re: Restaurants of a middle class family

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given what it is I always thought they had decent food, I took my first official date in hs to Pancho’s. $.79 each

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Dutch treat?

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The hour+ wait filled with families at Superior Grill on a regular basis says otherwise.

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Apparently your experience is not the rule:

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According to a February survey by the market research firm Datassential, 24 percent of Americans say they are having dinner at casual restaurants less often, and 29 percent are dining out less with groups of friends and family. Mr. Cox is a pollster by profession, the director of the Survey Center on American Life, and he wondered about the effects of the chain implosions. In his latest survey on social trust and cohesion, he was moved to add questions about how often people are not just ordering food from a restaurant, but actually sitting down to eat there. He expects to publish the results in May, but said recently, “I think what a lot of families are doing is opting out. That’s a real loss.” The diminishing of these spaces, along with the rise of more atomized eating habits like delivery apps and drive-throughs, signals the decline of a cherished ritual in American life: dining out with friends and family, and the human connection it brings.

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The liked article provides further info and data on traditional restaurant closures and decline. The trends nationally are pretty clear.

NYT: Where will we eat when the Middle Class restaurant is gone?

When I was a kid there was a restaurant called JC’s on Veterans Hwy. in Metairie not too far from my house.

Yeats.

I dig your style.

Tex mex places are a niche that have survived the post covid changes in dining. I notice a lot of mid-tier places absolutely empty outside of Friday and Saturday. That isn’t sustainable.

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I would sacrifice every poster on this board for one more trip to early 90s Panchos

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$2.99 for all you can eat at Panchos in Lafayette in the 90's. Now it cost $20 for a small marg at Superior and $70 for Fajitas. Man we got fricked in every category in today's society.

I have fond memories of Western Sizzlin's

And an Italian restaurant next to Eckard's...blanking on the name

Then Berthelot's on the river

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There's a Pasquale's in Laurel, Ms that opened in 1969.

I believe someone posted on here a few years ago that that one had closed

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No, it is still open

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all sorts of good news in this thread

Can't remember the name for sure (Murrell's?), but there was one a mile or so from the front gate at Barksdale in Bossier City during the 90's and one near Centenary. Was a meat and 3 type.

Aunt Jenny's in Ocean Springs was legit too.

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hour+ wait filled with families at Superior Grill on a regular basis says otherwise.

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no one goes there any more, it is too crowded

We have fewer chains and plenty of local places. All are affordable if you skip the alcohol and even more so if you skip the 3 buck tea or soda.


We grab Tex mex, Chinese, Greek or if we go to a chain it is Roadhouse or walk ons.