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'On-the-road restaurants in USA
Good morning,
My wife and I are planning a three month driving tour in the US, mainly in a big loop from Los Angeles to Seattle to Niagara to NY to Florida, New Orleans, GC, Las Vegas and back to LA. Last time, about 10 years ago, we used to eat at the "eat all you can for $5.99" restaurants for the main meal of the day. Reasonable quality food and helped keep the travel budget reasonable. Looking at Denny's and Wendy's web site this option no longer seems available. Any suggestions as what is the best option nowadays. Thanks Neville Queensland Australia |
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On Wed, 6 Jun 2012 23:03:37 +0000 (UTC), Neville MADDEN
wrote: Good morning, My wife and I are planning a three month driving tour in the US, mainly in a big loop from Los Angeles to Seattle to Niagara to NY to Florida, New Orleans, GC, Las Vegas and back to LA. Last time, about 10 years ago, we used to eat at the "eat all you can for $5.99" restaurants for the main meal of the day. Reasonable quality food and helped keep the travel budget reasonable. Looking at Denny's and Wendy's web site this option no longer seems available. $5.99 would be *very* cheap these days. I don't think you can find much, if anything, at that price. But in many places you can find all-you-can-eat Chinese buffets for around $12 in the evening, and even less at lunch time. -- Ken Blake |
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'On-the-road restaurants in USA
On 06 Jun 2012 in rec.travel.usa-canada, Neville MADDEN wrote:
My wife and I are planning a three month driving tour in the US, mainly in a big loop from Los Angeles to Seattle to Niagara to NY to Florida, New Orleans, GC, Las Vegas and back to LA. Last time, about 10 years ago, we used to eat at the "eat all you can for $5.99" restaurants for the main meal of the day. Reasonable quality food and helped keep the travel budget reasonable. Looking at Denny's and Wendy's web site this option no longer seems available. Any suggestions as what is the best option nowadays. Second what Ken Blake suggested - Chinese buffets at lunchtime. There's a national chain of buffet restaurants called Golden Corral (http://www.goldencorral.com/). They run about US$10 for dinner (current special is 2/$20); no idea about lunch pricing. It's been a while since I ate there, but the food should be OK if uninspiring. -- Joe Makowiec http://makowiec.org/ Email: http://makowiec.org/contact/?Joe Usenet Improvement Project: http://twovoyagers.com/improve-usenet.org/ |
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'On-the-road restaurants in USA
"Neville MADDEN" wrote in message ... Good morning, My wife and I are planning a three month driving tour in the US, mainly in a big loop from Los Angeles to Seattle to Niagara to NY to Florida, New Orleans, GC, Las Vegas and back to LA. Last time, about 10 years ago, we used to eat at the "eat all you can for $5.99" restaurants for the main meal of the day. Reasonable quality food and helped keep the travel budget reasonable. Looking at Denny's and Wendy's web site this option no longer seems available. Any suggestions as what is the best option nowadays. Thanks Neville Queensland Australia I doubt that you'll see prices like that again as $5.99 is roughly what a low-end combo costs at Burger King these days. Roadfood is a website (and a series of books) about unfancy places to eat around the country (http://roadfood.com/). At the very least they'll give you some insight to local specialties, but they do actually eat at all the places they recommend. You didn't mention when you're coming, but from now until a few weeks into September you'll be able to find some kind of festival just about every weekend no matter where you are. These will be put on by churches and clubs usually, but they can also be fundraisers for just about any purpose, and they will sell food that can be very good. They are the kind of affair that you really have to keep your eyes open to find unless you happen upon the event itself. Look for posters on lamp posts or on car windshields, in store windows and the like, or just ask around. From August into October there will be some overlap with harvest fairs, where the food won't be cheap but it can definitely be odd (particularly in the midwest) Most supermarkets now have prepared food sections where you can pick up pretty decent food at reasonable prices to eat at a scenic area or at your lodging. This may be your lowest cost option, but be aware that even 24hr stores don't cook through the night. Buy early. Good luck, Keith |
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'On-the-road restaurants in USA
"Neville MADDEN" wrote in message ... Good morning, My wife and I are planning a three month driving tour in the US, mainly in a big loop from Los Angeles to Seattle to Niagara to NY to Florida, New Orleans, GC, Las Vegas and back to LA. Last time, about 10 years ago, we used to eat at the "eat all you can for $5.99" restaurants for the main meal of the day. Reasonable quality food and helped keep the travel budget reasonable. Looking at Denny's and Wendy's web site this option no longer seems available. Any suggestions as what is the best option nowadays. Thanks Neville Queensland Australia My wife and I have taken to having a good (cooked) breakfast in either Dennys or, more usually, a local diner (we tend to stay in small towns, not cities). Then buy a few simple snacks in the local supermarket and then an early dinner sometimes in a diner but occasionally slightly more upmarket. The supermarket food allows us to eat the greens and fruit we sometimes can't get at a diner. The first supermarket we come across we can usually find a small cool bag so we buy that and every couple of days buy a little ice to keep the food cool. We've had very basic white polystyrene ones (which while effective squeak all the time when driving), big rigid ones with wheels (when we had children with us) and most recently ones that you can carry over your shoulder and fold down when not in use. We've bought two of the fold down ones back to the UK and (if we can get them back from people we've loaned them to) very useful they are too. The big rigid ones (which cost us maybe $25) we gave to the maid in the last hotel we stayed in. |
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On 06 Jun 2012 in rec.travel.usa-canada, Neville MADDEN wrote:
My wife and I are planning a three month driving tour in the US, mainly in a big loop from Los Angeles to Seattle to Niagara to NY to Florida, New Orleans, GC, Las Vegas and back to LA. Last time, about 10 years ago, we used to eat at the "eat all you can for $5.99" restaurants for the main meal of the day. Reasonable quality food and helped keep the travel budget reasonable. Looking at Denny's and Wendy's web site this option no longer seems available. Any suggestions as what is the best option nowadays. I didn't think to mention Chinese buffets in my last response, and in a general sense they're probably your best bet. The better ones serve much more than Chinese food, too. The last one we went to had some normally pricey clam dishes (including clams on the half shell), shrimp (prawns) done several ways, southern fried chicken and a lot of other non-Chinese things, including sushi and some Thai items. Normal price for the buffet was $12 + beverage cost. We happened on a 2 for $20 deal. Sodas were $2 with free refills. If you're staying in hotels and motels, many now serve some kind of breakfast that's included in the rate. Some of those offer full hot American breakfast while at most it's 'continental' or something meager like a muffin and coffee. A handful (Embassy Suites comes to mind) have a complimentary cocktail hour in the late afternoon. Another thing I didn't think of are the big truck stops along the Interstates. Many of those offer buffet meals all day and all night long, but not for 5.99. I'm not really sure how you go about finding those - there may be a locator on the Internet. Keith |
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"Graham Harrison" wrote in
: "Neville MADDEN" wrote in message ... Good morning, My wife and I are planning a three month driving tour in the US, mainly in a big loop from Los Angeles to Seattle to Niagara to NY to Florida, New Orleans, GC, Las Vegas and back to LA. Thanks to everone that replied. Our last trip was in 2001 so prices have gone up since then. Adding everybody's replies together gives us a great lot of options. Neville Queensland Australia |
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On Thu, 7 Jun 2012 20:20:19 -0500, "Keith"
wrote: I didn't think to mention Chinese buffets in my last response, and in a general sense they're probably your best bet. The better ones serve much more than Chinese food, too. The last one we went to had some normally pricey clam dishes (including clams on the half shell), shrimp (prawns) done several ways, southern fried chicken and a lot of other non-Chinese things, My experience is the same with regard to most of the above things. including sushi and some Thai items. I've only been to a few such places, but regarding sushi, yuck! I'm a sushi lover, but I pass it up at these places. They mostly have only sushi rolls, and very heavily americanized sushi rolls--nothing traditional. And regarding nigiri sushi, they either had nothing or a very few kinds. And none of the sushi was any good, mostly because the rice was very Chinese, not Japanese sushi rice. -- Ken Blake |
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"Neville MADDEN" wrote in message ... Good morning, My wife and I are planning a three month driving tour in the US, mainly in a big loop from Los Angeles to Seattle to Niagara to NY to Florida, New Orleans, GC, Las Vegas and back to LA. Last time, about 10 years ago, we used to eat at the "eat all you can for $5.99" restaurants for the main meal of the day. Reasonable quality food and helped keep the travel budget reasonable. Looking at Denny's and Wendy's web site this option no longer seems available. Any suggestions as what is the best option nowadays. Thanks Neville Queensland Australia Denny's has a $2, $4 $6 $8 deal While driving north from LA , across from Hearst Castle is a Best Western Cavalier. Great food - cheap prices and the best apple pie you'll ever have. I travel a lot and like the Perkins Restaurant chain. Good dinners for ~$10. Their pot pies are excellent ( but regional). Chinese buffets are a thing for the past few years. I see them all over the country by various names. Usually about $6 for lunch, $10 for dinner. " China Buffet " is a chain in New England. In Ocala,FL there is another that has Alaskan King crab legs on Friday nights . It's more money on Fridays, but it is amazing to see much food some people can eat. Most people get JUST the legs. One little old lady made several trips of 4-5 each. What TYPE of food do you like ? Turkey, steak, fish, veggies ? Readers here can tell you about local chains for your preference. Also, if you will have a GPS, for many of the chains you can download a file that will add a file to their locations. http://poidirectory.com/poifiles/uni...s/restaurants/ We use the links to hotels/restaurants as nighttime/ dinnertime approaches. If another ... 37 miles to a "Comfort Inn with a Perkins nearby" then THAT's where we stop for the night. If nothing for 100 miles then it doesn't matter. Some of the parts of the country you'll travel are remote and good to have all of the hotels/restaurants loaded into GPS before you hit the road. |
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