# Food Feast **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [October 9, 2019, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-feast/841539 "2019-10-09T17:14:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 26
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2019, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-feast/841539/501 "2019-11-05T16:34:30Z")
> [@Bayaker](#): > > There’s one about a half-hour from me(in Texas), and I passed at least two of them in Mississippi last year. Seems I jumped the gun in calling the chain defunct. [http://leftcoastcowboys.com/2009/04/07/the-last-real-stuckeys-in-america/](http://leftcoastcowboys.com/2009/04/07/the-last-real-stuckeys-in-america/) The chain still exists, albeit in a modified form. ---
**Author:** ![Personal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Personal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Personal)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2019, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-feast/841539/502 "2019-11-05T16:38:35Z")
Road trip restaurants 1. Cracker Barrel 2. Stuckey’s 3. Perkins Cake & Steak 4. Dairy Queen 5. International House of Pancakes 6. Denny’s 7. Mars Cheese Castle 8. Culver’s ---
**Author:** ![atimnie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atimnie/32/11_2.png) [@atimnie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/atimnie)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2019, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-feast/841539/503 "2019-11-05T17:12:38Z")
Road trip restaurants 1. Cracker Barrel 2. Stuckey’s 3. Perkins Cake & Steak 4. Dairy Queen 5. International House of Pancakes 6. Denny’s 7. Mars Cheese Castle 8. Culver’s 9. Howard Johnson’s ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2019, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-feast/841539/504 "2019-11-05T17:52:31Z")
Road trip restaurants 1. Cracker Barrel 2. Stuckey’s 3. Perkins Cake & Steak 4. Dairy Queen 5. International House of Pancakes 6. Denny’s 7. Mars Cheese Castle 8. Culver’s 9. Howard Johnson’s 10. White Castle I’ll pass. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2019, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-feast/841539/505 "2019-11-05T18:14:22Z")
Fast food restaurants that are on the verge of dying out 1. Roy Rogers ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2019, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-feast/841539/506 "2019-11-05T18:22:31Z")
Fast food restaurants that are on the verge of dying out 1. Roy Rogers 2. Noodles and Company Closed 39 restaurants in 2017, also lost $10.6 million in a data breach in 2016. ---
**Author:** ![mjmlabs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mjmlabs/32/69_2.png) [@mjmlabs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mjmlabs)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2019, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-feast/841539/507 "2019-11-05T18:36:13Z")
> [@](#): > > Road trip restaurants > > \ > 9. Howard Johnson’s Now, that one is defunct; last one closed in 2017: [Whatever Happened to Howard Johnson's Restaurants? | Kiplinger](https://www.kiplinger.com/article/business/T062-C000-S001-whatever-happened-to-howard-johnson-s-restaurants.html) We now return you to “Fast food restaurants that are on the verge of dying out,” already in progress: Fast food restaurants that are on the verge of dying out 1. Roy Rogers 2. Noodles and Company 3. Arthur Treacher’s Fish & Chips ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2019, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-feast/841539/508 "2019-11-05T18:38:46Z")
Fast food restaurants that are on the verge of dying out 1. Roy Rogers 2. Noodles and Company 3. Arthur Treacher’s Fish & Chips 4. Subway I don’t know about “dying out” but they’re definitely in decline. Closed almost 2000 storefronts in the past couple of years. Granted, they’ve got over 25,000 stores, but still, 2000 stores is a very large drop out of a very large bucket. They’re overextended at the very least. ---
**Author:** ![atimnie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atimnie/32/11_2.png) [@atimnie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/atimnie)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2019, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-feast/841539/509 "2019-11-05T19:35:34Z")
They seem to be doing well enough in the south suburbs of Chicago. ---
**Author:** ![Bayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bayaker/32/3454_2.png) [@Bayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayaker)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2019, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-feast/841539/510 "2019-11-05T19:42:06Z")
Fast food restaurants that are on the verge of dying out 1. Roy Rogers 2. Noodles and Company 3. Arthur Treacher’s Fish & Chips 4. Subway 5. Quiznos ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2019, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-feast/841539/511 "2019-11-05T19:44:51Z")
Fast food restaurants that are on the verge of dying out 1. Roy Rogers 2. Noodles and Company 3. Arthur Treacher’s Fish & Chips 4. Subway 5. Quiznos 6. Boston Market ---
**Author:** ![Personal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Personal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Personal)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2019, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-feast/841539/512 "2019-11-05T22:24:10Z")
Fast food restaurants that are on the verge of dying out 1. Roy Rogers 2. Noodles and Company 3. Arthur Treacher’s Fish & Chips 4. Subway 5. Quiznos 6. Boston Market 7. Steak 'n Shake [Steak ‘n Shake ‘Temporarily’ Closes 44 Restaurants](https://www.qsrmagazine.com/finance/steak-n-shake-temporarily-closes-44-restaurants) ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2019, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-feast/841539/513 "2019-11-06T04:05:42Z")
Fast food restaurants that are on the verge of dying out 1. Roy Rogers 2. Noodles and Company 3. Arthur Treacher’s Fish & Chips 4. Subway 5. Quiznos 6. Boston Market 7. Steak 'n Shake 8. Joe’s Crab Shack In 2017, Joe’s Crab Shack filed for bankruptcy. 112 locations existed before bankruptcy; now the site lists 58. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2019, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-feast/841539/514 "2019-11-06T13:53:05Z")
I have to question this one - The category is Fast Food - which Joe’s Crab Shack was not. **ekedolphin** - What say you? You started this one. ---
**Author:** ![atimnie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atimnie/32/11_2.png) [@atimnie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/atimnie)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2019, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-feast/841539/515 "2019-11-06T13:59:35Z")
If that’s the case, then you also have to question Steak & Shake, Boston Market, etc. Without a clear definition of what constitutes fast food and what doesn’t, we could argue about most of the items on the list. ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2019, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-feast/841539/516 "2019-11-06T14:12:03Z")
Fast food restaurants that are on the verge of dying out 1. Roy Rogers 2. Noodles and Company 3. Arthur Treacher’s Fish & Chips 4. Subway 5. Quiznos 6. Boston Market 7. Steak 'n Shake 8. Joe’s Crab Shack 9. Hot n Now"]Hot n Now ---
**Author:** ![Personal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Personal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Personal)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2019, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-feast/841539/517 "2019-11-06T14:46:36Z")
I will defend Steak 'n Shake - it has a drive thru. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2019, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-feast/841539/518 "2019-11-06T16:28:02Z")
> [@Personal](#): > > I will defend Steak 'n Shake - it has a drive thru. And I’ll defend Boston Market. The food is already cooked when you arrive and you go up and order it at a counter. I feel it’s clearly a fast food restaurant. Fast food restaurants that are on the verge of dying out 1. Roy Rogers 2. Noodles and Company 3. Arthur Treacher’s Fish & Chips 4. Subway 5. Quiznos 6. Boston Market 7. Steak 'n Shake 8. Joe’s Crab Shack 9. Hot n Now 10. Dixie Lee I ate at the last one left in the country a couple of weeks ago. Pass. ---
**Author:** ![atimnie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atimnie/32/11_2.png) [@atimnie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/atimnie)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2019, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-feast/841539/519 "2019-11-06T16:31:37Z")
\*And I’ll defend Boston Market. The food is already cooked when you arrive and you go up and order it at a counter. I feel it’s clearly a fast food restaurant. \* By that standard, would you consider buffets fast food? ---
**Author:** ![atimnie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atimnie/32/11_2.png) [@atimnie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/atimnie)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2019, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-feast/841539/520 "2019-11-06T16:32:52Z")
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