I love the strong opinions...best of the chains to worst of the worst. Totally for lazy people is a good one, too.
My take is: how can you really have a strong opinion about these places? How is Applebee's really different from Chili's? Now that I think of it, I believe it's actually Chili's that I'm most likely to eat at - not Applebee's. But I actually had to
think about it...they are so interchangeable. I'm pretty sure it's Chili's at ORD and DFW.
Am I lazy? The other option I recall at DFW is that place with all the Cowboys memorabilia everywhere, but it's just way too nauseating to walk into that place.

So Chili's (I think) it is...