worst sounding sushi roll at guy fieri's southern bbq & california style sushi restaurant tex wasabi's

otm

does Sizzler even still exist? I guess Shakey's and Shoney's go in the same category, but they left my area long ago

Poor people don't eat.

because you're either from out of town

poor people don't eat at applebees

you're such a part of the suburban, homogeneous culture that chains seem natural

PONDEROSA

poor people eat, we just eat a lot of celery

You're damn skippy Sizzler exists. One of my best friends ate at one in San Francisco last weekend, shortly before I ordered a drone rocket assault on the Sizzler and his neighborhood.

i have a really tedious task to do this morning and full eps of the frug are a great accompaniment.

his cooking is really artless, like everything comes out messy and colorless and unappetizing.

hoo boy, firing up "the dishes of africa"

as i will never miss an opportunity to lament its passing, poor people ate here for their fine dining evenings out in my experience:

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people from rural communities visiting the "big city" (lol) regularly used to go to Red Lobster or Olive Garden as some sort of fancy treat. these days, Macaroni Grill has overtaken them, from what I hear

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like they're totally not going to kill you if they're your only option but if you're in new york or boston or miami or honolulu why the fuck would you go to a tgifridays?

I think for some it is a fear of the unknown -- why eat a restaurant where you don't know if the meal is going to be good or not vs. knowing exactly what you're going to get at tgifridays.

my best friend was in goddamned austin one time and he was texting me and i found out he was eating at a fucking chili's.

his cooking is really artless, like everything comes out messy and colorless and unappetizing.

eh I dunno. He made a pork roast that looked tasty and the right color and tantalized his catamite long enough to get him in bed with a piece of bread to cover his topas.

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i mean this was not surprising to me as he is about as suburban new jersey as they come, but still, smfh.

"the dishes of Africa" = Iman

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xp k maybe i'm just still traumatized from the breakfasts of america

could go for a crab juice tbh

we should make a list of all the US giant shitty sit-down family/fun overpriced chain restaurants; I know they vary from area to area

Golden Corral
Dave and Buster's
TGIFriday's
Cheesecake Factory
Chili's
Applebee's
Sizzlers
Bonanza
Olive Garden
Ponderosa
Macaroni Grill
Red Lobster

kinda thinking the frug deserves his own thread already

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_casual_dining_restaurant_chains

we have had so many threads about american casual dining chains

Best Casual Dining Restaurant Chain

this is my first foray into this world dayo
i forgot about boston market
who will rep for boston market. i will not.

yeah let's keep it on track here

I learned from that thread, for example, that there is a restaurant called "Claim Jumper" and it's not supposed to be a "Clam Jumper" which is something I think women wear

I had dinner at the cheesecake factory last night because I was in the mall and it was there and it was pretty good. I am not ashamed.

like a fannypack

this is a thread about anthropomorphic pigs in bowling shirts who own much-derided restaurants in new york city

that is a list of the restaurants in the "area" (the area of town where people go when they are going out to dinner or shopping or both, usually) of my hometown. y'all are some urbane mfers if going to chili's/macaroni grill/applebee's isn't somewhat familiar to you. i'm not saying i love to go to these places, but they're not where martians congregate.

One year I couldn't go home for Thanksgiving and didn't realize that the grocery store would be closed so wound up having to eat at Boston Market by myself. It was the saddest Thanksgiving ever.

also pbs pedophiles who cook mush and admonish you for eating too much salt

Bennigans
Famous Dave's

Oh man did I tell you guys I went on a few dates with someone and she wanted to meet at a TGI Friday's for dinner and wtf

LL totally otm

who had the better fries, bennigans or houlihan's, i can't remember now.

xxxp so
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one of them put like garlic or gold dust or coke or unicorn horn shavings on their fries.

back in the day there was chi-chi's
i mean big whoop

i ate at an old country buffet for thanksgiving once, that was not fun but it was also a little bit charming and i tried to smile at people. make the best of it.

I went to Bennigan's in the late nineties because it was the only place with 25 beers in tap and another 175 bottled.

i am an urbane mfer

think my 5th birthday party was at a chi-chi's

oh man, I know a guy who would take his dates to Chi-Chis

Ponderosa:

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i went to all of these places in the 90s! at one point, two dudes who i dated and my best friend all worked at macaroni grill. whatta life!

One year I couldn't go home for Thanksgiving and didn't realize that the grocery store would be closed so wound up having to eat at Boston Market by myself. It was the saddest Thanksgiving ever.
― ENBB, Friday, November 16, 2012

hey i won't hear any shit talk about chi-chi's. i think 11 out of my first 15 birthdays were spent at chi-chi's.

spent mopping the bathrooms, but nevertheless.

One year I couldn't go home for Thanksgiving and didn't realize that the grocery store would be closed so wound up having to eat at Boston Market by myself. It was the saddest Thanksgiving ever.

That is sad! Was Boston Market the only place that was open?