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15 Restaurant Chains Closing Multiple Stores Right Now
Discern TV ^ | May 3, 2024 | Staff - The Epic Economist

Posted on 05/03/2024 5:56:13 AM PDT by Red Badger

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To: Red Badger
* Carrabba’s Italian Grill

Shutting down in our area.

21 posted on 05/03/2024 6:19:38 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Red Badger

TGI Friday’s expected me to download a QR code and pay the bill online, manually entering all of my card info. Then they got snippy when I told them my tip was 30% less than I had planned since I had to do some of the work.

Well...bye


22 posted on 05/03/2024 6:19:43 AM PDT by cyclotic (Don’t be part of the problem. Be the entire problem)
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To: Red Badger

Cracker Barrel went all Pride month and doubled down when their actual clientele complained. I haven’t been back. I figure they can just service the gays now.


23 posted on 05/03/2024 6:22:03 AM PDT by Rastus
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To: woodbutcher1963

The last time I ate at Crapplebees was about 15 yrs ago when it was the only restaurant in the small town we overnighted in.

They BURNED the chicken to a crisp and covered it with cheese, thinking we wouldn’t notice. Then, when I went to the ladies room before we left, there was an Hispanic Crapplebees’ worker taking to someone on her phone in the bathroom stall and came out with her plastic gloves still on her hands and dribbled plain water on the glove tips, not even bothering to remove the gloves or use soap.


24 posted on 05/03/2024 6:22:10 AM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: Red Badger

Thanks for posting. Interesting.


25 posted on 05/03/2024 6:22:17 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: Red Badger

Government should force them to stay open!!!! /s


26 posted on 05/03/2024 6:23:26 AM PDT by The Louiswu (Pray for Peace in the world.)
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To: Red Badger

The only one I ever liked from that list was Boston Market.


27 posted on 05/03/2024 6:27:52 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
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To: napscoordinator

Where are the ol’ folks gonna hang out during the day now?
They come to one mid morning get some breakfast then move
to another and hang out until mid afternoon or so. IMO they
were interesting to talk to get their perspective of history
during their earlier years.


28 posted on 05/03/2024 6:29:10 AM PDT by deport
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To: Red Badger

I try to avoid chain restaurants and go to local mom and pop spots.


29 posted on 05/03/2024 6:29:38 AM PDT by BozoTexino (RIP GOP)
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To: deport

That’s true. They will probably end up at McDonald’s. We have a huge retired population that goes there every mid morning for coffee and share stories.


30 posted on 05/03/2024 6:30:38 AM PDT by napscoordinator (DeSantis is a beast! Florida is the freest state in the country! )
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To: BozoTexino
I try to avoid chain restaurants and go to local mom and pop spots.

The best restaurants are the ones with the owner/boss working at the restaurant.

31 posted on 05/03/2024 6:31:26 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: metmom

We don’t have one of those in Florida.........


32 posted on 05/03/2024 6:31:42 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: napscoordinator

I was just going to post that!

I hadn’t been to Cracker Barrel in a coon’s age and decided to stop by and have dinner with my family.

Even the cinnamon apples were bad! How do you mess up mac and cheese?!?

They had also set up a brand new bar right next to the Hostess station and were trying to liquor people up so they’d enjoy the food!


33 posted on 05/03/2024 6:32:47 AM PDT by WarANDPiece
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To: Red Badger

Apparently Boston Market got sued for not paying their employees in Florida.

https://www.wftv.com/news/local/department-labor-investigating-boston-market-after-workers-claim-they-havent-been-paid/4UTCV4MNYJD45EGZYGYQ3WJ4JE/


34 posted on 05/03/2024 6:35:03 AM PDT by WarANDPiece
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Just a few days ago, with customers still inside. A number of the locations were in urban Texas cities.
 
"Specialty coffee shop and boutique grocery chain Foxtrot abruptly closed all 33 of its locations throughout the United States yesterday, giving little notice to hundreds of employees who are now without work."
 
https://dailycoffeenews.com/2024/04/24/coffee-and-grocery-chain-foxtrot-abruptly-closes-all-33-us-stores/>
 
 

35 posted on 05/03/2024 6:35:46 AM PDT by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: WarANDPiece

Yep, they cut and run...................


36 posted on 05/03/2024 6:36:36 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

I’m guessing that if you took away the ability to be able to use EBT cards, at these chains, many would be able to make a come back.

Just a thought.


37 posted on 05/03/2024 6:38:01 AM PDT by Jane Long (The role of the GOP: to write sharply-worded letters as America becomes a communist hell-hole.)
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To: Red Badger

Obviously there are other chains that are doing well. But oh well, everyone is trying to sell an apocalyptic story now.


38 posted on 05/03/2024 6:39:38 AM PDT by Wuli ( )
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To: Openurmind

The only “greedy” player in this scenario is the GOVERNMENT with their minimum wage and suffocating regulations.

When gov’t wins, we lose. When we win, gov’t loses.

It’s just that simple.


39 posted on 05/03/2024 6:41:18 AM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: Red Badger
The last time I went to any one of these places was Cracker Barrel, and that was three years ago. And that was only because I was getting my windshield replaced across the street. I had an hour to kill and I was hungry.

I feel bad when I read the list of all these places closing and then I realized neither I or my family ever patronize any of them so I'm partly the reason why.

40 posted on 05/03/2024 6:41:35 AM PDT by Drew68
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