I grew up going to On The Border and Olive Garden, and thought they were good.

Chili’s and Golden Corral.

Panera Bread and Burger King. I feel like both have become pretty horrible.

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.

Tim Hortons. Growing up in Canada they were an icon, good donuts made in store, good coffee, decent food at cheap prices. I would go there all the time.

Now they have tiny donuts, terrible coffee and they’re way overpriced for everything. Penny pinchers ruined that place.

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.

Applebee’s used to be our go to late night spot, half off apps and solid drink specials, they have since only made half off apps a limited time thing once or twice and the overall food quality seems to have dropped a lot.