CoolAbdul t1_j9lnq8u wrote on February 22, 2023 at 9:37 PM

Reply to comment by [deleted] in 5 and Diner by 508wortown

They had decent onion rings, but everything else was pretty meh. And putting up a fake diner in the city that is the birthplace of the real diner was pretty foolhardy. It's like the investor who opened a Red Lobster on THE CAPE. What was the dude possibly thinking??

AceOfTheSwords t1_j9n3n51 wrote on February 23, 2023 at 3:45 AM

I mean, it's not located anywhere near any of the local diners. Its primary competition was Denny's. Compared to Denny's it was higher quality, but apparently not enough to justify higher prices.

And while local diners have superior food, sometimes people want that general category of food with groups larger than 4 people, and real diners aren't particularly suited to that.