Would Cracker Barrel Restaurants do well right off the Capital Beltway?

[SteelCityRising]

Originally Posted by spencgr

You've got to be kidding me! No YUPPIES eat at Olive Garden or TGI Fridays.

My partner and I are yuppies (if that's to be defined as "young upwardly-mobile urban professionals"), and we eat at Olive Garden.

[NOVA_guy]

The times I've been to Olive Garden they've always had excellent service, extremely clean, etc. They shouldn't be compared to the Cracker Barrel's of the world.

[finalmove]

Originally Posted by apexgds

Were you not alive during the 80's?? That was the heyday of the yuppies. Basically means Young UPwardly mobile professional. Sometimes used in a pejorative manner, but not always intended that way.

The term is as vague as redneck. That's tossed around here at work, mostly by recent arrivals.

[slim04]

Originally Posted by SteelCityRising

My partner and I are yuppies (if that's to be defined as "young upwardly-mobile urban professionals"), and we eat at Olive Garden.

FYI, the places where young professionals live typically have higher commercial rents, so they don't have a lot of national family style chain restaurants like TGI Fridays or the Olive Garden. The restaurants are usually hole in the wall places, family owned restaurants that have been around forever, restaurants that have a bigger and higher margin bar areas, trendy restaurants, fine dining or more upscale chains.

When I was a young professional, the mega chain restaurants were in suburban mall parking lots and full of screaming kids. You just didn't go to them. You had better options nearby.

Of course, now I live in the suburbs and have screaming kids, so I go to family style chain restaurants all the time!