tmidgett wrote:franchise: culver's butterburgers

Midge!! BRW tackled Culver's.

I offer: Denny's

Denny's:

Everywhere you look
Hugely popular
Rumored to be offensive to black people
Consistently overrated by its devotees
Actually a bland and tasteless version of those that it imitates

Denny's is clearly Elvis Presley

Next is: Steak and Shake. I hope that hasn't already been done!

EDIT: Shit, it has. OK, Rally's.

Rally's AKA Checkers....

Sadly we don't have this one on this side of the pond.

It has checkerboards, which makes me think of ska bands.

The current special is 99c Fish or Chicken Burgers.
This makes me think of the ska punk bands
SOUNDS LIKE CHICKEN and REEL BIG FISH.

Rally's - offers a choice of fish or chicken. They probably taste much the same as each other, and most other cheap crappy fast food.

Modern Ska Punk - offers a choice between Reel Big Fish and Sounds Like Chicken. They probably sound much the same as each other, and most other crappy ska punk bands.

New Franchise: Nando's. There are stores in the U.S but perhaps not restaraunts just yet, but it's my favourite guilty junk food pleasure, so I had to suggest it. It's peri peri chicken an t'ing.

I maintain that SOUNDS LIKE CHICKEN, musical crapness notwithstanding, is an excellent name for a band.

154 wrote:restaurant= Tokyo Joes (they do have those elsewhere right?)

Tokyo Joe's=Electric Summer
Japanese, based in Denver


Franchise: Boston Market

Bruce wrote:
Franchise: Boston Market

Boston Market is Ashlee(ee) Simpson.

Fake food on fake trays to be eaten with fake silverware by fake people. Relatively easy to digest, but hard to look at.

Franchise: Marie Callender's.

mattw wrote:Franchise: Marie Callender's

Marie Callender's = Lawrence Welk

Bullshit nostalgia for an era that never existed. Involves commercial quantities of polyester. Appeals exclusively to the AARP set.

"For more than thirty years we depended on Mr. Welk to show up every Saturday night. Thanks to PBS, youngsters or nostalgic AARP members can enjoy a wistful glimpse of an era when life didn’t seem to move so fast, lyrics were understandable and clean and hopelessly romantic, and Bobby and Sally never missed a step."

Fuck you.

The Franchise: Red Robin

Bradley R. Weissenberger wrote:
The Franchise: Red Robin

A stale slice of Americana pie that goes down like a buttery turd wrapped in seaweed. Insert Eagles or Train here. I don't know if Train qualifies; is what they do considered Americana? Electrical gives these guys an F.

Btw- Red Robin has terrible coffee. The saving grace for a lot of _those_ places is their coffee. Not this joint- I think they rebrewed old coffee grounds.

Happy-go-lucky franchise: Cold Stone Creamery

mattw wrote:Happy-go-lucky franchise: Cold Stone Creamery

Cold Stone Creamery = Call And Response

Sticky, sweet and ultimately insubstantial. I wouldn't go out of my way for it, but I don't mind a small dish of it on a sunny summer day.

The Franchise: Panda Express

Bradley R. Weissenberger wrote:The Franchise: Panda Express

The name might make you think it's Chinese, but it's not really. Still, it's actually pretty good!

Panda Express = Wu Tang Clan

Going next door to.... Sbarro.

EDIT: Goddamn it. No, not Sbarro. Cinnabon.

Linus Van Pelt wrote: Cinnabon.

The Killers. Best dunked in hot coffee.

Franchise: Johnny Rockets.