10 fading US restaurant chains

Damon's and the Country casket should have been closed years ago. The food was so bad after awhile at both we stopped eating there years ago.

The Ponderosa has always been crap. They let the children use the buffet and salad bar area as a play ground. They can wash their hands or pick their boogers in there or whatever they want. The service is terrible we asked for another order of garlic bread. The waiter just breathed on a couple of slices of Wonder. So long good riddance. The rest of them i've never heard of or tried.

About the only place I ate at, that I might have continued on that list was Benigans.  tbh, the first, Blimpee's...  I live in NJ, why would I care if some half arsed sub shop chain goes out of business, when there's local delis on just about every street corner that serves better hoagies then those?  And all the talk of "real western, blah, blah" with some of those; I lived in Albuquerque for 11 years.  There were local Texas style steak houses that were better then those.  Some of those would pass as the Taco Bell of Mexican food; which when one had more authentic resturants in the New Mexico area, meh

Well here's the deal, and it's several fold:

- People have had to endure cuts in wages and employee benefits.  Outsourcing of jobs for cheap labor, high unemployment, and what new jobs that do get created (not being sufficient to result in not only higher unemployment, but increasing numbers dropping out of the labor market) so people simply have less disposable income

- Prices and inflation have gone up, ESPECIALLY wrt food and gasoline, and we're talking the food industry right here, on the subject of resturants

- Many places weren't as great, and/or customers today prefer alternative options.

Well, welcome to the other side of supply and demand.  You know, the thing that is brought up when people complain about price hikes?  I have little more sympathy for the business chain that goes out of business, because it can't remain competitive in the current market, or continue to attract new customers, then many of these chains have for the American worker.  Well here's my answer in reply to these businesses, welcome to the other side of supply and demand.  Enjoy, because this too is capitalisim at work ;)