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Well, something’s rustled, but I’m not sure it’s the cattle.
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Don’t sleep on Waffle House. They have juke boxes that play songs about the food at Waffle House.
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I must admit Waffle House as a late night stop just looks perfect and I really really want to visit Red Lobster as seafood here is expensive in most other restaurants and those shrimps just look so good.
I know I know 
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Well said.
Can we create a separate thread for the food derail? SC saw one of the highest death totals ever and 22% positive rate which was hidden by fewer tests
Hospitalization data still not being reported
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Ditto. No rona, no such thing as KC Strip ldo.
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Best part about red lobster is the cheesy biscuits
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oh shit
game recognize game granddad
and you lookin kinda un-fa-mil-i-ar
Their biscuits are legit amazing. Rest of their food is meh. I have tried and failed to recreate many times. Don’t buy the boxed version either. It sucks.
I made sure to go to one when I visited Atlanta. Worth it.
Sometimes you want some comfort food.
Alright I got a good one for you guys. One of my coworkers at my old job got a part time job at cheesecake factory in march and was still on training shifts when everything got shut down, we were both laid off at the job we share and not yet rehired, but he was furloughed or whatever they did at cheesecake factory he was forced to go back to work there or lose his unemployment benefits.
Also right before the shutdown I interviewed to be a full time bartender and the interview went horribly, I was a little too honest and told the first manager things like the new online ordering system we were trying out was going to “cannibalize the restaurant and make everyone’s job worse”, and one manager came in halfway through and tried to ask me some tricky fun interview questions but they were so fucking confusing and stupid I couldn’t answer any of them the way he actually wanted and I was so pissed that at the end I thanked the first manager and turned around and left, and after the shutdown they turbo boosted the online ordering plans and only rehired a fraction of the staff and kept the inexperienced managers who made less money and they were the only two managers laid off.
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I think last time I went to Waffle House was at my friends wedding at Sewanee, which is middle of nowhere Tennessee. He for whatever reason wanted to go to Waffle House at 2 AM for the after party. To be fair, not sure what else there is to do at Sewanee. But anyways was fun to see the usual 2 AM Waffle House crowd basically go WTF and clear out after a wedding party came in.
Very much this from my experience here. I would say most ‘mom and pops’ places ive been to on like roadtrips and stuff were even worse than then corporate shit (from a culinary perspective).
Cant say much about non-London places on the UK, but once had to spend a week in Wolverhampton and i can say without a doubt that Nandos is the best restaurant in the city.
I made more money bar tending on Panama City Beach than at any other job pre-college degree. Fact.
But I was not a good waiter. I have terrible short-term memory and just hated every aspect of it. I spilled a strawberry daiquiri on a woman once. She was wearing a white sweater. I didn’t just spill the drink and get a little of it on her. I dumped the ENTIRE thing on her lol that was the end of waiting tables for me at that place.
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I couldn’t wait to eat in a restaurant in phase 1 because I was sick of my own cooking at that point.
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I also interviewed with Applebee’s for their management training program after college after the job I had lined up fell through. The interview process was cake, The guy really liked me and I had a strong F&B background. But I balked at two things: 1) they wanted me to come in and work an entire dinner shift (for no pay) to “see how things worked” and 2) the starting pay at that time was around $32k for an assistant GM. Now, that was more in salary than I had ever made up to that point, but I wasn’t stupid. I talked to a guy who worked there and said the AGMs averaged around 65 hours per week. They also worked allllll the nights, weekends and especially holidays so the GM could naturally get the best shifts possible. So you’re basically a college grad working trash hours for essentially not much more than minimum wage. Fuck that! If I was gonna put in that kind of time I might as well go sell cars. At least I’d get paid.
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A friend I met at Applebee’s was going for a hotel and restaurant degree and became the kitchen manager and then moved up and went to Bennigan’s eventually. He worked all the damn time.
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