re: How awful are “mom and pop” restaurant snobs?

Nobody said anything about chefs, bro.

Sysco delivers food. Just like Ben E Keith, PFG, US Foods, McLane, etc.

I’ll tell you a secret…. Chili’s uses a distributor, Ruth’s Chris used a distributor, and your local mom and pop use a distributor. They deliver produce, bread, dairy, meat, dry goods, paper goods, janitorial goods, etc.

Your beef is with processors, not distributors. Cajun a la carte is a local mom and pop company. They make premade meals, sauces, etc. for restaurants. The fact that posters like you keep implying that a restaurant that buys food from Sysco is a cheap chain is ridiculous.

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Hating on chain restaurants became the cool thing to do. Admitting that a meal at Applebees is enjoyable allegedly makes you unrefined swine.

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Maybe people hate on Applebees because their food is shite and the atmosphere is depression inducing.

Now Olive Garden, i like some of their food, but i do not want to eat there again. Mama Bella's has a charm and with those mom and pop's, it's made on the spot. They make their sauce in house. They don't have a central manufacturing plant to mass produce red sauce, can it, pasteurize it, then ship it across the US.

Fresh tastes better. If you like generic chains, then good on you.

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Pizza Hut

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This is not a troll.

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As bad as the craft beer snobs

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Yeah, all those losers drinking beer made with the focus on flavor/aroma. What a bunch of nerds. Give me yellow liquid that tastes mostly like water, made with filler material (rice) over german or locally grown barley.

If flavor isn't a concern for you when consuming beer, then i'd also assume flavor is not a concern when you eat food, which may be why you support the poster praising applebees.

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Local places are great…until they open restaurants they have no business opening and charge prices like they are experts. Look at this fricking ‘sushi’ menu.

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Surely thats not in USD...what the actual frick. This would never happen because I always check out the menu before going somewhere new, but I would immediately get up and walk out and let someone know THAT is the reason why. Pretentious assholes.

Sorry but ill take more whole foods with less preservatives prepared fresh and with wholesome raw ingredients over prefabbed, mass produced, microwaved and left under a warmer food every time. Can't actually tell you when or where the last time we had a chain meal. Even in the biggest rush you can always find something better than those places. Period. Its more about health and giving a crap what you put in your body. Crazy as it sounds, we still cook from basic ingredients most nights and weekends. Like most Louisiana folks we hunt, fish, raise cattle to sale and or buy a butcher steer, eggs and chickens out near the barn and we snag a pig, sheep here and there for little of nothing. It way cheaper than any processed injected and over medicated meat you're buying at a store not to mention just better. We raised 2 steers this Nov-Mar. Sent to slaughter house between 800-900lbs each.....and final all in price from feed to vacuum packed was $ 2.12 a lb You can't catch enough sale prices to beat that.

Airport Chili's is pretty much the only time I get to have Chili's, and my friends make fun of how excited I get when it is in our terminal.

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This is not a troll.

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Sure sure

I’d happily pay for lightly sauced quality raw fish. My wife and I went to Toro last night, lol. I wanna go back and get the hot chicken…with a few friends.

My comment was that they don’t have any raw fish inspired dishes or nigiri or sashimi or really any raw seafood besides tuna. Literally a sushi joint only tuna.

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My comment was that they don’t have any raw fish inspired dishes or nigiri or sashimi or really any raw seafood besides tuna. Literally a sushi joint only tuna.

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And it doesn’t even appear clear from the menu that they offer it in the variety of their namesake.