Oh, do I ever! My favorite side! I’d get a chicken 'n biscuits, au gratin potatoes, and bean soup!
guilty as charged
Likewise, as a former NC resident, there’s no place I’ve found around here that can scratch that chicken-and-biscuits itch like Bo’s. And that iced tea so sweet it makes your toes curl. Mmm. . .
Really? I only rarely ate ice cream there. Mostly we went for a meal.
When I was in high school, Farrell’s was the place to go for after-school socializing. I remember the “Zoo” sundae, mentioned in that Wikipedia article.
I haven’t seen one in decades. Apparently the last one closed just a few years ago.
Another chain that still has several locations in Tucson.
I was never a big fan of their pizza, but I certainly ate there plenty of times. There is not really bad pizza IMO. And the buffet was popular with us in high school. But it was a decent enough regional chain.
But what I found most peculiar, was went I went to the Philippines. You might expect Mcdonalds or other global chains. But Shakey’s was all over the place. at least the touristy areas I visited. This always seemed odd to me. If you want to expand your pizza chain, wouldn’t you expand domestically?
Ahhh, holy shit, Swensen’s. My parents used to drag me to classical music concerts in summer. My reward when it was over was Swensen’s, where I’d get a nice big malt.
Shakey’s was in Japan. I’d never even heard of the place until I was there. I actually visited their buffet quite a lot.
In the US, they’d have all sorts of competition, particularly from Pizza Hut, Domino’s, Papa John and Little Caesar’s. The Philippines might be a wide open market. Or it might simply be that the local franchise operator is just aggressive.
Around here it was just “The Der.”
Didn’t mean to imply Schlotzsky’s had disappeared. Just that the local franchisee had failed and that currently there are none anywhere near me. Currently, the closest locations seem to be Battle Creek MI. or Maumee OH.
I live not too far from one here in Arkansas but a lot of them closed a few years back. It turns out that basing your business model on screwing over your franchisees is not good for business.
Oh, I didn’t mean to imply you did! It’s just funny to me how chains can completely saturate one market and be peripheral or non-existent in another. As another example, in Texas we have a grocery chain called H-E-B that has enormous brand awareness – there’s one in every moderate-sized town, their ads are all over the place, etc. They have 340 stores and are the 19th largest retailer in America. But I’ve rarely met someone from outside of Texas who’s aware of them, which isn’t surprising because all of their stores are in Texas.
Mimi’s Cafe. I grew up with it in CA, and was happy when it expanded to MD. But now there are no more around here.
I owe my life to Shakey’s Pizza.
I wish I could clone Shakey’s like Cartman did, but I can’t get my hands on enough stem cells.
My parents met at the first Shakey’s. I literally wouldn’t exist without it.
Godfather Pizza? In London, Ontario? I’ve never had a Godfather pizza, but I do recall being in London maybe 30 years ago, and noticing them all over. What struck me was that they were all individually numbered: Godfather Part III Pizza," “Godfather Part IV Pizza,” “Godfather Part V Pizza,” and so on.