In-n-Out!! (Hey, I can dream ... )

kathy

One of the many complaints about this restaurant/building was how noisy it was. Regardless of who the next tenant might be, they better change the acoustics of the building. If you cannot sit at a table and have a normal conversation I will likely not go there.

Is there a buffet of any kind south of Golden Corral?

Yes. An In-n-out would be a good one. Usually the first place I go anytime we venture out to California!

Hooters, yeah!

How about Bahama Breeze? We go to the one in Altamonte Springs, and always enjoy it. Good food, good drinks, and lots of fun. We like to sit outside with a drink while we wait for a table if it's busy, and listen to the steel band

Yes - at Harbor Lights on Lake Panasoffskee. Lots of homemade sides, and tender, juicy meats carved for you. Décor is a bit rustic, but I like their food. Family operated.

harborlightsrestaurant.com

Hooters or Flappers

Portillo's! Best Italian Beef Sandwiches you ever tasted!

Let's face it... ANY restaurant could make it there very well. All they have to do is serve quality food at a reasonable price and treat the customer with the proper attitude. It's really not that hard!

I will second Portillo's (they serve more than Italian beef), and I'm just a wannabee. sunny70 are you from the Chicago area?

Chipotle

Harry's

SFSkol,
I think you meant Oakwood on 441. They are great.

I am thinkin' you mean Oakwood. THE best ribs....EVER. And great sides. They are always full, winter and summer and keep their help from year to year.

I vote for this one for sure. The one in Tampa has been there quite a while

Whatever it is it has to be totally different to succeed, if its not, if will not be a destination, it will just be a slice of the same burger, fried food pie

Either Hooter's or Tilted Kilt

Yes! So good.

Bahama Breeze an excellent idea

I do not agree. Many repeats succeed, simply because many people like their food and prices.

Businesses SUCCEED because of popularity and repeat business that is tailored to the market.

What a few people want and would frequent, although excellent, may be too expensive for this market to keep afloat. That doesn't mean either side is WRONG.

Many who read this forum are realistic. I would take good chains over the pseudo country club fare here in SOME places. I love Cane Garden, not because it is amazingly good, but because it fulfills our expectation for food and price. It is decent food and dependable food and always nice help.

I'm for that!!!

Woo Hooooo
 

White Castle!!!!!!! Love it!!!!!

How about a Nathan's Hot Dogs place.

Lets get a Mexican restaurant there, such as On The Border. Perhaps if The Villages would relax the rent these restaurants are
charged, the prices will come down and they may become successful.

Abuelo's Mexican Restaurant, Different than all Mexican Restaurants around here.

The rent issue, all too often offered as an excuse for failure, has nothing to do with why the restaurants fail in TV.

Patrons do not decide whether to frequent an establishment, or not, based on the rent!

Way too small for Cheese Cake Factory. They couldn't even fit the menus in that space. House of Wings. Really?


"I never made a mistake in my life. I thought I did once, but I was wrong." Charles Schulz

TGIF failed due to competition and the adultering of alcohol scandal in the chain, Honest John's failed to lack of hands on mgt--the owner could not manage a third restaurant & Guy's failed because it was a perfect storm --lousy food, lousy help, and lousy management--it went under in record time--

Seriously? Relax the Rent? No way Jose.

How about make it like "the angler's club" where you can become member, and guarantee spending so much on a monthly basis--enough of the LCD that is prevalent--there are lots of people in TV who would support something like this--there are more than enough of the same O, same O restaurants

I used to love a huge soft taco there with all of the good stuff inside,from our Chipotle in WestChester, but about five years ago there were many reports of food poisoning from many Chipotle restaurants nationally.;

food poisoning at chipotle - Bing

LOL, They lasted about a year longer than I thought they would. I think they misjudged their clientele. My one experience there was horrible. Need "popular priced" restaurants with early-bird specials and lots of discount coupons to survive here. :D Anything high-end (other than a small bistro type place) is doomed to fail.

https://www.talkofthevillages.com/fo...rs-club-68492/

the anglers club the villages - Bing

How about an Aurelio's Pizza. They are a Chicago area higher scale pizza restaurant than Bravo's, and they are now in Florida. The size of the building is just right, and we don't have many really good pizza restaurants in The Villages. It is similar to UNO's, and I suspect would be sustainable here in The Villages with so many people from the midwest.

The most common food to cause food poisoning is chicken and then raw vegetables, then fish. A lot of people think SALMONella is a seafood thing, it isn't.

Top 9 Foods Most Likely to Cause Food Poisoning

Sounds great.

Aurelio's Pizza | The Family Pizzeria - Chicago

As recent as a month ago diners were being poisoned.

Possible Food Poisoning at Ohio Chipotle Draws 518 Illness Complaints

Whatever it says, this place (T.V.) is a different animal due to its age demographics and avian seasonality. [emoji4]


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Lots of risks in all restaurants, especially those that sell FISH---