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!
― just1n3, Thursday, 11 March 2010 23:51 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Clerk all KNOWIN (B.L.A.M.), Friday, 12 March 2010 17:07 (fourteen years ago) link
http://snippets.com/what-is-the-nutrition-information-for-claim-jumper-restaurant.htm
WOW
― sassy boy, throwin' shade (Stevie D), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 14:34 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 14:46 (fourteen years ago) link
holy shit
― millions now zinging will never lol (WmC), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 14:47 (fourteen years ago) link
4,301 Calories
can I just what is this I don't even
― etrian odysseus (cozen), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 14:51 (fourteen years ago) link
I'll bet the items on the children's menu at this place are actual children.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 15:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Not toddlers, I'm talking fifth-graders.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 15:15 (fourteen years ago) link
don't even think my li'l bro wd be 4301 cals
― etrian odysseus (cozen), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 15:17 (fourteen years ago) link
the baked potato (side dish) has more sodium than the meatloaf and mashed potato dinner
o_O
― Maurice, the Kraken (brownie), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 15:27 (fourteen years ago) link
One of those rolled-in-coarse-salt baked potatoes, then.
― millions now zinging will never lol (WmC), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 15:56 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 15:35 (eleven years ago) link
Cheesecake Factory is ironically a factory of everything BUT cheesecake.
― Will Chave (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 16:34 (eleven years ago) link
Was that written by Marilyn Hagerty?
― o. nate, Tuesday, 7 August 2012 20:10 (eleven years ago) link
lol
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 20:18 (eleven years ago) link
http://resources1.news.com.au/images/2012/10/25/1226503/093989-denny-039-s.jpg
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 24 March 2014 17:22 (ten years ago) link
Denny's has been doing that for a few years now, still makes me lol
Moons Over My Smaugy
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 24 March 2014 17:31 (ten years ago) link
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
― james franco tur(oll)ing test (Hurting 2), Monday, 24 March 2014 17:39 (ten years ago) link
one egg to bind them
― brownie, Monday, 24 March 2014 18:12 (ten years ago) link
nice
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 24 March 2014 18:23 (ten years ago) link
Chili's has food that tastes like the crap you'd shovel in your mouth while playing Twisted Metal back in 1996
― def jeftones (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 25 January 2023 15:44 (one year ago) link
what were you doing in a Chili's
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 25 January 2023 15:49 (one year ago) link
slowly drifting away
― def jeftones (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 25 January 2023 15:53 (one year ago) link
ROSCOE DINER RESTAURANTWhere People Eat Like Kings
― andrew m., Wednesday, 25 January 2023 16:01 (one year ago) link
Accommodations to over 300 People
So this means the place can seat 10,000, right?
― pplains, Wednesday, 25 January 2023 16:05 (one year ago) link
arena style banquet seating
― def jeftones (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 25 January 2023 16:05 (one year ago) link
Need to read a Hagerty review of Chili's.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 25 January 2023 16:06 (one year ago) link
"diner restaurant" reminds of a a funny place i've stayed (twice!) in memphis: The Gen X Inn Hotel
― andrew m., Wednesday, 25 January 2023 16:09 (one year ago) link
are their flannel robes in the closet
― def jeftones (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 25 January 2023 16:10 (one year ago) link
Build your own Hobbit Slam
― is it milli vanilli or just a facsimile (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 25 January 2023 16:11 (one year ago) link
iirc Applebees has better bars
― not too strange just bad audio (brimstead), Wednesday, 25 January 2023 16:16 (one year ago) link
you know, I can actually back you up on that one.
― pplains, Wednesday, 25 January 2023 17:53 (one year ago) link
(But not babyback you up.)
― pplains, Wednesday, 25 January 2023 17:54 (one year ago) link
I once read a fascinating long form article about the granddaddy of all of these, TGI Friday’s. At least for the first couple decades they cooked their food in house, while their competitors like Applebees or whatever just Microwaved literally everything.
― Alicia Silver Stone (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 25 January 2023 18:49 (one year ago) link
history of TGIF pretty interesting. memphis had the first one outside of the og in nyc. was considered the hotspot. maybe big star gigged there? they certainly drank there.
― andrew m., Wednesday, 25 January 2023 20:32 (one year ago) link
Applebees had those $2 Long Island Iced Teas for a while, you could get incredibly wasted for ten bucks
― frogbs, Wednesday, 25 January 2023 20:34 (one year ago) link