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Work is sure nice, when lunch joints are nearby!

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My office is right in the middle of a historic downtown (resort tourist place in the Smoky Mountains). Lots & lots of stuff here, none of which are chains. Everything from sandwich shops, upscale restaurants, antique 1950's type luch counter and soda fountains, British pub & Irish pub, hand made brick fired fancy pizza place and a bakery. I used to really like to eat at the tables outside on the sidewalks, etc

About a 1.5 milea aqway is a mall and a big intertstae exit - they've got all the fastfod stuff (McD, BK, Hardees, Pizza Hut, KFC, Sonic whatever) and more retsaurants, Outback Steakhouse and other big chain restaurants as well as more local stuff etc

I've got more stuff here, and closer, than when I worked in Manhatten.

Even so, I proly eat at these once a week. it gets expensive and I started gaining a lot of weight. Typically I'll have a health shake or pack a sandwich these days.

Fern
 
Originally posted by: jimbob200521
We've got Taco Bell, Two Chinese Restaurants, Kelly's Bar, Rock River Caffee, and a chocolate shop around the corner for dessert, so 5 restaurants plus a dessert shop 😛
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did yu spell cafe wrong or did the cafe spell it wrong?
 
No lunch joints in walking distance here, but I work in a "industrial park"
The sad thing is the 2 closest resturants are both subways, in oposite directions(It's kind of like that Geroge Collin's joke about starbucks and the end of the universe)

I've been wroughing it lately, "combat field rations" for lunch, lol.
 
Fuddruckers
Quiznos
360 Burrito
La Salsa
Panera

But it's a long two block walk to those and I need to cross two long lights so I usually bring lunch or get it from the building cafe.
 
None... although with all the construction going on here... we do get a roach coach that stops by at lunch time for the construciton crews, does that count? 🙂

Other than that, and the vending machines, its a 5 minute drive south to Subway or a 5 minute drive north to Burger King.... all other restrurants are 10-15min drive away.

We used to have a cafeteria in house... but alas they got rid of it, even though it was packed everyday.
 
Old Town Pasadena. You count them.

Edit: my building has a cafeteria, the one across has one too. I don't even need to move to get food. A block away, there's Paseo Mall with a crap load of restaurants, a few blocks down is Old Town, where there's a crap load more restaurants.
 
Way too many. I work downtown and there's probably 20 or so places in walking distance.

Anything from:

Chili's
Logans
Flemings
PF Changs
Taco Bell
Wendys
Ruth Scotts
Jimmy Johns
Papa Johns
Schlotzkeys
Royal Thai
(2) different Mexican Resturants
several smaller places
Checkers
Jack in the box
Quiznos
Arbys
Baja Fresh
Atlanta Bread and Company
Bread and Company
and more..

too many!
 
of work or home home theres none but from work
arbys
runza
pizza hut
mongolian place x2
BK
MC donalds
DQ
gas station w/ Krispy Kreme
Subway
big apple bagels
walmart super center w/ subway inside
Amigos/A&W
valentinos(italian buffet)
hunans (chinese)
blimpies
KFC
plus in the mall 1 block away
a third subway
blue moon coffee
ice cream shop
pretzel place
sabaros
another Chinese place
cookie shop

im sure theres a couple im forgetting but i work in a shopko attached to a mall with a strip mall accross the street and an indoor mall accross another street and another stip mall down the parking lot

edit
wendy's also there
taco bell
taco del mar
taco johns
eilenes cookies
jims gyros
 
yeah I love my office lunch selections!

1-2 minute walk:

Uno's
Rio Grande
Cosi
Panera
Yum Yum Cafe
Basura (thai place)
Big Bowl
Clydes
Mortons
M&S Grill
Paolo's
some other place like Panera/cosi that i forget its name
Ben and Jerry's


and then they are building about 5-10 more places next door
 
Originally posted by: Dritnul
of work or home home theres none but from work
arbys
runza
pizza hut
mongolian place x2
BK
MC donalds
DQ
gas station w/ Krispy Kreme
Subway
big apple bagels
walmart super center w/ subway inside
Amigos/A&W
valentinos(italian buffet)
hunans (chinese)
blimpies
KFC
plus in the mall 1 block away
a third subway
blue moon coffee
ice cream shop
pretzel place
sabaros
another Chinese place
cookie shop

im sure theres a couple im forgetting but i work in a shopko attached to a mall with a strip mall accross the street and an indoor mall accross another street and another stip mall down the parking lot

edit
wendy's also there
taco bell
taco del mar
taco johns
eilenes cookies
jims gyros
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do i get most choices in a town less than 50K ppl?
 
Originally posted by: compuwiz1
I went to quizno's today, but that's a 5 minute drive.

Within 2 blocks, I have the following options:

Taco Bell
SubWay
Carls Jr.
In-n-Out
Del Taco
McD's

Too much fast food to be healthy, for sure. 🙂
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That's nasty. Subway (and Quizno's) are the only places on your list I'd consider. Where I work there are countless non-chain places to eat lunch, thank goodness, though I admit to having patronized the local Subway establishment once or twice.
 
Nothing within walking distance. Maybe biking distance, but that'd be silly to drive to work and then bike to lunch.
 
Originally posted by: middlehead
Nothing within walking distance. Maybe biking distance, but that'd be silly to drive to work and then bike to lunch.
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Why would that be silly? Driving to work when you could bike to work, now that would be silly. 😀
 
I work downtown so not much good restaurants within walking distance.

Let see: Subway, Mexican restaurant, coffee/sandwitch shop, newstand/sandwitch shop (2 of them), oh yeah almost forgot, a bunch of vending machines 🙂
 
let's see...

Wendys
Quiznos
Some Random Mexicon Food Place
Subways
Arby's
Costco
Carls Jr

all within walking
 
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