03-02-2021, 10:57 AM
Do you remember Big Boy restaurants? They were sit-down hamburger joints, the places that served food of the quality that one associates with Burger King, Wendy's, or Chez Mac but at a higher price. They got out-competed by better food (Applebee's? Cracker Barrel? some Chinese buffet?) or lower prices (Chez Mac, Wendy's, Burger King, Culver's) and have largely disappeared. With the demise of that chain has also gone its iconic statue of a fat waiter holding a hamburger in the air.
It had an elderly clientele, and it was the sort of place that one went if someone in the party didn't want to stand while waiting for an order.
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No nostalgia on my part for that chain. If I am going to pay more for sit-down restaurant meals than for fast food I want food better than what I can get out of a freezer to zap in a microwave or what is available as fast food.
It had an elderly clientele, and it was the sort of place that one went if someone in the party didn't want to stand while waiting for an order.
No nostalgia on my part for that chain. If I am going to pay more for sit-down restaurant meals than for fast food I want food better than what I can get out of a freezer to zap in a microwave or what is available as fast food.
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