Grossest American Chain Restaurant

the worst is going to one of these in a brand new super wal-mart dress barn asphalt colony and looking out the window at big piles of dirt while you eat your buffalo bbq sliders.

dudes, the count is at two.

Just sayin'.

Denny's makes a great milkshake
that alone should've kept it from losing (winning?) this poll

these are all the same restaurant

― mark roflr (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, March 2, 2010 3:40 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark

I've eaten at all these chains, and the only one I will never go back to is Claim Jumpers.

gross food, uncivilized portions, other?

every time you came back from the bathroom, someone else would be in your chair eating your meal

^^^ I lol'd

Upstate New York? Not so big on diners. :(

― t(o_o)t (ENBB), Thursday, March 11, 2010 7:29 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

not true ime?

Well there weren't any in Geneva sadly.

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would absolutely eat at Roscoe's

it's just "roscoe" cuz the town is called roscoe

I LOVE THE ROSCOE DINER!!!! I used to stop there every time I did the drive from Long Island to the Finger Lakes. :D

Ample Parking

Was actually going to mention it earlier but I didn't think anyone would know it.

Thought I'd posted, maybe to the wrong thread.

I'm still flustered by the fact that there is a subset of chains that are "fancy," especially for people who live in rural areas without a lot of restaurants. A lot of friends have relatives from small towns who always had to eat at Olive Garden or Red Lobster when they went to the big city. Now the fancy place of choice seems to be Macaroni Grill.

would still eat there regardless, although I am now sad that meeting a jovially friendly owner named Roscoe is off the table

it's a great diner, but it's probably better-known for its ubiquitous bumper stickers than its food. (xxpost)

would still eat there regardless, although I am now sad that meeting a jovially friendly owner named Roscoe is off the table

there's still roscoe's chicken & waffles in l.a.

been there, would go again

me too

next time I'm in CA we should have a FAWAC meetup

gross food, uncivilized portions, other?

Giant portions of crap food with this emphasis of "Look how supersized we made THIS!"

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next time I'm in CA we should have a FAWAC meetup

Whether Long Beach, Pasadena or elsewhere, I am ALL over the 'Scoe's. Let me KNOW.

a 'dena thing would be fun

Man, I got the Dena plans covered if it comes to that. 'Scoes, followed by Lucky Baldwins.

we might be in LA/pasadena area memorial day weekend, would be up for a FAP.

BLAM, if you're lucky i'll bring some more of that whittaker's chocolate back from NZ (we're going there beginning of may) for you!

I sometimes think of that kiwi/chocolate bar you sent. That was the BUSINESS.

Let me know if you all want to do a Pasadena area fap. I'd be glad to host.

http://snippets.com/what-is-the-nutrition-information-for-claim-jumper-restaurant.htm

WOW

I've never been to this restaurant -- do people actually clean their plate or is the point that you take half home in a doggie bag? I mean, I am a big eater at times but I don't think I would want to, maybe even physically couldn't, put down 4200 calories at a sitting.

holy shit

4,301 Calories

can I just what is this I don't even

I'll bet the items on the children's menu at this place are actual children.

Not toddlers, I'm talking fifth-graders.

don't even think my li'l bro wd be 4301 cals

the baked potato (side dish) has more sodium than the meatloaf and mashed potato dinner

o_O

One of those rolled-in-coarse-salt baked potatoes, then.

The place is huge, but it’s invariably packed, and you can see why. The typical entrée is under fifteen dollars. The décor is fancy, in an accessible, Disney-cruise-ship sort of way: faux Egyptian columns, earth-tone murals, vaulted ceilings. The waiters are efficient and friendly. They wear all white (crisp white oxford shirt, pants, apron, sneakers) and try to make you feel as if it were a special night out. As for the food—can I say this without losing forever my chance of getting a reservation at Per Se?—it was delicious.

The chain serves more than eighty million people per year. I pictured semi-frozen bags of beet salad shipped from Mexico, buckets of precooked pasta and production-line hummus, fish from a box. And yet nothing smacked of mass production. My beets were crisp and fresh, the hummus creamy, the salmon like butter in my mouth. No doubt everything we ordered was sweeter, fattier, and bigger than it had to be. But the Cheesecake Factory knows its customers. The whole table was happy (with the possible exception of Ethan, aged sixteen, who picked the onions out of his Hawaiian pizza).

I wondered how they pulled it off. I asked one of the Cheesecake Factory line cooks how much of the food was premade. He told me that everything’s pretty much made from scratch—except the cheesecake, which actually is from a cheesecake factory, in Calabasas, California.

Read more http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/08/13/120813fa_fact_gawande#ixzz22sJRPuVm

Cheesecake Factory is ironically a factory of everything BUT cheesecake.

Was that written by Marilyn Hagerty?

lol

http://resources1.news.com.au/images/2012/10/25/1226503/093989-denny-039-s.jpg

Denny's has been doing that for a few years now, still makes me lol

Moons Over My Smaugy

This is old and I think was probably posted in a Marilyn Hagerty thread, but it deserves to be memorialized herein:

http://www.theawl.com/2012/03/our-week-with-marilyn

one egg to bind them

nice

Chili's has food that tastes like the crap you'd shovel in your mouth while playing Twisted Metal back in 1996

what were you doing in a Chili's