“IMHO, I’d rather eat at a BBQ joint, run by a guy who’s been perfecting his art for the past 20 years (and who likely learned it from his Dad, who learned it from his, and so on) than some Olive Garden or Applebee’s. Or a ripoff lookalike of them.”
We refer to these “clone” restaurants as “O’Chilibee’s Roadhouse.” Their menus are all the same and the processed food is all the same, as it is delivered by Sysco Food Services. It’s kind of like the old multi-purpose stadiums of the 1970’s; if you went to a game in Riverfront Stadium, you might as well say you had also been to Busch, Three Rivers & the Vet. They were the same bland stadiums, they now are the same bland restaurants.
Nothing will be bad. Nothing will be good, either.
I eat at a lot of those kind of places with work. Where you have 5 normal people, 4 women on diets, 3 people that grill their waiter about every last detail of their food preparation (you know the type, I always want to yell "RELAX! IT'S JUST A @#$%@ SANDWICH!!" at them), 2 people that talk nonstop about their food allergies, and one fruitcake who says she's "A Vegan, but will eat fish. Sometimes pork. And hamburgers occasionally" ..... And all of them will find something to order on the menu.