Yep. I'm quite surprised there's no seniors price in there since they've already went overboard with the age classifications.

Seniors get 10% off. I heard its good but expensive. As my wife eats like a bird I wont be going.

Grasslands just announced Popeye's, Meating Place and Meltwich.

I assume one of the recently announced new restaurants in HL will be going into the space attached to DSW as they are presently works on site!

It appears that one of Meating Room and Popeyes is going beside DSW and the other is going behind in what was to have been a purpose-built Brown's Social House.

Meltwhich is going in the Knight Archer Building.

Aurora
 

I see that Starbucks is back on the site map for Aurora along with Pronto Pizzeria. Anybody familiar with this place?

It's a Winnipeg outfit that applies the Chipotle model to pizza. Fast, fresh and custom.

How long before there is confusion with the sushi restaurant down by the university?

Italian sushi!

Maybe Passionate Pizza & Sensuous Sushi was just ahead of its time.

Crappy location.

anymore news on Olive Garden?

Yep, this newsflash just came in - It is still a bland boring chain that is struggling to remain relevant in North America. Stay tuned as this story unfolds.

Thanks for taking the words out of my mouth.

I didn't think restaurants needed to be relevant; they just need to provide decent-enough food at a decent-enough price with decent-enough service.

But what if you're pretentious? Only trendy and relevant will work in that situation. :rolleyes:

Maybe I am in the minority, but I will not bother eating out (for dinner at least) unless it is way better or much different than what I can eat at home (which is very good).

Well people lead busy lives and convenience is worth paying for some people. People actually eat at these places you folks are so proud to look down on and they aren't just trash or hicks that don't know the difference between good and bad. I don't expect or need some 5 star chef to cook for me when I'm out.

I hate the term "elitist" but I really don't know another word that easily explains the attitudes so prevalent in here. I don't give a crap if people eat at McDonald's every week and it has no bearing on what I think about them as a person.

Or is a person who does not cook for themselves the elitist? ;)

Lol. That could be true but they also could just be lazy. :D

pappcam's post was on point about this. People can be busy. Also, some people don't enjoy cooking.

I certainly do eat out from time to time because I want an interesting experience (I can't eat Kansas City barbecue at home, so I had it three times when I was in Kansas City in May for example). My pizza at home is nowhere nearly as good as Houston Pizza's, so we order from them about once a month.

However, sometimes I'm busy and don't have a lot of time. I teach part-time at the university on Tuesdays, and I have office hours before class. I don't have time to go home to eat, let alone to actually prepare a meal there, so I eat out. I also don't have time for an hour-long-plus meal experience, so I eat something quick and tasty. It needs to suffice; if it can impress, even better, but I'm more worried about cost and convenience and time than I am about the experience.

To take this to an extreme point, Tim Horton's would be a much smaller chain if people valued quality over convenience. Their coffee is pretty good, and it is good enough, and if you are in a hurry, you can grab one from their drive-through on the way to whatever you are doing. I don't drink coffee much so never buy theirs, but the lineup to buy it never fails to impress.

Also, when you're out of town, unless someone is feeding you, restaurants are all there is. We certainly do have good restaurant meals while travelling, but sometimes the last thing we want is a two-hour dinner.

Lol come on guys. There are way better places than Olive Garden (and Tim’s for that matter) to get fast and cheap food. Can’t believe the essays being posted to defend that place. :yuck:

And I can’t believe someone asked a simple question only to get dumped on by multiple posters. Actually, I can believe it, sadly.

It's also been a line of inquiry for almost literally 25 years, I think it's fully warranted to be interested, even if it's just a chain.

Agreed. My larger point is, in any online community, if you can answer a question in good faith, go ahead and do so. If the subject doesn’t interest you, feel free to stay out of it.

My comment had nothing to do with elitism. There are many articles outlining the death of all these generic restaurant chains. Consumers are switching to higher end/local/indie/unique/experience based restaurants when they can afford it, and extremely cheap convenience food when they cant afford it (ie the rise of 7-11 food sales).

Applebees in the US has resorted to offering $1 drink specials every month in an attempt to stop the bleeding.

Older demographic and remote small towns with limited options are about the only markets where these chains are staying somewhat relevant. Even in Regina, most of these chains are struggling.

Well the millions of people who enjoy the place don't consider it boring.

Maybe there are a lot of plain, boring people in this world?

Lol. You need to get over yourself.

Naw. Everyone should set high (but reasonable) expectations for themselves. The race to the bottom is what is wrong with the world today, and getting excited about dollar store restaurants does not help.

I'm glad your pompous a$$ gets to eat out at the finest of restaurants. You aren't by chance a Kardashian are you?

Boston Pizza is fine dining compared to Olive Garden.

Lol settle down. This is a forum to discuss opinions. I'm perfectly within my right to express mine. You might want to not react the typical way and assume I'm just some stuck-up elitist. There's a difference between disliking a place because a certain demographic is attracted to it, and disliking a place because it offers a low-quality product or service, while having social and economic costs (i.e. causing a local business to close, driving down wages, pushing manufacturing offshore, etc.).

Listen, I get people spend their money at shitty places like Walmart, Tim Hortons or Olive Garden, but I am just suggesting to maybe consider the costs beyond just your bank account. There's a reason these places are so cheap compared to locally-owned small businesses. Usually someone suffers in the end. How elitist of me to consider how where I decide to spend my money may affect the society and economy around me. I think we have enough evidence in 2018 to show that low-cost places like Walmart and Tim Hortons are absolutely terrible and that the drive for low prices ends up biting us in the end.

Subjectively though, Olive Garden is just plain boring and lame. If that's your style, then please by all means, support it when it comes here for 2 years before it closes.

Edit: I seriously doubt we will get an Olive Garden anyway. People's spending habits are changing, they want their money to go further and are starting to demand quality over quantity. You can see it with the craft brew boom and rejection of the mass-produced piss produced by Molson, Coors, Labatt, etc.

LOL, ouch.

Actually I agree.

Went to the Olive Garden in Winnipeg a few years back,sooooo bad!! Support local!!!

Uh.... Boston Pizza is horrific. I'd chalk this up to Canadian chauvinism.

Lol. Pretty sure the IPA craze will die long before mass produced beer. People will soon realize hoppy beers are disgusting, they'll cut off their man-buns and beer drinking will again be a normal thing that normal people do. :tup:

The IPA craze has (thankfully) already died down in favor of Belgian styles, etc.

The primary diet of primary-grade, school children seems to be PASTA, PASTA, and more PASTA, or PIZZA, PIZZA, and more PIZZA! I'm sure an Olive Garden opening in the Regina will appeal to many of the families with young kids, and even a few others who just like that type of Italian dining. Calgary's Olive Garden seemed to be quite busy the times we wanted to go there (we tend to be there over a (long) weekend) -- so much that we needed to find alternative dining on some of those times. Otherwise, we haven't yet had a bad experience dining there. If they do open an Olive Garden here, it will be another welcome dining choice with wide appeal for our family, among Eastside Mario's, Famoso, Boston P, Houston P, Western P (local), Luiggi's (local), Appleby's, Montana's, and even I Love Sushi (noodles for the kids at the buffet! Also local!), etc., and I'll be content as ever for the next decade or so! ... :)

Good to hear. I like the Belgian style beers.

You do know there are more types of craft beers right? I despise bitter beers. I prefer Belgians but have taken a liken to sours lately. I don’t think people will be going back to mass produced beer any time soon. As the boomers die, I am concerned for the Molson-Coors of the beer world (unless they can successfully diversify into cannabis beverages or just keep buying craft breweries).

Ps are you my dad? He seems to have an obsession with man-buns as well.

I know there are many different types of craft beers but it's quite annoying to go to a pub and most of their selections from various brewers are IPA's. I know taste is subjective but the popularity of hoppy IPA's is a sort of weird mystery to me.

Ps Your dad makes fun of your man bun? :)

I actually agree with you there.

Ha! I wish I had hair for a man bun :P

I feel very strange paying money to eat pasta in restaurants, as it's so easy to make at home (and so cheap). Especially dishes like spaghetti or macaroni. The exception being an Italian restaurant I visited in San Francisco that was owned by a couple from Italy. It was a little hole in the wall and was fantastic, with a lot of seafood dishes. But I don't pay Boston Pizza $25 for an alfredo dish.

It's more like $12. $9 if you eat it on a Tuesday. (I go to a board gaming event at a Regina Boston Pizza many weeks, so I know their menu well.)

Yeah, we make a lot of food at home for all of us, and we won't go out to eat often, but Mommy wants (and deserves) an occasional time for family meal other than at home where she can relax (sort of) from a week or so of being the kid's chauffeur, chaperone, time manager, task focuser, conflicts manager, (incessant-) questions-answerer, Mommy-doctor, etc. -- everything that a Mommy does! And ditto for me (no dishes! -- bonus! :cheers:), until I get the bill! On special occasions, we'll enjoy some fine dining with the family, otherwise we'll be looking for good dining deals if we decide to go out!

Press'd has an "opening soon" sign up below Evolution Fitness on the F.W. Hill Mall.

https://pressdsandwiches.ca/

Yay! I want all those store fronts filled up!

Was that Fino? Tucked in the back of the Andrews Hotel?? AMAZING