r/AskReddit • u/Zenon9 • 9h ago

What restaurant chain fell off the hardest?

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u/Alternative-Score-35 9h ago

Panera used to be pretty good. Now I'd rank it below hospital food.

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u/Bludiamond56 9h ago

Not all hospital food is bad. It's pretty damn good sitting in one right now. Taste better than alot of mega chain food.

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u/GuaranteeUnhappy3342 9h ago

I spent over three months in a U.S. Army hospital in S.E. Asia years ago.  Food was okay but I got a beer every day after I was off IVs.  Not bad for 17 (turned that in the hospital).  Everyone else got one beer a week.

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u/Bludiamond56 9h ago

Wow dude

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u/dearth_of_passion 8h ago

The hospital near me has a Panera in the lobby.

The actual hospital cafeteria is significantly better.

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u/Octopus_on_fire_ 7h ago

My girlfriend is a CNA and I go eat dinner with her sometimes at work. The cafeteria at our big(ish) hospital is BANGIN. They have amazing soups and sometimes they do a friend shrimp and fries meal with homemade coleslaw and I beg her to get me one and bring it home when they do haha.

Idk if they got Gordon Ramsey back there or what, but that cafeteria knows ball.

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u/Bludiamond56 7h ago

Just got done with heart surgery over a week in here. Going home now. Lunch was chicken Marsala. Fantastic but cheese go figure..I will do better when it comes to cheeses and other bad things to eat.

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u/Alternative-Score-35 9h ago

I will admit the last time I had hospital food it was better than expected/I remembered.

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u/Nail_Biterr 9h ago

Funny enough, the Hospital I work in, had a Panera in it too! (it's since gone out of business)

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u/DMala 9h ago

Ugh, we used to go there all the time because the kids would eat it, so I had a front row seat for their decline. If I never go there again it would be too soon.

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u/-mud 9h ago

We used to have a joke that you know a neighborhood was nice if there was a Panera - not so much any more.