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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
People will never learn.
I think the % of people with unsecured WiFi is lower now than when I first started using WiFi in aught-three. (I had to buy a WiFi card and install it in my laptop! Uphill! In the snow!)
People will never learn.
I think the % of people with unsecured WiFi is lower now than when I first started using WiFi in aught-three.
I think so, too, but there's always someone, you know? The network is named COOLESTNETWORKEVER (the asscaps are theirs, as is the lack of spaces).
The network is named COOLESTNETWORKEVER
See that, to me, says deliberate choice to open and advertise their network. The ones who don't know what they're doing always seem to call them "default" or "linksys".
The network is named COOLESTNETWORKEVER
See that, to me, says deliberate choice to open and advertise their network.
I thought about that, and then I decided, hey, free wifi.
