“Celebration Restaurant” growing up

[Jim14510]

Grandmothers

This

 

[Jim14510]

French Cafe or Mahogany (in high school/college)

Spoiled rich kid. Those are like 4 stars as an adult.

 

[Tonkasker]

Mama's or Sortino's in Omaha

 

[cwessel76]

Spoiled rich kid. Those are like 4 stars as an adult.

 

[Jim14510]

Mama's

I didn't even know they existed until I was an adult. Had no idea the Saddle Creek one opened in 1975.

 

[Jack Bauer]

I don't think this place exists anymore, but we always went to "Bonanza" for special occasions.

 

[BingoDingo]

I don't think this place exists anymore, but we always went to "Bonanza" for special occasions.

I remember I got food poisoning as a kid from eating at the Bonanza in Kearney. Good to see I outlived them...

 

[Herbie]

Also The Knolls lol

 

[Husker_in_OK]

Pizza Slut or Godfathers .. either the pizza tasted so much better back then, or the quality just turned to shit. probably a little bit of both.

 

[Kazman5k]

This

My formative years were spent in the smoking section eating nachos and watching sports on the big projectors

 

[jaihawk]

I remember I got food poisoning as a kid from eating at the Bonanza in Kearney. Good to see I outlived them...

I worked at the one in Lincoln at 27th and Cornhusker all through High School... Learned more about the psyche of Fats then I ever wanted to...

People would laminate the coupons that came in the Sunday paper so they could use them over and over again. The best was when they did the all you can eat shrimp. We had one dude that must have been close to 400 pounds that would hunker down at a table in the corner all day, alternating between shoving pounds of shrimp in his mouth and napping. Guy would literally stay there for 6+ hours and the Managers would never throw him out. When he left, it looked like a massacre at the table. Felt bad for the bus boys that had to clean the table.

One positive was high school state tournaments. We always ran a special that if a team came in, the bus driver ate for free. When girls state was going on, they'd always be in there. Slayed quite a bit of small town pussy thanks to that...

 

[David Webb]

Celebrity Steakhouse - Valentine
Red Lobster

 

[cwessel76]

Spoiled rich kid. Those are like 4 stars as an adult.

I was being partly facetious.

La Casa or Gerda’s is where we would typically go.

French Cafe and Mahogany’s came later.

 

[BushAK]

We had a Bananza in Beatrice. Valentinos became the go-to place after Bananza closed

 

[2010sarenevercomingback]

Fuddruckers was right up there too. Stack your plate high with free burger toppings while watching complimentary cable TV, playing a few arcade games, or going over to the standalone dessert area to order a milkshake & have them announce your name to the entire jealous restaurant that it was ready.

We were kings.

 

[DrinkItIn]

Mama's or Sortino's in Omaha

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Mama's (Original Saddlecreek), Sortino's or La Casa

 

[AleksMarićEnjoyer]

Be’ne Pizza off 120th and Maple before it closed its doors. Growing up through elementary school, that arcade was the fucking best.

 

[AleksMarićEnjoyer]

Grandmothers or Big Freds

I went to St. Roberts so Big Fred’s was always popular for us as well

 

[huskermack]

Mama's

Was funny when they remodeled the place and put shag back up on the walls.

 

[Jim14510]

My formative years were spent in the smoking section eating nachos and watching sports on the big projectors

Smoking section or non smoking?

Whole place smells like an ash tray.