bcla
On our rugged Eastern foothills.....
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I guess it's whatever you want it to be - barely in your area, completely gone, or just no longer in your area, but what chain restaurants do you miss? It doesn't need to be a chain that's completely gone. I've seen chains that were reduced to scattered locations.
So here are mine:
Elephant Bar. It was kind of an odd concept, but there was one near where I worked at the time, and several locations were near where I used to go a lot. They called it a "pan-Asian" theme, but it was more like a casual dining with an adventure theme. Some of the menu items were distinctly American, but others were Asian inspired. There's only one location left near me. I used to have a difficult time getting a table, and that was one place that all my coworkers would agree to since they had such a varied menu and well-priced lunch specials.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant_Bar
Sambo's. Similar to Denny's although their name was controversial.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sambo's
Swensen's. It was an ice cream shop founded in San Francisco, with menu items that were often San Francisco themed. Most shops actually made their ice cream onsite. There's one store left in San Francisco, and maybe a couple more in the US. However, it seems to be more of an international chain now. I strangely enough had ice cream at one in Changmai, Thailand back in the 90s.
Pioneer Chicken. It was a west coast chain that I understand is barely holding on with a couple of locations.
There used to be a fairly high concentration of Dairy Queens and Orange Julius around me when I was young, but some reason they seemed to close until most of the ones left look kind of grimy. I don't specifically remember it, but I heard there's one last Howard Johnson's Restaurant left.
So here are mine:
Elephant Bar. It was kind of an odd concept, but there was one near where I worked at the time, and several locations were near where I used to go a lot. They called it a "pan-Asian" theme, but it was more like a casual dining with an adventure theme. Some of the menu items were distinctly American, but others were Asian inspired. There's only one location left near me. I used to have a difficult time getting a table, and that was one place that all my coworkers would agree to since they had such a varied menu and well-priced lunch specials.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant_Bar
Sambo's. Similar to Denny's although their name was controversial.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sambo's
Swensen's. It was an ice cream shop founded in San Francisco, with menu items that were often San Francisco themed. Most shops actually made their ice cream onsite. There's one store left in San Francisco, and maybe a couple more in the US. However, it seems to be more of an international chain now. I strangely enough had ice cream at one in Changmai, Thailand back in the 90s.
Pioneer Chicken. It was a west coast chain that I understand is barely holding on with a couple of locations.
There used to be a fairly high concentration of Dairy Queens and Orange Julius around me when I was young, but some reason they seemed to close until most of the ones left look kind of grimy. I don't specifically remember it, but I heard there's one last Howard Johnson's Restaurant left.
