Wednesday, May 17

Flying Bisquick

Raving Brands, the company brought us Moe's and a variety of other shitty restaurants, has purchased Flying Biscuit.
at 5/17/2006 03:43:00 PM 6 comments

6 comments:

16:31 Anonymous said...

Boneheads is suprisingly not shitty. Ugly... well, yeah, that's another story.

17:54 Anonymous said...

I was actually starting to worry about the dirth of non-chain restaurants in Atlanta.

Welcome to Flyyying biscuit, Indianapolis!

20:46 Anonymous said...

Mingaling's right, Boneheads ain't that bad. Moe's is really assy though and Doc Greens (at least the flatbread sammich I had recently) is assy as well.

That said, I was just reading all of the "oh man, there goes another great local restaurant" blather on ajc.com's comment page and thinking: 1) Flying Biscuit isn't that good anyway and 2) shouldn't we be happy for the founders who were able to build a successful business and cash in? It's not as if they existed solely for our pleasure.

21:12 Andisheh Nouraee said...

I'm happy for the Flying Biscuit people. I sincerely hope they made a fortune. They deserve it.

I really,really dislike the Raving Brands restaurants though. Thanks to curiousity, being in a hurry, and impatience, I've eaten many meals at both Moe's and Mama Fu's. They're lousy restaurants with stupid "concepts". If you're into chain burritos, Chipotle is vastly superior. And don't even get me started on the salty crap they serve at Mama Fu's.

One of the things that really annoys me about the Raving Brands "concept" is the forced mirth.

Moe's is the best/worst example. When I read the menu at Moe's (John Coctostan, Other Lewinsky, etc), I can picture the meeting where they came up with the stupid names for everything. I picture the boss thinking it was funny and nobody else having the nerve or sense to tell him otherwise.

I've tried Doc Greens, but there's nothing there that I can make better myself at the Whole Fields salad bar.

My mild annoyance and snootiness comes mainly from my suspicion that Flying Biscuit, a restaurant I actually like a lot (though I've never actually eaten breakfast there, only lunch and dinner) will be dismantled and "concepted" to death. I suspect that Raving Brands only bought it because of the name. "Oh, flying biscuits! That fits our wacky, fun brand!"

I have visions of a variety of assembly-line breakfast sandwiches, each of which will have something about "flying" in the name. "Try our double decker sausage egg biscuit. We call it the 747."

22:59 Anonymous said...

The last time I ate at Moe’s I swear I heard Vicki Lawrence’s “Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia” amongst their usual mix tape of Sinatra, Miles, Jim Morrison and Bob Marley. No offense to Momma, but that’s defining musical iconography a little too broadly for me.

09:33 Anonymous said...

That's funny, randalshed. I totally see your point.

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