I’ve eaten at an Up The Creek. It was pretty tasty. Unfortunately, the people who decided that that location was a good spot for a franchise didn’t recognize that it was the restaurant of doom, so they spent a lot of money redecorating, and lasted probably between a year and eighteen months.
Restaurant of doom has had (that I know of and can remember)
Mexican
Up the Creek
Other Mexican–lasted all of six weeks? Not sure. Know that it was still in the “Hey, maybe we should try that new Mexican restaraunt” phase when we drove by and saw that it was closed.
Barbeque
I’m pretty sure that there has been at least one or two more incarnations of that building which I have forgotten. Although, maybe not. My parents have only lived near it for 10 years.
This is a great topic for a new thread. I bet any good-sized town has at least one ROD. I can show you at least three within two miles of my house. Some of them are closed more than they are open so whoever moves into the place expecting to make a go of it, just cannot see, or else never looked to start with. On paper, they look like they should be booming businesses, but the traffic flow, even though it’s heavy, just doesn’t slow down for those places.
Either that or somebody was murdered on that spot or there was a big outbreak of e. coli or salmonella or Legionnaire’s disease.
Those biohazard symbols on the door ought to be a clue. Reckon?
We have a Biscuits restaurant here in the Dallas/Fort Worth area that somehow escaped from the rest of the chain in Washington state. It does breakfast and lunch only, but has pretty good fish and chips, the only place anywhere near that does.