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View Poll Results: Which restaurant do you pick? (See original thread for information.) | |||
Charlotte McFundy's | 12 | 16.22% | |
Diner | 52 | 70.27% | |
I'd go into both places and review their menus/pricing before picking. | 2 | 2.70% | |
Stop at a gas station and get a candy bar to hold me till the next town. | 3 | 4.05% | |
I'd stake the place out for a few days and do a study of consumer demographics. | 5 | 6.76% | |
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05-11-2009, 05:29 PM | Topic Starter |
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A generic restaurant poll.
It's late at night, and you're driving alone through rural Pennsylvania, still hundreds of miles from your destination at your cousin Summer's wedding in Burlington, Vermont. It's a humid summer night with a full moon, and you have the windows down as you sing along at the top of your lungs to Aerosmith's "Walk This Way".
You realize that you're getting hungry, and you resolve to stop at the next town for some repast (not repost - repast) and sustenance. You're cruising the back roads, though, so you're not going to encounter any big Pennsylvania cities like Philadelphia or College Town or King of Prussia or Mauch Chunk. Ten minutes later, you cruise into a small Pennsylvania town, so small that the highway you're on turns into Main Street. There are two restaurants, and only two restaurants in town, and they're next door to each other. Charlotte McFundy's is obviously a relatively new chain restaurant in a mid-price market niche, with carefully focus-grouped colors and signage, and a promise on their sign of "Good food and good fun". It reminds you a little of the Chili's/TGI Friday's type of restaurant, but you're not familiar with this chain. Inside, you can see a well-lit decor of leatherette booths and faux Tiffany lights and perky, rosy-cheeked teenage servers, both guys and gals. Diner is next door. Diner doesn't so much have a name, but rather a big, 50s-era sign on it that says "Diner". It's obviously been there for decades and shows some wear, but still looks clean even if it's a little ragged. Inside, you can see a well-lit decor of naugahyde booths and flourescent lights and middle-aged, beehived waitresses. It's 9:00 on a weeknight, and both restaurants have four or five cars in the parking lot. You can't see any information about menus or prices. Where do you stop? |
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Diner because it's probably cheaper than the chain-type and they probably have good hearty food like open-faced roast beef sandwiches instead of Kung-pao oriental chicken wraps.
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Diner. It'd probably have the better food and the lower prices.
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05-11-2009, 05:33 PM | #4 |
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Diner. Food over Flair.
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05-11-2009, 05:33 PM | #5 |
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The Diner.
I'm all about non-chain food restaurants. |
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05-11-2009, 05:35 PM | #6 |
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I must admit, I'm a Diner guy to the core. For me, it's not even so much about the food as it is having the experience of being somewhere unique. If I'm on a road trip, I want local restaurants for the most part (other than McDonald's stops if I'm on the Interstate).
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Diner has jumped out to a significant early lead.
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Now I'm picking the other option because the Diner is too busy packed with you weirdos and really I just want to get the hell out of this town before I end up on drugs or pregnant.
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Yeah, but chances are the chain-type place serves super size margaritas..so you're prolly getting pregnant either way.
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the diner for sure
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Breakfast awesome. Lunch, great sandwiches or meatloaf or whatever. Dinner roasted chicken or roast beef and potatoes. Pie for dessert. Diner!!!!!! Posted via Mobile Device |
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Diner food sometimes is the best food on the planet.
The Diner here in Columbia is GREAT late night drunken food. |
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Okay, we have a runaway. Let me propose a followup question: what characteristics would the Diner or the Chain have to have to make you pick the chain?
This also makes me think that I should start a restaurant chain that looks kind of downscale and local on the outside.
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B. If the Diner is not Roach infested, they probably have pretty good food. |
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