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Savannah's S&S cafeteria was recently purchased and renovated by Bonefish Grill. A welcome addition and an upgrade for the city to be sure, but my youngins aren't convinced.
For those of you unfamiliar with the S&S chain of restaurants, the best way to bring you up to speed would be to have you imagine that you are visiting a relative in a nursing home, where you are then invited to dine in the cafeteria. But before that comes off sounding as if I don't have a special kind of appreciation for S&S- let me explain further. In all of the locations I have ever been in, (and I've been in at least half of the remaining locations) the decor can best be described as pastel geriatric and the music is nothing less than lobby muzak. Meals are budget friendly and cooked with the toothless in mind, which leads to an abundant population of 'Senior Saints' should you happen to drop in for lunch.
As a family with kids, this is a very conducive atmosphere in which to dine- little old ladies are the most tolerant souls for rambunctious children that you will ever find. Not to mention they have kid's meals for 99 cents. Needless to say, I've spent a lot of time in various S&S Cafeterias -both as a child in a large family needing a budget friendly square meal and as a parent needing to provide one.
Enter the competition/replacement: BONEFISH GRILL, a decidedly more upscale restaurant where leaving your teeth at home gathers no sympathy and just may break the dress code.
The following conversation occurred yesterday, the new restaurant not as thrilling to some of us in the car as to others:
ME : "Let's grab some dinner here before we run this errand ".
CHANDLER: "We should NOT eat at Bonefish Grill, because S&S was better! They never should have changed it!"
ME: "Well, S&S was good, I do miss being able to feed ya'll there, but getting this new place is better, it's a nicer restaurant, fancier"
CHANDLER: I mean, Cmon! S&S had a clown every Monday!
And that, my friends, is why you shouldn't waste your time with Bonefish Grill, they don't even have CLOWNS!.