JCC Favorite non-fast food restaurant?

i'm pretty sure that at least three of the places are unique to texas so it's even more narrow than that.

 

I'm fairly certain these are all the restaurants within a 5 block radius of Jerbil's house.

 

Is Texas Roadhouse one of them?

 

That also explains why there's Waffle House but not Denny's.

 

Oddly enough, Texas Roadhouse is based in Indiana

 

well there were three i'd never heard of that sounded texas-y anyway

 

Roark Capital is the private equity group that owns a controlling stake in Arby's - Wendy's has the 18% interest in Arby's that Roark doesn't own. Roark also just acquired Buffalo Wild Wings in a $2.9 billion deal. They divested themselves of Wing Stop otherwise its near monopoly in wings would have been cause for fear and dread among those of you concerned about robust competition in the chicken wing sector.

We should also be mindful of the Roark Auntie Anne's-Cinnabon nexus and its iron grip over airport and shopping mall food courts.

 

There are quite a few Dennys in Texas:

https://locations.dennys.com/TX

 

Sure, but there's a loose theoretical divide between north and south on the matter.

LET THE FREE MARKET DETERMINE ATOMIC WING HEAT

 

You've just made that up!

Wait...are you Jerbal's sock?

 

Roark Capital is in fact one of the lowest subbasements of the chain restaurant deep state. Corner Bakery was purchased by the Il Fornaio chain which may be familiar to you Californians. And in 2011, Il Fornaio was purchased by, you guessed it, Roark Capital, which also owns a minority stake in Culver's for you Midwesterners (136 locations in Wisconsin!, 100 in Illinois!)

 

Pffft... Then why isn't there a Luby's on that list!

That said, I appreciate the number of places listed which you can get steak...even those that serve barely edible ones.

 

Never thought I'd say this, but Tunes has clearly won this thread. Or would if his post wasn't followed by that craptacular sig.

 

No I was misremembering the restaurants involved in the IHOP/Waffle House divide.

 

Olive Garden and Red Lobster are owned by the same parent company, Darden foods. That's why Endless Shrimp and Endless Pasta Bowl never coincide, they plan it out so you get your all-you-can-eats at different times of year.

 

OK, you know when you and I went to EYE and had a nice meal and that Dutch lady spoke to us both in Dutch for about 10mins about how her friend wanted to hook up with you and I sorta followed along and it was great?

So imagine instead, we went to one of the kiosk eateries at Centraal and bought some greasy takeaway. Say some patat oorlog that was a few hours old. Then, we boarded the ferry and dragged the food through the water to the Buiksloterweg station and then mixed it with some rubbish from a bin before eating?

That's the calibre we're talking about here.

 

This is that place in our Golden Century.

Spoiler

 

Hup Holland HUP!

 

My fav is a Mexican restaurant named Don Pablos. The nearest one is an hour away much to my sadness.

 

I like Chili’s, but my favorite place is a diner called Little Fat Gretchen’s

 

Erm nah.

Hell to the no ma’am.