In Culver City, there is a grilled cheese restaurant called Meltdown that I really need visit.

I had no idea. Now I need to visit too.

We also have a restaurant that serves nothing but macaroni & cheese:

Oh dear. Now I need to go to New York. I love mac & cheese.

Speaking of, my son has a friend over & they had TJs mac & cheese for lunch. They split 1 container and asked for more! That's like 500 calories each for lunch. I have no idea what my son is doing with all that food he eats. I mean, he's growing, sure, but he isn't growing that fast.

In Huntington Beach many moons ago there use to be a place that served everything over baked Potato. That is you started with your baked potato and the poured Mac N Cheese over it. Over meatloaf over it. Or just about about any standard cafeteria dish. I guess they just took the idea of covering baked potatoes with stuff and extrapolated to an insane degree.

I also remember a place that specialized specialized in Mexican food and Sushi. NOt fusion, just offered combinations with both. Not a success. (The potato place was still in business when I left SoCal, but I have trouble believing it lasted. Baked Potato bar is one thing - just pouring any old thing over baked potato, my guess is the market for that is limited.)

Anyone else have any weird eatery concept fail stories?

In Huntington Beach many moons ago there use to be a place that served everything over baked Potato.

Decades ago, I used to eat at a place like that called One Potato Two in a mall in Green Bay. They were (are?) a chain, but I don't know how widespread.

When I was a kid there was a local sandwich shop whose slogan was "The sandwich is YOURS." I never did grok what they meant by that.

Dude, we have Butter.

Sweet Lord.

I've enjoyed my excursions to Buca di Beppo. I had some really good chicken marsala there.

When I was a kid there was a local sandwich shop whose slogan was "The sandwich is YOURS." I never did grok what they meant by that.

Maybe it was a riff on Captain Planet's "The power is YOURS"?

Miami has Cuban/Chinese/fried chicken restaurants.

Now I need to go to New York. I love mac & cheese.

S'Mac is awesome, too. Even more awesome is the "Pinch and S'Mac" on the Upper West Side, which combines the mac and cheese menu of S'Mac with the no-longer-available-elsewhere gourmet pizza of Pizza By The Inch (ordered in 4", 6", 8", 12", etc. up to 36" strips), with extra sexual suggestion in the name. [link]

So I decided to Google the phrase that my son and his friends have on their t-shirts to see if it is anything I should know about. The first 3 links of 5500+ are videos of my son and friends in school taken from cell phone cameras. Hope none of them plan political careers.

HA! Laura. You should show him, or at least mention to him you've seen, as an object lesson in why not to post stupid shit on YouTube.

Laura, is it seriously bad or just adolescent stupidity?