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You want to go where?
While I respect the moderator's admonition that this shouldn't devolve into a food, atmosphere, menu thread, you can't completely ignore them either. For me, chain restaurants simply don't have the food, atmosphere, or menu to pull off real waits, let alone false ones. However, I do see chains which regularly manage to sucker people into waiting for their (imo) mediocre product.
I think that's about right. When I'm in the USA and lazy enough to eat at a chain restaurant I'm certainly not going to wait - I can almost always get the same crap at some other restaurant in the strip mall.