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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bullgrit" data-source="post: 6254555" data-attributes="member: 31216">But this idea doesn't make any sense. Bad/bland food does not turn a restaurant into a chain of restaurants. People don't go to, for instance, McDonald's for bland food. They go there because they like that food, be it a Big Mac or french fries.My mother and step-father owned and operated a restaurant in my hometown. It served homecooked-style breakfast and lunch, and did* pretty good business. Good enough that they eventually opened another location on the other side of my hometown. They cooked and served the same food, the same way in the second location because it was good in the first place and they just wanted to offer it to more people. They didn't dumb down their food to make more people happy. They didn't change their food to give more variety. Customers liked it enough at the first location, so they duplicated it in the second location.* Past tense because after my step-father died, my mom sold the business. The restaurant is still operating, but with another owner.Bigger chain restaurants do the same thing. People don't go to a restaurant for bland food. Yes, the food should be the same in all locations. If I like a Big Mac, and I'm in Sweden, I know I'll like the McDonald's in Sweden. If I want Swedish food, I won't go to McDonald's. I don't see this as any kind of negative for McDonald's.(An interesting reversal of this is Coca-Cola -- Cokes are different around the world. And, to me, this seems weird and wrong.)Chain food is not bad. If you really believe that, you're saying that so many people want to eat bad food they'll make a bad restaurant successful enough to expand. Quite frankly, that's a ridiculous belief. You're saying that either the first restaurant changed to become bad so it could become a chain, or it's food was bad but somehow was successful enough to expand.Taco Bell gets a bad rap about it's food. I can't remember the last time I ate anything from Taco Bell, but this fact has nothing to do with the quality of their food. (I'm curious to try their Doritos taco.) But obviously some people like it a lot -- enough that the chain is a cultural icon. Saying that Taco Bell is bad is pretty insulting to all the people who like it and regularly eat from there.I just find it very . . . snotty (can't think of a better word) for people to put down obviously popular things. I even think that 9 times out of 10, the denegrator is doing it just to seem "above the sheeple". Popular things don't get popular and stay popular for decades by being bad. McDonald's and Taco Bell aren't big chains because they're bland, pathetic food.McDonald's has some delicious items. And I bet the Doritos taco at Taco Bell is fantastic. Dammit, now I've got to look up and see if there's a Taco Bell near me for lunch. (But I've been craving Wendy's chilli for a few days, now, because of all this snow and ice and cold.)Bullgrit</blockquote>

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