Have a great local burger place that's been around forever

I had a traditional Mexican place not too far from my house, maybe 10-15 minutes by foot at most. It was really quaint and I never saw it too busy, only a few tables filled at most. It was ideal because it was cheap as hell yet the burritos were huge, and the salsa that came with the chips was always fresh.

Then before I knew it it changed owners and the burritos were smaller and the walls were barren and nobody was going in

It's still there, just..empty. Soulless

Kids Eat Free
Is the death knell.

I think you should start hyping this place wherever you can. Online, real life... Hell, talk about them on a site where people are willing to drive to another state for great food. I absolutely love little places with great food like that!
Actually, go ahead and let us know which state you live in!

What city OP?

if it isnt 'the brick' you might as well go burn it down yourself.

The best pizza place in my hometown is like that, can barely fill half the place on a Fri/Sat night

I know it's because they don't deliver (they don't want to be seen as "that" kind of restaurant that only focuses on pizza, their personal choice whatever), and if they did, they'd probably be doing better.

Had a burger place like the one you're talking about in my college town, got replaced by fucking Mooyahs.

>there was this local bakery that had absolutely amazing pastries and breads.
>everyone in town went and loved it
>voted best bakery in the county and 2 best in the state several times
>The owner is this nice middle aged woman who stocked her families recipes and had dreamed for her whole life to open a bakery
>bakery is open for 6 and a half years
>suddenly the owners father dies, husband gets terminal cancer, and son gets paralyzed in a car crash all in the same 2 week period
>forced to close doors because she needs to take care of her son and father
its understandable completely why they closed, but it was still so sad when it closed

>tfw started this because I needed to bring in customers
>local parents start to come in after baseball games and the such
>decide to take the dive and sponsor the local teams
>support flourishes, everyone starts fundraisers using my food, town rallies
>tfw now my restaurant is doing fine and I can delete my Kitchen Nightmares audition tape

There was a chicken sausage place near me named “Jimbos joint” that was great but always empty. I miss it.

>The owner was a notorious womanizer and his wife ended up having enough of it. She divorced him and he ended up giving the place to a friend so he wouldn't lose it in the divorce.
I'd probably just stop going altogether if I knew this about the owner. Karma, dude.

I wonder if the place would've stayed the same if the owner's wife had got the place instead of the friend.

So many questions. *shrugs dejectedly*

>favorite pizza place has expanded twice and won numerous awards
It's always the vietnamese places though. One guy introduced me to his grandma, the other was run by some guy and his wife.
There was also a hot dog place, for $6 you could get a decked out sausage sandwich with all sorts of toppings and sausage choices or alternatively make your own dog for like $2 on tuesdays, but they closed like two years later.

F

I've watched a few of my favorite restaurants go out of business. Never seen a place just wither away, but I've seen several places done in by skyrocketing rent hikes, and a few never managing to reopen after kitchen fires.

I mention it to as many people as possible. It's pretty much my favorite burger place period. I'm from Texas and I put it ahead of Whataburger (which is a sacrilege to some here). I've even gone as far as to leave reviews on both Google and Yelp (I made a Yelp account specifically to do so).

They bake their own "sourdough" buns, which are perfect (they even have some with jalapenos baked right in).

Part of the issue is that it's in a suburb of Houston and apart from the people who live here, there aren't a lot of, well, people who go out of their way to eat there.

Fuck it, I'm drunk and tired as fuck, I'll just post a link to them:

honeybeehamthewoodlands.com/

I know there are several anons on this board not only from Houston, but from the area where this restaurant is located.

If you're reading this, Houston anons, give it a try - everything they have is great. The only thing I will concede is that their bread doesn't travel well. It gets soggy if you have to wait for more than 15 minutes to eat it.

Nice, bro, I highly approve! Keep up the good work!

>Gyro place run by elderly greek couple
>gyro meat is your typical factory manufactured meat that you find in most greek resturants but everything else is home made
>go there every other day
>get to know them well
>eventually the husband dies
>I'm more or less the only person who goes there anymore
>one day she tells me that she's closing the restaurant and moving back to Greece
>tells me on the final day that I helped made the restaurant a better place in the final days

of course I can go to other gyro places
but nowhere will be as special as this place

...

Oh shit, that's a bad sign.

A Veeky Forums success story.
Good on ya, cunt.

You have no idea man.

>Carey Hilliards, amazing family dining for decades, up and closes
>Kobe, superb teppanyaki restaurant, serves FUCKHUGE portions, been around for decades, up and closes
>K&W cafeteria, real comfy and cozy place, delicious food, ate there for years, up and closes
>Northtown Greek restaurant, best gyro I've ever had, damn fine everything else, been around for decades, up and closes
>Falafel place downtown, lasts a couple years then goes under

It pains me to know that so many fantastic places are gone forever, but hey, at least I now have a fucking JERSEY MIKES! By the way, fuck Jersey Mikes

this place had low prices, large portions, and used fresh ingredients. a 18" pizza with 6 toppings i believe was only 16 bucks. they had good yelp reviews, too.

they only lasted 2 years, 2012-2014. the place they opened in was a residential area with nothing of worth around but homes and it wasn't a main commute route either. you had to specifically drive out there.

Damn you and damn your eyes for making me tear up like that.

Always wanted to find a good place for Happy Hour near my university, but everything is either too expensive or far away

>find a cozy Czech cafe
>good sandwiches, breakfast food, coffee, beer, and traditional european food
>one of the best Reuben sandwiches I've had to date
>could get 2 pints of proper Czech lager for $5
>would go there often for espresso, lunch, and drinks between classes
>super friendly people
>never saw it empty, always a line of people, often hard to get a seat when I wanted
>break from school, hadn't been there for a while
>go back, doors are closed, dark inside, note on door saying "sorry we're closed"
>no explanation, just a mess of appliances inside
>while I'm there dumbfounded at least 2 passerbys notice and are just as disappointed as me

Still have trouble thinking about this sometimes.

did you have a threesome to cheer up?

youtube.com/watch?v=oh8zcbC_Dcw

TELL people about it

there used to be a great Burmese place in Hilton Head I would make an hour drive to go to

closed :(

Last time I visited Houston and had Whataburger, it really wasn't even that great, or at least not as good as I remember it. I've had far better food from the local joints around here.

t. Texan

Do you still feed kids for free?

Kids under 13 get a "pay what you want" policy these days. We advertise that 50% of the cost for the kids meals goes back to the community, and it actually does. You'd be surprised how many people drop $50 on their kid's meal. We have good folk around here.

art should be independed of its creator

I'm steadily losing my taste for Whataburger. I'll forever love their spicy ketchup that just goes so great with fries or onion rings but the regular whataburger is just so plain to me now to the point where I mostly order the Honey BBQ Chicken Sandwich whenever I got there. Papa Burger's Chiara Burger is my go to Texas burger now.

There used to be a pizza place by my house and they had the best fucking pizza. Especially the Donair Pizza. Closed up shop in 2009 or something. Now it's been replaced by very crappy pizza places owned by pajeet and deepak.
Only good thing they have is Frooti

I feel like your priorities as a human being are a little bit off.

>tfw work at a place just like this
>tfw no one can pronounce Gyro
>tfw both the owners are very, very elderly
>tfw their kids are both kinda fuckups
>tfw the cost of running the restaurant is getting too high to maintain despite business being good
>tfw I know it won't last forever

lol seriously

>everyone died or whatever but I can't get my favorite bread anymore

>grow up in middle of fucking nowhere
>nothing around for miles
>typical fast food and country food restaurants
>only chinese places are all the same garbage buffets that cater to obese people on scooters who want everything deep fried and covered in different flavors of corn syrup

>all except one
>some kind of asian culinary wizard just inexplicably dropped out of the sky and decided to open a restaurant in an old strip mall
>nothing about it gives anything away, uses same simple "Chinese Sichuan-Hunan" sign and paper menus that everywhere else uses

>food is like some kind of glorious gifts from god and satan mixed together
>hot as motherfucking balls, but the flavor is so fucking amazing you cant stop eating it as you cry and sweat with snot coming out of your nose
>has all of the "american style" staples, but they are all unique, better than anything you could get anywhere else
>like the crab rangoon, instead of a tiny blob of cream cheese with maybe some fake crab folded into a star, its a giant wanton stuffed full of cream cheese and real crab and god knows what spices folded into a giant triangle.

>be really little kid when first start going there, too young to appreciate it because its too much flavor and too hot
>chef is nicest fucker ever and makes me amazing grilled cheese sandwiches instead and gets to know my parents
>as I get older I start to appreciate it more, but still take it for granted because I've been going there my whole life
>around 15yrs old, the chef gets cancer
>he tries to teach the magic, but the place starts suffering, food is not good when he is not there
>then he dies, and the places closes a few months later
>feel sad about it, but think we will just have to find a new good place

I've been searching for over 20 fucking years now.
from the fanciest places in every city I go to.. to every random place in every random strip mall.. I keep trying to hold out hope for that magic.. but... there is no other good place.

That's the story of every Greek coffee shop in NYC over the last few decades.

Still better than In-N-out at least. Still the best onion rings you can get from a fast food joint.

Fucking Pepper's Pizza in Chapel Hill, NC. I only got to eat there for my freshman year of college and then they closed.

>that episode when they made the libertarian argument for trans fats

I live in a small dying town and everything except the gun store, pharmacy, and post office has closed up shop.

I miss my town.

>"Famous"

>using speech marks in greentext

This is an acceptable use of greentext.

One of my best friends who is the largest food fan I know lives in the Woodlands. I'm texting him right now.

>tfw no friends

...

my favorite restaurant got bought out by a local burgerchain, apparently the offer was so good they couldnt refuse, especially since the owners were like in their mid 60s, was really sad

I do
I only ever go therefor lunch, hopefully they are busier for dinner

You are tearing me apart user

Franklin St. has had so many businesses come and go and it fuckin' blows. Used to go to a bubble tea place that has since become an Insomnia Cookie with an ex every time we went out, still miss it sometimes.

At least several of the bars have been able to stick it out even if they changed ownership. Wish I could find a screencap of the craigslist ad for The Cave from 2012.

>chinese restaurant
>great menu, and buffet
>interior filled with beautiful walls made out of wood carvings
>usually lots of people there
>owner was somehow involved with drug trafficking in large quantities
>new owner takes out all the wood since the maintenance takes too much time
>food quality goes down, interior looks like a cheap cafeteria

>2010-ish
>Really good Jamaican place opens up outside my school.
>It's packed every single day and steals business from all other places on the block.
>They're making so much money they decide to sellout to a larger company.
>New management steps in and starts to get cocky when making changes.
>They double the meal prices. Yes, that's right, they doubled the price of the most common thing high schoolers buy and slightly raised the price of everything else.
>Next day the restaurant is empty.
>Stays empty for two whole weeks, no one even bothers walking inside or looking at the place.
>Goes out of business in a month.

>taking care of her dead father

your story a shit. A FUCKING SHIT!!!!