Outstanding Sir.

Thanks for being the best mod. Glad you’re here.

Fairly certain he doesn’t act that way in public. Since he isn’t here to defend himself. I won’t go on. Well. He wouldn’t read it anyway since he has me on ignore.


Hey, he had me on ignore, maybe he had a good idea every once in a while. Lol

I never heard of EatNPark. What are they similar too? Are they a type of travel center or more like a restaurant?

Keith

It’s kind of a diner style restaurant with a salad bar if you choose it. I can’t say they’re similar to any one other restaurant?? Not like a dennys, not like a hoss’s cause it ain’t a steak house for sure. Food is standard. It’s just a nice neighborhood place. Old people seem to like it. And now I do too…..
They have a newspaper machine by the front door

Like Bob's Big Boy, they actually started as a Big Boy franchise and pulled away and started the Super burger

We had Elby’s Big Boy for a little while. My grandparents used to go there on Sundays for dinner at like 3 o’clock

If I go to a restaurant, and they have toilet paper in the men’s restroom, I consider that a pretty classy place.

There used to be a big boy in Corydan IN off I 64 exit 105. it's closed now and food was OK at best. But it was a stop my Grandfather always made and thought it was something to stop at big boy and eat on our trip up to "the farm" his sister place now My farm. One of those fond childhood memories.

That is cute!
We would always buy Candy at the checkout counter. That seems to be a thing of the past…I can remember getting some sour lemon drops in a little tin that was probably worth more than the cost of the candy.
It’s all about the memories made. I am not a “jet-setter” , I don’t go to fantastic and far away places. Content with my life and going to these little spots in town with the people I love.

Sounds like a Bonanza.

Ohio has mostly Frisch's Big Boy. The Bob's Big Boys might be all gone now. Frisch's had a special franchise agreement with Bob's. Bob's got bought out several times and one of their owners declared bankruptcy. The next owner sued Frisch's and lost, so they aren't associated anymore.

Frisch's is a decent restaurant with a somewhat cult like following. When they were going to tear the one down by the University of Dayton, people chained themselves inside in a vain attempt to stop the destruction.

My dad would always stop and buy jars of tartar sauce at Frisch's, when he ran out.

They sold candy and gum at the counters too.

Keith

…. I have no idea what yall are talking about

^^^This!^^^

Here in Michigan it was Elias Brothers Big Boy. Several closed during covid but there's one in Bad Axe Yet.
When I was in High school, in Illinois, I worked at a Howard Johnson. At the counter they sold candy bars, brown bread in a can, and salt water taffy. They're all gone now. Used to be a bunch along the freeways.

I liked the fried clam strips at Howard Johnsons

Our community has the same fascination with the department store Hills.
Which is a whole new thread in itself

All this talk of food and desserts is makin me hungry!!!! I could go for a Texas Roadhouse big ribeye with loaded baked potato and a side salad with ranch !!! And the bread can’t forget the bread lol

But minus the loud music and square dancing!
Studda Bubba over here…