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#1 2003-08-08 9:49 pm
- wellfleation
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Favorite "chain" restaurants
There are very few that I like, but here is my list in no particular order (keep in mind I'm from the NorthEast but I'll try to keep it national/USA):
Bertucci's
Uno's
Fridays
KFC
D'Angelo's
Macaroni Grill
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#2 2003-08-08 10:01 pm
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Re: Favorite "chain" restaurants
The only place my wife and I eat at is called Newport Bay Restaurant. There are a few of them here in Portland. They have the best steaks and seafood I have ever eaten.
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#4 2003-08-08 10:09 pm
- wellfleation
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Re: Favorite "chain" restaurants
The only place my wife and I eat at is called Newport Bay Restaurant. There are a few of them here in Portland. They have the best steaks and seafood I have ever eaten.
Like I said, lets try to keep it national (USA) as much as possible so others across our vast land can relate and therefore comment on a persons responses. BTW, I'm obviously not talking gourmet food here. Just decent restaurants in that warrant repeated offenses.
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#5 2003-08-08 10:11 pm
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Re: Favorite "chain" restaurants
The only place my wife and I eat at is called Newport Bay Restaurant. There are a few of them here in Portland. They have the best steaks and seafood I have ever eaten.
Like I said, lets try to keep it national (USA) as much as possible so others across our vast land can relate and therefore comment on a persons responses. BTW, I'm obviously not talking gourmet food here. Just decent restaurants in that warrant repeated offenses.
They are national and and are the most decent of the bunch.
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#6 2003-08-08 10:13 pm
- wellfleation
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Re: Favorite "chain" restaurants
Ronald looks like a child rapist. I get your point though. Thanks. (?)
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#7 2003-08-08 10:21 pm
- wellfleation
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Re: Favorite "chain" restaurants
The only place my wife and I eat at is called Newport Bay Restaurant. There are a few of them here in Portland. They have the best steaks and seafood I have ever eaten.
Like I said, lets try to keep it national (USA) as much as possible so others across our vast land can relate and therefore comment on a persons responses. BTW, I'm obviously not talking gourmet food here. Just decent restaurants in that warrant repeated offenses.
They are national and and are the most decent of the bunch.
This proprietor has not made it's way to Massachusetts yet. We are probably spoiled though and may not find this chain acceptable as most seafood restaurant chains are icky compared to the mom & pops. We (New England - MA, RI, Maine residents) are experts don't you know.
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#8 2003-08-08 10:31 pm
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Re: Favorite "chain" restaurants
I despise them all, not that you'll ever catch me eating at one. Chain restaurants are the destroyers of cuisine, high and low.
I make an exception for a very few very small chains (ie, ultra-local ones like TJ's Deli in and around Winston-Salem, NC, and Royal Guard Fish and Chips in Stamford, CT). I also make an exception for certain donut outlets, but those don't count either.
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#9 2003-08-08 10:36 pm
- Tria
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Re: Favorite "chain" restaurants
Like I said, lets try to keep it national (USA) as much as possible so others across our vast land can relate and therefore comment on a persons responses.
I only recognize one of yours (Friday's). 
I try to avoid chains... I have been known to (try to) eat at Claim Jumper's every once in a while though. But even that is just a West Coast thing.
Why is this in MiniThink anyway?
We gonna discuss the political significance of Ronnie?
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#10 2003-08-08 10:40 pm
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Re: Favorite "chain" restaurants
Like I said, lets try to keep it national (USA) as much as possible so others across our vast land can relate and therefore comment on a persons responses.
I only recognize one of yours (Friday's).
SORRY, guess I'm being ego-centric with out realizing it. I don't travel much any more so. . .
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#11 2003-08-08 10:45 pm
- wellfleation
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Re: Favorite "chain" restaurants
Like I said, lets try to keep it national (USA) as much as possible so others across our vast land can relate and therefore comment on a persons responses.
I only recognize one of yours (Friday's).
Why is this in MiniThink anyway?
Where else should it be?
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#12 2003-08-08 10:48 pm
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Re: Favorite "chain" restaurants
Like I said, lets try to keep it national (USA) as much as possible so others across our vast land can relate and therefore comment on a persons responses.
We gonna discuss the political significance of Ronnie?
See my comments in "Let the Arnold puns begin!!!" I am assuming you mean Arnold, correct?
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#13 2003-08-08 11:29 pm
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Re: Favorite "chain" restaurants
My favorite chains vary somewhat by region
NorthEast
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Legal Seafood
Uno's (finest [deep] pizza on Earth)
Bertuccci's (More fine pizza but of the thin crust variety)
South
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Popeye's chicken and biscuits (great place to court an early heart attack)
Teaxa
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Taco Cabana
Rocky Mountains
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Karl's Junior
Puerto Rico
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Pollo Tropical (good local style food)
Anywhere
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Outback
Ruth's Chris
Boston Market (increasingly rare)
Chili's
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#14 2003-08-08 11:42 pm
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Re: Favorite "chain" restaurants
I don't really have any favorite chains, but there's a Chinese place in town called the Tree Cafe, and it is absolutely orgasmically good. By far and wide the BEST Chinese food I've ever had, and I've sampled the cuisine of many Oriental establisments.
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#15 2003-08-08 11:56 pm
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Re: Favorite "chain" restaurants
Why is this in MiniThink anyway?
Where else should it be?
Why, Unplugged, of course!
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#16 2003-08-09 12:01 am
- Tria
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Re: Favorite "chain" restaurants
See my comments in "Let the Arnold puns begin!!!" I am assuming you mean Arnold, correct?
Actually, I meant Ronnie McDonald.
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#17 2003-08-09 1:12 am
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Re: Favorite "chain" restaurants
mmmm....foooood
some of my fav. chains are...
national:
ruth's chris and boston market are both great
fuddruckers
CA pizza kitchen
red robin
quiznos
regional:
fatburger (west coast)
in n out burger (CA)
BJ's (chicago style pizza and brewery; west coast)
fortel's pizza den (st louis)
rocky mountain chocolate factory (i've never seen one further east than colorado, but it could be national)
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#18 2003-08-09 1:24 am
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Re: Favorite "chain" restaurants
The only place my wife and I eat...
Always at the same place; how boring is that!
Anyway, I like many places both chains and not.
Chain restaurants
Texas Land and Cattle (2 states)
Spaghetti Warehouse (9 states)
Pappadeaux (6 states)
Local Restaurants
Katz's Deli
Umi Shushi
Magnolia Cafe
Kerbey Lane Cafe
Favorite fast food
Wendy's
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#19 2003-08-09 1:35 am
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Re: Favorite "chain" restaurants
Baja Fresh is an amazing one....
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#20 2003-08-09 4:26 am
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Re: Favorite "chain" restaurants
Baja Fresh is an amazing one....
Ditto that. I had to cut back because I was eating there almost every day.
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#21 2003-08-09 5:16 am
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#23 2003-08-09 9:02 am
- wellfleation
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Re: Favorite "chain" restaurants
Woops, I forgot to add Legal Seafood and Boston Market. Yummy!
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#24 2003-08-09 9:35 am
Re: Favorite "chain" restaurants
The only place my wife and I eat at is called Newport Bay Restaurant. There are a few of them here in Portland. They have the best steaks and seafood I have ever eaten.
Like I said, lets try to keep it national (USA) as much as possible so others across our vast land can relate and therefore comment on a persons responses.
National? There are quite a lot of international posters here that you're excluding, and even aside from that, i've never even heard of 2 of those places on your list. 
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#25 2003-08-09 11:00 am
- Lauren Lehtinen
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Re: Favorite "chain" restaurants
Pappadeaux (6 states)
mmmm... I should add that to my list of places to go before I leave. I love Pappasitos too. That's some yumminess.
One of my favorite chains, sadly for y'all, only local is Rockfish. It's great inexpensive seafood. As Dallas is the chain restaurant capital of the world, we get most chains before other people do. I really like
Maggianos, Macaroni Grill, and Blackeyed Pea.
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