What happens?  DOOM! LOL.

OK, why did I drop this story in a thread I started with a story about motorcycles?

The theme here is the inexorable decline & fall of the cultural identity of post industrial Amerika.  The Malls, the Bars, the Fast Carz & Bikes, the Chain Restaurants are all passing into history.  For this author, clearly a Gen X child of the 80s there's nostalgic sadness similar to the way I feel about the old Jewish Delis in NY that have disappeared like the Stage Delicatessen & Katz's.

I am less nostalgic about the disappearance of bar-restaurants like TGI Friday's, which as a chain was a poor facsimile of the Upper East side Looking for Mr. Goodbar hookup havens it was modeled after.  As a college student in the 70s many Friday nights were spent bar-hopping with my buddies looking to pick up fresh meat.  Requisite in the mid 70s was a few pre-rolled joints tp smoke outside the bar, by the early 80s if you expected any action you needed a gram of Coke in a little glass vial to snort up through a rolled up $100 bill off the glass topped coffee table in somebody's off campus apartment.  The FIT girls and dancers from the Joffrey School were always looking for Ivy League boys with money and a future as Masters of the Universe, although they quickly looked for bigger fish when your vial ran out of coke.

Anyhow, I think that scene is mostly dead now too, after CoVid in the gender and sexual confusion of our collapsing society.  What will come after this is anybody's guess, but whatever it is in unlikely to be as much fun.

https://www.esquire.com/food-drink/restaurants/a62910398/tgi-fridays-bankruptcy/

What Happens to America When TGI Fridays Goes Bankrupt?

RE