Dave Smith > wrote in message >...
> "Jack Schidt " wrote:
>
> >
> > I skip all those chain places anyway; they seem more for drinking than for
> > eating and the bar tain't that special neither. The advertising of their
> > food always makes it sound like a trough, where the pigs can slurp mass
> > quantities of food. It just don't send me. I rue the times when I'm in a
> > place where it's either that or dine at the 7-11.
> >
> > Jack AppleBeenigansRubyTGIFChilis
> >
> > PS food snob? uppity? You bet, man; I'm picky as to what I put in my
> > mouth, dammit!
>
> Food snob? To pay high prices for franchise food is hardly a matter of
> snobbery. I generally make it a rule to avoid any sort of franchise
> restaurant, and any meal I have had at one reminds me of the reasons.

While I agree (as long as you really mean "generally"), there are
exceptions. Locally, their is a few Brio/Bravo restaurants which have
maintained consistently good food. However, I don't know if this is
true outside of my area (Greater Cincinnati.) The prices are quite
acceptable as well. Otherwise, I also avoid most chains, except for
breakfast and lunch on the run.

Dean G.