My stepfather used to take us all to Morrison’s for dinner sometimes; I guess it was a cheap way to feed a bunch of kids. Man, that food was awful. Like a nursing-home cafeteria.
According to your link, Piccadilly cafeteria bought out Morrison’s ten years ago. There’s a Piccadilly right around the corner from us; maybe I’ll have to go check it out for old times’ sake.
But probably not.
Considering the names, I’d assume so, but I don’t know for sure.
Were Daly drive in local to Detroit. There may be 1 left. IHOP is disappearing here. Taco Bell used to be big, Oh wait that was too soon. If they are blamed for killing a few they will be in trouble. Jack in The Box was done in by wiping out a few customers.
-Tastee Freeze is nearly gone around here, there used to be 4 nearby locations now there are only 2.
-There used to be a restaurant in Charlottesville VA called Caravan, “Home of the Humpburger.” It closed probably 15 or 20 years ago, and the building was replaced by something else. The restaurant was shaped like a tent, and the sign had a stylized camel on it. I think there was another Caravan in a nearby city, but I never knew if it was a national chain.
-Is Pargos still around? There used to be one in Charlottesville but it’s been closed for some years now.
-Golden Skillet fried chicken, the last one I knew of was in Louisa VA but it’s been gone for 4 or 5 years.
Done in? It’s about as done in as Popeye’s Chicken and Biscuits, which is KFC’s number one competition but is the subject of wonder in this thread.
Done in? It’s about as done in as Popeye’s Chicken and Biscuits, which is KFC’s number one competition but is the subject of wonder in this thread.
I thought that after the Fast Food Wars, all restaurants are Taco Bell 
There’s also one in Pocomoke City, Maryland (ate there a week or so ago, in fact).
Oh, I don’t know if it still exists. I haven’t been there since 1988 or so. I was just reminiscing.
Ironically, after typing that, I went home for lunch. MY wife was looking for options for getting a ham for a holiday party and had Boston Market’s website open.
Apparently, our neighborhood just wasn’t a good location for homecooking. We’re too yuppie…
The only Togo’s I know in any form is in the food court at the Pentagon.
All the talk about Horn and Hardart made me think of another I hadn’t seen in a long time: Horn and Horn Smorgasborg, one of the “stuff yourself silly with all you can eat buffet lines” type restaurants that probably shut down after health concerns (and, when there were customers like me, idiots trying to eat their weight in self-serve frozen yogurt. Mmmmm, frozen yogurt).
It would seem that (a) I do not know how to spell Smorgasbord, and (b)Horn and Horn was affiliated with the aforementioned White Pot Coffee, and now goes by the name Cactus Willies, where it exists at all. (A whopping six locations, including the site of at least one former Horn and Horn where I had gorged myself as a child, the Harford Mall)
I keep finding out more that amuses me.
One of the six Cactus Willies is less than seven miles from my house.
I wonder if they still have frozen yogurt?
There are 9 Freindly’s Ice Cream Palors in the Yellow Pages in MD, one in Gaithersburg isn’t listed but i am sure it was there ~ a year ago
**Max Carnage ** and control-z Pargo’s exists in Frederick, MD where I have eaten w/i the past year and (apparently) in Winchester VA where I have not. Telling a tale on myself: Until this thread I thought the Frederick was a stand alone - presumably named after a guy in Frederick, his best nickname for his best gal or his cat. Had no idea it was a once mightly chain.
The last Shakey’s in Boise will be closing soon (if it hasn’t already); the owner is retiring from the pizza biz after 42 years, if I remember from reading the recent newspaper article. We didn’t go there much as a kid. The pizza was okay, if I recall, but not my favorite. The pizza place we went to the most in the 1970s was Keystone Pizza, which I believe was a local or regional chain. They played old silent black-and-white movie reels of the Keystone Cops on a small screen in the dining area. The location we went to has since been through many reincarnations of other pizza joints and I don’t think there are any more Keystones around anymore.
Godfather’s Pizza is no longer around here. Several years ago they were bought out by Round Table Pizza, which in turn sold off its old stores to independent owners, which is now Idaho Pizza Company, which is the best pizza around here, in my opinion.
I was really disappointed when Rax disappeared. I had only gotten to eat there a couple times. Same goes for Boston Market, whose presence in my area only last for a year or so. As I understand, they expanded too aggressive and then realized they bit off more than they could chew, so they closed many of their newly opened locations. I also hated to see Kenny Rogers’ Roasters go.
This was the Red Barn. Although the link mentions Southern Ontario, there was also a unit as far west as Regina, Saskatchewan. My family ate there on a vacation when I was a kid. The restaurant was near the hotel where we were staying, and we were all Red Barn fans already after eating at several of the Northeast Ohio locations. The chain was a great argument-settler, as it had fish, chicken, and burgers, while other nearby fast-food franchises lacked at least one of these entree options.
There’s still one left in Columbus, Ohio. While this link doesn’t mention the fact, some stores changed to York’s Choices in an attempt to de-emphasize the steak when red meat hit one of its periodic downswings in popularity.
This thread has been a great read whilst I was stuck on a conference call, but my Og: where’s the love for Olga’s Kitchen? As the hyperlinkatude suggests, they’re still around, but they’ve retreated almost exclusively to Michigan… they used to be here in the Middle Atlantic and customer feedback on the website suggests that they used to be around on both coasts. Olga’s was (is?) basically Americanized Greek food. An Olga – they’re namesake food item – was basically a gyro made with a sweeter, chewier bread than a typical gyro pita. Freakin’ delicious. Come back, Olga’s!
Interesting to me to see all the Farrells references in this thread… we had a local Farrells – now long gone – and I didn’t realize it was a chain. All I remember from being there for a birthday party when I was little was that they had a huge signature ice cream dish called “the zoo” and if anyone ordered it they’d ring bells and sirens would wail, and they made a big production of bringing it to your table where everyone would eat it communally from the same dish. I guess this was supposed to be fun, but I found it to be just as demeaning and gross as a ~4-yr-old as I would today.
These days it seems that Togo’s, Baskin-Robbins, and Dunkin Donuts are being co-located whenever they put up a new one.
When I went to college in Gainesville, FL, in the late '90s, we had a great all-you-can-eat Kenny Rogers Roasters (long since converted into a huge free-standing Chick-Fil-A) and an all-you-can-eat Godfather’s Pizza (not sure if it’s still around or not).
You can hardly drive five miles in the Bay Area without finding one. They are independent here - no Dunkin Donuts 