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COVID Restaurant Closings

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout' started by Roscoe Arbuckle, May 26, 2020.

  1. Xerobull

    Xerobull You son of a b!tch! I'm in!

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    Someone has to shift to the bottom. Today's chic fad is tomorrow's Moe's Tavern.
     
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  2. body slam

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    not a restaurant but covid has closed Wild West.
     
  3. Joe Joe

    Joe Joe Go Stros!
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    Arlington making their stadium look like Wild West damaged Wild West's image.
     
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  4. Buck Turgidson

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    I don't think you know Houston all that well. The **** the kiddies think has "chic" will be torn down in 20 years and replaced with something else.
     
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  5. Xerobull

    Xerobull You son of a b!tch! I'm in!

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  6. droxford

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    More like 20 days.

    The trendy, $25-burger places don't deliver better quality or service than the mom-and-pops, and their prices are much higher. Their only advantage is that they're new and, well, trendy.

    But trend-following crowds are fickle, and the chic $25-burger place of today becomes an out-of-style forgotten restaurant tomorrow that can't survive when nobody wants to buy their overpriced food any more.

    The sad part is that as they arrive and leave, they're supplanting the mom-and-pops in the process.
     
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  7. Mr. Brightside

    Mr. Brightside Contributing Member

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    Aren't most of these $25/burger places family owned as well? They are just run by a younger demographic.

    The issue with a lot of older places is that they don't innovate their menu and tend to have few to no healthy options. That is important for today's consumer.
     
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  8. droxford

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    Don't know if they're family-owned, but their target client is a trendy, wasteful, young, single person, not a family. Mom and dad don't wanna spend $100 taking their kids to get burgers.

    And although it's nice to have a new item on a menu, it's also nice to have an old-reliable restaurant that's consistent.
     
  9. rhino17

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    Thats like, an opinion bro
     
  10. Roscoe Arbuckle

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    Looks Like We're adding a local legend to the fray. While it was Temporily closed due to this ****, their voicemail says their property is up for sale. A literal institution since 1959.



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  11. Blake

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    Damn man BBB going out hurts.
     
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  12. Dr of Dunk

    Dr of Dunk Clutch Crew

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    The #6 will live on in my memories... we used to eat there all the time when I worked at a nearby hospital. Greeeezy and oh so good. It's what a burger place should be to me. Damn your In-and-Out, Whataburger, and whatever-trendy-aioli-arugula-goat cheese-spawn-of-Satan-burger-place may be...
     
  13. droxford

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    Wow.....

    My dad took my mom there on their first date (in the 60's).
     
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  14. Buck Turgidson

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    That sucks. Great place.
     
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  15. Buck Turgidson

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    Question!

    Where are these places that you're trying to spend $25 on a hamburger?

    Because you actually have to try to spend that much for a burger.
     
  16. Joe Joe

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    Ghettos off Kirby.
     
  17. Ziggy

    Ziggy QUEEN ANON

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    $50+ kobe beef burgers are on menus all over the city. City. Not Katy, Pasadena or Woodlands.
     
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  18. droxford

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    If a husband and wife take their three kids to Hopdoddy, order burgers (non-fancy), fries (small), and cokes (fountain), with no dessert or extras, their cost is gonna be $85, and that's not even one of the fancier places to get a burger from.

    (my math: Hopdoddy's Classic burger with cheese is 8.75; small fries is 3; fountain soda is 2; x5 people; tax is 5.67; tip of 15% is 10.30)
     
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    You buy 1 drink and 4 waters and just keep refilling that thing. Everyone knows that.
     
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  20. R0ckets03

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    You also don't have fn kids and make sure the girlfriend/wifey makes more money then you.
     
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