Perkins Chocolate Peanut Butter Pie ...
Less bad food available.
The 3 western Washington Marie Calendar’s restaurants closed their doors yesterday. Believe it or not, customers still inside told to leave. In one case a birthday party for 65 people was going on.
I can only speak for my local Perkins but the food has been mediocre (and once gawd awful) and overpriced for many years now. The location is good so they always have business though. If a place is that bad for that long it’s not a management issue. There are obviously problems at the top.
The Obama economy strikes again
As far as “less bad food” - I love Perkins muffins!!!!
Suppliers and other creditors get stiffed. My question is, what suppliers and creditors would continue to do business with the remaining stores in the chain?
they must not have gotten an obamacare waiver?
If it wasn’t for the bankruptcies and unemployment, the economy would be doing just fine.
TBTF! The government needs to bail them out!
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Loved their banana cream pies.
With the exception of their fresh strawberry pie (only two weeks a year), the food quality has gone down hill to below ordinary.
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I wonder if that means that I won’t be able to get my delicious - and bad for me - Marie Calendar frozen Chicken Pot Pie’s anymore. I guess the next time Target or Stop-N-Shop have a sale on them, I should fill my freezer.
As for Perkins - the first one I knew of - more than 30 years ago, in Burlington County, New Jersey - was very good and had waiting lines for customers on Sunday mornings. Haven’t been there in more than 20 years. The second one I ran across, in Stroudsberg, Pennsylvania - just over the “Delaware Gap” from New Jersey - was fairly good many years ago, but had gone down hill by my last visit.
I think Perkins in New Jersey has been hit competitively from both directions, by big increases in the number of - the Friendly’s chain on the inexpensive end and the TGIFridays, Applebees and the like for a little more money. I don’t know if MC has restaurant locations here in the northeast. Friends in S.California used to mention MC restaurants, but never do anymore.
Our Marie Callender’s closed a few years ago despite a great location on mall property right next to Olive Garden and Red Lobster. I was not too impressed with the food, but loved the pies. They were a life saver when it was somebody’s birthday at the office or I needed to bring a dessert at the last minute.
I quit patronizing Perkins after one time to many of poor service.
I agree their restaurant food was terrible. They should have just stuck with their pies. We are here in southern Utah in the middle of nowhere and probably at least 100 miles from any decent restaurant let alone MC.
But their frozen pies in the local grocery store and their frozen pie crusts are superb. I am a pretty good cook but could not do better than that fabulous frozen Razzleberry pie.
I hope we don’t lose that division. Aren’t recessions wonderful?
Our local Marie Callender’s (three of them, I think) closed yesterday without notice. According to the news last night, employees who were there were gathered at 7 am and told the restaurants were closing for good and they should go home.
We visited the one on Northern Avenue last Friday night and the food was good. But the place wasn’t busy (on a Friday night!). The building is a nice one but it’s not a prime location any more. I bet it will be empty for a long time.
So we were one of the last people to visit that restaurant in Phoenix. Sad. Thanks for nothing, 0bama.
Perkins Chocolate Peanut Butter Pie ...
Competition has something to do with it.
For me (among the national table service chains):
For breakfast, IHOP. For breakfast, lunch and to a lesser extent dinner: Mimi’s Cafe.