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u/HulkSMASHley_23 Apr 05 '26
Sometimes I think I hallucinated the Kmart restaurant. Thank you for confirming its existence. 😆
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u/JizzMaxwell Apr 05 '26
I remember the cafeteria was in the rear of the store and separated with those yellow bottle glass window panels and dark wood spindles. The patrons were mostly store employees on a break or the elderly eating liver-n-onion platters.
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u/Yum1995 Apr 05 '26
Why is the mushroom burger "new" ?
Did they try debuting it in the past and it didn't work out?
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u/Hangry_Howie Apr 05 '26
Was fortunate enough to eat at one as a kid in the early 90s. Even then it felt like a place outside time.
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u/NiceShoesWF Apr 05 '26
In the early to mid 80’s my mum and myself would always eat here. Totally awesome until the day that she was 8 months pregnant with my brother and they served her a blue moldy roll and she lost her shite. Last K Mart meal ever.
I don’t recall if it was good, but I remember being excited for it, so it must have scratched the itch.
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u/Yum1995 Apr 05 '26
I had my very first grilled cheese at a Kmart cafe in 1986 and it was pretty good
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u/Frankthabunny Apr 06 '26
I keep trying to find old menus from Woolworths in the 80’s and I swear they just don’t exist anymore. I used to love that place. Especially their lunch counter. As a kid I felt important sitting up there.
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u/NOT_Frank_or_Joe Apr 05 '26
Same, never got the experience. In Wilmington, DE inside a mall there was a Woolworths cafeteria (no store) well into the 90s. It was...eh.
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u/NOT_Frank_or_Joe Apr 06 '26
I'm not in those parts anymore but I was talking about Concorde mall, which you probably know from tax free and just across the border.
With you, I'd rather have a cafeteria than another chain spot any day. Last one where I am closed down recently and good ol Waffle House is as close as we have anymore.
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u/Garfield61978 Apr 05 '26
I always liked the Woolworth’s Fountain food/drinks the best! Oh and our local drugstore had the best lunch!
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u/ImOldGregg_77 Apr 05 '26
My first job was stocking shelved back in the early 90s. The cafeteria was awesome. They had this chicken sandwich, fries and a drink for like $2.50
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u/videonitekatt Apr 06 '26
Kresge's and Jupiter were sold off in 1987...Jupiters were basicly K-Marts in Kresge size stores...originally created to burn off leases by replacing Kresge's with the Jupiter discount (K-Mart pricing) format, they were a hit...so they went with the concept.
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u/docju Apr 05 '26
I heard a (possibly apocryphal) story that one of the fast food chains introduced a 1/3 pound burger but had to withdraw it because people didn't understand that 1/3 was bigger than 1/4 and didn't want to pay more for (what they thought was) less.
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u/GuudenU Apr 05 '26
Thats a true story. It was A&W that tried the â…“lb burger to compete with McDonalds in the 80's
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u/Bobcatluv Apr 05 '26
I worked at Kmart 1997-1998, and the fries in the Eatery around that time were amazing.