Restaurants that suck....

BIGWOODY said:
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My issue with eating out on the cheap is health. I like all the types of food/restaurants you've listed and eat at some of them. But they usually only have a couple of items on the menu that are decently healthy. At this stage in my life I'm trying to keep my current size and not be shopping for bigger pants or a stronger ladder. But it took me awhile to get here, which is why I eat at home 90% of the time or when out, somewhere that has several choices for eating healthy.
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As a guy that’s been over 300lbs for the last 13 years...I get it. But in the last year, I’ve dropped 80lbs. Haven’t really changed much besides portion control and thusly let sodium intake dictate said portion sizes. I’ve found if you follow the sodium, all the other dietary requirements pretty much fall in to place. And those nutrition facts are usually easy to find online and then you know what to order before you even walk in the door. Exercise is a couple laps around the neighborhood, a couple times a week. Beyond that, doc says I’m fit as a fiddle and to keep working on the weight. Figure if I can do what I’ve done for another year, should get me down to 225ish...and it’s a lifestyle I can live with, without peaks and Valleys and killing myself with strict diets no one ever follows for more than a few weeks.
 
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I used to Love Shoney's Breakfast Buffet! Now, if a Shoney's can be found, I'd be scarit to go in!
Love Golden Corral too, but feel like I can't eat enough to justify the cost. And I probably do eat all the Calories!
 
Me and my wife can cook....restaurants are for when we are lazy....for the most part they all suck.
 
WARRIORWELDING said:
Me and my wife can cook....restaurants are for when we are lazy
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I agree, for the most part. We have a "Cagney's" up from the house. My wife an I can get a meat, 2 veg, and a tea for under $14. Part of it IS in fact lazy. But MOST of it is TIME (did I mention we can be there and back in less than 40 min?) as well as cost associated with fixing a meal for just 2 (we only have one at home now, and she's gone most of the time)
I'm in the office most days at 6:30 and leave at 5:30. I get home and she's still at it till sometimes 6:30. No real time to START dinner at that point, or we'd eat at 9. And I'm ready to start dozing off in the chair at 9.

When we cook, I can eat leftovers every day for a week. Doesn't bother me. Princess doesn't DO leftovers, so there's that too.

I MUCH prefer these hole in the wall, greasy spoon greek owned places to ANY kind of chain.
 
I like cooking my own food if I go out It’s for something like sushi that I can’t make at home.
 
How many people actually send food back to the kitchen? Honestly if I think the food sucks, I usually just eat what I can and vote with my dollars next time.
 
farmboy said:
How many people actually send food back to the kitchen? Honestly if I think the food sucks, I usually just eat what I can and vote with my dollars next time.
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Ever see road trip?
Wife use to all the time. I made her watch, shes sucks it up now
 
obullfish said:
Or the movie waiting
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That movie was hilarious!

My vote has to be the newly redone house of pizza in plaza midwood. We waited for close to an hour and never received our food (party of 3). Up and left. No apologies given by an unconcerned management. Can't tell you if it's good or not. I ate there years ago and it was marginal at best then. The food looked about the same recently, judging by all the tables we had time to observe at length.
 
farmboy said:
How many people actually send food back to the kitchen? Honestly if I think the food sucks, I usually just eat what I can and vote with my dollars next time.
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I only remember sending something back once and it was so awful I just wanted to leave and not ever go back but I was definitely not paying for it. I ordered a Reuben at The Raleigh Times that was all grissle. I get that margins are tight in food service, but I was disgusted that someone thought anyone would eat that mess.
 
trailhugger said:
I only remember sending something back once and it was so awful I just wanted to leave and not ever go back but I was definitely not paying for it. I ordered a Reuben at The Raleigh Times that was all grissle. I get that margins are tight in food service, but I was disgusted that someone thought anyone would eat that mess.
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I worked w a crew that installed cabling there 5 or 6 years ago. That building is older than dirt and some of the basements look like a dungeon in a medieval castle, it was cool. I hoped to find some old relics down there, didn't happen.
 
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trailhugger said:
I only remember sending something back once and it was so awful I just wanted to leave and not ever go back but I was definitely not paying for it. I ordered a Reuben at The Raleigh Times that was all grissle. I get that margins are tight in food service, but I was disgusted that someone thought anyone would eat that mess.
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I got kicked out of there once way back when. So yeah, screw that place!
 
One of my Grandfather's, was a Navy Cook, 20 years. Other than pictures, I didn't know him, as he died when I was 1 year old. The Story goes, that when he dinned out, which would have been a Fine Restaurant, & the Food wasn't good, he'd turn the plate full, upside down, & walk out! Guess he had a temper, too! You'd probably get arrested for that now.:lol:
 
farmboy said:
How many people actually send food back to the kitchen? Honestly if I think the food sucks, I usually just eat what I can and vote with my dollars next time.
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Never. I can't tell you how many times I've eaten something I didn't order because they screwed it up. I heard too many horror stories from my friends that work in that industry. (and I was fat and hungry).
 
Another one here who eats out only about once every never. The older I get, the more health conscious I become with food. I hope I never have to meet a heart doctor.
 
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