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Trabant posted:As in... to punish her? There was something else going on in that episode, she was expecting to get in trouble when she showed it to him but he didn't care and I just remember him exclaiming excitedly, "Let's go to the Sizzler!". That's my Sizzler story.
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Oct 9, 2020 20:21
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AvesPKS posted:Sizzler is where Lisa's dad took her after she got a bad report card on Saved by the Bell and I'm pretty sure that's the last time I thought of one before now Well they were in the news a lot for E Coli. That's mostly how I'll remember them.
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Oct 9, 2020 20:23
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3YGtQ40Qvs i was sure i had posted this in here at some point but maybe i'm just thinking of the 90s thread
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Oct 9, 2020 20:35
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Krispy Wafer posted:The original Chick-Fil-A, also in Atlanta, is still an operating restaurant, but it’s weird. Like it’s a sit down restaurant with waitresses and nice plates/silverware and a tiny dwarf door you can enter through. That's because Cathy started with the Dwarf Grill, a chicken place down by the old Ford plant. Then he found a way to cook chicken fillets as quickly as hamburgers and opened the first Chickfila in a mall food court.
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BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:Well they were in the news a lot for E Coli. That's mostly how I'll remember them. This is my main thought when thinking of Sizzler. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6o5NweFWjAw
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Oct 9, 2020 21:27
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My only context for Sizzler is Weird Al's magnum opus, Albuquerque. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oe5gaCxWOkg&t=480s It also made me think I wouldn't like sauerkraut but turns out I love the stuff.
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Oct 9, 2020 21:35
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Soylent Pudding posted:Waffle House is a thing of beauty: https://bittersoutherner.com/waffle-house-vistas This was a good click, thank you. It reminds me of two things - 1) the last time I went to Waffle House was 7 or 8 years ago with a beloved friend/neighbor who I have since lost contact with; 2) as a kid I enjoyed road trips and was oddly fascinated by the little pockets of commerce adjacent to interstate exits. Some were larger than others, but the bare minimum usually consisted of a gas station, hotel, fast food, and sometimes a sit-down restaurant. Then as a young adult I took a journey through the Northeast and discovered those median-occupying service areas, like rest stops on steroids! We don't have those in VA or NC, at least not where I usually traveled. I know there's one in WV near the I-64 and I-77 confluence. e: My god, the 2006 flash animation for the above song is quite something https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JE37e1eK2mY Ofecks has a new favorite as of 22:08 on Oct 9, 2020 |
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Oct 9, 2020 21:41
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Scholtz posted:My only context for Sizzler is Weird Al's magnum opus, Albuquerque. Sizzler is nasty. When I was a kid and my family would go to NC, Golden Corral was always the pro post-beach buffet choice. The times we did sizzler it was always a bummer. The dining area in a sizzler has strong “someone who’s already written their suicide note and is treating themselves to a last meal” vibes. It’s grim with this weird resigned finality to it.
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Oct 9, 2020 21:43
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Sizzler has intense “Lie Bot, what is the saddest thing” energy, basically.
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Oct 9, 2020 21:46
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Soylent Pudding posted:That sounds like a chickfila dwarf house. I remember a couple of them around metro atlanta and as a kid we always loved going to the one near the local mall. Side note, that mall failed so utterly it's now the set where they shoot the mall scenes in Stranger Things Gwinnett Place Mall was the poo poo back in the 80’s and 90’s with its indoor waterfall. It was the coolest mall around that was rendered obsolete overnight when a bigger mall opened north of them. Turns out a fatal amount of their business were people up I-85 towards South Carolina.
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Oct 9, 2020 23:39
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I like some restaurants. But other restaurants, other restaurants I don't like as much.
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Knormal posted:I like some restaurants. Those ones you like are the bad ones and you should feel bad for liking them. The other restaurants are the epitome of haute cuisine and you're obviously a goony goon goon who couldn't appreciate them unless they served Doritos and Mountain Dew.
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Oh sorry guys was just testing out the neural net I trained on 20 years of gibbis posts
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Oct 10, 2020 00:35
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Knormal posted:I like some restaurants. The end, no moral.
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Krispy Wafer posted:Gwinnett Place Mall was the poo poo back in the 80’s and 90’s with its indoor waterfall. It was the coolest mall around that was rendered obsolete overnight when a bigger mall opened north of them. Turns out a fatal amount of their business were people up I-85 towards South Carolina. Most of my "first jobs" were in that mall. I worked at EB Games (not as fun as you'd think), then went to KB Toys (unload a delivery truck by myself in December? Sure), then (if anyone remembers them) that weird Game Keeper board game/puzzle store.
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I worked at that Sears stocking shelves. It was an utter poo poo show of corporate dysfunction and dehumanization. It's also where I began my journey from Ayn Rand worshiping suburban teenager to fully automated space socialist. Specifically they moved mattress sales into my department because we weren't paid on commission. They promised training for us on mattress sales but never actually gave us any. So I started finding the commissioned salespeople and calling them in to close the mattress sales. Since they rang it up they still got commission. My bosses were like "Soylent, why do you keep bringing in people from other departments." "Well bosses, I still haven't received my sales training but they have, so I'm just being proactive in ensuring we get as many sales as possible by bringing in the employees most likely to close the sale."
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Oct 10, 2020 02:08
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Silly Burrito posted:This is my main thought when thinking of Sizzler. Holy gently caress I thought I was the only one. I’ve never been anywhere near a Sizzler in my life, but the name will forever be burned in my memory thanks to this amazing movie.
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GPTribefan posted:Holy gently caress I thought I was the only one. I’ve never been anywhere near a Sizzler in my life, but the name will forever be burned in my memory thanks to this amazing movie. Your mother's an astronaut.
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Oct 10, 2020 04:06
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oh dope posted:I don't really have anything to add except I drove by a real life, open for business, Ground Round a couple weeks ago and it blew my mind. My mom used to take me and my sister to the one in our neighborhood all the time 30 years ago, and it closed 20 years ago. I had not even thought of Ground Round since I was like 5, but now the memories are flooding back. I remember exactly where it was, and I ate an ice cream sundae out of a tiny plastic baseball hat that wouldn't even fit a newborn child. The building is now an urgent care medical clinic, and it is located inside the parking lot of a ghostly strip mall. Between empty slots there is an Aldi, Dollar General, and a Thai place that is shockingly far better than the expensive one downtown.
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Knormal posted:I like some restaurants. Sarah Palin is that you???
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In the late 90s, Villagr Inn was where my social circle spent way too much time. I remember the day they finally banned smoking inside and switched out the ceiling panels, I had no idea they were supposed to be white too.
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Apparently they tore it down about 5 years ago, but one of the Denny's we liked to go to actually had a bar attached to it.
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Iron Crowned posted:Apparently they tore it down about 5 years ago, but one of the Denny's we liked to go to actually had a bar attached to it. Was the bar part of the Denny’s or was it a separate storefront with a door in the middle type thing?
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Was the bar part of the Denny’s or was it a separate storefront with a door in the middle type thing? I honestly don't know, I haven't lived in the area in 17 years, and I wasn't exactly going to bars yet when I did. It was sort of our tertiary Denny's, so we didn't go there frequently, but I recall the entire building being a standalone, where most of it was Denny's, but there was definitely a separate area with it's own entrance that was a bar. EDIT: Just looked it up on GOogle Streetview, and the sign says: "<-- Cocktail Lounge Resturaunt -->" and the door clearly has a Denny's logo on it. EDIT 2: Yeah, looks like it closed in 2018 and was torn down in 2019, it's now just an empty field 
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I remember when there was a Sizzler every other town on Long Island in the 80s-90s, then they became almost solely a west coast thing.
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Blue Footed Booby posted:Honestly, I think that's just a function of people not remembering how the symbol works in math. You wouldn't think people could forget "the crocodile wants to eat the bigger number" but some people seem to put lots of effort into not absorbing stuff. Alli-greater, Less-lie-Ann. Alli-greater made sense, there's no tie-in to alligator or crocodile for the "less than" sign, so they just went with a proper name. Still, just knowing the alligator part works for me. I am so unbelievably math stupid. Unrelated and not a circling the drain story, but I remember when Meijer was known as Meijer's Thrifty Acres.
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Iron Crowned posted:I honestly don't know, I haven't lived in the area in 17 years, and I wasn't exactly going to bars yet when I did. It was sort of our tertiary Denny's, so we didn't go there frequently, but I recall the entire building being a standalone, where most of it was Denny's, but there was definitely a separate area with it's own entrance that was a bar. Denny's Lounges used to be a thing. We had one near us when I was a kid in the late 70's/early 80's in the Chicago suburbs. But when we moved to California, there were no lounges. But during a late 2000'3 trip to Seattle, we came across one. I'm pretty sure it even allowed smoking. It was like a trip back in time, complete with the old Denny's starbust raised wood decorations. For the life of me, I can't remember where we were, and I can't find it on Google street view. Somewhere between Tacoma and the OR border. I am sure it is long gone. Edit: Might have been Spokane. Looks like as recently as 2016 it had a lounge Cat Ass Trophy has a new favorite as of 21:40 on Oct 13, 2020 |
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I think Denny's in Washington state still have a few of the lounges, Spokane does I think? The one I went to in Everett had one in 2002, probably still does.
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https://twitter.com/Gizmodo/status/1316104186065547265
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Oct 14, 2020 02:57
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If only a superhero (movie) would come and save them.
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Solice Kirsk posted:If only a superhero (movie) would come and save them. :rohrschachsignal:
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Oct 14, 2020 22:09
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I just hope Alamo Drafthouse makes it
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quote:AMC reported it had opened some 494 of its 598 theaters in the U.S. as of last Friday, though they are operating at 20 to 40 percent capacity, and overall attendance stood at just 15 percent of a year prior. Is there even any profit in operating them like this? Seems like they could probably make the money last longer if they just kept the vast majority of them shuttered.
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But the republicans keep telling them if they open er up everything will be okay/
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Straight White Shark posted:Is there even any profit in operating them like this? Seems like they could probably make the money last longer if they just kept the vast majority of them shuttered.
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Straight White Shark posted:Is there even any profit in operating them like this? Seems like they could probably make the money last longer if they just kept the vast majority of them shuttered. You're probably right except they're worried people will find somehting else to do than go to the movies and then they'll still be doing that when they open back up
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hawowanlawow posted:I just hope Alamo Drafthouse makes it I know of at least one that's pivoted to a drive-in theater. I'm not sure if they have carhops delivering food and drink but that would be pretty cool.
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