I grew up going to On The Border and Olive Garden, and thought they were good.
I used to love Olive Garden in my 20’s. But now a decade or so later it doesn’t taste all that great and find myself avoiding it.
Subway. But now I find all the hole in the wall sub shops way better
Chipotle has definitely gone downhill in the past 10 years
Don’t forget about all the food poisoning
Five guys used to be amazing, but really felt like it fell off a cliff in my area. I’m also just eating out less. It’s so damn expensive and the food quality in general seems to be way down compared to the mid 00s to mid 10s. Maybe my tastes have changed, but I swear to God if we had a time machine, the food in like, 2011 would taste way better at many restaurants.
Chili’s and Golden Corral.
Once upon a time, Tim Hortons made their own donuts. Fresh, on-site, every day.
Whatever they’re serving today is a far cry from what it once was.
Everything they serve generally sucks now unless you’re a cardboard enthusiast.Growing up our absolute main spot was The Old Spaghetti Factory, and sometimes we would hit Applebee’s or Chili’s.
Now I’m lactose intolerant so can’t eat a lot of the stuff at OSF, plus it all upsets my stomach now, their quality has gone downhill.
Applebee’s and Chili’s were probably never that good but tasted a lot better in my kid brain than they do now.
Chain restaurants have been garbage since COVID. (TBF they weren’t exactly stellar before.)
You can tell that many servers and cooks moved onto other careers during the pandemic. It seems like servers now are way too inexperienced with little help.
Really just restaurants in general. Covid put so much stress on any restaurant that was already running on a thin profit margin. I feel like I’m general portions have gotten smaller or lower quality, prices have gone up, and the little extras are gone.
Subway in the 90s was kinda awesome. It was fast and wasn’t a burger place and it had the old brown and yellow subway wallpaper everywhere.
Then they kept expanding locations and the meat and cheese slicers disappeared.
Then they ran $5 footlong.
Then they kept running $5 footlong.
And kept running it. And the quality kept dropping and dropping so they could keep the price peg.
Now, it’s disgusting and costs way too much.
You couldn’t pay me to eat subway, now.
I feel like if you don’t like the sandwich you got at subway isn’t that kinda your fault since you’re the one who built it?
No idea man. I’ve refused to eat there for about 15 years.
The bread smells like plasticsizers, the meat reaks of nitrates, the lettuce smells like chlorine…it’s like bad prision food–is that my fault?
