Originally Posted by Sidd Finch (Post 476218)

Once you figure this out, explain to me why people would ever go to Rainforest Cafe without kids.

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski (Post 476217)

you r welcome.

Originally Posted by Sidd Finch (Post 476218)

If you figure this one out let me know, because I've never understood it. Maybe it's just that some people fear that any non-chain will be overpriced or bad or dirty, but even if that ever made sense it doesn't know with the ease of Yelp and TripAdvisor and so forth.

Once you figure this out, explain to me why people would ever go to Rainforest Cafe without kids.

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop (Post 476223)

You're Al Gore now?

Originally Posted by Sidd Finch (Post 476219)

There is a chain in Paris called something like "Indiana." There is also a national chain with some faux-western name. I have eaten at these places. They are American-ish, but they are off in a number of ways -- ways that are really good, and often kind of funny.

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski (Post 476225)

you've now whiffed twice this week. you were never a whiffer. do I need to fly out there?

Originally Posted by Sidd Finch (Post 476218)

If you figure this one out let me know, because I've never understood it. Maybe it's just that some people fear that any non-chain will be overpriced or bad or dirty, but even if that ever made sense it doesn't know with the ease of Yelp and TripAdvisor and so forth.

Once you figure this out, explain to me why people would ever go to Rainforest Cafe without kids.

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall (Post 476179)

Yes, I am Wonking.

I do not understand Outback's business model. I went to one in New York once and the steaks were $28. And the steak sucked. Why would I pay that kind of cash for a steak at outback when I could go to a very good french bistro and get a steak that is twice as good for the same price?

I understand that Outback is like the most successful restaurant franchise ever (by profits per restaurant, I think), but I just don't get it. Surely in the places where the steak prices are actually a good deal, there are other options for steak at the same price point. Or is it all about the bloomin' onion?

TM

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall (Post 476198)

I see. So you're saying that when they are tourists, they still don't know any better and reach for what's comfortable even though they're in a city of endless food options?

When I'm in Paris, I refuse to eat anything American. When I'm anywhere outside of the US (and often when traveling while still in it), I drink the local beers. What is so different about midwesterners that they need Olive Garden?

TM

Originally Posted by ltl/fb (Post 476254)

Nice "when" not "if."

Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan (Post 476226)

When I lived in England, a local diner asked us to sample their pancakes, because they didn't have any clue what "real" American food was like. There wasn't any cornmeal to be sourced locally, so they used polenta. Close enough.

Originally Posted by Fugee (Post 476272)

People put cornmeal in pancakes?

Originally Posted by Flinty_McFlint (Post 476273)

I thought the very same thing. We must not be from America. Or at least, not the South.

Originally Posted by Flinty_McFlint (Post 476273)

I thought the very same thing. We must not be from America. Or at least, not the South.