Many Bennigans to Close!!!

[AJ]

Monte Cristo= Perfect Food

I'm crying right now.

[AJ]

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ ... 3111.story

[thrill]

I made my own at home. It was delicious.

[UK]

Having lived in the Chicagoland area almost all of my life, I have never been to a Bennigans.

[jim]

The Bennigans by us has a combo of terrible service and terrible food, so it's not surprising to me that the company maybe not doing well. Last time I went I got stale tortilla wraps for my fajita, but that is nothing. My alltime best restaurant story is from Bennigans.

We order our food, I don't remember what we ordered but anyway we wait and wait and wait. We try to be polite, but when EVERYONE around you is getting your food you start to wonder. We were pushing an hour I'll bet. The waiter was new, that was obvious. So we ask him, and instead of coming clean he just tells us "It will be another minute or two". So 15 more minutes go by, we flag him down again, and he tells us the same story. Literally we've been there well more than an hour, and finally the manager comes out a and explains what happened.

The waiter never gave the ticket to the cooks and he lost it. Apparently he was figuring if he buried his head in the sand it would just go away, but finally he realized he had to come clean. So we put the order in again with the manager, he brings us free drinks, and we wait.

And wait and wait and wait.

Manager comes out, two of the three things we ordered they were out of. Would we mind reordering. More free drinks, replace our order.

No sooner did our second round of free drinks come out and the manager came to us with a $50 coupon, told us they were also out of what we re-ordered, and told us all of the drinks were on the house, and asked us to come back again and give them another chance.

They simply gave up trying to give us food. I've gotten bad food at restaurants, I've gotten it slowly as well. But I've always at least GOTTEN it. Not this time. They simply weren't up to the task that night of serving us food.

[Michael]

haha nice story, jim.


I can't believe one of these low rent chicken fingers restaurants went out of business.

[Leroy]

At what point did IRONMIKE begin cracking skulls?

[haltz]

Looks like all ~800 of them are closing. Not too shocking since the concept and the food is straight out of 1978 and plenty of really good restaurants are closing as well right now. I'm answering a lot of phone calls of vendors soliciting orders right now.

[Radbird]

Ours is gone. So is our neighborhood Applebees. And we lost Ruby Tuesday a couple of years ago.

I don't view it as a bad thing, either. The Bennigan's building is still vacant as they just closed a couple of weeks ago. But Applebees turned into a nice Asian fusion restaurant and RT's is now a pretty decent Mexican place. Both are considerable improvements over their predecessors.

[thrill]

Oh! Are you guys talking about Shenanigans?