"The Cook" > wrote in message
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> On Thu, 12 Sep 2013 20:32:06 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> > wrote:
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>>"Ed Pawlowski" > wrote in message
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>>> Oh, yeah. It was a big treat to eat there when we went "downtown" to
>>> shop
>>> with my mother. My Aunt Emily was a cashier at H&H for many years too.
>>> They went from the Automat to a cafeteria style later but they
>>> eventually
>>> fell on hard times. IIRC, they had a frozen food line for a while.
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>>I loved cafeterias too. Now they are gone except for in some hospitals
>>and
>>they are just not the same as they used to be.
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> Maybe in your world, but in mine they are alive and well.

Really? Wah. None here that I know of. Sadly this has become the land of
mediocre chain places like Qdoba and Subway. They're even bringing a
Denny's back. Odd because it closed due to lack of business. There used to
be a mall across the street and now it's a Costco. And people who shop at
Costco tend to either take Coscto food home to eat or buy something cheap
from their snack bar. Of course the mall shoppers might have eaten there.
But this mall had few restaurants. There was the yummy but slightly pricey
Azalea room. For a time there was the Jolly Jester and I think it changed
to the Stockyard, in later years a Sandwich Aisle, the greasy donut shop and
the Karamel Korn shop. But quite often you'd see people laden with shopping
bags from the mall, eating in Denny's.

After it closed, someone else bought it and named it something like the
American Diner...totally unrelated to Denny's although the menu did have a
few of the same food items but it was much more extensive. Horrible food and
I was told horrible coffee (one main attraction of Denny's) and terribly
slow service. It did not stay open long.

And now there is a banner stating that Denny's is opening soon. We'll see
how that goes. There is another one down the street by only a few miles.
It wasn't very busy when we last went in.