Anyone eaten at Jess And Jims? That place was overpriced as hell for an average tasting steak, though it was big. Plus the place smelled like a sack full of farts. I can make better steaks by far on my own grill. **** that place.

I used to love chicken gizzards from Go Chicken Go. Everything else at that place sucked ass though.

5 Guys - Good food but not all it's made out to be. I'd rather have a HiBoy burger over a 5 Guys burger any day.

I haven't had 5 Guys but everyone here told me to go to Smash Burger. I did, and it wasn't very good at all.

I totally agree on your macaroni grill take. I forgot all about that place. SOme of the most unhealthy dishes in America and it isn't even good.

I bit into a crab-stuffed mushroom there and it was boiling inside. Had the worst burn on the inside of my mouth that I've ever had. Took forever to heal. I let the little ****er cool for a long while before I tried biting into it. They're good though...

Chili's is overrated in general, but their chicken fried steak is one of the best I've had.

I'm sure Big Daddy would agree with this, LMAO

After watching Restaurant Impossible on the Food channel, I am convinced, there are WAY too many restaurants in America. Time to learn how to cook for yourself.

How can people call the Olive Garden overrated? What the heck do you expect from a place that offers a 3 course dinner for $13 bucks?

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Hooters - it's fast food quality with marked up prices because of tits and ass

Outback - The meat quality is pretty good. My problem with them is that their food lacks culinary mastery. Everything they serve is filled with saturated fat and butter.

Chick-fil-A - I have tried multiple menu items and nothing has hit the spot. Burgers are better.

Jack in the Box - In the e-coli days in the 90s, this place was great. Remember the Colossus??? Their meat quality has really gone down. Some of the patties I get taste like they came from the grade school cafeteria.

Burger King - Same thing with Jack. Their meat quality has gone downhill. Most Whoppers I get are hit or miss.

IHOP - Not trucker enough for my liking.

I don't mind Olive Garden that much, and I feel like I've had plenty of Italian food. Their chicken parm is pretty good. I just don't think of Olive Garden as something that's supposed to be home-made Italian or anything. It's chain restaurant fare.

Olive Garden is an afterthought in affluent, suburban neighborhoods. Buca di Beppo, Carrabba's and Macaroni Grill are now the places the big wigs go if they want franchised Italian.

In my town, riff raff go to Olive Garden. That's why I am surprised it is mentioned so much in this thread. I bet Olive Garden will be like Sizzler and Godfather's Pizza 20 years from now.

My wife and I were going to dinner the other night and were talking about the rise of restaurants. I don't know much about this, but my theory is that at one point in time restaurants didn't exist, and then they were probably invented primarily for travelers while all the locals prepared their own meals.

Then at some point, perhaps in the 30s to 50s or so with the rise of cars, I think local people probably started going to restaurants occasionally for special occasions. No reason to go out when the wife was at home all day to prepare meals.

And then maybe in the 60s you had two changes that made an impact. Fast food started making meals cheap, and women started working. Now all of a sudden families had some practical reasons to start eating out. This probably outweighed advances in home foods like frozen dinners, better shipping to give us diversity of foods, and maybe even things like more mixes.

Now fast forward to today, and my wife and I are going out to dinner just because we're busy and working late and it's more convenient and easy to just walk to a restaurant than it would be to go home and cook. That's a long ways from the original mission of restaurants.

All of this is just a theory, so anyone can feel free to refute it or expand on it.

Pizza Hut blows too.

Their crust is like eating a stick of butter.