Originally Posted by FAX (Post 8405373)

I don't know about some of these places ... like Applebee's, for example. I ate there once. But afterwards. I did some calculations and decided never to go back. Here's what I figured out ...

The average US male person lives 75.6 years. If you deduct the first 18 years on account of those are the years where you either eat pizza or don't get to choose the restaurant, that give you 57.6 total dinner years. Then, you have to deduct another 5.6 years because those are the years you either eat oatmeal or malt-o-meal or some other kind of porridge which leaves you 52 total dinner years.

52 years times 365 is 18,980 dinners. Now, you have to deduct about 4,290 dinners to account for Christmas, Thanksgiving, Picnics, Orgies, and other special events and that gives you a grand total of 14,690 dinners you can eat in your lifetime. That's it. Only 14,690 dinners. And you guys want to waste one of those eating at Applebee's?

FAX

Originally Posted by Mr. Flopnuts (Post 8404774)

Chic Fil-A. The breading iss good, but it's a dry ass chicken sandwich on a cheap bun with 1 pickle. It's like reeruned Eddie got to design his own sandwich.

Originally Posted by Dave (Post 8405727)

Their sandwiches are not good at all.

I always get the strips. Way better.

Originally Posted by jspchief (Post 8404345)

Applebees is shit. Frozen premade meals. Try ordering a dish without an ingredient like onions. They can't do it.

Olive Garden is decent, but its overpriced and its not good enough justify how busy it always is.

Anyone who says PF Changs is over rated needs to shut their whore mouth. Kung Pao scallops and DanDan noodles is the food of the gods. And their tea is phenomenal.

Originally Posted by Saul Good (Post 8405733)

Yep. In fact, I will be eating those tonight. Tuesday's are buy one meal and gt a kids meal free nights. Plus their milkshakes are great.

Originally Posted by Bo's Pelini (Post 8405740)

Dunk N Donuts taste like dick

Originally Posted by Dave (Post 8405743)

I like how the nuggets and strips have their own flavor.

Originally Posted by Saul Good (Post 8405745)

I feel like the nuggets are dry. They seem overcooked to me.

Originally Posted by Rain Man (Post 8405261)

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.

Originally Posted by Bo's Pelini (Post 8405740)

Dunk N Donuts taste like dick