How to Use Old Chain Restaurants
IHOP is now IHOB and it is now fighting all the burger chains because nothing can stay clean in our decrepit world. Fortunately, Metafilter recently discovered a fascinating blog called for Broken Chains , which deals with the remaining locations of network of restaurants, long- out-of prosperity , such as Ponderosa , Lum’s and York Steak House is .
I asked comedians Nick Wiger and Mike Mitchell, who seriously discuss chain restaurants in their Doughboys podcasts, about the allure of old chains. They found out about it to Prustian: the old chains, they say, “are always worth a visit to try to figure out who they wanted to be. To see what it is now, and compare it with your memory (or imagination) of the past. ” For example, they visited the Carrows in South Pasadena: “Everything about its interior, food and service reflected a business that was slowly dying out.”
They gave me a meditation that sounds like an introductory narrative for a future Chi-Chi film: “There is sadness in the dying chain, especially the one that used to be good. Has his time passed. Or the passion has died out. Or it just didn’t work. Or say goodbye. “
If you prefer nostalgia than bewildered numbness the next time you visit the web, here’s a Doughboys tip for finding an underrated web: “Follow the regulars, especially with the elderly. Just be aware that they might stay here out of nostalgia or loyalty, and your own experience may not be the best. This could be bad. But it will be an experience. “