Originally Posted by
stupenal
Very true. I was stuck on a project for quite some time in a city in central California, which may have well been in the boonies. Their main street was chain restaurant heaven - every single chain restaurant (Chili's, BJ's, Applebees, Elephant Bar, etc) was always packed on Thursday evenings. I am almost positive, that these restaurants were the local 'fine dining' locations because there simply was nothing else.
or it could be that some people had to run errands, didn't want to eat at home so they went to a chain. or maybe familys were there they didn't want to spend more money on a fancy restaurant, when you have kids restaurants can be very expensive so they ate at applebees makes perfect sense to me.