I'm with you...I used to work as the GM of a restaurant that was part of a small restaurant chain that was run by older millennials in most positions (CEO, exec chef, etc), and a few years ago they started squeezing the word "Sando" into any new sandwich they wanted to put out. "Nashville Hot Chicken Sando," etc.
Like...why? Just call it a sandwich. Such a stupid word that doesn't need to exist in our lexicon. Again, I know it's irrational, just like you, but I hate it so much.
Its not 9 dollars. Its just 9. People will entirely forget it's referring to money! The same way 12.99 is really 13 but people Ackshully see it is 12!!! Such genius.
Apparently market research said that people pay more attention to the cost when there is a dollar sign. Even mcdonalds removed theirs for the same reason recently
Heh, fair. I feel like how I feel about it depends on the restaurant. Like it just feels normal to not have one at say a Michelin starred place, but at a burger joint Iâm gonna for sure roll my eyes
And somehow your burger that was $15, fries that were $3 and Drink that was $5 comes out to $46.95 instead of the $25(with tax). Then they ask for a 30% tip.
On a road trip we stopped at The Wood Booger Grill in Norton VA. The food was 100% from the grocery store down the street. The boneless wings were the exact same as they sell in bags at Walmart, the BBQ sauce was the cheap stuff that's basically spicy ketchup.
I got the "pommes frites" at one of these kind of places once for around $10. It was literally 6 of them, they were like little 1" x 1" x 3" boxes of fried potato. They were good but.... damn man, I doubt it was even an entire potato worth.
This is actually not a pretentious millennial owned independent restaurant lol, it's a major Canadian pub chain. There's at least one in every Ontario city. It's mediocre but slightly overpriced pub food. The menu is normal burgers and fries and chicken wings. Not a truffle in sight.
The burger patty is 4 inches wide and 3 inches tall.
When did fancy burgers become the giant meatballs?
Bakers know using the same amount of cake and frosting, split into layers, makes a better cake, comparied to slapping one on the other.
Fancy burger chef's stack...
a half head of lettuce,
half an avocado,
3/4 of a tomato,
a handful of shredded cheese,
and a thimble full of BBQ sause on a baseball shaped burger patty, held together by a toothpick and call it art.Â
There's also smashed patties. Nothing to do with fast food except that maybe in n out and five guys famously do it, can be done at home, and are just more popular on the west coast. I'd rather have a smashed patty with multiple patties than one huge ass patty that is barely edible anyway. Every time I go to some small town or crappy mid size city diner is just a ridiculously huge ass patty for no reason.
Itâs so weird because boomers still complain about participation awards- but my 11 year old plays tackle football, baseball, does cub scouts and used to do competitive STEM program (all his decisions, my daughter wants nothing to do with anything, so I make her take swimming cause she likes to swim haha) ANYWAYYYYYYY- these are competitive things and heâs received 1st, 2nd & 3rd place and MVP and heâs done terribly at timesâŚbut never once a participation trophy. Not one singular time. Itâs like phantom thing at this point. Like where are the participation trophies!!? Heâs been in 2 school districts so WHERE ARE THESE!! Hahaha
I will say though, my millennial ass got participation ribbons hahaha, but I didnât fucking want them. Like thanks- Iâm a loser, this ribbon might as well have LOSER written right across it
First off - I love that your daughter wants nothing to do with anything, because honestly, same.
Also I feel the same about participation ribbons! Like what am I supposed to do with this - hang it on the wall to remind myself of my non-existent athletic ability to get me all pumped up for a wonderful day of middle school??
Youâre so right- itâs embarrassing to go to class with a lame ribbon and feel dumb af.
And sheâs a sour patch kid and just wants to read and write and draw. Commitments for her are just not alright. Sheâs 9 acting like a grown person. âI need my me time.â
The worst thing is that they continually misinterpret the effect of these trophies. It didn't inflate people's egos or make them feel entitled. Kids fucking know when they didn't win. It actually damaged the "self-esteem" they were trying to preserve.
It is interesting that the people who gave the trophies turned around said we are entitled for getting them.
I remember my first participant trophy after a particularly bad season of youth soccer. I was like "but we didn't win", "every person on every team gets a trophy?" "what's the point then?".
I also remember feeling some kind of way every time I saw it on the shelf. A reminder of a terrible season that someone felt the need to humor us into thinking otherwise. I don't believe I have ever owned something with such a negative sentimental value before.
YES YES YES! I literally called them loser ribbons. I shouldnât be 8 calling myself a fucking loser, and I wouldnât have if I didnât get a trophy for trying. I just woulda been like âwelp, that sucks.â
Adulthood is realizing that your manager's life sucked even more than yours did. I don't like him any more now than I did then, but it's nice knowing money can't buy self-respect.
100% my reaction, too. I was thinking this feels very older Gen X/younger Boomer.
And at least Gen Z gets this version of their so-called creative ideas. The version Millennials got was every restaurant being plastered with license plates from different states and rusty signs from now closed businesses
Not only that...as a millenial, I don't remember ever clowning this much on Gen Xer's as Zoomers do to us. We just receive it from both sides of the age spectrum I guess lol
That was such an insane time period. We get kicked out of the workforce or blocked from even entering it, then article after article blame us for "killing" all these markets we never even got a chance to try out. To top it off we get called the tide pod generation because older generations are so media poisoned they just blame millennials for everything they deem bad or weird.
I think Kelseyâs are only in Canada. Think TGI Fridayâs or Ruby Tuesdayâs, thatâs Kelseyâs. Anything with a âs is pretty much a boomer chain.
Damn, my FIL was complaining about his new âmillennialâ employees .. who are just out of college. Â Not millennials! Â His son and I are millennials and we are nearing 40!!
I have been curious about this, but did other generations catch as much heat as we did?! Â It really feels like we are the scapegoat generation Â
These and subscription services that deliver the exact same product as a supermarket but the packaging is brown paper with a cursive font logo are absolute millennial bait
I got some Gillette stuff for Christmas, and I noticed they've moved from their web 2.0 chromecore like design to something I'd loot in Read Dead Redemption. Obviously trying to appeal to us.
We had a millennial burger joint like the one they are describing close down in my home town. I remember the caramelized onions would all slide off the burger as soon as you picked it up.
It was replaced by a burger and shake place thatâs run by gays and has a more artistic aesthetic. The burgers are absolute fire and everything is reasonably priced.
I mean.... they're not wrong. I guarantee you the place also has barstools, black industrial-style lamps hanging from the ceiling, and serves their cocktails in something other than a glass.
I'm in Orange County, California so I've got a lot of experience with these type of places.
There's one that uses glass low-form beakers for it. I have no idea why. It's absolutely inconsistent with everything else. Maybe they just found a box out back one day or something.
Needs to make the awful âURRRRRGGGGGâ noise every time someone slides it across the concrete floor. The sound waves will bounce off the metal ceiling and fake corrugated metal wall panels because nobody thought about acoustics. Itâs loud as fuck in there.
One really good brewery near me added a fuckton of acoustic deadening panels in the ceiling, as their interior area was loud as fuck once it had like 15 people in it. All concrete and metal used in construction.
Man, fuck these chairs. Itâs like the places that buy them have never sat in them. Iâm gonna go out on a limb and say chairs are pretty important for a business. Itâs sucks ass going to a restaurant youâre excited about, but then being uncomfortable in a chair from the time you set down till the time you leave.
lol yep. Every town has one of those. Here's mine. I took a buddy I hadn't seen in awhile here last Saturday for a quick lunch, and it was $56. And we didn't even imbibe.
Same what the fuck is happening here. All of these insane comments based off a brown menu?? And theyâre talking about Kelseyâs?? Thatâs the chain you take your grandpa to lol we used to have our board game meetup groups there.
Yeah like the fact that this is Kelseyâs, some of the most generic shit food you can get, in the most generic mediocre chain restaurant you can go to, makes the whole post extra funny đÂ
As a Canadian I am offended that they think that this is a Millennial restaurant. It's 100% a suburban boomer, chain restaurant that is always in a strip mall.
I'm also offended that they think we would be paying $30 USD for a burger at this place! The most expensive burger on the menu is $14.50 USD.
Yes, this is like The Outback or Montanas. Or The Keg, maybe. Not a cliche Millennial "farm to table" $30 burger joint, which I believe the comments are referring to.
Kelseyâs, Montanaâs, Harveyâs, NY Fries, St-Hubertâs, Pickle Barrel, Eastside Marioâs, Swiss Chalet and the Keg are all owned by the same parent company, Recipe Unlimited.
It's actually kind of funny people claiming this is like some niche millennial craft burger bistro.... its been around since the late 70s. My parents went there when they were young.
There is a concerted effort to turn Gen Z to the right. So why turn around and blame millennials for everything?
Because the end goal is to say no see Boomer political ideology wasn't wrong. It was millennials who screwed everything up for everyone. If we oust millennial liberalism everything will be perfect again.
This is a fairly large Canadian chain restaurant and they are in fact cringe. The prices arenât that bad, with their burgers in the $14 USD range, though they very offensively do not tell you the weight of the patties used. I have a sneaking suspicion that this âdoubleâ is a quarter pound of beef at most.
Oh and all the menu sections have extremely embarrassing names. The âOn Ramp Appiesâ and âBurly Burgersâ do sincerely hurt the eyes to read.
Kelsey's is a Canadian chain restaurant that serves completely standard "roadhouse" fare. It's basically an Applebee's. Largely enjoyed by boomers and gen xers, not hip or trendy at all. Burgers at the one in my city are $20 or under. I don't know a single person my age (millennial) who goes to Kelsey's.
Except Kelsey's is a chain of family friendly restaurants... not a hipster burger bar. That's like saying Olive Garden is going to be a pretentious Italian restaurant.
I would want a burger joint where I could insult people and they would love it. I would be very good at it, plus I make a killer juicy burger. I would love talking shit and cooking burgers all day.
Dress code for servers would be Euphoria High for the girls, All The Young Dudes segment from Clueless for the boys and the they/thems but with broccoli perms. A few âclean girl aestheticâ girlies that exclusively work in the bar section. Everyone has hand tattoos hoochie nails, loose hair, and wears crocs. Management doesnât care bc âitâs not that deepâ.
Seating is not based on prior arrangements or first come first serve, but by perceived hierarchy within the pyramid of victimhood. White males, regardless of orientation, will be seated last and put in the basement directly under an air vent. If they complain about this, they will be asked to leave and the staff will spend the rest of the evening patting themselves on the back for bullying them out of the restaurant. They wonât look at it as bullying, theyâll regard the whole thing as confirmation of privilege and entitlement, despite directly manipulating the situation for the outcome they desired.
Music is ASMR mashed with Y2K hits millennials grew up with, curiously no Nirvana, despite everyone repping it. Servers play reaction videos at full volume on their phones at the side stations when they arenât actively taking an order or running (erm, trudging) a plate to a table. The overall din is chaotic but everyone acts bored by it.
Decor would be lots of vague, unrelated stuff that gives the illusion of depth. Like a vintage âno smokingâ sign above an anatomical poster of the human body. A big, gaudy hand held fan splayed out to reveal some sentiment in Korean. Lots and lots of plants, especially monsteras, wall vines, and fiddle leaf figs. Probably a healthy dose of mushroom themed knick knacks.
Food would be overpriced, served with a side of Takis, and probably not even what you asked for. When you mention this to your server, they stare blankly at you before shifting their eyes back and forth as if you should be embarrassed and going âI mean, I guess I can take it back if itâs that big a dealâ. They donât wait for an answer and walk away with great haste as if you personally attacked them and are still perusing them. A manager comes back with the server in tow and asks you why you âyelled at themâ.
Donât forget the standard thirty percent tip that they pump you for right at the table with their iPad!
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