RIP Starkville Chilli's

[aTotal360]

It's obvious they are doing fries wrong. Everyone hates them. ****

 

[notoriousD_O_G]

Bojangles is the ****. not sure what happened there.

Loved the food there but I went one night and all the ladies in the drive thru were eating crawfish. I like crawfish as much as the next guy but watching them tear open crawdad tails and then handle peoples food made me get a refund and not go back.

 

[johnson86-1]

Walk through this and get to $9-11. http://www.fiveguys.com/order-online

Actually searched my transactions and I actually haven't been this year. Knew I hadn't been lately but would have thought I had been in the past few months. But my meals last year ranged from 6.64 (I assume hamburger only) to 10.12, which would have been hamburger and fries but no drink. Not sure if the prices have gone up that much or if the one I went to is somehow cheaper than standard.

Also why shouldn't students have the desire for a Chili's? That's such an ignorant statement. It's not my cup of tea either, but to each his own. If a Beef O'Bradys or Applebee's succeeds in Starkville, good for them. WTF does it matter?

Ideally, students would rarely go to Chilis because it's food is pretty mediocre, and I would hope that a college town would have some dives with good, cheap food. If Chili's is really the best restaurant on offer, or anywhere close to it, that doesn't say much for the other options.

If people just prefer Chili's, that's their prerogative and certainly there's nothing wrong with that, but a place the size of Starkville and with the disposable income of Starkville is only going to support so many restaurants, and the more dollars that go to a place like Chili's, the less support there is available for non-chain restaurants that can have better food than a chain.

 

[Wooly17er]

Ate lunch there the day I proplosed

I walked across campus that hot football day and nearly sharted when I took a knee near the flagpole on the drillfield. Stupid Buffalo Chicken Fajitas.

*proposed.

 

[jeremyrbrown]

Bojangles is the ****. not sure what happened there.

The owner told me his wife's health issues was the reason they closed.

 

[aTotal360]

At the end of the day, it's all about price and perceived value. Quality is a factor, but it's secondary. People will overlook quality if the portions and price are right. Look at McD's. It's the worst food on the planet, but it's crazy cheap. I stopped going to Starkville Cafe on the weekends because I refuse to pay $12 for 2 eggs, grits, toast, 2 pieces of bacon, and sweet tea. I can get that home for $2.

I hate Chili's like you. But you have to understand how fickle the Starkville food scene is. It's a poor college town with a pretty small middle class that likes to eat out.

I'm willing to bet you are looking at this through the prism of a young (21-30), single, white male with no kids. Nothing wrong with that. Throw in kids or be 40 instead of 25, and you'll have a different perspective. You may be 55 with 9 kids for all I know. I just think you are being a little myopic. Not wrong, just myopic.

 

[johnson86-1]

At the end of the day, it's all about price and perceived value. Quality is a factor, but it's secondary. People will overlook quality if the portions and price are right. Look at McD's. It's the worst food on the planet, but it's crazy cheap. I stopped going to Starkville Cafe on the weekends because I refuse to pay $12 for 2 eggs, grits, toast, 2 pieces of bacon, and sweet tea. I can get that home for $2.

I hate Chili's like you. But you have to understand how fickle the Starkville food scene is. It's a poor college town with a pretty small middle class that likes to eat out.

I'm willing to bet you are looking at this through the prism of a young (21-30), single, white male with no kids. Nothing wrong with that. Throw in kids or be 40 instead of 25, and you'll have a different perspective. You may be 55 with 9 kids for all I know. I just think you are being a little myopic. Not wrong, just myopic.

You are one for four on your demographic guess although I can understand why you made the guesses you did. I completely get the role that price and perceived value play, but I didn't think they were particularly cheap for casual restaurants. I obviously don't go to places like chili's often, so maybe I don't realize how cheap they are. I do occasionally got to chilis or places like it when on the road for work and my impression has been that they are the same price as similarly casual local places but with lower quality food (at least if you know where to go; they are probably above average if you include all restaurants, including those that don't make it more than a couple of years). But maybe I just wasn't paying attention to some of the cheaper options on the menu. Or maybe I've just been fortunate to live in places where there have been exceptionally cheap restaurants.

 

[Wizard.sixpack]

I second this! This place is FREAKING AWESOME!!!

 

[The Usual Suspect]

The one in Starkville had particularly bad service. Even for Chili standards.

Agree. BRING BACK SHONEY's BIG BOY

 

[Palos verdes]

A town with ~15,000 college students can't get decent service workers? If that's really true there is a serious problem with the student body at MSU.

Having worked in the food service business many years ago, I can tell you that bad customer service is everywhere these days. Especially at chain restaurants.

 

[aTotal360]

AND DANVER'S!!!!!!11!!1

 

[BELdog]

College students don't work anymore. They just take out a ton of student loans they'll never pay back. You can't bank on college students to play a pivotal role in a restaurant these days. This was especially true in Oxford.

 

[CochiseCowbell]

Damn, drunken sustenance palates have clearly changed. I've had local Waffle House numbers saved in my contacts in 3 different towns for to go orders back to the apt, sorority house, home, etc. The girls used to like/need that food as well. The WH ladies in Athens loved me.

 

[Philly Dawg]

I'm very ambivalent towards Chillis. I've had many bad experiences there, but my son likes it and they have two for one drink specials.

 

[Dog316]

At the end of the day, it's all about price and perceived value. Quality is a factor, but it's secondary. People will overlook quality if the portions and price are right. Look at McD's. It's the worst food on the planet, but it's crazy cheap. I stopped going to Starkville Cafe on the weekends because I refuse to pay $12 for 2 eggs, grits, toast, 2 pieces of bacon, and sweet tea. I can get that home for $2.

I hate Chili's like you. But you have to understand how fickle the Starkville food scene is. It's a poor college town with a pretty small middle class that likes to eat out.

I'm willing to bet you are looking at this through the prism of a young (21-30), single, white male with no kids. Nothing wrong with that. Throw in kids or be 40 instead of 25, and you'll have a different perspective. You may be 55 with 9 kids for all I know. I just think you are being a little myopic. Not wrong, just myopic.

Speaking of myoptic. Look in the mirror. It will amaze you. Or not.

 

[aTotal360]

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