Notorious restaurant chain launches late-night delivery
A chain famous for being open during late-night hours, which has been parodied on SNL, will bring its legendary food to you.
Very few restaurant chains are both famous and infamous.
Most restaurants simply serve food. They may have a gimmick like Cracker Barrel's stores or McDonald's offering toys in its Happy Meals, but they're just restaurant chains, not cultural touchpoints.
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Applebee's briefly approached being both famous and infamous with Walker Hayes' 2022 song "Fancy Like," which contained the following lyrics:
Yeah, we fancy like Applebee's on a date night (that's right)
Got that Bourbon Street steak with the Oreo shake (ay)
Get some whipped cream on the top too (gotta add that whipped cream)
Two straws, one check, girl, I got you (girl, I got you)
Bougie like Natty in the styrofoam (styrofoam)
Squeaky-squeakin' in the truck bed all the way home (all the way home)
With some Alabama-jamma, she my Dixieland delight (hey)
That's how we do, how we do, fancy like
That's a bit tongue-in-cheek, since few people really consider Applebee's fancy, other than country singers looking to show how down-to-earth they are.
Another restaurant chain, however, has achieved immortality in multiple Saturday Night Live sketches and a vote of approval from a top historian (and my freshman year college advisor).
