Eating out is no longer an enjoyable experience. Food quality is down, prices are up. Servers are rude. Tipping is now 18% vs 10%. I cook at home now.

Overpriced overcooked or microwaved meals, lousy service on dirty tables, and they ask for 20-30% tips. We quit eating out entirely now.

Who cares about these greedy corporate chains. Spend your money at locally owned restaurants.

The high prices and declining food quality is going to reduce the number of restaurants even more.

Don’t eat at chain restaurants but eat at local Mom and Pops!

We don't go out to eat like we used to. Too exspensive. Cheaper to eat at home, plus at home I know who's touching my food.

We stopped eating out. By the time you pay the new high prices and less food, then give a 20% tip and get charged an extra 3% for using a credit card, it’s easier and cheaper to eat home!!! It also tastes better!!! That 3% credit card cost was truly the straw that broke the camels back!!!! I’m done with restaurants!!!!

My wife and I have decided to stop eating at restaurants. We can cook food at home that is as good, if not better than what we get at a restaurant. Plus we don’t have to tip. The tipping culture has gotten out of hand. It use to be 10% now the waiters want 20-30% tip. That is insane.

It's getting to where people can't pay $50 for lunch.

Buffalo Wild Wings is too expensive for what you get. Food isn’t all that good.

I eat mostly at home. It's cheaper, and I know what kind of ingredients are in it.

Last time the wife and I went to a sit down restaurant, in this case, Applebee's, four drinks, one appetizer and two entrees' cost five hours of wages to pay for. Going to Mc Donald's takes just over one hour's wages. Look, when going out to eat costs 2+ times what a person makes hourly, it's not hard to understand why fewer people are eating out. We simply cannot afford too.

Most of these eateries have cut back on their services, and portions, and their prices are beyond affordable to the average consumers, who would rather stay home, and cook their own meals..

Whenever a firm gets acquired by another company, you can expect to kiss them goodbye.

I haven't been out to eat in years nor have I ordered food. The quality has dropped and prices are too high..

I will not miss a single one of these “restaurants.”

I've learned my lesson, I was willing to pay upwards of a $100.00 per person to eat out. But there are very few restaurants that are worth the effort to eat at now a days. I don't eat out anymore, It's for the people that have no time to Cook! I'll find the Time!

people cant afford them high prices for bare minimum food quality. I just stopped going.

I don't like to pay so much tips for horrible service.

Locally the biggest problem that all the business have had is landlords trying to squeeze every penny out of the renters to the point of there are now a bunch of empty units and the landlords are going bankrupt.

I worked in restraunts and my family owned restraunts. I will Never eat at a Restraunt. You would be Disgusted if you saw how your food was handled.

Nobody has more to do with the restaurants closing than the restaurants themselves, the meals have increased by fifty to seventy-five percent since the pandemic, and they charge additional fees for salads and other sides that used to be included and also charge for refills on iced teas and then charge extra for using a credit card but don't except cash. We cut back on our out-to-eat nights and fine dining establishments.

With California raising the minimum wage for fast food workers starting April 1st to $20 per hour, it won't be long before we see closures of fast food restaurants state-wide as no one will be able to afford $18-$20 for a fast food meal except for the very few.

These and most other chain restaurants have such low quality and high prices that they aren't worth your money. I prefer the few local mom and pop restaurants or to eat at home. My husband and I rarely dine out anymore.

Applebee's is good to veterans. Veterans day 2023 I went in got a free meal paid for my beer. Left a tip and to top it off they gave us a 5$ gift card. That doesn't sound like a lot these days but as many as they gave away probably added up to a lot of money.

I hear all these reasons why these and other restaurants are in trouble except one mention. People just don’t have very much disposable income anymore, they try to eat at home as much as they can and are trying other ways to save money. Eating out has become very expensive, even McDonald’s has cut down their dollar menu and prices have gone up. Last time my family got the 16pc chicken meal from Popeyes it was over $50.00.

Nearly all of the fast food places are putting too much sugar in everything they serve.

The workers make fun of people , spit on the food, slop your order, nasty bullshit in general . Yeah , they need to go

BWW is surely going out of business charging $35 for 16 wings. Knowing we can go buy three whole chickens (cooked) for less than that.

seems like the quality of food nowadays have disappeared and they wonder why nobody eats there and way over priced

Most of these places don’t offer decent food anymore. So it’s no surprise. I mean the food at these places competes only with microwave meals at your frozen section in a grocery store.

I've eaten at several Boston Market's actually in Boston over the years and each time found the food to be overpriced and mediocre, nothing special. I'm actually surprised they've last this long.

If you serve crap for food this is what happens, you eventually go out of business it’s that simple❗️🤷‍♂️

taxes, government regulations, lawsuits and cost of rent and land and operating costs are killing everything in this country. inflation + everything else is putting everything out of existence.

I hate to order my food on a computers

Eating out has become too expensive, here in the UK how can a pub justify £15.00 for a burger and over £25.00 for a bottle of wine. They are pricing them selves out business.

I used to love Panchos buffet. Now I make all their foods at home by scratch. I encourage everyone to start making their own favorite foods at home.

The Stake & Shake in my town is horrible. I ate there once, never went back. I’m not surprised they’re on this list.

Ya they lower the quality and destroy their businesses. And not paying your employees and vendors is not a great marketing strategy.

My first job as Chef's apprentice 55 years ago keeps me away from most restaurants. I do not trust others to practice the same food safety protocols that I was taught so many years ago.

Old saying . . .nothing last forever folks . . .That is life and lets move on . .Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles....Charlie Chaplin

Insurance costs and property taxes are killing American small businesses.

The video would be great if it was narrated by a human voice rather than AI.

Taco bell spent 25 bucks on a meal that was 8 bucks 5 years ago.

Picadilly cafeteria was great!! I really miss it😢

Have crossed Red Lobster off the list. Used to be a real fine restaurant.

We had an old country buffet in our area that closed and I REALLY miss it

Being 76 years old, I grew up in a lower middle class neighborhood. Eating at restaurants was rare. We preferred my mom's cook, or better to say, we ate what was put in front of us. Eating out was not rare. First communion, we were taken to a hotel to eat breakfast. Being a boy, this was more a big deal for our parents. I remember that ilI can't wait to get home and put on my play clothes. My point is that restaurant dining will disappear, like it appeared in the late 60's and early 70's.

Boston Market was actually pretty good quality food. It's sad to see something like that going out of business

A big part of the problems with restaurants like steak& shake, and Applebee's has been the menu changes. As for Buffalo Wild Wings. I'd love to see someone remove the bones out of a chicken wing and make it still look like a wing. Every place that makes boneless wings use breast meat cut to look like a wing.

The real reason is, quality, service, coupled with changing of items offered went south. Factor that in with higher prices. It became the proper time to scale back for eating out.

I support family owed restaurants.

I don't speak corporate but I certainly understand that with hyperinflation and stagnant wages, restaurants are becoming less and less affordable, on top of being a non-essential business as most people own stoves and refrigerators. Even fast food has become more expensive than real food. My missus bought me a pizza stone that produces a pizza as good or better than commercial for about 25% the cost of commercial. She's also an awesome cook and makes way better chicken than KFC or Popeye's, and my own flame broiled burgers are much better than commercial at a fraction of the cost. If restaurants were cheap and easily affordable to a struggling population then we'd still be going but as it is, I just can't afford to eat out while I can easily afford to eat very well at home. If I win a lottery, then fine, I'll eat out more but until then, forget it.

Pricing themselves out of business. Working people are poor now and can barely afford beans and franks. IMHO

Most of these establishments have over saturated the market. Too many mediocre to low end chains selling food that is just bad for your health.

We are brown bagging it. Fast food was quick easy and cheap. Now you just feel stupid spending that kind of money for crappy food.

BIDEN’s right, the economy is doing great! REALLY!

On Long Island, NY, where I live, we have never had the amount of "low cost' family restaurants, that most states have! Why, because the real estate taxes & other operating costs, are "sky-high"! Now, since C0-VID, even McDonald's, Wendy's, Burger King, Pizza Hut, Boston Market,Golden Corral, Ponderosa, Friendly's, Old Country Buffet, Ruby Tuesday's, El Torito, Chi Chi's & numerous Chinese Buffets have closed their doors! Even with 3 million people on L.I., they can't keep them open!

We don’t eat at any fast food restaurants and since the pandemic we prepare food at home except for twice per month going to two different local restaurants. That could cease if the last time we ate at one substituted real mashed potatoes for powdered. No thanks!😊

The quality has gone down and price gone up at many restaurants….not worth it

The younger generation doesn't do sit down restaurants. Eventually, all fast food places will close. This is called progress.

Forget the restaurants, I’m a fantastic cook and it taste better and cheaper. We need to sit down at home with family meals, teach our children, not the government, and pray together as a family.

The only good thing about Applebee's is the free veterans meal. When we do stop in, it takes a long time to get checked in and there's a long wait for a table even when we see a lot of empty tables. They need more staff.

I can't afford to eat out like we use too. Menu costs are way up along with tips at 20% or more. You just priced yourselves out of business.

Screw Fuddruckers. All they advertised was free meals for kids. My brother and I went there to drink a bucket of beer, eat giant 1lb burgers and take our wives and kids burgers home. Despite eating burgers, fries, beer and ordering burgers and fries for our wives for take out, they balked on two kid meals to go. Either they are included or not. We never went back and apparently screaming kids running all over the restaurant drove off their core customers

I never liked Buffalo Wild Wings so I’m not exactly surprised to see them on this list. I know many had great experiences there, but the locations I’m familiar with always sold subpar food, half filled beers, struggled with playing games the patrons wanted to watch and had a very slow turnaround time for food being ordered.

A steak shouldn’t equal the entire price of the bull.

Applebees is just microwaved food from a frozen lump, their stuff is what I call dumpster leavings.

Skyrocketing labor, real estate and lease insecurity, and insane tipping pressure, three more things killing restaurants. The pandemic devastated these places, and those like Applebee's have run out of yuppies going out on a Friday night, and maybe people are actually starting to watch carbs and grease in their diet - fast food staples!

Corporations are partly to blame. The "bean counters" cutting corners on quality don't make a tasty dish.

Applebee's began it's downhill slide when they were bought out by IHOP. They immediately began changing everything that made Applebee's such a successful brand and they have continued to wreck a once proud and successful brand

Groceries and restaurants have out priced themselves. I can no longer afford to eat out.

OH NO!! NOT APPLEBEES 😭 😭 😭

Ponchos was awesome in the 70s and 80s when we lived in El Paso. As a kid it was a cool experience.

We go out to eat once a week but only to our local non chain restaurant

Apple bees used to be sooo much better!

What’s wrong with the geriatric crowd? We have the most $$$… our bodies might be old, but our minds are still the same.. try us sometime! 😅😅😅

Covid 19 marked the end to the era of most restaurants.

They started out good. Then got greedy.

I went to Applebee's I'm a senior and I felt like I was treated really bad by the person who waited on us so I called make a complaint and it seemed like they didn't care somebody did call me back but I figure what the heck they wouldn't care either. now I just said the heck with Im not going back .. and then you pay for your food in cash I have at times and they never brought me my change back. That happened several times so I paid in cash the exact change and I didn't leave no tip

This is another win for the American diet.

Higher prices, smaller portions, and larger tips expected, no wonder restaurants are closing!

Souplantation/Sweet Tomatoes closing really hurt me bad. I loved the place.

I never heard of most of of these dumps. Restaurants must be a lot more regional than I imagined.

They are not “health conscious” as some assert! They are just more likely to believe in and follow trendy and “feel good” marketing!🎉

Piccadilly (University and Beach Blvd) was our go to spot for a good affordable meal after our son was born. We had the same waitress, Eliza, all those years. We'll cherish the memories.

Right now most of the restaurant food are made in factories and become frozen food. Restaurants just defrozen the food and charge high price. If you want real restaurant food, go to mom & pop small restaurants.

The show, Kitchen Nightmares, has also shown that restaurants are questionable sources of cleanliness, quality food and enjoyable atmosphere anymore.

Applebees tricked people. Their “big beer” fit in the regular beer glass, yet cost more. And their “ drink specials “ had half the alcohol

I loved Piccadilly

Man, if applebees goes belly up then no more meet & greets for me.

It’s impossible to beat home cooked food.

I DO miss Old Country Buffet...not because of quantity, but because on those days when I didn't know 'what' I wanted to eat, they had it all, so I was never disappointed, AND, it was tasty! : /

(in the late 70s, ❤d going to Shakeys Pizza in WI....."shakeys pizza is 🎶 pizzeria, oh mi mia🎶", that is long gone) thankfully, Whataburger isnt on the list

Millennials and Generation Z are different beasts, these generations are more health conscious and prefer in general smaller portions of food. As a Generation X as I witnessed the transformation in dining experience, it went from all you can trend and the sit down experience to the more environmentally friendly and on the go dining experience. It's a very different experience now, compared to my younger years, the dining experience was more relaxing, then it's now.

Applebee's problem was probably their food - it SUCKS!

I remember the sopapillas at Ponchos being my favorite when I was little, used to put honey on them and could eat a lot of them. Good memories

Guess I’m to blame. I would not eat at any of those places today. Just not worth it anymore. I did like Fuddruckers in the 80s though.

Furrs has been going downhill for decades, I did not even realize any still existed. Also the steak and shake I've been to I was thoroughly unimpressed, and have not been back either.

SWENSONS ice cream parlor... Ed Debevecs closed in Scottsdale Arizona Black Angus steak house closed Islands restaurant closed Marie Calenders closed Perkins with pies closed Souper Salad closed. Hu Hot closed. 😢😮