I haven't heard of most of these restaurants. We did have a cafeteria in Lima(MCL Cafeteria) and I can remember Bonanza and Ponderosa(all pretty much gone now). I remember Orange Julius.
@@cocoaorange1, the good news is that you can make Orange Juliuses at home. The key ingredient is egg whites. Since Dairy Queen uses a dried powder instead, the homemade ones are better.
1:07 Harvest House at Padre Staples Mall (now La Palmera) in Corpus Christi, TX? Harvest House was part of Woolworth, and many were coffee shops rather than cafeterials. The Corpus one was next to a Luby's, and it seemed that a mall wasn't complete without a cafeteria. I ate at a Morrison's in The Plaza at Lake Forest in New Orleans on a school trip, along with lunch one day at the local chain A&G. Picadilly was another popular cafeteria in the South.
We still have Dairy Queens & Orange Julius here. I have fond memories growing up and getting to visit both places as a special treat I remember Swensons vaguely as well🍧🍨
All have closed up shop. I remember going to Home Town Buffet. The pandemic had shuttered a lot of those buffet type restaurants. Mountain Mike's Pizza still has all you can eat pizzas, garlic sticks, fountain drinks, and salad bar. Round Table Pizza doesn't have this arrangement anymore. You just have to look far and wide for one of those buffet type restaurants.
You sparked sudden memories of a bygone time and many visits to Ford City Mall on the border of the Southwest side of Chicago, in Burbank, IL. Harvest House, specifically drew out the nostalgia, not only of the restaurant itself, but how that mall was at the time (70s-80s). I miss those days.
@@bextar6365 Yeah, I've heard that Ford City has changed a lot in the 25 years since I was last there. In view of many incidents there, I won't be returning, either.
@@frankdenardo8684, that's right Denardo, and we're all to blame for that, including myself. Back in 2000, had I known what the consequences of my actions would be, I never would have ordered anything online. And now it's too late.
I remember Bressler's, Sbarro Italian. There were other restaurants in the mall that I couldn't recall. I remember going to restaurants such as Sambo's, Lyon's, the Peppermill. I dated a woman who was from New Jersey and she mentioned Schrafft's which was a restaurant that served meals, sold ice cream, and candy, that chain went defunct in 1981. Another woman I dated she worked for Luby's cafeteria in Midland, Texas. That restaurant is still in business but it not what it was in the past
@josepherhardt164 There were about several in Northern California. Vallejo, Sacramento, Fresno, Stockton, Mountain View, and Modesto all had locations.
The cafe of sandwiches and other items being dispersed through individual glass cubicles. We used to eat there when we went into Manhattan especially around Christmas. Sbarro's was another mall diners.
Before the Malls, they had "Shopping Centers" what we now call "outdoor malls". There would be a "BIG" store, and 10 little stores. The "BIG" store, S.S.Kresge's, McCrory's five and dime, K-Mart, Woolworth's. All had a cafeteria counter with bar stools in the back, or up near the register without seats, K-Mart's had fantastic 16inch cold cut sandwiches or chip chopped canned ham refried Ham BBQ and 4 gallon bags of butter powder yellow popcorn, and soda fountains with a soda jerk (bartender) pouring Lemon Blennd and blueberry or cherry syrup over snowballs on a paper cone, McCrory's had open faced roast beef sandwiches with fries and beans and pies, Kresge's had fried chicken and meat loaf.. Woolworth's had coffee cakes and tea and club sandwiches for lady shoppers. . All these places seem to have disappeared. . .
I remember going to Foster's cafeteria. Grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, and another long gone restaurant was Zim's. Zim's had breakfast around the clock. They served burgers, French fries, onion rings, barbecue ribs, and comfort foods.
Yes with the Australian ~ Indonesia ~ New Zealand ~ Hawian ~food court concept is found in most Pacific Nations ~ going to the large Westfields stores would sometimes be a 3 hour journey , as we also had computer game parlours , our last Sizzlers ~ all you can eat store was setember 2020 ~ 40 years of fun all ended
@@kennethwayne6857 I remember Kenny Rogers Roasters in Northern California. Sacramento, Fresno, Mountain View, Vallejo, Dublin, and Stockton had locations.
Not a complaint at all,a very good video,but you went from nationwide mall staples to regular restaurants located in just a few locations, some even in just 1 city.😂😂😂.But very good video.Ty.
Durgin Park in Boston at Fanuil Hall Marketplace. Lots of traditional New England dishes such as Yankee pot roast and fresh, local seafood. It's usually abrupt, sometimes surly waitresses were part of the atmosphere. Get a move on, order your food, eat it, then beat it. It was a busy place with no room for nonsense. Great place.
Ive heard of Durgin Park and Orange Julius. Never ate there, or even saw either. Back in the 80s i enjoyed Sbarro' pizza in our local mall. I understand that chain went downhill fast though.
Durgin Park failed to change with the times. Keeping it's traditional menu meant it attracted traditionally minded customers. Jacob Wirth's and a well known German restaurant in Harvard Sq. Cambridge suffered the same fate.
Cafeterias are one of those things in American pop culture, like Buick, the Masonic Lodge, and Newspapers, that was largely enjoyed by the Pre-Boomer generation, but are slowly dying off as that generation dies. Cafeterias have mostly been replaced by Buffets, and nobody wants to just go through a line anymore and have food slopped on your tray by old grannies in a bonnet and that's all they get to eat. They get enough of that in school!
One of the reasons, I believe shopping malls failed is because the owners priced out the food court, where they could no longer make any profit so they lost it all, geniuses.
Can someone please explain what “WOKE “ is supposed to mean?? I’ve been hearing this word only recently but now it seems like it is working its way into our regular lexicon.
One of the peculiarities of this cult-like movement is that little children must declare or choose their sexual identity at about age 5 or so... *WEIRD*
It’s an agenda where common sense and reality is being taken over by emotionally driven fantasies such as, oppression, transgenderism, feminism, colonialism…all may have been true at one time but are being used to keep people locked in despair. This results in a weakened apathetic society…perfectly ripe for being taken over.
There is still a Morrison's Cafe in Mobile, Al. Took my mother there a few days ago, still good food.
I haven't heard of most of these restaurants. We did have a cafeteria in Lima(MCL Cafeteria) and I can remember Bonanza and Ponderosa(all pretty much gone now). I remember Orange Julius.
Same here, I loved Orange J's as a kid in the 70's.
We have orange Julius in Minnesota 😊
@@cocoaorange1, the good news is that you can make Orange Juliuses at home. The key ingredient is egg whites. Since Dairy Queen uses a dried powder instead, the homemade ones are better.
1:07 Harvest House at Padre Staples Mall (now La Palmera) in Corpus Christi, TX? Harvest House was part of Woolworth, and many were coffee shops rather than cafeterials. The Corpus one was next to a Luby's, and it seemed that a mall wasn't complete without a cafeteria. I ate at a Morrison's in The Plaza at Lake Forest in New Orleans on a school trip, along with lunch one day at the local chain A&G. Picadilly was another popular cafeteria in the South.
Between KarmelKorn, Just Nuts, and Cinnabon and unique architecture made going to the mall an event to look forward to. I remember that well.
Just found the channel today. Love the idea. Me n my son will watch these together so he can see how things once were.
Orange Julius❤delicious❤
My dad treated me and my sister to Orange Julius when we went to the mall.
What I miss most is the Farrell's Icecream Parlour, Perry's Pizza, Bob's Big Boy,and Orange Julius.
I'm surprised he didn't mention Woolworth's! I miss those juicy dogs & crispy deep fried potato wedges!!
12:47 "... from the Southern charm of Texas to the northeastern allure of Maine ..." Somebody get me some hip-waders. Gettin' DEEP in here!
We still have Dairy Queens & Orange Julius
here. I have fond memories growing up and
getting to visit both places as a special treat
I remember Swensons vaguely as well🍧🍨
Where is the orange Julius located.
I remember the Old Country Buffet was in lots of malls. They had everything for a reasonable price. I have no idea if their are any still around.
One of my first jobs,dish person filling up plates.only 1 left in Minnesota. Miss it😊
All have closed up shop. I remember going to Home Town Buffet. The pandemic had shuttered a lot of those buffet type restaurants. Mountain Mike's Pizza still has all you can eat pizzas, garlic sticks, fountain drinks, and salad bar. Round Table Pizza doesn't have this arrangement anymore. You just have to look far and wide for one of those buffet type restaurants.
You sparked sudden memories of a bygone time and many visits to Ford City Mall on the border of the Southwest side of Chicago, in Burbank, IL. Harvest House, specifically drew out the nostalgia, not only of the restaurant itself, but how that mall was at the time (70s-80s). I miss those days.
That mall is a whole lot different now days!
And for many years now.
Í remember when they were building Ford City. We thought it was an odd name.
The changing hood destroyed them and the area too !
@@bextar6365 Yeah, I've heard that Ford City has changed a lot in the 25 years since I was last there. In view of many incidents there, I won't be returning, either.
Now malls in general are basically gone
They are practically ghost towns now.
@@frankdenardo8684, that's right Denardo, and we're all to blame for that, including myself. Back in 2000, had I known what the consequences of my actions would be, I never would have ordered anything online. And now it's too late.
I miss the Hungry Heffer. I used to get the bef and loobster special.
I remember Bressler's, Sbarro Italian. There were other restaurants in the mall that I couldn't recall. I remember going to restaurants such as Sambo's, Lyon's, the Peppermill. I dated a woman who was from New Jersey and she mentioned Schrafft's which was a restaurant that served meals, sold ice cream, and candy, that chain went defunct in 1981. Another woman I dated she worked for Luby's cafeteria in Midland, Texas. That restaurant is still in business but it not what it was in the past
There was a Morrison's Cafe in the Valdosta Georgia mall .
'Orange Julius' was also for a time, a featured-drink sold by the Royal Castle hamburger-chain, in the early 1970's.
Never knew Kenny Roger's was cooked over open fire.. didn't have one where I live.. sounds delicious
Yeah, and he could still sing afterwards.
@@josepherhardt164 Hahahahaha
@josepherhardt164 There were about several in Northern California. Vallejo, Sacramento, Fresno, Stockton, Mountain View, and Modesto all had locations.
The cafe of sandwiches and other items being dispersed through individual glass cubicles. We used to eat there when we went into Manhattan especially around Christmas. Sbarro's was another mall diners.
I think of Sbarro’s as being an airport restaurant
Before the Malls, they had "Shopping Centers" what we now call "outdoor malls". There would be a "BIG" store, and 10 little stores. The "BIG" store, S.S.Kresge's, McCrory's five and dime, K-Mart, Woolworth's. All had a cafeteria counter with bar stools in the back, or up near the register without seats, K-Mart's had fantastic 16inch cold cut sandwiches or chip chopped canned ham refried Ham BBQ and 4 gallon bags of butter powder yellow popcorn, and soda fountains with a soda jerk (bartender) pouring Lemon Blennd and blueberry or cherry syrup over snowballs on a paper cone, McCrory's had open faced roast beef sandwiches with fries and beans and pies, Kresge's had fried chicken and meat loaf.. Woolworth's had coffee cakes and tea and club sandwiches for lady shoppers. . All these places seem to have disappeared. . .
I remember Fosters cafeteria in San Francisco I was my favorite restaurant as child.
I remember going to Foster's cafeteria. Grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, and another long gone restaurant was Zim's. Zim's had breakfast around the clock. They served burgers, French fries, onion rings, barbecue ribs, and comfort foods.
We had Clifton's Cafeteria, Karmelcorn, Orange Julius, the other cafeterias we didn't have....
Kenny Rogers Roasters is still going in Southeast Asia.
Yes with the Australian ~ Indonesia ~ New Zealand ~ Hawian ~food court concept is found in most Pacific Nations ~ going to the large Westfields stores would sometimes be a 3 hour journey , as we also had computer game parlours , our last Sizzlers ~ all you can eat store was setember 2020 ~ 40 years of fun all ended
They know when to hold 'em...
@@kennethwayne6857 I remember Kenny Rogers Roasters in Northern California. Sacramento, Fresno, Mountain View, Vallejo, Dublin, and Stockton had locations.
Not a complaint at all,a very good video,but you went from nationwide mall staples to regular restaurants located in just a few locations, some even in just 1 city.😂😂😂.But very good video.Ty.
As a kid, my mom and I would eat at "Durbin Park".. Ya Sat at a long table next to a stranger and you would have your meal.. Those were the days.. 😢 😊
Durgin Park in Boston at Fanuil Hall Marketplace. Lots of traditional New England dishes such as Yankee pot roast and fresh, local seafood. It's usually abrupt, sometimes surly waitresses were part of the atmosphere. Get a move on, order your food, eat it, then beat it. It was a busy place with no room for nonsense. Great place.
Brigham’s had great ice cream and some unique flavors. Big Dig and Reverse the Curse/Curse Revers’d
Country Kitchen, Walgreen, and the Vikings Room
Morrisons was awesome
I miss Orange Julius.
I miss Pioneer Chicken and A&W
So do I, Xiy. Sadly,so do I. Pioneer had the best chicken over Kentucky Chicken, and A&W had good food and those great root beer floats. Yum! 😋
So good.
The only one I ever heard of is Orange Julius.
We had Luby,s and Wyatt Cafeteria here in Texas.Remember Orange Julius , Fletcher,s Corny Dogs, etc.
I miss the Orange Julius 😭
Must be showing my age but I never even heard of half of these places.
I really miss York Steak House.
I wish I was alive to eat there. It looks like great place.
One left in the USA in Columbus, Ohio.
Bonanza was what I grew up with. They once advertised steak dinners for a competitive price to a McDonald's combo.
I never heard Gladys Presley worked at Britling cafeteria, must be a rumor.
I wish someone could tell me why all steakhouses are gone. I can't find any.
How about Victoria's Station, Sizzler, Wags, just to name a few?
Yes ate at all of them and enjoyed...the good old days are gone 4 sure !
Ive heard of Durgin Park and Orange Julius. Never ate there, or even saw either. Back in the 80s i enjoyed Sbarro' pizza in our local mall. I understand that chain went downhill fast though.
Sbarro, tried it 2-3 times, different locations, always bad to terrible.
i miss orange julius in the philippines back in early 90s
Their Mac and cheese was to die for.
Morrison's cafeteria had one in Roanoke Virginia
Some of these places were never in malls. Your title is misleading.
Never heard of any of those restaurants. What part of the country?
The whole country. Are you young or old?
Hmmm I can't say I miss the whole cafeteria style of eating .... guess I remember them as well .... not the cleanest of eateries
Had a Kenny Rogers Roasters in Salem Virginia
Durgin Park failed to change with the times. Keeping it's traditional menu meant it attracted traditionally minded customers. Jacob Wirth's and a well known German restaurant in Harvard Sq. Cambridge suffered the same fate.
Kenny Rogers Roasters still exists in Malaysia
Cafeterias are one of those things in American pop culture, like Buick, the Masonic Lodge, and Newspapers, that was largely enjoyed by the Pre-Boomer generation, but are slowly dying off as that generation dies. Cafeterias have mostly been replaced by Buffets, and nobody wants to just go through a line anymore and have food slopped on your tray by old grannies in a bonnet and that's all they get to eat. They get enough of that in school!
Who is that beautiful girl?
One of the reasons, I believe shopping malls failed is because the owners priced out the food court, where they could no longer make any profit so they lost it all, geniuses.
Kenny Rogers is still open in Indonesia
York steakhouse ❤❤
Never heard of Morrisons cafeteria.
YORK SEAK HOUSE WAS PRETTY GOOD.
Surprisingly, there's not much here I remember.
Ground Round and Harvest House King of Prussia Plaza King of Prussia Pennsylvania
LOVE KARMEL KORN!
I miss roy rogers
S&S Cafeteria
Can someone please explain what “WOKE “ is supposed to mean?? I’ve been hearing this word only recently but now it seems like it is working its way into our regular lexicon.
One of the peculiarities of this cult-like movement is that little children must declare or choose their sexual identity at about age 5 or so...
*WEIRD*
Woke, ability to see things "woke" as someone else wants you to see
It stands for destruction of the USA
It’s an agenda where common sense and reality is being taken over by emotionally driven fantasies such as, oppression, transgenderism, feminism, colonialism…all may have been true at one time but are being used to keep people locked in despair. This results in a weakened apathetic society…perfectly ripe for being taken over.
Morrison's cafeteria alot like K&W
I don't remember any of these restaurants 😕 🤔
Never hears kernel corn restaurant.
KarmelKorn.
It was in shopping malls, selling caramel popcorn.
I miss it and Piccadilly cafeteria, which they still have a few of.
Deering Ice Cream
Never heard f some of these.
80.
DURGIN PARK WAS A TOUGH PLACE TO EAT AT. RUDE SERVERS, EXPENSIVE, SKETCHY FOODS.
Autocorrect.
Brighams was the best. Btw, it's not pronounced frappay, it's just frapp, drop the e.
I'd settle for a bunch of White Castle burgers about now !