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Last time I ate at a Chili's we were seated at a less-than-clean table and hardly saw a waitress. They had recently debuted that PDA-based surrogate waitress system where you can order, pay, and be entertained by shitty games and a 3 frame per minute fireplace app. Then they tacked on a dollar for "Table entertainment fee" and I wanted to THROW that F'n thing! Never again, big chain restaurants!

MoneySheep says

Buffalo Wild Wing CEO said: "Millennial consumers are more attracted than their elders to cooking at home, ordering delivery from restaurants and eating quickly, in fast-casual or quick-serve restaurants,"

Cooking at home? Not from what I've seen, many of them have no idea how to boil water and aren't sure of what a pan is used for. But have their food delivered?? Oh, yeah, they'll do that till the cows come home. The funny part is, some delivery services have the tip built in to the service charge, others a tip is 'expected'. There is ALWAYS an extra charge to have the food delivered - so yeah food courts would a 'win' in their minds.

MoneySheep says

Buffalo Wild Wing CEO said: "Millennial consumers are more attracted than their elders to cooking at home, ordering delivery from restaurants and eating quickly, in fast-casual or quick-serve restaurants,"

I don't go to sit-down casual restaurants because I do not want to pay tips on top of the food. But I do eat at food courts.

http://www.businessinsider.com/millennials-endanger-casual-dining-restaurants-2017-5

Don't eat food with a bar code. Trip Advisor / Yelp will get you to local places with real food. I've traveled all over the USA doing this, no issues.

rocketjoe79 says

Don't eat food with a bar code. Trip Advisor / Yelp will get you to local places with real food. I've traveled all over the USA doing this, no issues.

But, but, but ... do you have to TIP????????? The horrors.

Translation, Milineals are staying hombe boiling their own hotdogs and warming up their own frozen Chicken Nuggets.
The simple diet they grew up on.

Automan Empire says

Last time I ate at a Chili's we were seated at a less-than-clean table and hardly saw a waitress. They had recently debuted that PDA-based surrogate waitress system where you can order, pay, and be entertained by shitty games and a 3 frame per minute fireplace app. Then they tacked on a dollar for "Table entertainment fee" and I wanted to THROW that F'n thing! Never again, big chain restaurants!

Last time I went to Chilis I had a tasteless re-heated patty for $9 and the servers were all goofing off.
Olive Garden is worse. Literally all entrees are frozen in plastic bags. Why pay $10 for frozen pasta?

TwoScoopsMcGee says

Last time I went to Chilis I had a tasteless re-heated patty for $9 and the servers were all goofing off.

Olive Garden is worse. Literally all entrees are frozen in plastic bags. Why pay $10 for frozen pasta?

Yelp like the other dude said....find lot of independently owned restaurants that charge similar rates for food and have higher quality and degree of freshness

Restaurants are too expensive these days. Every regulation, every tax, it all makes it more expensive to run a very competitive business. And costs get to a point where customers can't afford it. If you want to blame someone, blame liberals who went with idiotic socialist anti-business and anti-america policies.

APOCALYPSEFUCK_is_ADORABLE says

5) Run valet parking and make the wait staff run it and charge a minimum of $20 per car. See #3 and #4 above.

Lol....use Uber as a point against places that gouge with valet bullshit.

That and I don't like to pimp out the 2007 civic with all my wife's trash in it