> Why do you assume it has to be low quality or mediocre? Have you eaten at any of the listed restaurants? They're all using a similar concept. Food is, for

> Why do you assume it has to be low quality or mediocre? Have you eaten at any of the listed restaurants? They're all using a similar concept. Food is, for the most part, cooked elsewhere and heated up when needed. Just above the quality of a $4 frozen Stouffers TV dinner. I'm making a judgement based on what I'll pay for. I really don't care what the pain points are for the restaurant if the food is as shitty as the meals I've had at Applebees, Olive Garden, Red Lobster, IHOP, Dennys etc. Chilis has rolled out this concept (somewhat) over the last year or 2 and the quality of the meals has suffered greatly but it's still slightly better than the places listed above. FWIW, I have 2 friends whose family business are italian food. One of them lives in PA and ships me stuff in a styrofoam cooler that's better than 90% of the italian places around here. The other runs my favorite local italian place. I've been going there for 22+ years. I dread when he retires...