Posted on 10/23/2024 6:56:17 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
Yes, salad is cheap to make, but buying bags of all the ingredients is not cheap.
Plus sometimes you want to have the mess dealt with by someone else.
I wonder how much services like Door Dash and Grub Hub are cutting into their business? It’s just as expensive to have them deliver your meals, but it’s more convenient (a polite way of saying you don’t have to drag your lazy butt out of the house and drive to a place like Denny’s.)
Covid did/will also.
I agree on the food quality. In Wisconsin, we’ve had ‘Country Kitchen’ for ages. It’s a franchise, and then kind of went out of favor for a number of years.
It’s back now as Country Kitchen Cafe, and we enjoy eating there a few times a year.
I haven’t been in a Denny’s since college age - Denny’s or Taco Bell were our two choices for after-bar-time eats.
And I rarely go out after dark these days. ;)
“Wanna guess how many are in dem cities?’
99.999% Of them? ;)
Adored IHOP as a kid. Those ‘Silver-Dollar (sized) Pancakes’ were DA BOMB! As many as you could eat! And your CHOICE of THREE types of syrup? Blueberry Syrup? Who knew such LUXURY existed in this world?
LOL! It’s the little things that keep us going in this Life. When you grow up poor, some of the things that other people were able to do on a regular basis took on ‘magical’ qualities. ;)
“Shari’s Cafe & Pies, an iconic chain of 24-hour family restaurants and home to numerous lottery machines, abruptly closed all of its Oregon locations on October 20, according to multiple sources. KGW confirmed the chain’s closure after obtaining an email that Shari’s parent company CEO Sam Borgese sent to the Oregon Lottery (apparently, Shari’s was a big source of revenue for the lottery).”
Lottery malfeasance?
“The closure of Shari’s — essentially the PNW’s answer to a Denny’s — is a huge loss for Oregon’s late-night dining options, filling a hole in smaller communities where few round-the-clock restaurants exist. Where will teens go now to pontificate about the highs and lows of high school football, heartbreak, and chemistry homework over a hulking slice of apple pie and a stack of pancakes at midnight?”
It’s ‘For The Children!’ ;)
https://pdx.eater.com/2024/10/22/24277087/sharis-cafe-and-pie-restaurants-closed-oregon
I was one of the few people whose ‘lifestyle’ didn’t change one whit during CovidBS-19.
But I agree - our collective psyche is in big trouble these days. Most likely part of a Bigger Plan by Mother Government. A very big, very dangerous, very slow moving plan...
*SPIT*
$3.50 for coffee and no refills, last time I was there, haven't been back.
It is expensive to buy bagged stuff-but we have gardens here-this is a rural area, so we seldom need to buy bagged salad stuff, fortunately...
Bidenomics march on.
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