Fuddruckers used to make a decent steak sandwich that I really liked.
Stopped making them a few years back, though, and I never went back.
Two Burger franchises and
A couple Taco shops
will be all that’s left.
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I’m gonna Starve!
We really like Fuddrucker’s Elk Burger. Wonderful, but not all locations have it.
the governmental covid over-reaction kills more businesses.
K&W Cafeterias are big in the SE and filed for Bankruptcy last week.
Rockwall has a Fuddruckers/Luby’s that has a door inside that goes between them. I’ll be sorry to see them go. I’d go to Luby’s for holidays and Fuddruckers had very good hamburgers that were just too expensive.
In the late ’80s, I worked at a Fuddruckers in SE Denver.
When the bakers were making the burger buns from scratch, the place smelled awesome.
The local Fudd’s stopped discounting the “regular” burger so you only got a deal by buying the bigger burger. That and the cherry flavor was always out on the drink machines turned us off before the Wu-Flu.
Had no idea that there still were Luby’s. Didn’t they buy out Morrison’s other locations years ago? I know there’s one Morrison’s left on the Miss/Bama Gulf Coast.
Cafeteria style restaurants especially cater to retirees, so they find their best luck where there are many. I thought Piccadilly was one of the better ones, until they left my area to be replaced by Luby’s.
But there are some really basement quality cafeterias around.
I enjoyed both of them. Plus Furr’s Cafeteria. I also still remember greasy quarter pounders at McDonalds between 1978-82 that were absolutely heavenly, and when Wendy’s slogan was “hot and juicy.”
But the Karens control our fast food too. So did their mothers and grandmothers.
Say it ain’t so, Joe. Fuddrucker’s is my favorite burger chain. There is only one remaining in my area, which is at Beach Blvd. and Orangethorpe Ave. in Buena Park, Calif.
Mitt Romney is celebrating-—buying up defunct companies and breaking up all the assets & selling everything piecemeal is what he makes his money on.
Ping
This was inevitable. My wife used to like Luby’s and she would go when I was out of town. I agreed to go with her about 8 months ago. Ordered the chicken fried steak. I was about 1/8” inch of beef and 3/8” of batter on each side. Whatever my wife had that day was nasty, as well.
Golden Corral is great. Can’t wait for it to open up again.
Fuddruckers was pretty good, but over-priced. Liked that they had very fresh toppings you put on yourself.
Many years ago Luby’s Lochwood location was the place to go for a nice Sunday lunch. I remember they had live music, an organist who would take your requests. I would hand him request slips for stuff like Beatles or the Stones and he would know and play them.
It was fun to watch the expressions of the faces of the older patrons as they were subjected to Something or Eleanor Rigby!
R.I.P. LUBY’S
I miss Luby’s. They are no where around me now but used to be. I loved all their little deserts, macaroni and cheese, and especially the way they did Lima beans.
Damn I hate to see these fav places go. remember Piccadilly’s? They were good, gone as well. No more cafeteria places anymore anywhere.
Wikipedia:
“The restaurant sometimes made controversial decisions; for example, in 2010 it began enforcing a no-weapons policy, which insisted that patrons should not carry “visible pistols” unless they were security officials. Laws in some U.S. states allow people to carry guns visibly in public. Fuddruckers management had been concerned that the presence of armed patrons might deter unarmed ones from visiting, but the move caused controversy among pro-gun advocates who threatened to retaliate with boycotts of Fuddruckers restaurants.”
Fuddruckers was good. Used to eat there often in the 1980s into early 1990s. Right after work. The toppings bar was the best.
America of that Fuddruckers was a much more modest and subdued place before the internet hit in 1995 and coincidentally with Windows 95 hitting which made internet access much easier.