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[โ€“] minorsecond@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I grew up going to On The Border and Olive Garden, and thought they were good.

[โ€“] Spoken_Weakley@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] arditty@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Really just restaurants in general. Covid put so much stress on any restaurant that was already running on a thin profit margin. I feel like Iโ€™m general portions have gotten smaller or lower quality, prices have gone up, and the little extras are gone.

[โ€“] Wahots@pawb.social 1 points 1 year ago

Five guys used to be amazing, but really felt like it fell off a cliff in my area. I'm also just eating out less. It's so damn expensive and the food quality in general seems to be way down compared to the mid 00s to mid 10s. Maybe my tastes have changed, but I swear to God if we had a time machine, the food in like, 2011 would taste way better at many restaurants.

[โ€“] s_s@lemmy.one 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] CyanFen@lemmy.one 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I feel like if you don't like the sandwich you got at subway isn't that kinda your fault since you're the one who built it?

[โ€“] s_s@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No idea man. I've refused to eat there for about 15 years.

The bread smells like plasticsizers, the meat reaks of nitrates, the lettuce smells like chlorine...it's like bad prison food--is that my fault?

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