Breakfast in America Now

stephenPE

stephenPE

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Breakfast has always been my favorite meal. I loved taking my kids to breakfast when they were young. It was less expensive and I like breakfast foods....... I have met many friends for breakfast over the years. Mom and pop restaurants, Awful House, Cracker Barrel IHOP ,SHoneys etc. Breakfast is just simple and easy. I make great omelets and biscuits and gravy now.

Well, I meet up with this friend a few times a year for breakfast. I taught with her about 12 years. She mostly taught kindergarten and is single with no kids. We have been going to this great local place but today I said lets try IHOP.
Food was ok nothing great to me. I had Eggs Benedict and she had an omelet. Mine was below average and hers looked good. She had a Pepsi (not refilled) and I had coffee. Almost 37 dollars without a tip. Now it is worth it to me to buy our breakfast because she is a good friend but what a ripoff. I swear 10 years ago it was less than half this price. And the food was better.
We will go the other local place next time where the food is better and probably 10 dollars less. I don't go out much anymore because of my post surgery condition. I don't know how this IHOP stays in business. Their breakfast crow was maybe 4 other tables at most occupied. I drive by and see few cars in the lot. Well, my old man rant for the morning........
 

Totally agree with you on this. My neighbor and I go out for breakfast about once every 2 weeks. We talk about going to a new place but we always end up at a small family owned local spot. For that very reason. Too many hands in the money pot with chain places I guess because they sure don't make a better grade/quality of meal for the up in cost.
 
I get sticker shock every time I go into a restaurant.

For me, eating out isn’t about the food as much as the company and comes under the heading of entertainment.

At this point in my life, I would rather meet family or friends in a restaurant and pick up the tab than I would have them come to my apartment for a meal and everything that would entail.
 

stephenPE said:
actually the coffee was about the only thing that was decent today. And they had the small pot on the table so I had immediate refills.....even the IHOP pancakes were pathetic and the syrup flavorless......give me cracker barrel's real maple syrup
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The IHOP in our town was open only about 5 yrs, closed this summer I guess.....this town is rough on sit-down restaurants...
 
I go to 3 breakfasts each month. High School class breakfast, Hometown Retirees breakfast and Retired Troopers breakfast. I go to the breakfasts every other month, except the retired Troopers, I usually make that one every month.

Hard to imagine, but all 3 are held at the same restaurant, which is family owned. Two eggs served any way I like, potatoes or applesauce, dry wheat toast and all the coffee I want $7. The food is very good. Waffle or 2 pancakes w/sausage or bacon and coffee, $10.

There are several other choices, but I stick to one of those.
 
Yes, I remember going with a group of people to IHOP not long back and my tab was around $20 for a Colorado Omelet with hashbrowns and no drink except water. To their credit, it was very good, and more food than I wanted. Service was slow - we waited about 30-45 minutes for our food.
 
stephenPE said:
actually the coffee was about the only thing that was decent today. And they had the small pot on the table so I had immediate refills.....even the IHOP pancakes were pathetic and the syrup flavorless......give me cracker barrel's real maple syrup
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When the syrup pours out like water instead of a slow pace, makes ya wonder.
 
stephenPE said:
Breakfast has always been my favorite meal. I loved taking my kids to breakfast when they were young. It was less expensive and I like breakfast foods....... I have met many friends for breakfast over the years. Mom and pop restaurants, Awful House, Cracker Barrel IHOP ,SHoneys etc. Breakfast is just simple and easy. I make great omelets and biscuits and gravy now.

Well, I meet up with this friend a few times a year for breakfast. I taught with her about 12 years. She mostly taught kindergarten and is single with no kids. We have been going to this great local place but today I said lets try IHOP.
Food was ok nothing great to me. I had Eggs Benedict and she had an omelet. Mine was below average and hers looked good. She had a Pepsi (not refilled) and I had coffee. Almost 37 dollars without a tip. Now it is worth it to me to buy our breakfast because she is a good friend but what a ripoff. I swear 10 years ago it was less than half this price. And the food was better.
We will go the other local place next time where the food is better and probably 10 dollars less. I don't go out much anymore because of my post surgery condition. I don't know how this IHOP stays in business. Their breakfast crow was maybe 4 other tables at most occupied. I drive by and see few cars in the lot. Well, my old man rant for the morning........
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I read this aloud to my husband and he knew instantly where it was going. We went to breakfast at IHop last Friday and had almost the very same experience. I didn't mind the ice cold hash browns, the over a little too easy eggs or the 1/2 inch wide bacon strips, but the pancakes being beige and tasteless was just unacceptable. It's the house of pancakes for goodness sake. Thirty-five dollars for us.

Like Aunt Bea, when I go out for lunch with my friends it's the social event I'm paying for so I don't mind the price too much, but when it's my husband and me it is mainly about the food.
 

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