I think it'll end up like Boston Market, a place with rather decent food (rotisserie chicken, great meatloaf, and the spinach casserole and yellow squash were faves) that once had a loyal consumer base yet is all but gone due to mismanagement. And the thing is you'd like a place like Boston Market would do great in the Doordash era except that it has real competition from Golden Corral which offers similar foods (again with the meatloaf!). The sad thing is my town doesn't have any real non-grocery-store bakeries other than a handful of Mexican ones that mainly make pastries, so it was a great place to get fancy bread and they seem to have mostly lost the bread/bakery element that makes their name in favor of slowly turning into basically a salad shop for people who tell themselves that salads with that many toppings are still healthy (lol).
Also, I didn't mention this before but what the hell is with that Panera lemonade? Why is Panera's Lemonade basically a Rip-It?
- 16 oz Can of Rip-It energy drink: 160mg of caffeine
- 30 oz large size drink cup of Panera charged lemonade: 390 mg of caffeine
I have never understood the appeal.
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