I remember reading an article that suggested the McDonald’s had planned on eliminating the Filet O Fish, or relegating it to a seasonal menu (like the McRib). I thought to myself that I would never go to McDonald’s if they didn’t have the Filet O Fish available*
Please share your examples. In case it’s not obvious, I’m thinking of single items (and it doesn’t have to be food-related)
*not including breakfast
I agree with you about McDonald’s. The Filet O’ Fish is the only thing to get when it’s not breakfast time.
If my local bait camp never sold fresh-dead shrimp(but I don’t know what else they could possibly do with them), I would never patronize them. I chunk lures as a rule in the bays, but if I’m going to fish the surf, dead shrimp catches everything!
I would never go to Outback if they didn’t have the Bloomin’ Onion.
Another vote for Filet O Fish.
I would probably never go to Durango except for that really nice cannabis shop on the south end of town.
I would never go to Florida again if my in-laws didn’t still live there. And considering they’re in their late 80s, I don’t expect I’ll be going there many more times.
DQ without soft chocolate ice cream is dead to me.
The nearest one is still a bit of a drive. The old manager didn’t keep the machine up and running all the time and it was hit or miss (so we only generally went in the summers when the chances were higher). But the “new” guy keeps it up and running so we go there every few months.
YES!!! I thought I was the only one that ordered that. I have 3 DQ’s close to me and only one has chocolate soft-serve. When my husband is craving a Blizzard I direct him to that one. I love a simple chocolate soft-serve cone dipped in chocolate. MMM MMM
I go to my local McDonald’s for the iced tea and very little else.
I don’t know if this is a national trend or not but my local easily has the best drive-thru iced tea in town. Fresh, cheaper than most, not excessively iced and just a bit stronger than most people might prefer. Too many places has switched over to the bag-in-box synthe-brew that somehow manages to taste both flat and caustic. And that’s before they load it down with nasty fake fruit flavor and enough artificial sweetener to give me a headache just from the smell of it.
I have no more relatives in Florida. But I will go there one more time because I want to go toGatorland.
I’d never go to Chipotle if they didn’t have fresh, juicy norovirus.
Well, never say ‘never,’ but:
If a restaurant doesn’t offer cheese fries, I’m not a customer.
Go to Canada: they not only put cheese on the fries but also gravy. It is a national delicacy (for select definitions of “delicacy”).
I go to Jason’s Deli very seldom since they took their ‘Cuban Press’ sandwich off the menu.
I’d probably stop going to Chick-Fil-A if they didn’t have chicken. 
I’d never go to Wal*Mart if they didn’t have [del]an exit[/del] reasonable business practices and secure, well-paid employees.
I would never go to a Dokken show if they didn’t have George Lynch.
I have no real reason to go to McDonald’s of they suddenly stop serving fries (or change their recipe for the worse again). Actually, you could make that all fast food burger places. The sandwich is just an incidental; I’m all about the fries.
Popeye’s would be almost as useless as KFC if they didn’t have spicy style. Of course, they’re so poorly run you never know when they’ll be out of it at any given time.
Back in the day when the smoking ban in bars was getting under way, I went to places I’d generally never go because you could still smoke there and drinking without being able to smoke wasn’t worth it.
Manicotti at T.G.I. Fridays. Many years ago I used to go there semi-regularly and I rather liked their Manicotti. Frankly, it wasn’t amazing or anything by a lot of standards, but I liked it. Then they eliminated it from the menu, and I basically stopped going.
I wouldn’t go to Las Vegas if my father didn’t live there.
I wouldn’t shop at Kroger if they had no express lanes. Oh, wait, they replaced the express lanes with more self-checkouts. I no longer shop at Kroger.