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sbr2
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| re: Best and worse national casual dining chains. (Posted on 1/28/13 at 11:15 pm to islandtiger)
Best: Outback
Worst: Olive Garden
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Walter White 
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| re: Best and worse national casual dining chains. (Posted on 1/28/13 at 11:18 pm to Paul Allen)
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Houston's
the one in nola sucks balls compared to the two in atlanta
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DanglingFury 
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Member since Dec 2007
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| re: Best and worse national casual dining chains. (Posted on 1/28/13 at 11:21 pm to mouton)
Best:
Bonefish
PF Chang's
J. Alexander's
Worst:
Applebee's
Ruby Tuesday's
Joe's Crab Shack
This post was edited on 1/28 at 11:24 pm
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jmarto1
LSU Fan
Houma, LA
Member since Mar 2008
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| re: Best and worse national casual dining chains. (Posted on 1/28/13 at 11:51 pm to DanglingFury)
This thread really shows what management can do for a restaurant. Honestly, I would love to stand up and call out a lot of stores in our chain at our national convention. My store does a pretty good overall job and when I see some of the way our other stores are ran I feel like I am fighting an uphill battle.
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la_birdman
LSU Fan
Lake Charles
Member since Feb 2005
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| re: Best and worse national casual dining chains. (Posted on 1/29/13 at 12:27 am to mouton)
Best: Chili's isn't bad (although they have started giving the gravy in those little plastic cups that salad dressing comes in, so that bugs me)
Texas Roadhouse is decent.
Piccadilly. (Yes, I said it!)
Worst: Can't really say O'Charley's, only ate there a couple times but they did take my fav. (french dip sandwich) off the menu and you HAD to have the au jus with it. Without it, it was pretty bland.
Olive Garden
There's not much to pick from here in Lake Charles.
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Sl4m
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| re: Best and worse national casual dining chains. (Posted on 1/29/13 at 1:10 am to la_birdman)
Best: Texas De Brazil
Worst: Outback Steakhouse
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LouisianaLady 
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Baton Rouge, LA
Member since Mar 2009
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| re: Best and worse national casual dining chains. (Posted on 1/29/13 at 1:13 am to jmarto1)
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My store does a pretty good overall job
Am I out of the loop? What is "your store" ?
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glassman
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| re: Best and worse national casual dining chains. (Posted on 1/29/13 at 1:18 am to LouisianaLady)
HOOTERS!!!!!!!!!!!!! In Houma.
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tween the hedges 
Georgia Fan
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| re: Best and worse national casual dining chains. (Posted on 1/29/13 at 1:59 am to glassman)
Just so all the people discussion Chili's queso know, if you go on their website and sign up for their email list(which they don't verify) you'll get a coupon for free chips and queso. We used to do it every time we went.
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The Future 
Iowa State Fan
Smallville, KS
Member since Oct 2009
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| re: Best and worse national casual dining chains. (Posted on 1/29/13 at 5:10 am to mouton)
I'll vote for red lobster biscuits
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yellowfin 
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| re: Best and worse national casual dining chains. (Posted on 1/29/13 at 7:30 am to BengalBen)
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I really enjoy your posts, but you've got to take back your comments on Houston's! It may have something to do with the location, but the location on The Plaza in KC is awesome. The French dip is hands down the best sandwich ever.....not called a poboy.
The one is New Orleans is the only one I've ever eaten at and it's been a long time....pretty sure it's been close for 10 years now
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yellowfin
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| re: Best and worse national casual dining chains. (Posted on 1/29/13 at 7:32 am to nikinik)
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Coyote Blues
3 locations?
national chain?
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TigerHam85 
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Waimea Bay, HI
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| re: Best and worse national casual dining chains. (Posted on 1/29/13 at 7:35 am to yellowfin)
There's only 3 locations?
Damn. Now I don't feel bad about going there instead of fat pats.
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Walter White
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Jigga City
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| re: Best and worse national casual dining chains. (Posted on 1/29/13 at 7:36 am to TigerHam85)
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fat pats
mile high burger 
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TigerHam85
Hawaii Fan
Waimea Bay, HI
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| re: Best and worse national casual dining chains. (Posted on 1/29/13 at 7:39 am to Walter White)
Don't forget about the mile high dog.
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nikinik
LSU Fan
Mid City
Member since Jan 2009
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| re: Best and worse national casual dining chains. (Posted on 1/29/13 at 7:46 am to TigerHam85)
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There's only 3 locations?
There are 5 locations. 4 in Louisiana and 1 in Tennessee.
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Walter White
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Jigga City
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| re: Best and worse national casual dining chains. (Posted on 1/29/13 at 7:49 am to TigerHam85)
i haven't tried the newer location, which is closer to my house...is it any good? or should i just stick with the original?
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bdevill
LSU Fan
Baton Rouge, LA
Member since Mar 2008
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| re: Best and worse national casual dining chains. (Posted on 1/29/13 at 8:19 am to Walter White)
Haven't seen Jason's Deli mentioned yet. IMHO this is a very good chain. The sandwiches are consistently good and the seafood gumbo (believe it or not) is also very good.
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Walter White
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| re: Best and worse national casual dining chains. (Posted on 1/29/13 at 8:23 am to bdevill)
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Jason's Deli
santa fe chicken sandwich 
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alajones
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| re: Best and worse national casual dining chains. (Posted on 1/29/13 at 9:54 am to bdevill)
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Haven't seen Jason's Deli mentioned yet. IMHO this is a very good chain. The sandwiches are consistently good and the seafood gumbo (believe it or not) is also very good.
I agree with all of this. In 08, we had a tree hit our house and had to stay in a hotel for a few months. We lived at Jason's Deli.
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