Dinner at Big Bill's: A Questionable Allegory in One Act

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Dinner at Big Bill's: A Questionable Allegory in One Act

http://www.popoffvalve.com/2010/12/10/1868663/dinner-at-big-bills-a-questionable-allegory-in-one-act

[KevMcNJ]

Mike Helton should have been the waiter. Brian France would be the owner of the restaurant and while there would have been a line out the door just to get a table not 5 years rarlier, now you can just walk in and sit whereever you want even at dinner time on Saturday night

Some of the old regulars at the restaurant ate there religiously every weekend for years and years but slowly one by one they stopped showing up

Some stopped coming when the price of everything on the menu was raised 10% several years in a row
Others stopped when the owner started charging guests $40 to park right by the front door. The owner did provide a free parking lot but it was two miles away and patrons had to wait in line for the shuttle bus that took them to the restaurant.

Still others got turned off by the jugglers and clowns that the restaurant owner hired to walk around the dining area while people were eating. Some still were going there just to eat. they werent interested in all the goofy side shows. they just were interested in a good meal with out all the distractions.

A good meal that some of the regulars noticed was becoming less and less frequent.

Eventually mgmt decided it was too much work trying to make the poultry, beef and pork dishes accceptable to everyone so they ran the beef and the chicken and the pork thru a grinder and put some of the mix back in the beef tray. Some went in the chicken tray. The rest went into the pork tray.

Some more regulars stopped coming in as often as they did because the chicken meal theyve been ordering for years looked and tasted just like the beef and pork. Management ridiculed the guests who complained. They simply told the guests that they didnt know what they were talking about, the meals being prepared at the restaurant were the best theyd ever been.

Yet every Monday when the owner of the restuarant sat down to go over the receipts form that weekend he was baffled why he was getting only half the visitors that he was getting just 5 years ago. Back when all he was doing was providing a good meal at a fair price.

Didnt these morons realize all he did for them in the years since then?

[Tara]

I don't want to respond, Brian might be watching.

Funny and True

[skypigeon]

Mike Helton should have been the waiter. Brian France would be the owner of the restaurant and while there would have been a line out the door just to get a table not 5 years rarlier, now you can just walk in and sit whereever you want even at dinner time on Saturday night

Some of the old regulars at the restaurant ate there religiously every weekend for years and years but slowly one by one they stopped showing up

Some stopped coming when the price of everything on the menu was raised 10% several years in a row
Others stopped when the owner started charging guests $40 to park right by the front door. The owner did provide a free parking lot but it was two miles away and patrons had to wait in line for the shuttle bus that took them to the restaurant.

Still others got turned off by the jugglers and clowns that the restaurant owner hired to walk around the dining area while people were eating. Some still were going there just to eat. they werent interested in all the goofy side shows. they just were interested in a good meal with out all the distractions.

A good meal that some of the regulars noticed was becoming less and less frequent.

Eventually mgmt decided it was too much work trying to make the poultry, beef and pork dishes accceptable to everyone so they ran the beef and the chicken and the pork thru a grinder and put some of the mix back in the beef tray. Some went in the chicken tray. The rest went into the pork tray.

Some more regulars stopped coming in as often as they did because the chicken meal theyve been ordering for years looked and tasted just like the beef and pork. Management ridiculed the guests who complained. They simply told the guests that they didnt know what they were talking about, the meals being prepared at the restaurant were the best theyd ever been.

Yet every Monday when the owner of the restuarant sat down to go over the receipts form that weekend he was baffled why he was getting only half the visitors that he was getting just 5 years ago. Back when all he was doing was providing a good meal at a fair price.

Didnt these morons realize all he did for them in the years since then?

Bizarre, Kevin. This is almost EXACTLY how my parents described their last trip to Gray Bros. Cafeteria...