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(Bloomberg)   Black Angus Steakhouse files for bankruptcy. Something about going broke buying letter G's to fix their constantly vandalized signs   (bloomberg.com) divider line
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7637 clicks; posted to Main » and Business » on 15 Jan 2009 at 11:43 AM (14 years ago)   |   Favorite    |   share:  Share on Twitter share via Email Share on Facebook



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MattyBlast [TotalFark]
2009-01-15 11:09:40 AM  
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AlwaysRightBoy [TotalFark]
2009-01-15 11:16:30 AM  
Seriously, who would go to a steakhouse. Buy a good steak and cook it yourself.
/having a vendor take me to Peter Luger's is a different story
 
Two Dogs Farking [TotalFark]
2009-01-15 11:24:38 AM  
Well Done, subby
 
thomps
2009-01-15 11:45:34 AM  
that makes a sad patton (new window)
 
Dean Franz
2009-01-15 11:45:52 AM  
hehe... Black Anus...
 
Hack Patooey
2009-01-15 11:46:43 AM  

Dean Franz: hehe... Black Anus...


Unremarkable
 
dokool
2009-01-15 11:47:00 AM  

thomps: that makes a sad patton (new window)



Came for this, leaving satisfied.

/At Black Angus, your name is Peaches.
 
MmmBadEggs
2009-01-15 11:47:01 AM  
"So we're not going to Black Angus?"
 
MBooda [TotalFark]
2009-01-15 11:47:25 AM  
Went broke knitting those millions of kilts.
[image from modrzew.stopklatka.pl too old to be available]
 
thatguyfred
2009-01-15 11:47:36 AM  
Perhaps they had trouble when the oil hit the Black Anus.
 
phlegmmo [TotalFark]
2009-01-15 11:48:07 AM  
Hack Patooey:
Dean Franz: hehe... Black Anus...

Unremarkable

But did the oil finally hit it?
 
Bob Ondeeznuts
2009-01-15 11:48:18 AM  
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They really do make the worst steaks out there. Their cuts are terrible and they overcook the shiat out of them.
 
bad_ed
2009-01-15 11:48:57 AM  

dokool: thomps: that makes a sad patton (new window)


Came for this, leaving satisfied.

/At Black Angus, your name is Peaches.


Indeed. I guess the gauntlet of angry food became too much for the common man.

/GRAVY PIPE!
 
phlegmmo [TotalFark]
2009-01-15 11:49:01 AM  
*shakes tiny fist at thatguyfred*
 
AnubisMan
2009-01-15 11:49:14 AM  
I used to live by a Big Lots in southern California. One night while driving by I saw that the lower part of the B had burned out so the sign read "Pig Lots". Got a chuckle out of it, very fitting.

/Wished I had a camera at the time
 
bill4935
2009-01-15 11:49:31 AM  
A Black Angus thread without a Patton Oswalt mention is like pie without ice cream. Surly, sarcastic ice cream.

/link pops, locks and busts.
 
Pinner
2009-01-15 11:49:38 AM  
Always laugh when I see no G

Seen it changed to AGNUS
 
elemenopy [recently expired TotalFark]
2009-01-15 11:50:14 AM  
They're still around?

The one in my hometown closed down 20 years ago.

/in Montana, where said Angus comes from...
//give me Capital Grille steaks... om nom nom
 
Vegra
2009-01-15 11:50:15 AM  
They need more moo-lah!

See what I did there?
 
bill4935
2009-01-15 11:50:16 AM  
GOD i am slow!
 
litespeed74
2009-01-15 11:50:25 AM  
Would they file for Chapter 2 bankruptcy?
 
ArcadianRefugee
2009-01-15 11:50:55 AM  
"Black An us" != "Black Anus"

/English fail
//pen is
 
Uzzah
2009-01-15 11:51:45 AM  
[Marge, dressing the kids for their last dinner with the fatally-poisoned Homer.]

Bart: Why are we getting dressed up, Mom? Are we going to Black Angus?
Marge [sad and resigned]: Well, you might say we're going to the best steakhouse in the whole universe.
Bart [suspiciously]: So we're not going to Black Angus.
 
Pinner
2009-01-15 11:51:50 AM  

litespeed74: Would they file for Chapter 2 bankruptcy?


Probly, they're in the hole.
 
KidKorporate
2009-01-15 11:51:58 AM  

thomps: that makes a sad patton (new window)


I lol'ed. Hard. Thanks, awesome way to start my day!
 
The_Sponge [TotalFark]
2009-01-15 11:52:05 AM  

AlwaysRightBoy: Seriously, who would go to a steakhouse. Buy a good steak and cook it yourself.



Seconded. I rarely go to steakhouses after Washington passed the retared smoking ban. (Ruth's Chris and Daniel's Broilers had to close their cigar lounges.)
 
Proud2B_American
2009-01-15 11:52:31 AM  
As sad as this may be (never been to a Black Angus...so I can't speak about the food quality) But this financial mess didn't happen over night...they have 15.2 million in unused gift cards and gift certificates. At least the website is still running...and luckily...you can still buy a gift card

/sarcasm
 
lelio
2009-01-15 11:52:41 AM  
Reading a book "Vanishing Seattle" and I believe the first Black Angus restaurant was up on 99. I always wondered if that old neon sign had anything to do with the chain.
 
Psumek
2009-01-15 11:52:45 AM  
I know Black Inches is a magazine, but Black Anus totally needs to be one too.
 
Cyborg77
2009-01-15 11:52:47 AM  

MBooda: Went broke knitting those millions of kilts.


So by your account Harold Potter was a perfectly ordinary Englishman without any tendency towards being a Scotsman whatsoever?
 
buenohead
2009-01-15 11:52:48 AM  
On a similar note: I've always wanted to re-arrange the "BIG N TASTY BURGER" sign at McDonald's to read, "BIG NASTY BURGER".

If someone else does it, please post a photo for me. Thanks!
 
LandOfChocolate
2009-01-15 11:53:02 AM  

Uzzah: [Marge, dressing the kids for their last dinner with the fatally-poisoned Homer.]

Bart: Why are we getting dressed up, Mom? Are we going to Black Angus?
Marge [sad and resigned]: Well, you might say we're going to the best steakhouse in the whole universe.
Bart [suspiciously]: So we're not going to Black Angus.


Came to say this, leaving satisfied.

/I didn't know it was a real place.
 
bhcompy [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2009-01-15 11:53:06 AM  

The_Sponge: AlwaysRightBoy: Seriously, who would go to a steakhouse. Buy a good steak and cook it yourself.


Seconded. I rarely go to steakhouses after Washington passed the retared smoking ban. (Ruth's Chris and Daniel's Broilers had to close their cigar lounges.)


mmm cigarette flavored steak

/you're crazy.
 
Shostie [TotalFark]
2009-01-15 11:53:17 AM  

dokool: thomps: that makes a sad patton (new window)


Came for this, leaving satisfied.

/At Black Angus, your name is Peaches.


Ditto.

/wants a bottomless trough of fried dough
 
The Martintuckian
2009-01-15 11:54:02 AM  
I think Anthony Bourdain ate some of that the other night.
 
Mama's Boy
2009-01-15 11:54:29 AM  
Great headline subby. Choked on my OJ and everything
 
Mjolnir1964
2009-01-15 11:55:04 AM  
So...I guess Black Anus is not on the menu? Hmmph. Fark that then.


/disgruntled
 
The Third Man [TotalFark]
2009-01-15 11:55:14 AM  

AlwaysRightBoy: Seriously, who would go to a steakhouse. Buy a good steak and cook it yourself.


I disagree. A steak is one of the few meals you can't cook at home as well as a good restaurant can. The best cuts of meat get snapped up by the top steakhouses, and their kitchen equipment, especially grills and knives, is certainly going to be better than yours.

Now, I'd rather have a steak at home than a steak at a Black Angus/Texas Roadhouse/etc. But for a real quality steak, you can't really do better than a top steakhouse.
 
Johnny Bananapeel [OhFark]
2009-01-15 11:56:15 AM  
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rodeofrog
2009-01-15 11:56:29 AM  

AlwaysRightBoy: Seriously, who would go to a steakhouse.


I like to look like a big shot to my friends, so I go to the steakhouse and push around the waitresses. I comment on the things my friends order and the people at the other tables. When I'm about 70% through my food, I throw down my utensils and complain that I could have done it better myself.
 
bearded clamorer [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2009-01-15 11:57:07 AM  
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Approves
 
macadamnut
2009-01-15 11:57:38 AM  
There was a motel in Leesburg, FL called the "Big Bass Motel", which had a very similar problem...
 
Pinner
2009-01-15 11:57:45 AM  

The Third Man: AlwaysRightBoy: Seriously, who would go to a steakhouse. Buy a good steak and cook it yourself.

I disagree. A steak is one of the few meals you can't cook at home as well as a good restaurant can. The best cuts of meat get snapped up by the top steakhouses, and their kitchen equipment, especially grills and knives, is certainly going to be better than yours.

Now, I'd rather have a steak at home than a steak at a Black Angus/Texas Roadhouse/etc. But for a real quality steak, you can't really do better than a top steakhouse.



You need some schoolin' on the grill, boy.
 
PeeWeePangolin
2009-01-15 11:58:13 AM  
You mean a place with the same gaudy decor from 1989 is going out of business?

The world is not just I say.
 
devilskware
2009-01-15 11:58:17 AM  

AlwaysRightBoy: Seriously, who would go to a steakhouse. Buy a good steak and cook it yourself.
/having a vendor take me to Peter Luger's is a different story


People who are hungry but don't feel like cooking. It happens a lot.
 
Hippycritical
2009-01-15 11:59:58 AM  
how about big nasty urge at black anus?
 
tricycleracer
2009-01-15 12:00:08 PM  

rodeofrog: AlwaysRightBoy: Seriously, who would go to a steakhouse.

I like to look like a big shot to my friends, so I go to the steakhouse and push around the waitresses. I comment on the things my friends order and the people at the other tables. When I'm about 70% through my food, I throw down my utensils and complain that I could have done it better myself.


Dad?
 
Hand Banana
2009-01-15 12:00:10 PM  
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The_Sponge [TotalFark]
2009-01-15 12:00:13 PM  

bhcompy: The_Sponge: AlwaysRightBoy: Seriously, who would go to a steakhouse. Buy a good steak and cook it yourself.


Seconded. I rarely go to steakhouses after Washington passed the retared smoking ban. (Ruth's Chris and Daniel's Broilers had to close their cigar lounges.)

mmm cigarette flavored steak

/you're crazy.



I'm not crazy....both of those steakhouses didn't allow smoking at the tables. The cigar lounge was in a separate room with quality air filters....you couldn't smell smoke unless your nose was 6" from the door.
 
Bob Ondeeznuts
2009-01-15 12:00:26 PM  

The_Sponge: Daniel's Broilers had to close their cigar lounges.


I talked to one of the managers there and he said they had just spent $35,000 on a new ventilation system when the ordinance was passed 2 months later. I loved that farking room, it felt like I was part of an old school social club.
 
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