Restaurant chains that no longer exist

Huddle House. I don't know about the rest of the country but they were in and out of Kansas in about 20 minutes. I thought it was decent stuff.

Pizza Inn. We always went there over Pizza Hut. Now there are very few of those left. There was one in Joplin but it it was in the heart of the path of the tornado and they didn't rebuild it.

 

Looks like they have downsized in a lot of states

Huddle House Restaurants in the United States

• Alabama 35
• Arkansas 5
• Florida 11
• Georgia 94
• Illinois 9
• Indiana 3
• Kansas 2
• Kentucky 28
• Louisiana 14
• Mississippi 23
• Missouri 13
• Nebraska 1
• New Jersey 2
• North Carolina 14
• North Dakota 1
• Ohio 1
• Oklahoma 4
• Pennsylvania 3
• South Carolina 33
• Tennessee 22
• Texas 18
• Virginia 17
• West Virginia 3

 

The one in Salina isn't open anymore. I ate there once several years ago when I was covering a state tournament. It was closed when I went back there the next year. It was off I-70 on Ohio St. (Maybe it's reopened, but I haven't been there since)

Before the came to Kansas, I ate at the one in Cuba, Mo., when I was returning from a trip to Illinois. I thought the food there was good and was a reason I went to the one in Salina.

 

I went to Huddle House not too long ago in @jr/shotglass's neck of the woods. I can't remember if it was on 81 or the Pa Turnpike.

 

Why the fuck is a town in MO named Cuba?

 

There's a Cuba, Kan., too. I don't know why.

 

And a Havana, Fla. -- west of Tallahassee, too, not in SoFla.

 

Maybe it's across a lake from Mexico, Mo.

And FWIW, I think there's a Cuba in Alabama as well.

 

Heck, we have a London, Paris AND Egypt, to name just a few.

 

Unimaginative!!!

If I ever get to name a city, I'm calling it Babel.

I don't think that one has been used for a long time.

 

Where are you from? There was a Mr. Steak in E. Lansing where we sometimes ate when I was growing up. I've never actually been to a Sizzler but Mr. Steak was pretty good -- dark and nice inside. I doubt it was fancy, but it was nice enough. I picture a Sizzler to be more like a Ponderosa. Could have been a chain -- not sure.

 

Yeah, Jake, I think it was right off that New Kingstown exit where 81 meets the Turnpike. Looked a little tacky to me.