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

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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http://www.eastsideboxing.com/forum/showthread.php?t=420347

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:

http://cdn.heyitsfree.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/bonanza-steakhouse-birthday-2012-02.png

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?

think I would like to go to a PF Chang's at some point

My first date as a teen was at TGI Friday's

i mean, i definitely ate at all these joints and worked at a few too! I think i did a year at The Cooker and definitely a year at an Applebee's.
The thing is that once you eat and work there and then move to a place where they're not your only option, you develop a deep abiding dislike of them as institutions and places to eat. It's not "Oh these yokels with their underdefined tastebuds"; it's "why in god's name would you go there when there's literally a thousand different options in walking distance"

PF Chang's is classic "somebody at the office has a birthday let's do lunch" place.

Loved Chi Chi's as a kid, but c'mon it was pretty gross

x-posts Boston Market was, in fact, the only place that was open and tbh I was really glad it was because if it hadn't been the whole thing could have been a lot sadder. Maybe. I mean it was my own damn fault for thinking that the grocery store would be open but I was 21 and didn't know anything so.

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.

I loved their fried ice cream ie the unhealthiest thing I've ate in my life:

http://dessert.betterrecipes.com/uploads/photo/400x300/7/1/716b0eee2ee92beaf07d670fbbaece79.jpg

chi-chi's was fucking disgusting but i would have eaten shredded newspaper if you put it in a taco shell so happy birthday to me

applebees is not overpriced! check it- two entrees and an appetizer for $20. sure the entrees consist entirely of celery but what are you going to do?

http://www.applebees.com/menu/2-for-20

Have had celebratory work lunches at:

Chilli's
Red Lobster
Olive Garden
Macaroni Grill

They like to keep morale high

Boston Market's creamed spinach and Carver Club sandwiches were good!

GUYS THIS THREAD IS ABOUT ME NOT ABOUT DUDES ON PBS

http://media.lehighvalleylive.com/entertainment-general_impact/photo/guy-fieri-cee642e1641d34c5.jpg

basically as a small fat child i wanted to live inside the gatefold of zz top's tres hombres

OR CHICHIS

THANK YOU, MR. QUE

GUY FIERI WAS BORN OUT OF ZZ TOPS BEARDS

HIS MOTHER WAS A CHIMICHANGA

HIS FATHER WAS A MOTORCYCLE

They have several entrees named like "oriental chicken salad" at Applebees. I felt vaguely uncomfortable when looking at that on the menu.