They may start out good, but as a restaurant grows, things have to change. You have to be able to produce the same quality across the board. This is hard for two main reasons. 1- Ingredients. If you are going nation wide, your options for supply become far fewer. So brands you start with, may have to changed in order to get the same supply across the board. 2- Prep. Most chains no longer prep their own food, again for quality assurance. You want your onions in your wild rice soup to be consistent, so you start buying 10 or 15# bags of chopped onions as apposed to having a prep cook do it. Instead of making your own dressings, you have them made somewhere. All these little steps slightly reduce the quality of the food you serve. Death by a thousand cuts. Applebee's is the worst. I think 95% of their food is cooked in a microwave...
We got a new BWW about 2 years ago. The first few months were great. Every wing had loads of sauce and free ranch/bleu cheese. Now, the ranch is like $.70 a pop and there is hardly any sauce on the wings. Hooters is a ridiculous joke. The only reason I go there is for their beer, which is the coldest in town, and fried pickles. Saying Hooters is the best is just juvenile.
Some people aren't as picky and don't mind the "crappy" food. I have been eating clean and trying to stay organic lately but when I did eat out at a fast food or a chain it was just another meal, I wasn't going for quality food. It's just 1 meal and I will eat thousands of times again in my life so why people are picky about food just baffles me.
It is not about being picky. I'm probably the least picky eater you will meet. But I enjoy food and I do not enjoy paying restaurant mark up prices for mediocre food. If I'm going to pay the mark up for someone else to cook for me, it better be a superior product than I can make at home, or at least equivalent if I'm just eating out for the convenience. Plus I would rather support my local businesses than some national chain.
Also, who in their right mind would go out for wings and order boneless wings. Are they not just pieces of breast meat with crappy sauce on them and labeled "wings?" (Besides chicks)
All I know is, I make one hell of a venison jerky, venison burger, and venison steak medalions. When I do go out it's to a high end BBQ rib or classy steak place (non chains) because that's what I fancy when I go out.
It's funny when someone says they are eating "healthy" when you see them eat a bagel with cream cheese for breakfast, eat a salad smothered in salad dressing, and breadsticks by the half dozen. But feear not, they skipped the "high carb stuff" lol
Is it old age or male pattern baldness that's caused this hostility? Nothing wrong with grabbing a few beers and some boneless wings with your buddies at B Dubs. While I agree the food isn't astounding I don't believe that's why people go there. It's a good casual place to get together, enjoy a few beers, watch some sports, ogle whatever cute waitresses may be working, and eat some crappy "wings". Do you have a better recommendation? Perhaps enjoying a glass of fine wine and a petite filet at a candle-lit table? Back to the topic at hand - I'll agree with OG and Outback being the two most overrated chains. I'm a bit of steak snob so Outback is on my no-fly list. I can't bring myself to pay their prices for their horrible steaks. And as others have said, OG is simply too expensive for the quality of food. There's too many better options for Italian food that cost the same and are way better.
I think both their food and service sucks. It's only one notch above Hooters and that isn't saying much.
Wait I got it. Worst chain ever is Ponderosa!! I forgot about them but thankfully they are closing up one by one because of the worst food on the planet.
Agreed!!!! In & out isn't even in my top 5 for chain burger places. Way overrated! "Animal style"- let me cover your burger and fries in a crappy version of Big Mac sauce, Um no thanks!
It has to be old age, because I started going bald in HS. Absolutely nothing wrong with getting together with buds for beers. But, there's an obsession with BWW and people thinking its quality food. If I'm getting together with people, BWW is my last choice. I want to be able to hear what they're saying without having to shout. Plus, I want to eat some decent food at the same time. I guess I forget that people around large cities, like yourself, probably don't have many choices, except the chain restaurants. Up here we have supper clubs and dive bars out in the country that are much better to get together at. And quit calling "boneless wings" wings. They're not. They're miniature chicken strips with sauce on them.
My memory may be fooling me here... But one good thing is that BWW does have .50 cent wing Tuesdays/Thursdays. I understand those wings aren't nearly as good as some other sports bar, etc - But it will take you a while to find wings that cheap.
