Family Restaurants

[Bob Riebe]

I posted this last year on the other site but with the death of so many, it is now probably more nostalgia:
Odd thing is, the way old farts memory works, I thought this happened three years ago.
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I took the other half to a doctor's appointment early this morning, which was very short so we went out to eat at the Copper Kettle, a long time family style restaurant, i.e. privately owned but similar in concept to Perkins, though the new owners no longer do the baked goods.
Well the food was good but prices were high.
I had a 8 oz. hamburger steak, hash browns and three eggs with toast -- 14.59; the cheapest, in the menu -- eggs with x, y or z -- was Two Eggs, hash-browns and toast, 12.49.

Now I did not see the breakfast specials advert. at the end of the table but even there they were all 9.59.
The coffee, 2.25 was old school Minnesota brown, extremely weak , not worth even 1 dollar.

The food was good enough I probably would go there again, hamburger steak was just he way I like them fried hard on the outside but not dry, but I am still shocked at their prices.
It does have new owners, which is good, as when the old ones had it we had stopped going for a long, long time.

[ironglows]

  Dinner prices around here have zoomed up, even at fast food places, comparatively speaking.  I suppose much of it has to do with the imposed $15 minimum wage.  Either that or the owner is using the $15 minimum for an excuse for an excuse.

  Of course, we cannot rule out the terrible losses some restaurants have had to swallow, due to this manufactured "crisis" !

[Mule 11]

My dad could not even cook malt o meal, so when we went to stay with him we were guaranteed a meal usually sitting at the counter in some greasy spoon diner or a bowling alley that had a pool room. Those were the days...

[Ranger99]

I haven't been to any restaurant or
fast food in a very long time. After
thinking on it, I don't even remember
when the last time would have been.

Quite a few of the local places have
closed up over the last couple of years.
About all that's left is McSalty's and
Booger Queen and Jack in the Crack
and Taco Smell.  Still quite a few tiny
mex places,  but they don't last any
more than a year or a few months
before the city inspectors and health
department shuts them down


Edit- forgot to mention the cart men that
push the little homemade carts around
the neighborhood. The candy and chip
man is one street to the south,  and there
is a new one on this street, a corn-in-the-cup
man I saw a week or so ago.
I don't know what happened to the ice cream
and dope man. Maybe arrested or dead

[billy_56081]

In St. James MN we have the hometown restaurant. The food there is awesome.

[Bob Riebe]

In St. James MN we have the hometown restaurant. The food there is awesome.

Darn, I used to at least drive through, by later, at least once almost every year,  fifteen years ago.
It has been ten years  since I even drove by.
I have to do some thing about that.

[wtxbadger]

Some of the best tamales, breakfast burritos and brisket sandwiches were from street vendors who showed up at our field offices out in West Texas.

[ironglows]

I haven't been to any restaurant or
fast food in a very long time. After
thinking on it, I don't even remember
when the last time would have been.

Quite a few of the local places have
closed up over the last couple of years.
About all that's left is McSalty's and
Booger Queen and Jack in the Crack
and Taco Smell.  Still quite a few tiny
mex places,  but they don't last any
more than a year or a few months
before the city inspectors and health
department shuts them down


Edit- forgot to mention the cart men that
push the little homemade carts around
the neighborhood. The candy and chip
man is one street to the south,  and there
is a new one on this street, a corn-in-the-cup
man I saw a week or so ago.
I don't know what happened to the ice cream
and dope man. Maybe arrested or dead

   Hmmm Ranger... You must live in an "interesting" neighborhood...
.

[DDZ]

There is a family restaurant close to me that has been owned by the same family for as long as I can remember. The forth generation of the family now runs it, and she is 60 years old.  The place still does not accept credit cards, and they lose business because of that, but the owner doesn't care. She gets enough business to satisfy her, and the food is great.  Which brings people in regardless of having to pay cash.  They have the best burger of anywhere I have eaten.

[Ranger99]

I haven't been to any restaurant or
fast food in a very long time. After
thinking on it, I don't even remember
when the last time would have been.

Quite a few of the local places have
closed up over the last couple of years.
About all that's left is McSalty's and
Booger Queen and Jack in the Crack
and Taco Smell.  Still quite a few tiny
mex places,  but they don't last any
more than a year or a few months
before the city inspectors and health
department shuts them down


Edit- forgot to mention the cart men that
push the little homemade carts around
the neighborhood. The candy and chip
man is one street to the south,  and there
is a new one on this street, a corn-in-the-cup
man I saw a week or so ago.
I don't know what happened to the ice cream
and dope man. Maybe arrested or dead

   Hmmm Ranger... You must live in an "interesting" neighborhood...
.

It's been interesting since it's been here, but
not always in a good way.
This wasn't "city " until it was annexed in 1954
At one time (or two) Frank and Jesse James,
and Cole and Bob Younger, and Belle Starr
have all lived up the street here. To the west,
Jim Miller lived (or I should say hid out) there
for a while. That's no claim to fame, but for
whatever reason the city fathers saw fit to
name streets for all of those outlaws. Used
to be a really nice area, but it's not anymore.