"sf" > wrote in message
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> On Sun, 11 Aug 2013 21:58:33 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> > wrote:
>
>> Although they are somewhat unappealing to me on the big food level. Most
>> of
>> what is on the menu is what I would term as big food because they give
>> you
>> mammoth proportions of everything! So perhaps the prices themselves are
>> not
>> less than Red Robin, you do get a huge amount of food that you could
>> easily
>> split two or three ways if so inclined.
>
> We usually run into places like that when we're on vacation. We're in
> an unfamiliar place, traveling around - staying in a different motel
> almost every night (so no desire to take leftovers with us) and most
> likely will never make a return visit there. Portions are so huge
> that we would have split it had we known before hand how much they put
> on the plate. We can only look at all that food in amazement and say
> "no wonder Americans are fat".

Yeah. Sadly, I've seen a lot of places like that. If we do go into such a
place, I usually just try to get soup and salad if I can. But often even
the salad is huge. Lots of people are attracted to large portions. I'm
not. I prefer lots of options. To either be able to order side dishes or
smaller portions. We do have a few places here that offer many of the
choices in smaller portions.

Used to be a place here called The Great American Food and Beverage Company.
I have forgotten now which chain owned them. Literally everything they had
was beyond huge. We did like to go there because they had singing waiters.
We knew one of the waiters and he had a very nice voice. But... When we
went there, there was usually 4-6 of us. We would each order coffee and a
drink and one or two things to split. Like a donut or nachos. And even at
that, we couldn't finish it all. I don't think we ever went there for a
proper meal. We usually went late at night.