Yeah, but that has no bearing on the fact that they mostly sucked and rightly have mostly gone extinct. :P
Personally, I think people are crazy.
They sit in cars for 10 mins and pay $8 for a Mc Crappy meal then scarf it down on the way back to the office.
I miss the taverns where Maria made a nice pulled lamb sandwich on Italian bread, from the leftover legs the night before, served it with home cut fries and fried Italian greens for $4.50
We spend time waiting in line for Mc Crap.
I prefer to spend the same time with people that I know, who set me up with a nice experience and they know how long my lunch break is, and I see that they are running thier azz off so I leave a nice tip for the service and still come in cheaper than the FF joint.
I adore them, they never sucked.
I came to Tx and all there is is FF
Oh, I have found the better side of Tx and like the place, but the FF culture here is a stain. IMHO
We have ONE Burger joint left in this town, a Cafe called Terry’s.
They serve the 1/2 pounder called the Bubba Burger.
Comes in the brown paper sack with the grease stains that indicate freshness.
Other than that it’s all FF
This was the last place they shut down out here. It wasnt great but it was an institution and I would go ther for a burger and a cold chocolate malt after wresting the yard on a hot summer day......
It has served generations of cruising Greenville teenagers, fed hungry families after church and after the movies and has played host to countless political debates conducted by the regular coffee drinkers inside its cushioned booths.
But the days of the iconic Royal Drive-In on Wesley Street appear to be numbered.
Manager Tracy Hooker said the restaurant is scheduled to be closed later this year, although it is to be replaced with another staple of small towns in the Lone Star State.
“We’re going to make it into a Dairy Queen,” Hooker said.
He said there has been a Royal Drive-In in Greenville since 1946, mostly recently as part of the Herschel’s restaurant chain.
The current Royal at 6308 Wesley Street, was once a Dairy Queen and was in the exact spot where the new restaurant will be built; namely, next door at 6309 Wesley Street, which is now the Royal’s parking lot. But that restaurant’s foundation had a host of problems, Hooker said, forcing the construction of a Dairy Queen where the Royal is now.
That Dairy Queen — one of a few which have been located in Greenville over the years in various places — operated for about seven years, Hooker said, until it became the Royal in the mid-1970s.
The owners of the Royal also own the Dairy Queen in McKinney and, in looking to expand, inquired as to who may have had the franchise rights to the name in Greenville. Hooker said the rights were available, so it made sense to locate the new restaurant where the old one had once been.
“We’ve owned the property for quite a while,” Hooker said.
Workers have already completed the surveying for the restaurant and the next step will be tearing up the parking lot in order to lay the new foundation.
“Hopefully that will happen by the end of this month or the beginning of next month,” Hooker said, adding the current building has outlived its usefulness.
“The maintenance costs are starting to kill us,” Hooker said, adding he does not know whether the new restaurant will incorporate “Royal” as part of its name.
He expects to make the transition and remain as manager of the new Dairy Queen, which he said will be a little different than the restaurants which used to call Greenville home.
“It is one of their newer concepts, called a DQ Grill & Chill,” Hooker said, adding the outlets tend to be a little smaller inside than the traditional Dairy Queens.
While there will be fewer of the booths available for the hosting of political debates, Hooker said the restaurant will have a drive-through and outside seating.
The DQ is sucking major ass 6 months later and the Royal is Gone