Is there a shoneys where you are? Do you ever eat there?

I used to love the fried chicken, biscuits and honey on road trips with my parents, but it has been decades.

My mom used to take us to Shoney's for the breakfast bar every weekend when I was a kid.

Everything you expect breakfast to be. Bright, fresh, colorful.
Tucked in a valley in the Smokies, we pulled in and were greeted to a savory banquet with southern charm.
Tranquil and well appointed, Shoney's stands out in what would become an unforgettable road trip.

There are none here, but I did spend about a year living where they were around. I thought that chain was great. I remember the all you can eat shrimp!

Not where i live but we would stop at the same one every year in W.VA. on our way down to the Carolina's for vacation. :)

I haven't seen one in years and years. I remember they were once popular in the Nashville area when I lived there for a short while. Curb service, good hamburgers, sit-down also. But that was 50+ years ago. Weren't they also onside interstate highway routes?

One thing I remember is that they had the nicest curb service staff.

No, there isn't one here.

Never heard of them though we do have huge numbers of branches of other American chain coffee-shops and fast-food joints here, in Britain; up-price, down-value, with a weak veneer of fashionable gimmickry.

I'd not use Shoneys anyway. I avoid the big chains and patronise the independent cafes, restaurants and tea-shops. These are cheaper, very individual, better variety, usually better quality; better value overall. Even though they often call coffee by cod-Italian Americanisms!

(On long journeys I take food and hot drinks; and abjure the very expensive motorway service-areas' eateries. Almost all of these are a large restaurant surrounded by a ghastly, electricity-wasting mess of Mactuckycostabuck junk-food outlets, needless shops and pointless amusement machines.)

ding-dong. My memory is catching up now. Shoney's had two smash hits. Their "Big Boy" hamburger drive-ins in the 60s and 70s and their famous Breakfast Buffets for interstate freeway travelers in the 70s and 80s. The breakfast buffets were so popular with retired seniors who hit the road when they retired.

It was the era before hotels and motels started offering free breakfast for their guest. It was the "See the USA in your Chevrolet" era when the WW2 generation retired and hit the roads to see the rest of America. I still remember my parents timing their hotel departures to make it to the next Shoney's breakfast buffet in time :)

Would Shoneys be equivalent to Big Boy restaurants?

Not anymore it was shut down some years back from where im from but i use to always go there for eat outs

There were many of those around where I grew up and up until about year 2002 or so, but now I no longer see them. By the early 1990s they had gone down hill and had become very generic, nasty, poorly kept up. This could have been a regional problem and I think they may have been bought out aggressively by Denny’s, which has always been known for horrible restaurants.

If you type Shoney's Restaurant into google, it brings up a Shoney's location finder. You can put in your zip code and find the restaurants. They appear to be all over Tennessee, Louisiana, and South Carolina. Quite a few in West Virginia.

No lol but I remember it.

It use to be decent. They had a late night breakfast buffet near one of the Universities I went to. We would go there after the bars closed for a cheap meal to absorb all the alcohol. I haven't been to one since then I don't believe.

Here in michigan we had Elias brothers big boy. Same big boy statue.
Being a waitress there at 15 was my first "real" job.

Now up north, we still have a couple of big boys. I dont know who owns them. It isnt shoneys though...

I went to one while on a mission trip back in the 80’s - I remember I bought a bear (stuffed animal) from there. I think it was in Michigan- I haven’t seen one in years

Last one around here closed up about 20 ys ago. it had an awesome breakfast buffet. also had a great hot fudge cake. hated to see em shut the doors.

I heard that name in Rick and Morty.

Besides that I have never seen one in person.

It was good, Went to the one in Fayetteville Tennessee and in the smokies

When I lived in the south. The food was ok, cheap, generous portions.

They're still around? I remember them when growing up in Florida.

There is one, but I haven’t eaten there in years.

None in Atlanta, never been

There used to be. I like there food.😃

not for 15 years or longer
I miss it

None around me now. In college, a group of us would walk to the nearby Shoney's for a half pound of ground round and strawberry pie on Sunday nights. That was our one wild expenditure each week.

It's a chain. Tastes like a chain. They tend to have decent breakfast.

Sorry, never even heard of the place. Am I missing anything?

I don't think we have them here.

They still exist?

Never heard of it.

I used to work at Shoney's... back when I was a young whipper snapper. 🤣😂

I used to but it went out of business

I had honestly never heard of them until they were mentioned in a country song. I don't think there's one in the entire state of Oregon.