I grew up going to On The Border and Olive Garden, and thought they were good.
What changed for you?
I went to college and got more curious about local restaurants and different cuisines, and learned that there’s much better food out there.
Chili’s and Golden Corral.
Subway in the 90s was kinda awesome. It was fast and wasn’t a burger place and it had the old brown and yellow subway wallpaper everywhere.
Then they kept expanding locations and the meat and cheese slicers disappeared.
Then they ran $5 footlong.
Then they kept running $5 footlong.
And kept running it. And the quality kept dropping and dropping so they could keep the price peg.
Now, it’s disgusting and costs way too much.
You couldn’t pay me to eat subway, now.
Panera Bread and Burger King. I feel like both have become pretty horrible.
Chain restaurants have been garbage since COVID. (TBF they weren’t exactly stellar before.)
You can tell that many servers and cooks moved onto other careers during the pandemic. It seems like servers now are way too inexperienced with little help.