Grossest American Chain Restaurant

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

slowly drifting away

ROSCOE DINER RESTAURANT
Where People Eat Like Kings

Accommodations to over 300 People

So this means the place can seat 10,000, right?

arena style banquet seating

Need to read a Hagerty review of Chili's.

"diner restaurant" reminds of a a funny place i've stayed (twice!) in memphis: The Gen X Inn Hotel

are their flannel robes in the closet

Build your own Hobbit Slam

Build your own Hobbit Slam

Build your own Hobbit Slam

iirc Applebees has better bars

you know, I can actually back you up on that one.

(But not babyback you up.)

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.

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.

Applebees had those $2 Long Island Iced Teas for a while, you could get incredibly wasted for ten bucks