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How are traditional sit-down chain restaurants still in business?
Posted on 6/25/19 at 11:43 am
Posted on 6/25/19 at 11:43 am
Average to shitty sit-down chains like O'Charley's, Applebee's, TGI Friday's, Ruby Tuesday's, Chili's, etc... How are they still in business? They offer nothing as far as quality or price point.
Applebees and O'Charley's have re-branded maybe 3 or 4 times within the past decade with minimal success.
Ruby Tuesday's is plain awful.
Chili's is okay but why would I go there above a locally owned or specialty restaurant that could make better food at the same price?
Any time I pass by one of these places they're always completely empty. Are baby boomers keeping them open?
Applebees and O'Charley's have re-branded maybe 3 or 4 times within the past decade with minimal success.
Ruby Tuesday's is plain awful.
Chili's is okay but why would I go there above a locally owned or specialty restaurant that could make better food at the same price?
Any time I pass by one of these places they're always completely empty. Are baby boomers keeping them open?
Posted on 6/25/19 at 11:44 am to VolsOut4Harambe
quote:Not this one.
Are baby boomers keeping them open?
Posted on 6/25/19 at 11:44 am to VolsOut4Harambe
Trashy Soccer Board posters and Travel ball championship dinners
Posted on 6/25/19 at 11:44 am to VolsOut4Harambe
Because the average American can't think for themselves.
Posted on 6/25/19 at 11:45 am to VolsOut4Harambe
I flew out of Newark yesterday and my flight got delayed. They had this huge restaurant in the terminal with a ton of TVs and every table/bar chair had its own Ipad where you ordered from. You could customize everything in your order and was promptly brought out by a server. It kind of blew my mind and made me think that is where the food service business is headed.
Posted on 6/25/19 at 11:46 am to VolsOut4Harambe
Plenty of trashy people love that kind of crap.
The TGIFridays In Metairie must print money
The TGIFridays In Metairie must print money
Posted on 6/25/19 at 11:46 am to VolsOut4Harambe
Suburb dwelling boomers, white trash, and culcha.
Posted on 6/25/19 at 11:46 am to VolsOut4Harambe
TIL Ruby Tuesday's still exists
Posted on 6/25/19 at 11:46 am to VolsOut4Harambe
Uh, because my baby deserves a nice night out for our anniversary?
Posted on 6/25/19 at 11:46 am to VolsOut4Harambe
No idea, I haven’t eaten at any places like that in years.
Posted on 6/25/19 at 11:46 am to hubertcumberdale
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flew out of Newark
Thoughts and prayers.
Posted on 6/25/19 at 11:46 am to VolsOut4Harambe
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Chili's
Turrible
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Ruby Tuesday's
Their babybacks are decent
Posted on 6/25/19 at 11:46 am to VolsOut4Harambe
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Thoughts and prayers.
Was incredibly nice, one of the nicer airports I have been to.
Posted on 6/25/19 at 11:48 am to VolsOut4Harambe
Chili's is the new golf course, it's where business happens. Small Businessman Magazine.
Posted on 6/25/19 at 11:48 am to VolsOut4Harambe
Low quality food for low quality people
Posted on 6/25/19 at 11:48 am to VolsOut4Harambe
Because chili’s actually makes decent food. I have no idea how the others are still around except maybe location. I know the Applebee’s. Exit to the movie theater in my hometown is a ghost town during the day, but on weekend evenings and summer evenings is packed
This post was edited on 6/25/19 at 11:49 am
Posted on 6/25/19 at 11:49 am to VolsOut4Harambe
LINK
I remember the day it started. I think it was a Sunday afternoon in about 1961. I was standing in one of two long lines of people waiting for something exciting. Among those waiting with me and my parents were merchants, professional people, judges...it seemed the whole town had turned out for the opening of a new business: the Burger Chef, our first fast food franchise. Why were we there? I can only imagine the attraction was to the plastic and metal glitter of the place. The food was cheap, and there weren't many choices to make. Burgers, fries, and Cokes were fifteen cents each. The so-called "milk shakes" were twenty.
Until that day Vicksburg, like most Mississippi towns, had dozens of places to eat. They were all locally owned, and although they weren't exactly gourmet restaurants, they had their own charm. The burgers were usually about a quarter. If you wanted yours "sandwich style," it might cost another nickel or dime. This "sandwich style" thing seems to be a uniquely Vicksburgian burger idiom. Most outsiders assumed it must mean you got your burger on sliced bread. Who would want that? A burger comes on a bun. No, "sandwich style" meant it would be served with lettuce, tomato, and mayo as opposed to "regular," which came with mustard, pickle, and maybe onion. If you wanted your burger some other way, you probably weren't from around here.
But the local places served more than burgers. At places like The Glass Kitchen, Johnny's, The Beechwood, Jack's Village Inn, Tuminello's, Cassino's, The Old Southern Tea Room, Aunt Minnie's, Tasty Food, and Knapp's Pastry, you could find what passed for good Southern cooking. Some were drive-ins, some were full scale restaurants, some were what we called "cafes." But as the Sixties progressed, more and more fast food places sprung up to tempt us with their modern, predictable, paper-wrapped fare. We must have felt that because these places were just like the ones in big cities somewhere else, they must be somehow superior.
The face of our town changed. The face of all towns changed. The South became less Southern. Streets lined with fast-food logos look the same everywhere. Of the dozens of "cafes" and restaurants of my youth, only the Beechwood remains. You can still get a good burger there...probably even "sandwich style." It's more than a quarter, though
I remember the day it started. I think it was a Sunday afternoon in about 1961. I was standing in one of two long lines of people waiting for something exciting. Among those waiting with me and my parents were merchants, professional people, judges...it seemed the whole town had turned out for the opening of a new business: the Burger Chef, our first fast food franchise. Why were we there? I can only imagine the attraction was to the plastic and metal glitter of the place. The food was cheap, and there weren't many choices to make. Burgers, fries, and Cokes were fifteen cents each. The so-called "milk shakes" were twenty.
Until that day Vicksburg, like most Mississippi towns, had dozens of places to eat. They were all locally owned, and although they weren't exactly gourmet restaurants, they had their own charm. The burgers were usually about a quarter. If you wanted yours "sandwich style," it might cost another nickel or dime. This "sandwich style" thing seems to be a uniquely Vicksburgian burger idiom. Most outsiders assumed it must mean you got your burger on sliced bread. Who would want that? A burger comes on a bun. No, "sandwich style" meant it would be served with lettuce, tomato, and mayo as opposed to "regular," which came with mustard, pickle, and maybe onion. If you wanted your burger some other way, you probably weren't from around here.
But the local places served more than burgers. At places like The Glass Kitchen, Johnny's, The Beechwood, Jack's Village Inn, Tuminello's, Cassino's, The Old Southern Tea Room, Aunt Minnie's, Tasty Food, and Knapp's Pastry, you could find what passed for good Southern cooking. Some were drive-ins, some were full scale restaurants, some were what we called "cafes." But as the Sixties progressed, more and more fast food places sprung up to tempt us with their modern, predictable, paper-wrapped fare. We must have felt that because these places were just like the ones in big cities somewhere else, they must be somehow superior.
The face of our town changed. The face of all towns changed. The South became less Southern. Streets lined with fast-food logos look the same everywhere. Of the dozens of "cafes" and restaurants of my youth, only the Beechwood remains. You can still get a good burger there...probably even "sandwich style." It's more than a quarter, though
Posted on 6/25/19 at 11:49 am to VolsOut4Harambe
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Applebee's
50 boneless wings for $25 during football season
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TGI Friday's
endless apps $10
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Chili's
$1 margs
gfy loser
Posted on 6/25/19 at 11:49 am to VolsOut4Harambe
Name a restaurant besides Chile's with two happy hours every day lol
Posted on 6/25/19 at 11:50 am to VolsOut4Harambe
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VolsOut4Harambe
you have quickly ascended the ranks of my personal least favorite posters.
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