Places To Eat

My friend* Mark Evanier posted this list on his blog and I thought I would take a stab it myself.

*We are legally required to telll you that Mark Evanier is not my friend. He could be but he's not. And that makes me sad. I must bury my sadness with food. Or a blog post about food.  

It's a list of chain restaruants and as the header suggests, you give yourself a point for each place you've eaten at.

(Call me old fashioned but I still hate ending a sentence with a preposition. I know the arbiters of the English language have made their peace with it but I haven't.)  

Some of these places I have not eaten AT but I did get food FROM there....

So let's give this a go!  

Yes, I know! What the hell is BASKET Robbins? Or a StarBUCK?

Let's start with Column #1. It would be easier to list the places have not eaten at or from: Chipotle, Jack In the Box and White Castle. 

Some of these are not around here in Greensboro anymore and may in fact be dead in the water nationwide, such as Quizno's and Boston Market.  Andrea and I used to like eating at Boston Market but the one here in Greensboro died a death of a thousand cuts.  

From Column #1, we've got 11 points.

Moving on to Column #2, Greensboro got a Whattaburger a few months ago but I've yet to give it a try.  And we do not have an In & Out. 

We do have a Five Guys which I found to be overpriced and overrated. No one needs that many french fries. As for Starbucks, I ponied up to the bar once for a hot chocolate and a muffin.  

So for Column #2, that's 12 points.

For a total of 23 points.

Moving on to Column #3.  

I have not eaten at a Shake Shack, Wing Stop, Dave's Hot or Popeye's.  In the case of the latter, I do hear they have Superior fried chicken.

We used to eat at TGI Friday's but we stopped when they took Dean's favorite fish dinner off the menu. We haven't been there in nearly 10 years I think so they petulantly closed their Greensboro location and tore the building down to the ground with a different restaruant being built in it's spot. 

So that's 10 points for Column #3 for a grand total of 33 points.  

Which gets me... what? 

I think this may have been a pointless exercise.  

But now I'm hungry! 

Now if I only had an idea where to get some food....