Bobo Bonobo® wrote:
> On Mar 9, 2:41 pm, Cindy Fuller >
> wrote:
>> In article >,
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>> "jmcquown" > wrote:
>>> "Little Malice" > wrote in message
>>> ...
>>>> One time on Usenet, "jmcquown" > said:
>>>>> The grilled chicken strips on top of the (rigatoni) pasta were okay. The
>>>>> pasta was totally devoid of flavour. Cheese? What cheese? They should
>>>>> rename this dish Bland Pasta with Mediocre Chicken. This unremarkable
>>>>> dish
>>>>> was accompanied by an equally unappealing clam chowder. Not recommended.
>>>> Sounds like you had a day like mine, from a restaurant POV. I took
>>>> my stepmother to the local casino for dinner and slots last night.
>>>> We didn't care for the menu at the sit down place, so we had their
>>>> seafood buffet, which looked quite yummy. Looks are deceiving. When
>>>> a restaurant can ruin Dungeness crab, of all things, I'm sad...
>>>> --
>>>> Jani in WA
>>> Yikes, they destroyed Dungeness? Isn't there some kind of law against
>>> that?!
>>> Jill
>> There ought to be. Hmm, I wonder if we can get one through the WA
>> Legislature in the last 4 days of the session, Jani. If the Texas
>> Legislature could put through a food libel law, so can we.
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>> The SO and I much avoid most of the chains of the Applebee's genre (TGI
>> Fridays, Outback, etc.) except under desperate conditions. Much of it
>> is corporatized, least common denominator chow.
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> I didn't thing that Outback was quite down there with Friday's or
> Applebee's, but perhaps I have a prejudice in their favor, as I used
> to run a cleaning crew that cleaned restaurant kitchens, and Outback's
> was by far the cleanest, best smelling kitchen we did. I never
> actually ate there. I have been dragged to Applebee's. Not a pretty
> scene. When I get served bad food, I don't remain silent about it.
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> The very worst was a place called O'Charley's.
> http://www.ocharleys.com/

Most people never see beyond all of the marketing spin and don't realize
how crappy most of the big box places are. Someeone buys a franchise and
the companies really don't care about quality and cleanliness (except to
say they are wonderful)

My buddy owns a commercial refrigeration business and he does some of
the industrial big box places so he gets to see the back end. He
absolutely refuses to eat in most of those places.

He said of all them Wendy's is actually clean and well managed and he
will eat there.



>> Cindy
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>> C.J. Fuller
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> --Bryan