Popular Casual Dining Chains are Failing, But This One Defies the Odds

I’ll admit that I used to eat out quite a bit, but I’ve been making an effort to cook more in recent months for both health and financial reasons. And when I do cave and grab takeout after a long day, more often than not, I choose a locally owned restaurant. The food just tastes more like, well, real food.  It hasn’t always been that way. 

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Once upon a time, Chili’s was my go-to. It’s where my friends and I would hang out before a movie or after an afternoon of shopping at the mall when I was in my teens and twenties, but I don’t even eat there anymore. Service went downhill with the pandemic, and then they took my two

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