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Posted: 5/5/2021 11:02:10 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I remember Ground Round in Davenport Iowa where I grew up. Don't think I ever ate there. We hung out at the Ground Round in Dubuque in ‘86 when I was flying up there. It was one of the best places to eat in DBQ. I know, not saying much.  TC |
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Posted: 5/5/2021 11:02:22 PM EDT
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I recall both. The Ground Round near me turned into a Red Lobster.
My old man nearly got in a fistfight with a Derby manager, after they served me a kids meal fried chicken plate that had way undercooked chicken and refused to fix it. This was like 35 years ago. There was another place we ate at, had a spinning fork as part of their signage. Can't remember the name, might've been too local. Others, Roy Rogers, Rax, Ponderosa, Golden Corral before it became just an all-you-can eat. |
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Posted: 5/5/2021 11:04:09 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryMy cousin managed a Lum’s in Madison, WI in 68-69 when he was getting his MBA. He used drink beer and bang the waitresses after closing.  TC |
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Posted: 5/5/2021 11:06:09 PM EDT
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Posted: 5/5/2021 11:06:49 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: HoJo's Awesome milkshakes at the one near my house growing up. In May, a lot of the Indy 500 drivers would be having breakfast there. Awesome autograph hunting for 6 year old me.  TC |
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Posted: 5/5/2021 11:08:39 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryLums was my favourite place as a kid. |
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Posted: 5/5/2021 11:09:52 PM EDT
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Posted: 5/5/2021 11:09:56 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: There are a few still around but I miss Bennigan's. We have a Bennigan's and a Ground Round in these parts. |
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Posted: 5/5/2021 11:10:31 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: HoJo's Ah, Biden’s place. |
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Posted: 5/5/2021 11:11:24 PM EDT
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Posted: 5/5/2021 11:14:18 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Shakey’s I worked at Shakey's while I went to Oklahoma State Tech,free pizza and all you could drink pop every shift.I still love pizza. |
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Posted: 5/5/2021 11:16:28 PM EDT
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Posted: 5/5/2021 11:17:10 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: We have a Bennigan's and a Ground Round in these parts. That sure tells us a lot. 
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Posted: 5/5/2021 11:18:27 PM EDT
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Posted: 5/5/2021 11:18:28 PM EDT
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Posted: 5/5/2021 11:18:44 PM EDT
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Quote Historyi member |
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Posted: 5/5/2021 11:18:57 PM EDT
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Posted: 5/5/2021 11:19:29 PM EDT
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Roy Rogers, Perkins, Aurthur Treachers, burger chef, and there was another fish and chips place that used fake newspaper to put the fish in that I cannot remember right now but they gave you malt vinegar with the fish.
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Posted: 5/5/2021 11:23:47 PM EDT
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Posted: 5/5/2021 11:25:18 PM EDT
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The Ground Round in Grand Forks ND, is alive and well. When I was in high school, they had a “wing bar” for happy hour starting at 9pm to close. My god, my friends and I destroyed it.
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Posted: 5/5/2021 11:28:48 PM EDT
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Ground Round after bowling as a kid (same parking lot). Peanut shells tossed onto the floor.
Howard Johnsons once a month or so after football for all you can eat fried clam strips. |
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Posted: 5/5/2021 11:32:58 PM EDT
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I remember tossing peanut shells on the floor at the Ground Round. One of my friends worked as a waiter at one in college. I also remember you could get ice cream in a novelty baseball helmet.
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Posted: 5/5/2021 11:35:13 PM EDT
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I remember the original Wilshire Blvd. Brown Derby.
Ate at the Hollywood BD, and at the BD themed restaurant in Disney World. Never been to a Ground Round. I HAVE been to Sambo’s though… good restaurant IMHO. |
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Posted: 5/5/2021 11:35:53 PM EDT
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Posted: 5/5/2021 11:36:40 PM EDT
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How about The Lazy ' R in Wichita, Kansas?
Sambo's I worked as a short order cook for a few months out of high school. Shakey's Pizza is my all time favorite. Loved the large pieces of italian sausage. |
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Posted: 5/5/2021 11:37:56 PM EDT
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Quote Historyall gone around here except for this one replacement 
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Posted: 5/5/2021 11:38:17 PM EDT
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Posted: 5/5/2021 11:39:20 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryThere used to be one in Fairfax until recently, but it's closed now. We still have a Captain D's in Manassas. |
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Posted: 5/5/2021 11:40:25 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryGrandparents loved that place as did I as a kid. All you could eat shrimp and the the thick toast. Sadly my grandmother had a stroke and was paralyzed on her left side and had to go to into a nursing home. With my grandmother gone it left my grandfather to fend for himself as he did not know how to cook. The only thing he could do was boil water for his three cups of tea each day and for his oatmeal in the morning during winter. Well he decided it would be the Sizzler every afternoon for dinner on his way home from visiting his wife in the nursing home. My grandfather did this for years before deciding TV dinners made life easier. |
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Posted: 5/5/2021 11:40:49 PM EDT
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Yeah, both.
Been so long since I ate at one that I don't remember much.] about them. |
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Posted: 5/5/2021 11:43:56 PM EDT
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I ate a bunch of Ground Round when snowed in at Bangor ME, 1996. Was pretty good when someone else was paying for it. Didn't know they were gone.
Who remembers Burger Queen? Became Druther's, then nothing. |
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Posted: 5/5/2021 11:45:56 PM EDT
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Ground Round that was in Downers Grove IL use to have free peanuts and the floor was covered in shells, loved that place!
Shakeys was awesome, pizza buffets and video games. Big Boy also and this is probably more local was Cock Robin a hamburger and ice cream place. I guess this brings me to some other places I miss: Service Merchandise and McDades, Montgomery Ward and Woolworths. Sportmart, Venture, Zayres and K Mart. WOW I am old. |
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Posted: 5/5/2021 11:47:54 PM EDT
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Me and the wife were talking about this the other night since we were forced to go to Olive Garden for a thing.
 She said when she was a kid she thought Olive Garden was the best place in the world. Now it is just gross. We started naming off restaurants we use to go to as a kid that are now are either long gone or gross that we thought were awesome back then. The Black Eye Pea, Chi-Chi’s, Bennigan's, Official All Star Café, Don Pablo's, Kenny Rogers Roasters, Lone Star Steakhouse, Rio Bravo. It’s interesting how many chains are now defunct or very small versions of themselves. |
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Posted: 5/6/2021 2:58:15 AM EDT
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No, but I remember Sambo's They were everywhere when I was a kid.
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Posted: 5/6/2021 3:05:05 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Bob's Big Boy You can still get their secret sauce in Safeway. We keep a bottle in the fridge. |
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Posted: 5/6/2021 3:12:41 AM EDT
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I believe Denny's acquired all of the Sambo's.
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Posted: 5/6/2021 3:20:55 AM EDT
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Meanwhile, Keller's is still serving up No. 5 Specials, cheese tater-tots, and Lone Star longnecks - delivered right to to your vehicle window.
 
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Posted: 5/6/2021 3:22:05 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The Black Eye Pea, Chi-Chi’s, Bennigan's, Official All Star Café, Don Pablo's, Kenny Rogers Roasters, Lone Star Steakhouse, Rio Bravo. It’s interesting how many chains are now defunct or very small versions of themselves. There was a black eyed pea in Colorado springs, I don't know if it's still open or not. Tulsa had a don Pablo's but it went out of business, also a lone Star steakhouse. I tried to eat there once and I never saw a server. |
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Posted: 5/6/2021 3:37:02 AM EDT
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I loved The Ground Round.
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Posted: 5/6/2021 3:53:24 AM EDT
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Ground Round was da shit! Hawaiian Chicken ftfw!
And they had video games when I was kid. Good times. A few others:     |
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Posted: 5/6/2021 4:23:55 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: There was a black eyed pea in Colorado springs, I don't know if it's still open or not. Tulsa had a don Pablo's but it went out of business, also a lone Star steakhouse. I tried to eat there once and I never saw a server. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: The Black Eye Pea, Chi-Chi’s, Bennigan's, Official All Star Café, Don Pablo's, Kenny Rogers Roasters, Lone Star Steakhouse, Rio Bravo. It’s interesting how many chains are now defunct or very small versions of themselves. There was a black eyed pea in Colorado springs, I don't know if it's still open or not. Tulsa had a don Pablo's but it went out of business, also a lone Star steakhouse. I tried to eat there once and I never saw a server. The one on Garden of the Gods closed. I think the one on N Academy may be open. |
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Posted: 5/6/2021 4:31:33 AM EDT
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Brown Derby only.
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Posted: 5/6/2021 4:33:51 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The one on Garden of the Gods closed. I think the one on N Academy may be open. They had a good bacon bleu cheeseburger. I haven't been there in about ten years. |
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Posted: 5/6/2021 4:36:25 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryI remember steak & ale from the 90s. My uncle said that was an old person restaurant. |
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Posted: 5/6/2021 4:39:49 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I remember steak & ale from the 90s. My uncle said that was an old person restaurant.  1985 Steak and Ale restaurant commercial (Whitney Houston singing) |
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Posted: 5/6/2021 5:10:53 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: They still have a brown derby at Disney in Florida |
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Posted: 5/6/2021 5:20:41 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryYou could hit that or the old Perkin's down the street that is long gone. |
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Posted: 5/6/2021 5:33:27 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryThere was a Lum's restaurant near us when we lived in Indianapolis in the early '70s. |
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Posted: 5/6/2021 5:35:17 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryI loved Arthur Treachers Fish & Chips. |
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Posted: 5/6/2021 5:37:43 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: There's still a Brown Derby in Canton Ohio. I passed by it today One in Medina also. Decent steaks. |
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