In Warren, Ohio, a rare Pizza Hut Classic keeps the retro dream alive, drawing curious customers, TikTok fans and lifelong locals into a time-warped slice of comfort. In restaurants and barrooms across the capital, the ruling party’s apparatchiks watched and agonized as Democrats mounted a historic midterms rout. I've noticed a lot of places have become Sysco dependent. Are restaurants starting to taste the same? Food distributor Sysco has been on a relentless acquisition spree, becoming one of the largest companies in food service. This consolidation means higher prices for mass-produced food made. Restaurants seem busy enough or at least they are on Fridays and Saturdays when you can't hardly get a table anywhere without a 20-30 minute wait. Genuinely think people are either more well off than they seem or lots of folks are living paycheck to paycheck or going into debt so that they can do things like eat out. Bay Area restaurants are vetting your social media before you even walk in Wrexis Jul 14, 2025 Discussion EtcetEra Forum Restaurants Are Using AI to Advertise Their Food and It’s Making People Sick SilentPanda Sep 24, 2026 AI Discussion EtcetEra Forum Cracker Barrel is serving up a new rule for employees hitting the road: When it comes to meals, the company wants them to stick to its own restaurants. In an internal message obtained by the Wall Street Journal, the company said that employees are expected to dine at a Cracker Barrel store for all or the majority of meals while traveling, whenever practical, based on location and schedule. As those restaurants are almost always tourists traps where the food isn't good. If you are not confident enough in your food to just write the name of the dish and have to take photos of it to interest clients, odds are your food sucks. Yeah that's like you're asked to throw out the food or leave. If your kids are picky, you probably need to be ordering takeout for yourself. Restaurants protecting the basic foundations of their business trumps child accommodations here. And bringing a different pizza to the pizzeria is psychotic behavior Restaurants are adding dozens of new spicy menu items in a bid for younger diners (CNBC) RBH Aug 6, 2025 Discussion EtcetEra Forum.