okay where do you enjoy dining out
oh i generally go to the quickie places just because they're cheap
yes do you have children
uh we have four but most of them are gone now so there there might be but we were taking you know uh four five and six people out
ah
yes that makes a difference doesn't it uh-huh what area of the country do you live in
yes
i'm in Texas
yes i am too
and we lived we lived in Ohio prior to this oh
so
i did too i'm from the Dayton area
uh we were up near Cleveland yeah
ah
but i look for service even at the quickie places type things uh i don't like to go to the drive-thrus because sometimes they get your order wrong and then you're stuck and it's a pain to have to
uh-huh
that's right
stand there and see what it is before you leave so i really don't like the drive-thrus that much i i like to go and eat there
yes
but i would say service uh atmosphere and whether the food is good on on going out i like steaks so we try to hit those places when we can
when we travel we look for Wendy's because we have kids and my husband and i like getting the salads or the lighter meals and then that way they can get their burgers and fries and we can have a salad bar
um-hum
yeah
so sometimes we drive for a couple hundred miles until we find a Wendy's because it's all either McDonald's or Dairy Queens but
uh yeah and in in in the countries unless it's a large city i guess Dairy Queen and Wal-Mart are their main that's what you find right
right that's right
i know
my husband likes um Dairy Queens he likes their milk shakes and their chili cheese dogs i guess so he's a fan of of Dairy Queen and and we'll go even in town here at times just as a a change although
uh-huh
uh-huh
i'm not that excited about it it we've eaten we eat out so much it's gotten so i don't like to really eat any place but yet i hate to cook food at home
oh
so that might be why i look for inexpensive places just because we're eating out probably five
uh-huh
nights a week maybe or we eat junk food at home
um
yeah
uh now that my husband
so what are some of your your favorite inexpensive places
oh we'll go to them all we sort of take turns and and we uh i'm sort of favor the ones if i have a coupon we can go there and if not we can't
because it's cheaper so mine is monetarily i guess strongly monetarily
uh-huh
based uh we'll go get pizza and uh at Little Caesar's although the kids prefer Domino's
oh we are Little Caesar fans here that's where we always go
right
but it's just a lot cheaper than than Domino's so that's
we go to Grandy's quite a bit i would say
yes we like Grandy's too
McDonald's uh we've sort of been off of that for a while and no particular reason and i i maybe we avoided Wendy's the last few years because our daughter worked there and she never wanted us show up there
oh
so i don't uh we don't go
there that much
where do you go if you like to have a nice meal out or a big meal
a nice meal oh
where you go for steaks
it's usually when we're out of town and i'll order steak or steak and lobster combined
ah
uh-huh
so that it's really not in town
ah you ever been to Houston's on Beltline
no
that's where we go to get steaks they have a teriyaki steak there and when we have something to celebrate we head to Houston's they don't take reservations and you wind up waiting about an hour
um-hum
um-hum
but the food is good and they've got a nice patio area that you can wait and get something to drink unless you get there at five o'clock then you can go right through
right
but they have real good signature salads there and nice steaks so
that's our nice place to go we don't usually take the kids when we go there
don't well we don't go out that much i guess well i guess we do go out without kids we're usually picking things up quickly though and just we just don't
yes
dwell on food too much and uh with my husband traveling he can get all he needs for that during the week going to those places so it it doesn't really matter to him he'd probably just like to stay home
right
that's right
yeah that's the way with my husband he's gone during the week and likes to eat at home on the weekends and i've been eating at home all week long with the kids and would like to go out somewhere
right
so we have a conflict of interests on the weekends
well i think our i i never have liked to cook food but i think it all began eating out when we had uh the boys in in different uh
baseball on baseball team it was mainly baseball teams and my husband would coach
right
yes
so we were never home at the same time and i'm not one that's going to fix you know the meal at two o'clock in the afternoon so they can eat it all day whenever they're there if they're not there in between five and six well then i guess we don't eat today or you go you know you fend for yourself you go somewhere else
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right
yep
so that you know that really snowballed when we got down here when i started to sub make money i went oh well i'll just sub to
