20 Worst Restaurants From The 1970's That Faded Into History
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
- Join us on a nostalgic trip back to the 1970s as we explore 20 of the worst restaurants that didn't stand the test of time! From quirky concepts to questionable menus, these dining establishments failed to win over customers and have since faded into history. Whether it was bad food, poor service, or just a bad business model, these restaurants couldn’t make it past the era of disco and bell-bottoms.
Discover which chains and local spots made the list, and find out what made them so notorious back in the day. If you remember dining at any of these places, share your experience in the comments!
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I think the main problem of why Wimpy's failed... They were only profitable on Tuesdays.
I will gladly pay you never for a hamburger right now.
@@nameprivate2194 😂🤣 I know Right?
@glorifiedng Wimpy's is still around in Canada.
@@BunnEFartz Thoes Kunuks can keep it!
😂😂😂
I miss the Woolworth’s food counter.
I always got a grilled chicken salad sandwich!!
I worked at one in high school
We’re showing our age being around for that,.
I miss meeting my grandmother in front of WoolWorths!
OMG I loved and miss Woolworth SO much, it was such a big part of my childhood growing up 😢
When I was growing up in the 80's, my parents took us to ponderosa almost every Sunday, after church. What great memories.
Yes, we took our four daughters every weekend too.
Am I the only one who thinks their rolls were the best bread ever!? 🤔
Ponderosa in St.Louis was the shit!Breakfast bar was second only to Shoney's.Fuck this ai bs.
Me too. I used to complain that all my family ever ate was steaks
Pondarosa breakfast--all you can eat bacon. Awesome
In the 70s, every department store had their own grill. I miss that.
I worked as a waiter at Bennigan's during 85-87. It was a rocking restaurant and bar. Lots of fun. Smothered steak, fried mushrooms, and the Monte Cristo sandwich were the stars.
Yummmmm
The Big Irish! 😎
The Monte Cristo was the best.
@@MrLangDog Damn, I haven't had a Monte Cristo since the 80's forgot how damn tasty they were. Especially after a night of drinking. Little 24 hr joint called The Las Vegas restaurant made the best.....
@@MrLangDog I also remember Bennigans. It was a rocking place. Let me ask you a question, do you think the restaurant in the movie "Waiting" was based on a Bennigans?
Aurther's Fish & Chips was one of the BEST fish & chips the US has ever had. It's so sad they went out of business.
I know where there is still 1. State St. in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. This reminded me of it.
Remember H Salt Esquire? Only one left is in San Jose. They were contemporaries of Treacher's.
@@TUSK1157 They're actually opening a couple new locations this year.
Hush Puppies with malted vinegar. The fries were giant waffle looking things. A triangle of fish that was nice and crisp. Served in a basket. All of it tasted great! Even their tarter sauce was top notch. I have no idea why my favorite fish place is no longer around. The last time I ate their was about 89.
There is a food truck that their fish comes really close. Look for On the Hook Fish and Chips. I try to get it every time it's in my area.
None of these I consider worst. They were alot better than the shi&^&* we got today.
I can't argue with that, well, maybe just a little.
The list of restaurants that were once great but terrible at the end are more than I can list.
Watching your favorite place go to hell has been sad over the years, and it repeats.
Remember steak and ale anyone??
@@robinsymonds5353yep, i sure remember them.
New flash…. There all 💩💩 It was then and still is now.
And I’m watching the very first one; Wags wasn’t established until 1981 - not even the 70s.
When I was young, (50+ years ago), we had an Arthur Treachers, a Ponderosa and a Shakeys pizza in my naborhood, loved them all.
But you STILL can't spell.
MOJOS!
Especially Arthur Treachers and H Salt Fish and Chips, Red Barn.
I remember Ponderosa and Shakey's, there was another pizza place called Godfather's Pizzaria, they had pretty good pizza.
I remember Shakey's pizza, we also had Grizzly Bear pizza, my parents always said I called it Giddly bear😂
Im probably showing my age but I remember some of these commercials from when I was a kid. This video makes makes me hungry as well as nostalgic
You and me both! 😀
I remember begging my parents to go to burger Chef back in the late 1960's.
The orange roofs of Howard Johnson's were a huge part of our road trip vacations as a kid. I so looked forward to our stops there, followed by Bob's Big Boys.
Howard Johnson's was fantastic in the 1970s
I also miss the IHOP and Friendly's of the 1980s
Everything today is just lousy and nowhere near worth the prices they're all extorting today
Fried clams at Howard Johnson's ❤
I still eat at big boys every chance I get!
I don't know how they did it, but HoJo's had a monopoly along the entire Pennsylvania turnpike. I had no problem with that at all. Driving for four years between Philly and Pittsburgh to college and stopping for a Tendersweet fried clam roll, fries, a vanilla shake and a cone to go are fondly remembered.
@@T.TuxedoFriday nights were the all you can eat fried clams! I loved them! My brother had the Ho-Jo dog and my mom loved their caramel ice cream. I loved the 70s
A hamburger in the 70’s was better than 95% of every restaurant today!🤷🏽♂️
The meat was less processed and GMO free!
I can't taste hamburger today.
@@redefv No it wasn't. You don't even really understand what a GMO is, do you? You just parrot nonsense you heard form simpletons who don't understand it either. GMO's aren't bad. All cooked food is processed.
@labyrinth75 that in and of itself is extremely low IQ. Genetically Modified Organisms and processed foods are two completely different things. The reason why grass fed beef is popular is that beef formerly fed GMO corn based feed is the cause of much illness. GMOs are banned all over Europe. Why not in the US? Because Monsantos jas a strangle hold on the FDA. You are a media consuming sheep. Do some research vs. parroting a media that would not pee on you if you were on fire.
@labyrinth75 a hamburger back then had the DNA of a single cow. A modern day fast food hamburger has the DNA of hundreds of cows. That in FACT is ultra processed, so there you are right it is not simply processed.
Corporate giants ruin everything
Restaurants make food. Corporations make money. That's the answer.
corporates think they can sell us a sh*t sandwich if they just get the marketing right
But they bring prices down so that everyone can afford it. McDonald's hamburgers started at 15 cents. Mom and pop and local chains just couldn't compete. Same with airlines now. Everyone bitches about the horrible service, but they also will select the flight that is $5 cheaper every time. You get what you are willing to pay for.
The one thing I miss from "back then" are real milkshakes. The kind made on site with real ice cream, whole milk, and whatever flavor you wanted as long as it was chocolate or vanilla, that were whipped on those old milkshake machines, invariably made of metal and colored turquoise green and chrome. And those milkshakes were "thick," so thick they were served with a large diameter straw. Dairy Queen was the go-to road side establishment for the real deal. Today I think the only thing you get there and everywhere else is some prepackaged artificial garbage made from plant and animal meal that's not even called a "milk" shake due its lack of any dairy products.
"Give me a Diablo sandwich and a Dr. Pepper."
"That'll be a $1.95."
I loved Ponderosa. I miss it almost as much as I miss Howard Johnson.
Roy Rogers had real roast beef compared to the dog food they serve at Arby’s.
There are still Ponderosa's. There is one roughly 15 miles from where I live, 2024
Ponderosa and bonanza restaurants I remember sambos loves black Angus
@@Notfiveo0 Arby's used to be good, it's slick now, shiny, waxy
@@LindaMerchant-bq2hp : He also loves Colonel Angus.
Eating at Bob's Big Boy on Wilshire Boulevard was a real treat for my family in the eighties.
We went to bobs as a kid
What's really sad is our Frisch's Big Boys here in Cincinnati (Oct-Nov 2024) are getting evicted for not paying rent. We're are loosing 20 of them. The one on Bridgetown Rd has to leave premises I think tomorrow (11/06/2024). They were evict on Oct. 30 and had 7 days to leave. I think it's been there for over 50 years. My late Grandmother took me there all the time when I was little. The one closes to us will be in court tomorrow to be evicted.
Still hot the one in Burbank when in the area.
In the '70s and '80s I enjoyed the Big Boy in Charlotte N.C., Milwaukee, LA, and more, Shoney's, Bob's, Frisch's (I think,) Very nice Formica dining. Then there were the stolen Big Boy statues, those things were big, like 8' tall and not skinny.
Or the one on Van Nuys Boulevard in the SFV.
Loved Arthur Treachers, Bennigans, Chi-Chi's, Shoneys.
If u ate at shoneys in the 80's and 90's u got food poisoning at least once😂
@@copperbeagle1 Worked at Bennigan's. Seems like a world ago.
NOTHING beat Shoneys breakfast bar!
Chi Chi's was the Joint when I was younger...!
👍👍👍
I really used to Love Arthur Treacher's - an intro to Fish & Chips for this Rust Belt kid.. I am still addicted to F&C!!
Bonanza, Piccadilly, Western Sizzler, and many others are greatly missed. I think I miss Piccadilly the most.
In 2025 there is a Bonanza and a Western Sizzlin less than 100 Miles from me.
Piccadilly is also still around
@ The closest one to me is 300 miles away.
Restaurants today suck…everything today sucks…very grateful to grow up in the 60’s and 70’s ✌🏼
I refuse to live in the past. There were good things then, and there are good things now.
MUCH better days ahead with DONALD TRUMP running the show.
@@Aubreykrendale They cheated last time. They'll cheat this time. Besides, thanks to the weaponized injustice system, he'd have to run the country from a prison cell.
Old men are always telling young men how much better things were in their day.
You should look into modern medicine. It can help you stop hating life. Or you could..you know...👉🤯🎉
Drug stores nearly all had lunch counters then. Sandwiches, breakfast, plate lunches, ice cream treats, etc.
Cherry phosphates. My fave as a kid.
Wall drug still does
You are absolutely correct!
How could you mention Bennigans without a nod to their famous “Monte Cristo” sandwich with powdered sugar and raspberry jam? Its iconic. And let’s not forget their “Death by Chocolate” cake extravaganza. Anyway, thanks for the trip down memory lane.
The whole reason I went to Bennigan’s was the Monte Christo, I thought the chain that was always busy, was so popular that it’d survive. Now that, Friday’s and Ruby Tuesdays are gone. Ugh!
Two of these I absoutely loved and me and my family and friends ate there all the time: Bennigans and Steak n Ale. S and A also had great little local music artists on friday nights in the bar area and the bourbon steak was to die for. and the days of 4 for 1 happy hour drinks are long gone. So sad.
There's a restaurant in my area, Cheddar's, and their monte Cristo is so good.. not sure what cities and states they are in but I'm in Charlotte NC..
There are a few Bennigans still around to this day. Check Google maps.
The French dip
Brought my kids to ponderosa all the time we loved it ,,miss it,,,
I worked at Sandy's in Fayetteville AR while I was in high school. Their pork tenderloin sandwich was the best.
In regard to Stuckey's, Stephanie Stuckey granddaughter of the founder has been doing some incredible work revitalizing the brand. She has garner a huge following on both LinkedIn and Facebook from what she's been doing. They are doing some real guerrilla marketing to get this brand back to its iconic status.
Everyone loves a Phoenix.
There is a Stuckey's on I-10 from Houston to Louisiana. Great cheese burgers! I miss the peanut brittle.
Stopped there driving cross-country from NY. My parents hated it. So did I.
I Worked at Stuckeys one summer while in HS mostly mopping the floor. I didn't eat there. A milkshake a day was free for employees. I can't hardly believe they're still in business somewhere. Total tourist junk store.
Best restaurant city I've lived in was Dallas in the '80s. They had something for everybody with lots of choices in any fare. But when I was there for a few months in the late '60s they had a place with the cheapest, smallest hamburgers ever concocted anywhere called "Crystal Burger" . . . Seriously. Hamburger the size of a sausage patty on a biscuit with a pickle. Don't remember the price but it was cheap. I think I ate there once.
@@icewaterslim7260 Crystal Burgers are a version similar to White Castles.
Beefsteak Charley’s was a staple when I was in HS and college. All you can eat shrimp and all the beer you can drink. Miss those days.
I went to the beefsteak Charlie's on Broadway in NYC in 1995 with my American literature class. We went to an Arthur Miller play called broken glass
and wine
They lost money on us when we went there. Found themselves in a situation like Red Lobster just did.
They had unlimited Sangria too.😂😂
Forest Hills Garden, NY
I can still remember eating at Horn and Hardart in the late ‘70’s. Those “glass door walls”, with their endless choices for a kid, were sheer magic. My mother, who normally hated coffee, loved theirs, and the banana cream pie was the best. It was even better than my Granny’s. (But I never had the courage to tell her that.)
"little Black Sambo" was an innocent story about a boy in India who became a hero. The Civil Rights Movement picked it out as a lever for protesting by making language and images their weapons for control.
Exactly. It was one of the first victims of wokism.
I loved beefsteak charlies. Especially when it was all the ribs, shrimp and beer you could consume
And now we have Subway the worst ever!
I agree, none of these were the worst.
People will eat anything these days!
I cook at home
Subway is the worst!🤮
We had a Subway not far from where I live. I hadn’t been there in years and I guess no one else has either because it just closed. We like eating at home.
Yea they say worst in the title but the robot voice tells us how good the food was LOL
I've had 2 subway subs and both were awful. If I want a good sub I will go to Wegman's.
I haven’t been to subway since subs were. $5
Arthur Treacher, besides being a British actor, he was also Merv Griffins sidekick on his talk show like Ed McMahan was to Johnny Carson.
Griffin was a flaming closet queen and left a billion plus estate when he died
Arthur Treacher’s fish and chips was the reason I fell in love with this British classic! Still love fish and chips to this day (with LOTS of malt vinegar)
Merv griffins famous song : I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts
Treacher was the stereotypical butler, having been the original Jeeves in the 1930s movie adaptations of P. G. Wodehouse’s “Jeeves and Wooster” short stories, and the butler in “Mary Poppins.”
@@JBM425 Yes. Plus he made a few pictures with Shirley Temple . The very model of the very proper British gentleman. Plus at the time the restaurants opened he was still well known from Merv Griffin show. So a good choice to represent the restaurant .
The fact people still.eat at MCdonalds is an unsolved mystery
McDs is the absolute worst
No mystery to me. Cheap, edible, convenient.
Yeah it's bug food. Don't taste like it should. MD are maget food these days.
Because it's right there. Everywhere you are.
I used to like McD’s - tried just the fries a couple times and they were horrible - KFC has fabulous fries! I’ll stop at a McD’s only when I absolutely need a diet soda fix!!!
Shakeys pizza, renebohms, york steakhouse, Marc's big boy, Kelleys, dog and suds!
Anybody remember the W.T. Grants department store chain? We had a Grant's where I lived growing up in the 60's/70's. The best hotdogs ever (I found out later what brand they used were Sabrett Hot Dogs) while sitting at their hotdog counter there as a young lad. I think it seated 10. They had those buns buttered up & steamed hot on the inside. Nice toasted New England (aka Split top) buns, I couldn’t get enough of them. I used to try to replicate this at home after they closed for good in 1976 & feel like I was a kid again for years until I couldn't find those Nickle's Split top buns anymore.
Those rolls are still around. In fact I stumbled across a website that sold them recently. I didn't know it, living in Florida my whole life but those rolls are used for lobster sandwiches in the Northeast. Try googling "lobster sandwich rolls" and you should find them. Hell there are grocery stores in Florida that stock them, but they call them "hot dog buns" ,lol!
PS, the Grants where I grew up lightly buttered and toasted the hamburger buns. Man, that was The Bomb! This was back in the sixties when nobody cared about no stinking heart healthy garbage food!
There is an Arthur Treachers and a Big Boy within a couple of minutes of my house. The portions are smaller, but the fries at Arthur Treachers are still the best fast food French fry. Don't forget the malt vinegar.
Sizzler and Friendly's was a major tradition in my family... Dang I miss those days.
I loved Sizzler, that toast was something else. 😋
@@justinottenbacher8369 Yes it was💯
Friendly’s is still around!
Both are still around.
@@TRUTH-r7q DITTO
From my childhood I miss Arthur Theacher's Fish and Chips, Howard Johnson's (clam strips), and Roy Roger's. My family would stop at Roy Roger's on road trips).
Arther Treacher's is on the Florida Turnpike at West Palm Beach.
I live in Maryland. I know of at least 4 Roy Rogers restaurants within 20 miles of me.
@@JohnSmith-fe7nf I go to the one in Westminster from time to time.
My husband and I still wax fondly over our Saturday date day lunches at Lums (half a century ago). We also drive by the Old Shakey’s location, where our parents could drink their beers and we kids could meander about watching a movie, pizza being made, and the player piano. Nothing close to that exists today…….
I absolutely loved Author Treachers
Im 66 years old. Is it me, but food doesn't taste good today. I miss ginos ,red barn, Shakey's pizza parlor.
I’m 65 and I don’t believe it’s just you - it’s me also . Even my 40 yr old son says the same thing about certain places . Chi-Chi’s is actually coming back - be interesting if it’s as good as it used to be ! Western Sizzler and Bonanza steak houses advertised family value - I knew a lot that went there . I ate there , no big complaint on the food , except at the time , you could get a 16 oz. t-bone at most places for $10 - sometimes a little higher . Sizzler & Bonanza advertised steak dinners for under $7 . My problem with them - it was just an 8 oz steak . I personally never understood the business they got . But yes , to your original point , food did taste better back in the day - especially fast food .
Farrels was a fun restaurant.
I don't remember the food but I loved their ice cream.
My first job in 1974 was washing dishes at a Farrel's ICP.
@@laurieberry4814 OMG.! I worked at the Farrells in the Staten Island Mall back in 1975. What a horrible place to work. Having to run around with those giant ice cream sundaes on my shoulders. Those ridiculous little black ties and straw hats. However it was good if you were a customer.✝️✌️
**ROSE MEADE, CALIFORNIA
💋💋farrell ice cream restaurant great birthday restaurant
Burger Chef rocked!!
Loved the Big Chef .
They opened at 8 AM and started selling burgers and fries…..it was awesome!!
On Saturdays u could get 4 cheeseburgers for a $1!
Mushroom swiss for me...
Burger chef was the original burgers along with white castle and in n out
oddly K-mart had great food in both the cafeteria and the stand up front -- the subs were simply the best and i loved the wheel you could spin to get a banana split for as little as 1 cent.
When I was in high school ( early 70s ) I had a friend who worked at Kmart. An hour before closing the subs would be 4/ $1. We'd ride our bikes to Kmart almost every night he worked.
Chi Chi's was great .they had one incident and it shut them down but yet Chipotles has had numerous and people love them .
As a kid, I loved their "Mexican Pizza" which was a very different thing there
Chipotles and Taco Bell and other fast food slop houses I absolutely refuse to eat at. The Taco Bell where I live during lunch you're looking at a 20 minute wait in the drive through. No thanks I'll eat at home it's better cheaper and safer.
I loved Chi Chi's
Chi-chis did not close down because of food poisoning. They closed down because of poorly handling of the PR.
I think today most people dining out in fast food/fast casual restaurants view it as Russian roulette with very good odds, mostly because of the good PR response by companies like Chipotle, Taco Bell, Jack-in-the-box, etc.
@@robreuler144 taco bell and their free all you can eat mouse dung.
How did the Burger Queen get pregnant?
The Burger King forgot to wrap his whopper.
use a pun, go to jail
Well yeah, it's a fun joke still except the part you didn't say
" How did Burger King get Dairy Queen Pregnant?
He forgot to wrap his Whopper"
But thanks for a good reminder . Wow again thanks, for a good pun. People today can't allow someone else just be happy.
@@stevenbaker8184 I used Burger Queen because it was featured in this video.
@@LyleFrancisDelp no thanks though. It does go back to the 80s. There was a bigger joke but in the modern era it would be taken wrong and we both might have loose our nuts taken by squirrels
Ok comedian 😮😅😅😅
Stuckey's still exists! There are 65 licensed stores and they sell their pecan treats in grocery stores. The one we all miss is Nickerson Farms, with the beehives inside their stores. Be VERY observant when you park. You don't want a space next to the bee tunnel!
There are 2 Stuckeys which I pass near Houston. I think it's hard for them to compete with Bucce's, which is getting out of hand now, but I like Stuckey's.
Every once in awhile I pass what was a Stucky’s along the highway - I do miss those pedal rolls!
Every once in awhile I pass what was a Stucky’s along the highway - I do miss those pedal rolls!
My big miss is Bob’s Big Boy in Phoenix - their big burger was exactly what is now the Big Mac at McD’s. I’m very sure McD’s stole this item!!!
@@TheaddoraBuc-ees's and Stuckeys. There was a game made by LucasArts called Sam & Max Hit The Road where you could stop at several different "Snuckey's" locations. I'm sure it was modeled after Stuckeys, but having recently earlier this year having visited a Buc-ees, it's still a similar concept. The Dog (Max) would look at the shelves and say, "It's just more Snuckey's crap" which I thought was funny.
Thinking back, there was a lot of steak restaurants in the 70s. We had quite a few TV shows and movies about cowboy's (think Bonanza). Im sure that had something to do with the craze
I grew up pretty swanky, so I didn't go to many chains (we ate a lot of French food and my parents were serious chef's). A couple that did stand out was Chi-Chi's and their fried ice cream, it blew my 9 year old mind. When I moved to California when I was 12, our last meal in Connecticut was Fudruckers, I loved their taco salad but I remember their hamburgers most fondly. Upon landing in Los Angeles that fateful day, our first meal was at Gladstone's 4 Fish, just down PCH from our new house in Malibu. It recently went out of business unfortunately, and though it was not a chain restaurant, the food certainly tasted like it. Who puts cheese on fish? I guess they did, and paid the price for it.
I really loved Author Treacher’s, fish and chips were fantastic. I was really disappointed when the one near me closed down.
I remember the only one in New Jersey.
The fried fish was delicious and crispy.
We are retired 65+ Brits in the UK and have visited the USA around 20 times now, in the mid 80s we used to love Wags for breakfast, Bennigans was fabulous for drinks and wings. Ponderosa was Ok for me but not great. Still around and the best breakfast for us is Bob Evans. Good old Bob.
1.) Wag's
2.) Burger Queen
3.) Sambo's
4.) Sandy's
5.) Burger Chef
6.) Beefsteak Charlie's
7.) Wimpy's
8.) Arthur Treacher's
9.) Stuckey's
10.) Bennigan's
11.) Howard Johnson's
12.) Lum's
13.) Brown Derby
14.) Chi-Chi's
15.) Victoria Station
16.) Roy Roger's
17.) Shoney's
18.) Steak and Ale
19.) Ponderosa
20.)Horn and Hardart
Their numbering went a little off on the last few. Some were not US restaurants but in the UK and Canada. Frankly, compared to some of today's dining options, it's a shame some of these places went by the wayside. I remember Lum's growing up in Miami. There was one across the street from where I went to school in the Grove. It was sort of a special occasion place after events like the Christmas pageant.
Worked at Rube's that took over Sambo's in the eighties
Only one I recognise from UK is wimpy which we still have now
Back in the 80s loved Western Sizzlin' steak house in St Pete Fla.
Hurry on down to Hardee’s, where the burgers are charcoal broiled. They’re not just beef, they’re chopped beef steak, they’re not just cooked , they’re charcoal broiled. Hurry on down to Hardee’s , where the burgers are charcoal broiled.
Sambo’s was the best!
Sambos, Arthur Treachers, Jack in the Box, Howard Johnson on Cape Cod just old memories now.
You’re missing out on the Jack in the Box tacos, still going strong.
I would love for some of these to come back. My 2 favorites were Ponderosa and Roy Rogers. Another major one they missed in this list, Sizzler. I would choose any one of them over most of the crap we have now. Besides that a lot of the ones now have been shutting down locations all over, such as Denny's, Friendlies, Red Lobster, and sadly TGIFriday.
The French Dip was a sandwich that sadly died,best sandwich,hands down.
They're still around at some places. There is a steak house a block from my place that makes a decent one. Good bar too. Hummm. Maybe I should go ....
Victoria station was my absolute favorite
"Little Black Sambo" was a book where a little Indian kid LOVED pancakes and got chased by tigers who turned into butter which Sambo then put on a huge stack of pancakes. If anyone didnt know
My first grade teacher read that study to the class.It was in India.There are no tigers in Africa.
@@David-yw2lv yeah i know there's no tigers in Africa, but I'm not sure the author of the book knew
@@FrithonaHrududu02127 It took place in India,where there are tigers.I remember seeing a book with this story,they wore traditional Indian apparel.
@@FrithonaHrududu02127 I have heard of this being characterized that way but usually he is characterized as Indian.I've also seen shows set in Africa with tigers.There are no tigers in Africa,as far as I know there were.
@@David-yw2lv no there definitely weren't but seeing as it's a book that suggests that centrifugal force will turn tigers into butter, I don't think the book should be relied upon for accuracy.
i think there are still a few Asian lions
Howard Johnson's ice cream was great, Lums hot dogs were great, Shoney's breakfast buffet was pretty good, and a few others on this list were OK.
Some other restaurants that faded away, Royal Castle (their birch beer was to die for), Sweden House, Ground Round to name a few.
The next to go…..Red Lobster……KFC……McDonalds. Why…….prices. The next big winners…….Harveys……Burger King…….Wendy’s……Chopped Leaf😊
I was a cook at Sambo's in the 70's. We used to cook an extra food item for ourselves when one was ordered. For instance, if a shrimp dinner was ordered, well the cooks had shrimp for dinner that day.
I worked at Sambos in 70s too. My first job was a 15 year old waitress. It was interesting to say the least.
I cooked at the Auburn location, next to intestate 80 in California. When the Gambling and Ski tour buses rolled in the place got busy. Always feed the bus driver last.
Something about AI that makes things worse.
In this instance, it misidentifed Sandy (the lovely dancing Scottish girl) as a male. If AI is the future, I'm glad I'm old...
How DARE a computer show such disrespect to the woman I love.... (It's true - as a young boy I was quite smitten with her).
I don't think it was an AI voice since it mispronounced Arthur Treacher a couple of times. Something only a human might do.
@@DaveNarn AI flubs pronunciations all the time. Especially with names that don't conform with the standard rules of spelling, or words that are misspelled.
The proper pronuciation is tree chir, rhymes with teacher and preacher.
In the video, the AI pronounced it 'like treh chir. Like 'treachery' without the Y.
If the person posting the video had taken the time to actually review his work, he cou ld have fixed the pronuniation mistakes. Sadly, too many people rely on AI for content and don't give a crap about the final result.
@@xaenon Yup, it pronounce the name both ways, alternating between - just sounded unusual.
@@DaveNarn At that point a human narrating or whomever was directing/producing would have done research on the name if there were multiple ways to say it.
Does anyone else see how every thing we all loved is gone ???
Yup. From Drive-In's to Chi-Chi's to Fall town festivals, everything we loved has fallen by the wayside in our race to a better tomorrow...
@@hrdley911 I grew up going regularly to the big, truly beautiful,( not just packed tight like a K-Mart as they are now), Department Stores. Wonderful artistic, seasonal displays so imaginative and magical to a youngster.
Soon we will also be gone
That's love
@@DeborahStrohofer Nah. I love KFC, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, Dominos, BK, Wendy's, Arby's, DQ, etc. As I always say, I don't know where my next meal is comin' from! 😂
Author Treacher's fish and chips was great and I wish it would come back, I search everywhere for the best fish and chips.
None of these should be called bad, horrible, or worst. Ponderosa and Burger Chef were my favorite foods growing up in the 70’s.
When I was in college in 1982, there was a Hardee’s in campus and two Burger Chef’s on the north and south ends of Danville, Illinois. Ate lunch at Hardee’s because of time and dinner at Burger Chef. Burgers were a quarter and the fixin’s bar made those burgers a meal.
so funny that "Steak and Ale" was considered a middle class family restuarant, that was always "upscale" dining to us. LoL!
It was definitely a special occasion to dine at Steak and Ale.
I remember Ponderosa as a kid. I have many happy memories eating there with my family after taking a road trip to the mall lol Both places are gone now, but I’ll always have my memories that bring a smile to my face lol
@@jasontalada8318 sad that the Mallon longer exist, good place to go on the weekend, with all my friends
I was a fan of the Roy Rogers Double R Bar Burger. There was one close to our house in Willingboro, NJ. Went in one night and the counter guy had to say "Happy Trails" as each customer left. It was obvious he hated having to say that. The guy ahead of me laughed at him. I'm guessing it was his last night on the job.
HoJos and IHop were two of the stand out stops on family vacations and outings. What a great sight to behold because you knew it would be very good food in a fun environment, and can recall when HoJos' reputation was going south and it was no longer a primary consideration when on the road, until they were intentionally passed by.
IHop is still here, but it's not the same. It was so much better when it was known as International House of Pancakes. I would not be surprised if a lot of the younger patrons don't even know what IHOP stands for.
New England had a bunch of chains like Friendly's, Brigham's, York Steak House that I remember. I guess there are still some Friendly's around, but they seem like a restaurant chain on its last legs.
11:29 Back in the 70's Arthur Treacher's was on our families rotation for at least two Fridays a month.
I get my Arthur Treacher's fish and chips fix at Miami subs and grill.
True!
it was so good.
It was my mom and my "2nd home". I was they would come. All we have here is Long John's Silver.🤢
@@jenniferrandolph4115 I understand.
I used to enjoy Burger Chef.
I used to love buckwheat pancakes with blueberry syrup at Sambo's. My grandparents took us there all the time.
Didn't Sambo's have a carousel of assorted syrup? I loved the boysenberry. I called it poisonberry so none of my brothers would eat it.
Royal Castle, Sambos, Lums, Beefsteak Charlie's, Victoria Station,
Used to eat at Bob’s all the time. My favorite dipping the fries into the Blue Cheese dressing
In the 1960s in my hometown a drugstore had a "soda fountain" that also served food and desserts. I think drugstore soda fountains were common so I could see Walgreens trying to do a restaurant.
@@larryfromwisconsin9970 we also had a Woolworth drugstore ten cents for a drink. -and French fries were .25 cents
Oh, they absolutely did, In most Walgreens locations, there were lunch counters, but some select locations - primarily the ones in malls - they had actual restaurants. As in, walk in, sit down at a booth or table, glance at the menu, and order like at a BIg Boy.
My dad was a manager at the Walgreens in the then brand-spankin-new Kennedy Mall in Dubuque IA in the early 1970s, with the restaurant directly adjoining the store (you could enter via the mall, too). And oddly enough, it was not a 'Wag's' I remember a serious 1970s decor to it, too. The muted oranges and browns and golds, the cone-shaped 'starlight' lamps over the tables....
Respectabe variety, too. burgers, sandwiches, chili, meatloaf, oup, fish... I recall being able to even order a steak.
@@DeborahStrohofer In my early days in the workforce, I ate at the Woolworth's counter almost every day..
The scandal was, i worked for Burger King.
We went to the Brown Derby in Beverly Hills back in 1977. It was well past it’s hey day but it was still an exciting experience
I had a great steak at the local Brown Derby last year. Sadly, that location that was around in one for or another for 40 years. It finally went out of business late last year. A new one opened up about 50 miles away, though.
The one in Arcadia, CA is still there
Ate at the one Whilshire Blvd in '79 when I got to California...!
In the 70s, our favorites were A&W and Red Barn. Leaps and bounds better than Burger King, McDonald's, Carroll's, Burger Chef, KFC, Arby's or Jack in the Box.
Their are still A and w in MNand WI
I was born in '54 so I was growing up and a young adult right in the middle of all of this, yet, even though I knew of most of these places I never ate at even one of them. 🙃
I liked the idea of adding your own toppings at Burger Chef; the burgers themselves just weren't very good. Didn't taste like beef was being used.
I was a waitress at Howard Johnson's in NH in the early 80's. Third shift was very interesting, LOL.
In the mid 70's, my boss would take his employees to lunch at Burger Chef when he fired them. OUCH!
@@hhansenzak1123 Talk about indigestion, huh?
Sambo's in Topeka, Kansas was the first restaurant in town to remodel and put in ramps to be accessible to people in wheelchairs. A group of people with disabilities decided to eat there to celebrate, and they asked one of the TV stations to send a reporter to do a story on it. The reporter and cameraman arrived just as the manager was asking the group to leave! He said that other customers had complained that it made them uncomfortable to see the people with disabilities eating near them. So the big story on the news was that Sambo's was accessible to people with disabilities but did not want them to eat there. It was a public relations nightmare, and Sambo's closed shortly after that.
A lot of those restaurants had separate rooms for big parties. I guess that Sambo's didn't.
I dont care to eat near certain people either. I dont say anything i just see and leave without saying anything. Find a place without wheelchair ramps
@@shawnkelly695 same., they used to keep us separated from the 13% in the good old days.
We all miss Sambo’s.
@@shawnkelly695 same, i don't care to dine with the 13 percenters.
Wow! Unlimited shrimp, wine and beer! Unimaginable!
Family dining is gone. You couldn’t find anything like theses places anywhere today. Today, It’s fast food or processed food from a vending machine or a truck stop. I think a lot of it no one wants to work now. These places couldn’t survive due labor challenges
No, it's fast casual. I used to travel for a living and from the 80s to the 20s fast casuals like Outback and such sprang up like mushrooms after a rainstorm. I'd go in all over the country and families would be there and there were lines to get in. I always wondered how a family of five could afford it. And how restaurants could afford it. The answer was given even before Covid hit. They couldn't. The whole financial structure of restaurants and labor and food costs collapsed and they began to go out of business.
Why are these considered the worst? They don't sound bad to me.
because the person making the video is under 30 and never went to any of those places
My mother worked as a waitress at the Brown Derby in Warren, Ohio. That's where she met my father.
Their bleu cheese was iconic ... i was raised on it.
Now, I'm living in SoCal, San Diego, and people think I'm a weirdo for loving bleu cheese.
I love blue cheese. I was a weird child I guess since I loved it ever since I could remember lol. Brown Derby in Sandusky Ohio was where I remember having it the first time. Still love it to this day.
I LOVE Bleu cheese My Dad told me to try it !
I am seventy and grew up in southern California. Anyone remember H Salt Fish and Chips or Pup N Taco?
My dad loved H Salt in Escondido.
Rax had THE best salad bar. And Wendy's salad bar was sooooo good!
Never heard of Burger Queen.
(Raised outside PHL)
I used to go to the Sambo's by the I-5 Freeway in San Clemente in the 70's. Loved those glass pebble paintings with the tiger. A few that were left out here were Love's Steakhouse, The Jolly Roger and Rueben's. 60's/70's eateries had standout architecture and style. New restaurants are thoughtless, cheap-looking Costco/McMansion stone facade block hovels with droning LED lights.
Burger Chef was better than Burger King, McDonald's, Hardee's, Jack-in-the-Box, Rally's, Five Guys, In-and-Out, etc.
Yes I agree. If I had to choose which one is second best, it would definately be Burger King, I always love their whoppers.
We had in and out in Florida at one time, same logo and everything best greasy burger I've ever had their fries sucked though and apparently, that hasn't changed
How many of these places were bought out and phased out. If you can't beat the competition, you buy them out.
I miss Shakey's pizza so much. Their Bunch O Lunch was outstanding. My mom liked the "Left Hand Special"--sausage, pepperoni and green olives.
Still have em here in CA.
Who can forget Rustler’s and Gino’s. All the good restaurants are gone and replaced by overpriced expensive specialty restaurants. Millennials will never know what they are missing. I can’t understand the popularity of food trucks. If I am going to pay restaurant prices I want to be served inside sitting down.
I remember a place called Sweden House which was a smörgåsbord and a burger place called Royal Castle.
I miss Chi -Chi's. The chips and salsa were great.
Gross I worked in one for like a month. Went to El Torito and ran from there asap!
They are coming back next year.
@@OrieCipollaroI used to work construction. An electrician on one of the jobs was talking about he had just gone to do some work at a chi chi that had only been open for 3 weeks. He said it was the filthiest restaurant he'd ever been in.
When I was in college, we would go every Thurs to Arthur Treachers. There were about 6 of us who went. Was a 4 yr tradition. When I was a kid, we would eat at Howard Johnson when on vacation. Loved the clams.
I loved HoJo's.
@@b0tterman The fried clams, MMM MMM MMM
My memory of Sambo's is going there with my grandpa. Best time with him was when we went there
Sambo's at 2am after bowling next door was a great time. Of course the name problem but a shame it disappeared. I miss Stuckey's in our travels. Bob's Big Boy (not the Shoney's) was the first place I got a ciabatta burger. I would add to your list Luv's barbecue and Charburger which sold bags of burgers 5 for a buck.