The continuation of being dumped on in Restaurants needs to end.

[Fitter30]

I'm done with chain restaurants, and am now eating at locally owned establishments if at all possible.

Here's where I ate on Friday night: https://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaur...etto_House_of_Pasta-Saint_Louis_Missouri.html

Much better results overall.

Being from stl and have eaten a Cunettos several times over the years have never been disappointed.

 

[dlundblad]

Good help is hard to find. This is the case with many businesses.

On a side note, the first time we ate out in quite a while was at a fancy pizza place on our 3 day weekend/ mini vacation. My pizza was almost as cold as my not so cold beer. We had been there a few times before and never had any issues.

I am not one to return food although I should have in this case.

 

[Jimmy_Russells]

I find it amusing the ladies’ name is Karen

 

[Hermann]

When I started this thread my feelings on this subject were that this can not be happening to just me. Apparently it is not. My other 60 meals a month are made at home and while simple, are tasty with lots of veggies, again simple. Going out for 2 meals a week is our normal routine. We occasionally cook for each other and it limits the disappointment which seems to occur 50% of the time since everyone has figured out how to survive without working.

 

[Hermann]

I find it amusing the ladies’ name is Karen

Wasn't her choice. She was adopted. And is a Alien Hybrid with Rh neg blood

 

[aquariuscsm]

I have one Eggo thick and fluffy waffle almost every morning. Box says 11g sugars and 20% daily recommended amount so I think it's ok.

I love the Eggo Buttermilk wafiles!. Oh yes you’re probably fine. I would definitely watch the refined sugar intake though. It never seemed to bother me but then suddenly refined sugars started making my joints hurt really bad.

 

[Hermann]

I love the Eggo Buttermilk wafiles!. Oh yes you’re probably fine. I would definitely watch the refined sugar intake though. It never seemed to bother me but then suddenly refined sugars started making my joints hurt really bad.

The bad/sad part of pancakes and waffles are the syrup which is 99% sugar. The butter on top is the healthiest part of the meal.

 

[ARCOgraphite]

May wife used to make homemade Belgian waffles from scratch. She's Dutch. Stunningly Awesome.

Now she has gone gluten free. The Casssava and rice flour ones are more than O.K. but not OMG !

But real local maple syrup and butter does fix many sins

 

[Hermann]

OP- eating at ihop and wendys may not be good dining. Consider the yelp app on your phone, and find some new places.

Out here the ihop and dennys are nasty, we choose a local greasy spoon called Jim's they treat you right for similar pricing.

Trust me we do. We go to some establishments that are Google and Siri sourced. Again about half the time it is sheer disappointment. You walk in at prime hour, no customers and a sticky front door handles are a big red flag, we just turn around and go to the next one. We have found a couple places via this method in 3+ years of trying that we continue to patronize and not tell everyone we know, and then they get overwhelmed. The good restaurant grapevine popularizes places quickly.

 

[aquariuscsm]

The bad/sad part of pancakes and waffles are the syrup which is 99% sugar. The butter on top is the healthiest part of the meal.

Haha amen to that! I cover mine with butter, BUT, I use sugar free syrup and sugar free pancake mix

 

[atikovi]

The bad/sad part of pancakes and waffles are the syrup which is 99% sugar. The butter on top is the healthiest part of the meal.

You don't need no syrup on these waffles.

 

[PimTac]

You don't need no syrup on these waffles.

With 26 grams of carbs plus 11 grams of sugar in each waffle you certainly don’t.

 

[PandaBear]

Welcome to the free market, whenever the value of money and labor changes there will be a big shuffle and something will start and something will end. You can't expect things to stay the same forever.

At the moment it is the cost going up and what people are willing to pay not catching up. This is part of human civilization as old as money. Eventually we will find an equalibrium.

 

[Hermann]

Applebee's is another place that has turned nasty!

10 days was about all it took for IHOP to ruin Applebee's,

 

[GON]

BT,

I read once that line "Leave the gun- Take the cannoli", was not in the script. The actor was reported to just have blurted it out, and the rest is legend.

 

[Pew]

Restaurant workers have been underpaid for far too long. All of us should have been paying more all along with the extra money going towards the servers. And per the recent thread on this forum, there are still some that don't tip them.

https://bobistheoilguy.com/forums/threads/uber-experience.359554/#post-6230933

But those same people who don't tip expect the same treatment as those who do tip.

 

[jeepman3071]

I usually drink a Coke Zero and a banana or apple for breakfast.

Coke for breakfast?!

 

[PF52]

Coke for breakfast?!

Spoken like a true coffee drinker...

 

[aquariuscsm]

I know people who’ll have a morning soda when they first wake up instead of coffee or hot tea.

 

[chrlsful]

one step above 'fast foods' is 'casual dinning'? The 1st is McDs, etc. Obviously not really a resturant (cooked / preped there). The 2nd, also big chains, has wait staff, cushier interior, etc (Applebees, Olive Garden, etc). Every thing there comes into the place in large bags from a hub where it is cooked/prepaired (sauces, jullien cut, etc). As 'cook' my job was to heat in a skillet, oven, micro, etc. Not intill U get up a step is it 'real chefs' and those run a gamit from short order (breakfast places, lunch places) to actual chiefs (mostly dinners). The final is trade school (adult) college or free standing trainings (CIA, Cordon Blue, Johnson'n Wales, etc). Prices climb as you proceed thru the listing but quality? not necessarily. When U find one (even mom'n pop's can B good) eat ur way thru the whole menue. U found a good place
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