It’s a restaurant with a bar, not really a diner. It’s more of a place that middle-class workers would go after work to have a few drinks and eat cheaply sourced food. It also doubled as a place for families to go during the day. We have several of these kinds of restaurant chains that all serve microwaved food and have a bunch of memorabilia on the walls. TGI Friday’s, Applebee’s, Chili’s, Fudrucker’s, etc.
The original was Max & Erma’s. They were the first “casual dining” restaurant that appealed to baby boomer nostalgia in their design/layout. Imagine the bar from Cheer’s but with antiques, collectables, and vintage signage all over the walls. It became a chain and was so successful everyone started copying it.
As far as I know yeah. I guess Harvester might be there closest thing we have, but that’s more like shitty pub grub. I think Applebee’s is just shitty food in general.
food mass produced offsite, packaged in bags, sent to restaurant where it is either microwaved or the bag is put in a hot bath to heat up. to be honest, i don’t think i’ve ever eaten there (because i have dignity and ) but it’s known for being low-tier amerislop for boomers without tastebuds
Frankie & Benny’s or TGI Fridays would probably be the closest in more recent decades, especially the fact that they had a bar and were very much for the office worker crowd back when I remember them being big / new.
Most of ours are roadside places really, but none fit exactly. Little Chef was probably the most like it in terms of not having a ‘theme’, but the kinds of food and cheaper vibe was more like Happy Eater’s maybe, with the buffet counters and salad bar etc.
(For any non-Brits go look up Happy Eater restaurants. The logo was a Pacman seemingly trying to make itself throw up, I shit you not)
lol I was just thinking someone should compare this pic to where US/UK bases are
We don’t have it in the UK. Not sure we have anything like it
Got me thinking, I have heard of Applebees before but have never cared enough to think what it is - Is it a diner or some kind?
An extremely shitty diner
I’d take a diner any day over CRAPlebees, cheaper too.
Burgerlander slop joint
It’s a restaurant with a bar, not really a diner. It’s more of a place that middle-class workers would go after work to have a few drinks and eat cheaply sourced food. It also doubled as a place for families to go during the day. We have several of these kinds of restaurant chains that all serve microwaved food and have a bunch of memorabilia on the walls. TGI Friday’s, Applebee’s, Chili’s, Fudrucker’s, etc.
The original was Max & Erma’s. They were the first “casual dining” restaurant that appealed to baby boomer nostalgia in their design/layout. Imagine the bar from Cheer’s but with antiques, collectables, and vintage signage all over the walls. It became a chain and was so successful everyone started copying it.
Oh that’s interesting, I forget how much of this gets imported into our (UK) country and culture
As far as I know yeah. I guess Harvester might be there closest thing we have, but that’s more like shitty pub grub. I think Applebee’s is just shitty food in general.
food mass produced offsite, packaged in bags, sent to restaurant where it is either microwaved or the bag is put in a hot bath to heat up. to be honest, i don’t think i’ve ever eaten there (because i have dignity and
) but it’s known for being low-tier amerislop for boomers without tastebuds
Frankie & Benny’s or TGI Fridays would probably be the closest in more recent decades, especially the fact that they had a bar and were very much for the office worker crowd back when I remember them being big / new.
Most of ours are roadside places really, but none fit exactly. Little Chef was probably the most like it in terms of not having a ‘theme’, but the kinds of food and cheaper vibe was more like Happy Eater’s maybe, with the buffet counters and salad bar etc.
(For any non-Brits go look up Happy Eater restaurants. The logo was a Pacman seemingly trying to make itself throw up, I shit you not)