Breakfast / Chain Diner places

[Mike Hunt 282]

On 2/5/2023 at 12:40 AM, wiffleball said:

Seriously, alleged hating aside, is there a better breakfast / diner place than cracker barrel?

 

I'm not talking about local joints. But nationwide, those guys kick the crap out of every other chain that I can think of in the same category.

 

 

 

 

 

Cracker Barrel is very good but expensive for your basic breakfast, but it is a cut above say Dennys.

[listen2me 23 1,873]

I like breakfast.  But I rarely eat breakfast.  And I can't remember the last time I was at a Dennys or IHOP.  At least a decade.  

[wiffleball 4,790]

Use To love breakfast. Because it was literally sort of the last bastion of cheap dining. Easy to fill up for at least less than $10. Sometimes even less.

I really am sort of outraged that it's gotten so bad.  I don't mind if you're spending 20, 25 $30 for a really fancy upscale breakfast brunch buffet.

But , yourbasic eggs toast potatoes and bacon these days at least where I live? Average price is probably $18 and that doesn't count beverage or tip or convenience fee or all the other crap that they keep adding on.

 

Even now, eggs are one of the cheapest proteins you can get your hands on. 

I've worked in places where customers easily drop $45 or more a person for breakfast and say a bloody mary or a mimosa.  No s***, these days? The coffee you order costs as much or more than the damn bloody mary.  And by the way? The microwave virtually every egg. The only way you get a non-nook egg? Get it fried.

 

F*** that, next time you're at the grocery store? Just casually keep a running total in your head for the price of a carton of eggs, a flat of bacon, a couple of russet potatoes, and a loaf of bread. 

Sure as s*** not going to be $45.

[Hardcore troubadour 15,446]

The greatest breakfast in the world is the Irish breakfast. It is without peer. 

[wiffleball 4,790]

10 hours ago, Hardcore troubadour said:

The greatest breakfast in the world is the Irish breakfast. It is without peer. 

Honestly? Could seriously do without grilled tomatoes, blood pudding, and beans.

[jerryskids 6,800]

15 hours ago, Hardcore troubadour said:

The greatest breakfast in the world is the Irish breakfast. It is without peer. 

Probably not the same, but I just had an Irish Benedict (corned beed hash instead of Canuck bacon) at that Butters place i mentioned earlier.  Quite yummy.  

[Hardcore troubadour 15,446]

Just now, jerryskids said:

Probably not the same, but I just had an Irish Benedict (corned beed hash instead of Canuck bacon) at that Butters place i mentioned earlier.  Quite yummy.  

Well, while the Irish breakfast is great, it might be helped along due to the fact at one time it was the only decent meal you could get in that country.