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Originally Posted by scho63
It still amazes me that people eat at Olive Garden, Red Lobster, TGIF, Carrabba's and the few remaining shit chains out there. 
Were you forced there by another?
Do you really like that place?
The sales of all these restaurants are tanking as Americans are becoming more interested in quality rather than quantity.
I've eaten ONCE in my life at Olive Garden because I had to for a large surprise party for a friend. I've eaten at Red Lobster about five times when I was in my 20's because they had this great looking bartender and I only ate an appetizer. I've been to TGIF less than ten times as it was the ONLY place open that served dinner after 10 pm where I once lived. |
I went very willingly. I happen to really like their soup-and-salad. And it's soup-and-salad, all that really matters is the dressing, and there's is pretty darn OK.
As for the food the others ate, they LOVE it. They LOVE IT better than our "real Italian" restaurants in KC. Are those places authentic? Not really...but few know what authentic Italian tastes like, and might not like it because it's not the Ragu they grew-up on. Much like Mexican and Indian food.
But I'll tell you this, you will rarely see the line waiting to get into Garozzo's or Vi's that you see most evenings and every weekend at Olive Garden, so they're doing something right.
That being said, since I grew-up half my life in Rome, if I could just get those folks from the Restaurante Abruzzi (Google "Restaurante Abruzzi Roma"), and that'd be worth a LOOOONG wait. At least it was in the 70s when I lived there.
And let's not forget why mirco-breweries are usually micro-breweries - their product tastes like ass and only people who like to seem high-brow say they're good. Not to say it's not fun to try other beers, but there's a reason they stay small...