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lowesburritos t1_itx38nd wrote

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

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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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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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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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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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Excelius t1_itxag7s wrote

Replying to sopabe6197 (#247,510)

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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Tweed_Kills t1_itxi9ti wrote

The Butler one closed a little while back.

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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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itsmnemotime t1_itxn0t5 wrote

Headed the way of pappan's soon enough

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Whiplash_666 t1_itxndsl wrote

Why does the Kings sign have the IN in yellow?

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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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thecrowfly t1_itxuh4e wrote

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

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sr214 t1_itxvx4u wrote

Good riddance.

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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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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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IrrumaboMalum t1_ity6shm wrote

Replying to funkyb (#252,198)

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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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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TiesThrei t1_ityc2gt wrote

Replying to Ninja_420_69 (#248,589)

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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LL_is_a_Cool_J t1_itycrsq wrote

Replying to IrrumaboMalum (#250,949)

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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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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SaltyPO t1_itys08y wrote

They closed both locations in Altoona as well

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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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TBIrehab t1_ityveiy wrote

Soon to be a dispensary

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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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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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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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CansPGH t1_itzfkcc wrote

One new weed dispensary coming up!

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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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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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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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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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eisme t1_itznqg8 wrote

Replying to sopabe6197 (#247,510)

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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IamChantus t1_itznqm7 wrote

Replying to ttsignal24 (#250,213)

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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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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Old_Molasses_790 t1_iu0d9xo wrote

Replying to storyuntold (#260,013)

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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LL_is_a_Cool_J t1_iu0mdxb wrote

Replying to IrrumaboMalum (#253,140)

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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Jahya69 t1_iu0y4np wrote

Monroeville isn't Pittsburgh

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CARLEtheCamry t1_iu0zcym wrote

Replying to WhyHulud (#255,840)

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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CARLEtheCamry t1_iu10qar wrote

Replying to Zhouston63 (#247,651)

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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WhyHulud t1_iu1126v wrote

Replying to CARLEtheCamry (#265,214)

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_iu1vvid wrote

Replying to LL_is_a_Cool_J (#263,305)

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

Replying to IrrumaboMalum (#270,152)

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

Replying to LL_is_a_Cool_J (#271,721)

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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