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lowesburritos t1_itx38nd wrote

RIP. Joining the Monroeville Hooters at the big restaurant in the sky.

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Fue_la_luna t1_itxob0t wrote

RIP Chi Chi's sweet prince of fajita's foreverandeveramen.

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Tonyclifton69 t1_itz5ydy wrote

Don’t forget the Brown Derby

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MrRetrdO t1_iu00j0j wrote

I remember my parents took me there as a kid. I barely remember anything other than it was dark in there.

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WhyHulud t1_itz5i24 wrote

Fun fact, the highest regional leader of Chi-Chi's went to King's when they closed.

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LaCasaDeiGatti t1_ityf8aj wrote

Don't forget the food poisoning.

Edit: or was it something far worse like hep C?

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californiadamn t1_itz4j6e wrote

Hep A. And yes, 650 people infected and 4 died. I was working as a server at another restaurant at the time. NO one was eating out then because they didn’t know it was just chi chis.

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WhyHulud t1_itz5pln wrote

It was one store saving $0.05/ bunch on green onions by buying from a vendor that wasn't approved. People died for the restaurant to make a tiny bit more profit.

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CARLEtheCamry t1_iu0zcym wrote

I never heard that before, have a source? I knew it was from green onions from Mexico I think, and the workers were shitting in the fields, but I thought that was more of a "how could they have known" thing when they buy green onions from their supplier.

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WhyHulud t1_iu1126v wrote

Yeah, it's unfortunate that we were in bankruptcy court at the time, and the lawyers insisted we all stay quiet about it.

I guess it wasn't uncommon; workers didn't have sanitary places to go while in the fields. Some sick worker took a leak on the produce, and thousands of miles away someone died.

My source is the store's assistant manager. I was an AM at another store at the time. Chi-Chi's got a bunch of bad debt pushed on them by their parent company, who had 2 other chains that weren't doing well. They were looking for a buyer just before this hit. We even had Vince McMahon look at a couple of stores in the area. When this hit, it was the nail in the coffin.

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IrrumaboMalum t1_itxvtsl wrote

Am I the only person who actually liked the food at Hooters? Daytona-style wings were amazing there.

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funkyb t1_ity660m wrote

They were the best quality per dollar wings in state college when I was up there.

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IrrumaboMalum t1_ity6shm wrote

If I am working some place where there is a Hooters, I go to the Hooters at least once. Last Hooters I did was in Augusta, GA. Unfortunately Augusta also had a Twin Peaks that was slightly closer to my hotel than Hooters was.

The food at Twin Peaks was overall better than at Hooters, but Hooters still had the best wings and loaded tots. But that Billionaire's Bacon at Twin Peaks...woah boy...

I was also expensing all my meals during that assignment. Free Hooters and Twin Peaks every day! Or at least when I wasn't going to a BBQ place.

I gained a little extra weight over that 3 1/2 months...

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BeachPlease843 t1_itybnr9 wrote

They had a fantastic hot dog and curly fries from what I remember.

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WhenRobLoweRobsLowes t1_iu07fa1 wrote

Theybused to have good burgers. I went to one in Nashville a few years ago and the quality had gone down a bit.

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sopabe6197 t1_itx4lfi wrote

After the chain was sold the food quality declined rapidly. It's a shame.

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Excelius t1_itxag7s wrote

The Plum location just closed too, though that was because the plaza is being bulldozed to build a bigger Sheetz. There were hopes that might boost the business at the Monroeville location.

Don't think the chain has much of a future. New owners just drove it into the ground.

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Watchyousuffer t1_itxurp6 wrote

Wait really? On golden mile highway with conca d'oro?

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Excelius t1_itxvejp wrote

Yeah. Just as of like a month ago.

Kings Family Restaurant in Plum closes to make way for new Sheetz

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IrrumaboMalum t1_itxw4yh wrote

It feels like we're seeing the Franchise Wars of Demolition Man - but Sheetz is winning, not Taco Bell.

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BackmarkerLife t1_itxyxf2 wrote

Sheetz is fortifying its positions to stand against Wawa.

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IrrumaboMalum t1_ity30y6 wrote

DOWN WITH WAWA! SHEETZ RISE UP!

Wait...that doesn't sound too good...

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Top_File_8547 t1_iu0iqpt wrote

I thought that they had an informal agreement to not encroach on each other’s territory.

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LL_is_a_Cool_J t1_itycrsq wrote

And Sheetz is shit too boot.
I can't see the huge draw their places have.
Overpriced shitty food heated up in microwaves...
Most of the stores are dirty if you really look, like around the food prep areas, dust balls hanging off signs above the food prep area, dirty floors... The hundreds of slobs that touch the lottery machines, coffee machines... It's really funny how they pushed the covid masking while the entire rest of the time they've been opened they are probably responsible for god knows how many people getting sick from their dirty gern infested stores.

I'll take me a Rutters or even Speedway over any Sheetz in existence any day and all day.

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IrrumaboMalum t1_ityet9f wrote

What Sheetz have you been going to?

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LL_is_a_Cool_J t1_iu0mdxb wrote

I'll take some pics and start a new thread.
The ones around Indiana County are freaking disgusting.
I drive for a living and get to stop at lots of places.
I'll take the food quality and cleanliness of a Rutters any day and the food at a Speedway over any gross Sheetz slop also on any day.

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IrrumaboMalum t1_iu1vvid wrote

The Sheetz around me are all pretty clean overall, aside from when they get slammed once in a while and literally cannot spare staff to clean stuff because everyone is either behind a register or in the kitchen preparing orders.

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LL_is_a_Cool_J t1_iu25gdw wrote

Look at the signage and such above the food prep area, take a look at the tops of the cooking machines, at the smoke alarms in the stores. You're very likely to see dust rabbits, not little bunnies but full on dust rabbits clinging to the signs above where the food is made and around the edges of the floors at the walls.

Maybe it's just the few I go into that are shitty.

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IrrumaboMalum t1_iu2iqt0 wrote

The only one in Indiana I've been to regularly (or semi-regularly) is the one on 119, I think, since it's close to my dad and stepmom's camp.

The ones I go to most often are Babcock, Monroeville (closest to 376, rarely do I go to the one past the mall) and on Route 8. Those ones usually seem pretty decent. I used to go to the one in Cranberry a lot, but since I left the shop I was working at there to do my current expat assignment I haven't been there much aside from stopping there on my way to the range at the game lands when I'm on vacation.

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rangoon03 t1_itzg8co wrote

Any Speedway I’ve been in is gross and isn’t in the same universe as Sheetz.

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LL_is_a_Cool_J t1_iu0jp5b wrote

The Speedway on 22 in New Alec is clean.
Cleaner than any Sheetz I've been in.

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Tonyclifton69 t1_itz60k0 wrote

Conca D’Oro is staying though

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Watchyousuffer t1_itzcxuh wrote

oh, so the strip mall isn't being torn down? I thought it made sense because a lot of those shops have emptied out, although it does say they're for lease

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Tonyclifton69 t1_itzd1nf wrote

According to Louie (the owner) , they’re just moving down a few doors in the plaza (I think where zakia used to be)

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purplegladys2022 t1_itx9okn wrote

Was at that location pre-covid, I was served moldy toast. Never seen moldy toast before.

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Ninja_420_69 t1_itxe1ts wrote

Is that moldy bread that was toasted or toast that sat around long enough to mold?

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TiesThrei t1_ityc2gt wrote

No one keeps toast. I'd think the toasting would kill mold on bread, though... unless the mold had become so resolute that the bread was more mold than bread before toasting. Edit: dropped the /s

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vVSidewinderVv t1_iu0uh4s wrote

Sounds like some high end restaurant BS. Aged breakfast steak served with equally aged toast and eggs. Add in some oatmeal breakfast stout and call the place ARKEGIC.

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BoringAdventures t1_itxdbur wrote

Used to love eating there w/ my dad before work. You're 100% correct, took a nose dive.

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eisme t1_itznqg8 wrote

Growing up, I worked at the Plum location for a few summers in the 80s. I loved the food so much and never got tired of eating it, for my shift meals. Fast forward to the early 2000s when I stopped into a location in Wexford. I got something that I'd regularly ordered ~20 years earlier and it tasted like it had been pulled from the microwave. What a disappointment. I never went back again. King's has been in business for far too long.

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Corny_Toot t1_itz8o8l wrote

It really did. We used to go there all the time. I miss their fries!

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Zhouston63 t1_itx5spo wrote

I knew a guy that cooked at the Greensburg King's and he was one of the most unclean people I ever met. We haven't gone to eat there in over 10 years.

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CARLEtheCamry t1_iu10qar wrote

Man, we had this kid at work we nicknamed "Booger" because when he changed desks, they had to bring in cleaning people to scrape an insane amount of boogers off the underside of his desk.

He eventually got fired. A few of us would hit up a place by the Kennedy Giant Eagle that had all you could eat wings a certain day - saw him working there, turned right around and went somewhere else. Place seems to be closed now, so everyone else is spared from booger wings.

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Zhouston63 t1_iu10wd0 wrote

Yeah it's crazy how knowing one person who is particularly unsanitary can push you away from a place.

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LL_is_a_Cool_J t1_ityctrt wrote

Now he works at Sheetz making food right?

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Zhouston63 t1_itz7jfx wrote

Honestly I don't know we never liked each other so I once I didn't have to talk to him again I never did

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puppy_fan t1_itxaeht wrote

That's so weird. I drove past it on Monday I think and thought, "Oh, that King's is still open."

I'm sorry, Pittsburgh.

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thecrowfly t1_itxuh4e wrote

those new owners fucked it all up. frownie is prob pissed.

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CandlelitHair t1_ity0eqc wrote

Frownie and the cinnamon ice cream fucking rip

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Jupichan t1_ityd0xa wrote

Warm apple pie and cinnamon ice cream...such a treat.

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tkast08 t1_itxmot0 wrote

I used to go to the original one in North Versailles all the time as a kid. It used to be everyone's favorite place to get ice cream after a special event. Yeah, ever since they got sold they dipped in quality. I'm quite sad; I loved their country fried steak and beef vegetable soup. I might drive to one of their remaining locations, as I know this company is soon gonna cease to exist.

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Robert_L0blaw t1_itz5lvb wrote

Late night bowling and then to that Kings after was a high school staple.

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VespiWalsh t1_itx6r8z wrote

Good riddance, I hated that place when I worked at a local one years ago. Only redeeming quality was the cinnamon ice cream.

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Tight_Departure_2983 t1_itxqcfl wrote

Are you telling me the 7 handwritten signs saying "we're open" weren't a good sign?!

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greentea1985 t1_itzmxi2 wrote

Kings has sucked since the news owners bought the chain. Eliminating Frownies was the start of the end and showed how they didn’t understand the market.

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robRush54 t1_itzjiir wrote

Oh damn! When I lived in Monroeville back in the early 80's, I would meet my mom for breakfast there once a week. Also remember the apple pie with cinnamon ice cream. My wife (who was born and raised there) says it's been looking ragged lately. RIP to the legend that it was. Hopefully Dick's Diner is still around.

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Old_Molasses_790 t1_itx5jk4 wrote

They just closed in Meadville as well

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Chicken_Pot_Porg_Pie t1_itxg9zc wrote

Sad to learn this. I used to eat there when I took my daughter back and forth to Allegheny. That was 10-12 years ago.

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storyuntold t1_itzylt4 wrote

Wait, what? That was my hometown, and I have so many fond memories of going there with my mom to get the country breakfast.

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Old_Molasses_790 t1_iu0d9xo wrote

Yep unfortunately Meadville closed fairly recently, neatest location is now Franklin on Route 8 and who knows how long that’ll last, that whole stretch of 8 is dotted with closed restaurants already

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Tweed_Kills t1_itxi9ti wrote

The Butler one closed a little while back.

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sebileis t1_ityev1a wrote

Seems almost every day another location is shuttering its doors. As others have said the quality and service have taken a nosedive in recent years. Last went to one in 2015 and waited nearly 2 hours for food (it wasn’t very busy) and when our food did arrive it was cold. Haven’t returned since.

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CansPGH t1_itzfkcc wrote

One new weed dispensary coming up!

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IamChantus t1_itzmvz1 wrote

The King is dead. Long live the Kings...in Greensburg or one of their other seven remaining locations.

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itsmnemotime t1_itxn0t5 wrote

Headed the way of pappan's soon enough

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moontownshipmonster t1_itz7pbo wrote

Never ate at a pappan's without getting the runs . . " But you gonna like it"

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1stCaptainSkrall t1_itz6zgl wrote

I'm afraid for the Leechburg one. All the other locations are closing, that's the only one that's remotely close to me

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berner22 t1_ity48tq wrote

Sausage eggel bagel dipped in French. Don’t hate me till you try it at either Geensburg or one their other 7 locations. I miss the Wexford location.

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TheSeed420 t1_ity86uk wrote

Damn. I never liked the Monroeville restaurant but the one by the Beaver Valley Mall was mint. Growing up, 20+ years ago, they had a secret dessert. Maybe it was just cause they new us from going so often. But if was called "dessert hockey". Waffle, with peanut butter, vanilla ice cream, cinnamon ice cream, hot chocolate syrup, warm maple syrup, a few cherries on top, and a handful of spoons.

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Logical-Rip-8138 t1_ityv9r2 wrote

Great…now where am I going to get an overpriced cold burger?

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Whiplash_666 t1_itxndsl wrote

Why does the Kings sign have the IN in yellow?

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lolli91 t1_itzc62g wrote

The Kings right down the road on Golden Mile has closed too. Their food has been bad for a while now.

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Videoking24 t1_itzjmv9 wrote

It's wild seeing all of these die off slowly after my Dad being so wrapped up in management at quite a few of these when I was a kid. Mum and Grandma both worked at the one in Holiday Park. Dad went all over being a manager.

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JellyProof2104 t1_itzjsgi wrote

I guess you'll have to go to Eat n Park to get your diarrhea now.

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platasaurua t1_itxz6z8 wrote

The one that used to be on Rt 60 in Crafton used to be my spot when I was a teenager.

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RusskiBayonet t1_ity0yzj wrote

I've eaten at a Kings twice in my life. I remember this because I'm just the kind of person that remembers stupid shit.

The first time was a birthday party for a soccer teammate who I didn't really like. The second time was after my Great Aunt's funeral. I remember this because I'm just the kind of person that remembers stupid shit.

I remember not liking it one bit. I cannot for the life of me tell you what I ate, because it was not worth remember.

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Beautiful_Scratch558 t1_ity5nu9 wrote

So are there any still open at this point?

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kat_j t1_itz81l8 wrote

The one in Monaca is still opened as of last week. One of the better breakfast restaurants here 🤣

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SaltyPO t1_itys08y wrote

They closed both locations in Altoona as well

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WhenRobLoweRobsLowes t1_iu07s9b wrote

One closed a while ago. The one up by Target was a shocker (including to the people who worked there).

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TBIrehab t1_ityveiy wrote

Soon to be a dispensary

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Notcodyrhodes t1_ityyivi wrote

My first job was at this location rip

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SystemOfADowneyJr t1_itze641 wrote

Aww I liked Kings. I know they were doing a ghost kitchen for awhile there but I guess it wasn’t enough to keep it open. RIP bro

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Evorgleb t1_itzqzli wrote

I have lived in Monroeville for 8 years. We would drive past this King's all the time. I would always say to my wife, "Want to eat there?" and then we would both laugh because of course we weren't going to eat there.

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JWsWrestlingMem t1_iu0683v wrote

Oooh! Tell us where you and Mrs. Hyena did eat, please!

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Evorgleb t1_iu0sgm3 wrote

Well, if we were ever in the mood for the type of food King's served, we would just go to Eat n Park because, you know, King's is the poor man's Eat n Park.

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JWsWrestlingMem t1_iu0ydqy wrote

Ah, restaurant advice from a Coke drinker.

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Evorgleb t1_iu1bq81 wrote

I clearly touched a nerve. Is King's where you proposed or something?

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JWsWrestlingMem t1_iu1rdbs wrote

Nah your post was just pretentious and unnecessary.

“Oh look at us laughing because we’re too cool to eat there.”

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Evorgleb t1_iu1rn75 wrote

It's not about being cool. It's about King's having trash service and food and there literally being dozens other places in Monroeville that would be better to eat at.

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JWsWrestlingMem t1_iu1udac wrote

I hope you and Mrs. Scuzzball don’t go to any of them. No one wants to have to put up with the laughing hyenas.

Have a Coke and a smile.

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Evorgleb t1_iu1yu1y wrote

King's used to serve Coke ... before it closed

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JWsWrestlingMem t1_iu231mp wrote

Oh come now, you wouldn’t have been caught dead in there.

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Evorgleb t1_iu241v2 wrote

Dude, I kinda feel like we have bonded in this thread. Maybe I'm mis reading the moment but I think we are friends now.

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JWsWrestlingMem t1_iu247pj wrote

I never didn’t like you. I just liked Kings. It went way down hill in recent years. You laughed at it but I probably laughed at things you’ve liked over the years.

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Jahya69 t1_iu0y2kg wrote

and ???!!

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sr214 t1_itxvx4u wrote

Good riddance.

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Jahya69 t1_iu0y4np wrote

Monroeville isn't Pittsburgh

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tkast08 t1_iu2waar wrote

So? It's a suburb of Pittsburgh, and suburbs are frequently talked about on this subreddit.

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ttsignal24 t1_itxqatm wrote

Biden

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Dave95m3 t1_ity2kac wrote

King’s was circling the drain long before Biden was President.

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IamChantus t1_itznqm7 wrote

Yup, Biden forced the sale to shitty owners around fifteen years ago who let it go to shit over those years to the point that blah...blah...blah... you're an idiot.

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