Janet Wilder wrote:
>Nancy2 wrote:
>> Didn't the Outback Steakhouse first start the peanuts on the floor thing? I thought it was supposed
>> to be reflective of an Australian experience, somehow.
>
>There was an earlier chain that did that, way before Outback. It was
>also a western steak house kind of place and I can't remember the name,
>but my kids loved that place.

Some forty years ago local eateries in north western Montana served
in-shell peanuts and they weren't chains. I think every bar and
eatery in Whitefish offered in-shell peanuts, Kalispell too.