date of experience: December 23, 2023
Montana
1 review
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Horrific service on lost product
December 22, 2023

Ordered a full ham and sides for a Christmas Eve family dinner. It did not show up. Company did not call to inform they messed up and lost the ham. Refused to provide a full refund. I have no need for a $60 side without the ham. Company charged full amount for side and shipping. Customer service was rude and terrible. Will never use this company again.

Date of experience: December 22, 2023
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Ohio
83 reviews
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Not worth the money.
December 21, 2023

I hate to say it but Honey Baked Hams are a waste of money.

Very expensive and by the time I get 1/2 way thru it….its nothing but hard meat and fat.

I don't expect a ham to be spiral sliced 100% of the way but over the years past, the slicing only makes it about 1/2 way. The glaze comes off in chunks and is only good to eat like candy by itself.

We end up throwing 1/2 of the ham in the trash along with a 3 pound useless bone.

Date of experience: December 21, 2023
California
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Another tradition ruined
December 10, 2023

Since Corp took over and ran out the neighborhood owners, I won't ever go there again. The cheesy potatoes, now replaced with a frozen version was disgusting. Potato's cooked in a milky water with a sprinkle of cheese in the center. The ham was semi frozen, even though I purchase it "Fresh" at their store.
With the clubs now offering fresh sides at a fraction of the cost and selling spiral cut hams with the same glaze, I think Honey Baked will be out of business soon!

Date of experience: December 9, 2023
Florida
1 review
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Scam- gift cards- don't buy!
November 25, 2023

I bought gift cards from raise.com in order to treat my family to a honey baked ham. When ordering on the website, they removed the company coupon saying you can't use discounted gift cards and a coupon. This should be illegal. Someone paid full price for the gift card…and honey baked is getting the full gift card value. There's no reason to cheat people out of a discount. This is just flat out greed. I will never purchase from them again. So honeybaked if you can't do the math, cheating me out of $51 one year will cost you business for decades…and I will tell as many people as I can.

Date of experience: November 25, 2023
Florida
1 review
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Honey bake ham?
November 25, 2023

We bought a honey bake ham for Thanksgiving and it was the worst we have ever bought. We will buy from Publix for 1/3 the price of honey bake ham.

Date of experience: November 24, 2023
Michigan
1 review
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Did NOT get my order despite spending $90 on shipping
November 23, 2023

Here it is Thanksgiving Day and I have NO food. I ordered a week ago and never received my order. I will NEVER use this service again and recommend everyone else do the same.

Date of experience: November 23, 2023
Texas
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Wish I could rate it Zero!
November 23, 2023

More than a month ago, I ordered the largest size ham for Thanksgiving (tomorrow). I called customer service a few days ago to confirm my order. I was assured the ham would be delivered today. Using the tracking number, I checked on it late this afternoon and was shocked to find it hasn't shipped! I called customer service, and horrible service! I was told it might be delivered Friday, but Thanksgiving with more than 20 in our group is tomorrow, not Friday! If you need a ham for a holiday meal, don't count on it! I will never use this company again!

Date of experience: November 22, 2023
California
1 review
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Ran out of my order.
November 22, 2023

I ordered Yam souffle and when I went to pick it up I was told they were out. I said, but I ordered and you charged my card. They asked if I would like a substitute and I said no, that I would have ordered something else if I didn't want the yam souffle. She then said that they have no idea how many of any product will be sold, that they do not set aside online orders. It appears that this is a first come first serve. Kinda like the Seinfeld episode about reserving a rental car. "You know how to take the reservation but cannot hold the reservation." Learn something every day, won't use Honey Baked Ham any more.

Date of experience: November 21, 2023
Georgia
2 reviews
12 helpful votes
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I opened up a box of broccoli casserole and found that it was almost halfway filled. It's missing half of the ingredients
But they sure got what they charge for it.
This will be the last year I will ever purchased from them.

Date of experience: November 21, 2023
California
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Impossible to pay for the order.
November 8, 2023

Went to the physical location in Northridge to ask questions about heating, sides, etc.

Reserved a ham and 4 sides for TGiving on 11/8/23 but was told I could not prepay for the order except online. Went online, couldn't find my order and called the main number and was told I had to use the Northridge store website to pay. Went to the Northridge site and again had difficulty finding where to pay, even with my two confirmation numbers. Called the store, was told I could not prepay online after all, that I could pay when I picked up the order at the store, despite being told at the store that they didn't take payments at the store (I spoke to a woman who was probably a recent hire.) Ridiculous procedures, I will happily find a ham at a nearby store. Too bad, as this was $150 order and we have frequent parties of 40 or more.

Date of experience: November 8, 2023
Georgia
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Dog food!
October 5, 2023

What ever happened to the ham salad? Dry and tasteless! And the ham, dry as a bone. Hardly any topping. $114 and threw it in the garbage. Never going back! I had to pick 1 star but it really deserves no star.

Date of experience: October 5, 2023
New York
4 reviews
11 helpful votes
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What once was best now is YUK!
August 29, 2023

I had been going to HBH for several years, since it's around the corner from our home. We used to love the sandwiches for lunch on Saturdays. Could never go on Sundays because they are closed. I used to look forward to the Ham Classic sandwich. I always ordered mine without mayo, Cheddar instead of Swiss cheese.
I have noticed the quality of the ham has been going downhill more and more.Can barely even chew it anymore.
A few weeks ago, we went for a BOGO deal. Ordered the Ham Classic, same as always. My husband ordered the Tavern Club. We brought the sandwiches home to eat outdoors. Mine had no honey mustard. Dried up, tough ham. Very stale croissant. My husband's had no cheese, no honey mustard. The bread was very stale. The turkey tasted lousy.
The manager came out from the back to ask if we could give a good review to the new girl at the register. Heck no! You have to earn and deserve a good review.
After reading some of the reviews here, I don't ever want to buy food from HBH again! I'm afraid to.

Date of experience: August 29, 2023
Florida
1 review
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HBH Tallahassee
July 21, 2023

If you like ice cold ham salad made the day before on a sandwich, then HBH Tallahassee is the place for you. Won't go back.

Date of experience: July 21, 2023
Tennessee
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Not happy with the out come
April 20, 2023

Hello i place an order for a luncheon the assorted box sandwiches. I entered instruction for how many of each sandwich i wanted. When i received the order it wasn't correct. I call ez cater who call Honey Baked ham. I was told they didn't see the instruction and it wasn't in the correct place. We spent $350.00 and i couldn't get i apology for the mistake. If i wanted a correction it was going to cost another almost a hundred dollars.
I was very disappointed and we won't order from them again. The customer didn't matter in this case.
Your ezCater order #H801HY from Honey Baked Ham on 04/20/2023 has been placed.

Disappointed Dee

Date of experience: April 20, 2023
Texas
1 review
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8lb ham for $90
April 10, 2023

This used to be the best ham you could buy, the usually glazed outside is sweet, my ham was black and very smoky tasting. The out side which is usually my fav was very hard and inedible. Sadly in trash, thank goodness there were a lot of great sides. I found location and service to be very good, but at the cost, I will go to Costco for my next ham.

Date of experience: April 9, 2023
Tennessee
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Rude
April 6, 2023

I thought of HBH as high quality with good service. I called for a lunch order, and the response was "WE DON'T DO LUNCH." It was a HBH store, I thought they did. I wanted it delivered to a business right next door to their store and they said in a, you're so stupid tone, "YOU HAVE TO COME AND GET IT, WE DON'T DELIVER." Yikes, never talking to a HBH store employee again.

Date of experience: April 6, 2023
New Jersey
1 review
4 helpful votes
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I received half size ham I ordered
April 5, 2023

My wife and I are life long customers. My wife who is a paraplegic looks forward to eating your ham at least twice per year. This year instead of going to the store to pick up the ham, I ordered online to receive 4.5 lb ham instead of a 8 or 9 lb and they sent me few extra sides I didn't order…why couldn't they call me or reduce the cost of my order? My wife is in a hospital bed which I am trying to maintain on social security income and working part time at Dollar General. I called your customer service number 3 times today and was hung up each time. I texted but no response back

Date of experience: April 5, 2023
Nevada
2 reviews
1 helpful vote
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Their food made me sick.
March 16, 2023

I purchased over $200 of food for Christmas and Super Bowl. I was sick for 2 weeks after Christmas and again after the Super Bowl. We had the brisket for Super Bowl. It smelled funny. I thought it was the BBQ sauce. We could not eat it. It was spoiled. No wonder it was half price. I'm glad I saved some for testing. I also saved the wrapping. Should I send it to the FDA?

I called their customer service number and was treated extremely rudely. After about an hour on the phone, I was told to call another number. That number was not in service. When I call back, I was asked the same questions again, another hour or so on the phone & told to call one of two numbers. One was disconnected.

I called the second number I was told they had me in the system and someone would call me back. That was 3 weeks ago and no call. I was on these calls over 3 hours. I was sick for over 2 ½ weeks. I was on the phone for over 3 hours. No calls nothing.

I have been buying there hams for about 20 years & lately I've noticed the quality has been going downhill. My next ham is coming from Costco. NOT Honey Baked.

Date of experience: March 16, 2023
Louisiana
1 review
2 helpful votes
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HORRIBLE HAM SALAD‼
January 3, 2023

Those "NEW" ham salad recipe Ian HORRIBLE The pickles makes it extremely salty! We ordered some for a charcuterie board... That was the worse mistake I made! GO BACK TO THE OLD RECIPE ASAP‼ FIRE THE PERSON WHO CAME UP WITH THAT NEW RECIPE

Date of experience: January 3, 2023