Exactly. It's just not good enough to want to make the effort to even look. I'm not a food snob whatsoever. But I DO have certain standards about what I expect from restaurant food - like it has to be edible once it arrives on my table. I hardly ever send stuff back to the kitchen, but have more than once at Applebee's. My previous opinion of them in this thread says all that needs to be said.
Millennials are killing chains like Buffalo Wild Wings and Applebee's
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Exactly. It's just not good enough to want to make the effort to even look. I'm not a food snob whatsoever. But I DO have certain standards about what I expect from restaurant food - like it has to be edible once it arrives on my table. I hardly ever send stuff back to the kitchen, but have more than once at Applebee's. My previous opinion of them in this thread says all that needs to be said.
You'd think that, but several of the local places in my area have pretty questionable kids menu items. A toddler doesn't want a lot of spices in their burger - that's what adults want. The kiddo doesn't want hipster mac and cheese with various meats thrown in there - they want straight M&C, preferable of the Kraft variety.
Luckily, there's a place that's walking distance from our house that has mac and cheese and pizza that he'll eat. If we're out and about, we're probably going to hit a chain.
That being said, I don't think I've seen an Applebees in the area, so we don't have to worry about that one.
We once went to a restaurant where my daughter ordered mac and cheese off of the kids menu. It had corn in it. She took every single piece of corn out of the mac and cheese before she'd eat it.
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I can absolutely see the appeal there. I don't think my town even had a McDonald's until I graduated college. They got a Subway when I was in high school and that was definitely a go-to. There'd be a new "local" restaurant every few years as the prior one went out of business. Nights out for adults were to the supper club next town over and for the youngers it was one of the good local pizza places. We were small enough that even chains like the ones discussed here were 45-60 minutes away. Probably why I've never really eaten at them. If we were that far from home, it was probably cause we were doing shopping and we just got fast food to take home. They're close by now, but we have too much other good food in our area to enjoy.
No demographic can be blamed for the success/failures of a business. It's the company's job to identify/create a market demand, and deliver upon those expectations. Franchises like this only have themselves to blame.
Also, every sauce at BWW has an aftertaste of hand soap. The worst galdarn wings I've ever tasted.
Also, every sauce at BWW has an aftertaste of hand soap. The worst galdarn wings I've ever tasted.
Haven't read anyone's responses to this, but yelp is awful. They filter reviews for people who pay them for ads and for the most part people who leave reviews are mostly people who are dissatisfied. So if 1000 people walk through a restaurant and 10 people were unhappy, about 3 of those leave reviews and most likely they were only the people that were unhappy.
We had our niece stay with us a week a few summers ago. She was 9 at the time. My wife made chicken for one meal and the niece asked what it was and we told her it was chicken. She then asked what was wrong with it which really confused us. Turns out she had never had any sort of chicken with a bone in it nor had her parents eaten any chicken with a bone in it around her. WTF?
Shouldn't be surprised I guess since her mom doesn't like fish so none of the kids have ever tried fish and probably never will. We had a chance to go to an uncle's fish fry when with this family last time. As soon as it was brought up this mom started making gagging noises just to make sure that the kids wouldn't be the least bit enticed to try something different. I don't understand why some people don't grow up when they decide to have kids. Of course as a group we had to leave and go have hot dogs rather than a variety of the uncle's catch from all over North and Central America.
Just use Google and the map to find something close to you and is in your interest.
Maybe toddlers, but as they get to kid status some of them appreciate a good mac & cheese that has real cheese in it. We have had them beg to go to places that had real mac & cheese. Eat out for mac & cheese? Please at least have real cheese in it then.
1) I disagree that any of their sauces taste like that, I've loved almost every one I've tried. If not for the prices & service, BWW would be great (wings could be bigger too, of course).
2) I would think after you tried 3-4 varieties of hand soap sauces, that you would stop. Kudos to you for verifying that EVERY sauce they serve has a hand soap aftertaste.
I like going to BWW when its March maddness or NFL season. Other than that, don't even think about it - try to eat more local places. Have not been to an Applebees in 20 year.s
Yeah, parents do their kids ZERO favors when they pass on their irrational finicky eating habits. Picky eaters are not born, they are made.
Applebees... the textbook definition of average food and bland atmosphere.
Buffalo Wild Wings - not bad, though I got food poisoning from there and didn't eat it for years afterwards. Wings are considered great by people who haven't ate many places. A decent place to get a beer and watch a game.
Buffalo Wild Wings - not bad, though I got food poisoning from there and didn't eat it for years afterwards. Wings are considered great by people who haven't ate many places. A decent place to get a beer and watch a game.
BWW is so pricey. Plenty of places to get wings and beer that would cost you about 1/2 as much.
