Why is Buffalo Wild Wings so popular?!?!?!!?

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Its awful. I guess the marketing is what really works, rather than actual food quality. Everything there tastes like it went bad and was poorly cooked and then left to sit out for a while and reheated.

This. I agree completely.... There is something about their food in general that tastes like it was cooked, went cold, and then re-heated in the microwave. Dead serious on that too, it tastes exactly like that.
 

Oyeve

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I've been to a couple in NJ during my drive to drop the kid off at Rutgers and found it to be pretty good. Now, i'm no "wing" connoisseur but I do like hot and spicy and they do have a nice level of hot. 30 large HDTVs don't hurt either. Its a fun place. And i'm an old fart, so there.
 

Chaotic42

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I'll give their Blazin' sauce credit, it's pretty darn spicy. I've got a bottle somewhere. I just need to find something other than chicken to make buffalo out of.
 

QueBert

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We use to have a WOW cafe out here, was really really good. Last time I went to BWW they were out of the sauce we asked for, so the cook took it upon himself to select a substitution.

too expensive, too loud and too many tv's. I've only been inside the one by me. But if it's normal for them to have that many damn tv's it's really mind boggling. Only possible plus they're open until 2 and even if expensive I can get wings at 1:30am, even if they're just decent.

oh yeah and fuck their "beer expert" bartenders. last time I went the fool was blabbering on about how much he knows about beer so he ended up suggesting a beer for the female I went with. He brings us the beer and proceeds to give us each others beer (2 fucking people...) Before I can say anything to her she sips hers and goes "oh wow this beer's so good, he really does know what he's talking about"
I told her she was drinking my beer, she took a sip of mine (hers) and said I like the one he gave me better. When he came back I explained to him the mix up to which he said I was mistaken. I showed him her glass and he still insisted he was right.

The quality of their waiters and bartenders, at least at mine have been bad to an unreal level. The beer experts can't keep the 13 beers they have on tap straight. In contrast the Yardhouse next door has 157 beers and I get flawless help from their bartenders and waiters.
 
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IronWing

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Went there once, would not go again. If I'm going to be surrounded by TV sets and blaring music, I expect the babe from the Billy Idol video to be rolling around on my chest.
 

FeuerFrei

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They need a less specific name. I can think of better wing styles than buffalo-style, so I'm not likely to darken the door of an establishment named B.W.W.