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...economic downturn has claimed another victim: Bennigan's Grill & Tavern, the 32-year-old chain of casual-dining fern bars. Amid sky-high gas and food prices and tightening consumer spending, the chain's Texas-based parent company declared bankruptcy July 29, saying it would shutter 150 eateries. While the franchise outlets remain open for now, Americans who want to peruse oversize menus for oversize portions of unremarkable food in unremarkable settings may soon have to check out Applebee's or Chili's. Or Ruby Tuesday or T.G.I. Friday's. Or the scores of other family-style restaurants serving deep...
...this is bingo, the game of blue-haired grandmas and church-basement fundraisers, but a drag queen is a drag queen, and if in between N-36 and I-18 your table is being rowdy, she'll be rowdy right back. "Straight guys, calm down, this isn't Bennigan's," sassed Ginger, a short blonde in a black dress slit up to the waist, on a recent Wednesday night. My friends and I were at Lips, a Manhattan restaurant that turns into a bingo parlor midweek with drag queens - those over-the-top, tell-it-like-it-is men dressed...
...Drive to Bennigan's Restaurant with Adele. Listen to New England Patriots-Miami Dolphins...
...Bennigan's. Eat supper (ham and cheese sandwich). Return to hospital...
...restaurants, a combination plate of amusement park, diner, souvenir stand and museum, have become the fastest-growing segment of the restaurant industry, turning up the heat on fast feeders such as McDonald's and the segment known as casual dining, which includes such now ho-hum fern joints as Bennigan's that serve mere food and drink in a relaxed setting. This heady expansion leads to projections that eatertainment will be a $5 billion baby by the turn of the century--assuming the theme dreamers continue to titillate a fickle been-there, done-that public...