I once went to a Cheesecake Factory for an office lunch. It worked well for a group in which one person couldn't eat gluten, one insisted on a burger, one insisted on a salad, and so on.
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Fred Pete - May 22, 2009 7:21:16 am PDT #10605 of 30000
Ann, that's a ferret.
Gris - May 22, 2009 7:31:16 am PDT #10606 of 30000
Hey. New board.
Gris - try NAIS ? [link]
Thank you, Sox! That yielded a couple of promising openings that for which I wasted no time in applying. You rock!
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - May 22, 2009 7:31:23 am PDT #10607 of 30000
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
We're up to 60 phone calls and 30 e-mails. I might start taking bets on when this is going to stop...
d - May 22, 2009 7:37:37 am PDT #10608 of 30000
It's nice to see some brave pretenders trying to make it interesting.
Ok, I bet tomorrow at 11:59 pm.
Frankenbuddha - May 22, 2009 7:42:32 am PDT #10609 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I once went to a Cheesecake Factory for an office lunch. It worked well for a group in which one person couldn't eat gluten, one insisted on a burger, one insisted on a salad, and so on.
I consider CF perfectly cromulent chain food, with lots of options, all done reasonably well. They are a little pricier than some, but the portions are also gianormous (too much so, in my opinion, but I don't mind taking leftovers).
Speaking of gianormous porions, I just thought of another decent Italian chain that's not local - Maggiano's. Love their tiarmasu and the chicken saltambocca.
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - May 22, 2009 7:48:25 am PDT #10610 of 30000
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
d, bet noted. (Not sure what we're betting.) Although this has gone on for over a week before. That was an interesting week. I wanted to kill the two-hundredth applicant to say "I have lots of experience in a care home". With a spoon.
d - May 22, 2009 7:56:42 am PDT #10611 of 30000
It's nice to see some brave pretenders trying to make it interesting.
I sometimes have very little experience taking care of myself. Does that count? Good luck finding someone competent and kind.
I don't mind Cheesecake Factory. I like Carraba's for their sangria. Buca was nasty food. Haven't been to Olive Garden in forever. I am hungry for lunch now!
Trudy Booth - May 22, 2009 8:11:11 am PDT #10612 of 30000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Though for Italian, I prefer the not-chain in the shopping center nearest to home.
It always fills me with glee when I find a good non-chain restaurant in a shopping center.
Calli - May 22, 2009 8:17:03 am PDT #10613 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Due mostly to this thread I went out for lunch to a local Italian place called Puncinella's and had chicken marsala. The entree was pretty good, but the salad dressing (made in the kitchen, not bottled, according to the server) was outstanding. As I've been stuffing myself with salad every night this week, courtesy of my traveling friend's CSA, I think I'm starting to photosynthesize. So it made it hard to really appreciate the salad, even with the delicious dressing.
Steph L. - May 22, 2009 8:18:10 am PDT #10614 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Buca di Beppo frightens me. I'm fairly sure that if there is a hell, there's a Buca di Beppo in every circle.
Buca di Beppo is my idea of hell. I've eaten there once. Never ever again.
I'm cool with Olive Garden and Macaroni Grill.
Best Italian I've had was at Mama Santos in Cleveland's Little Italy. Nom.
I'm at my dad's while my car is being tuned up, and he has a neighbor with unsecured wifi. People will never learn. For which I'm grateful.