Y'all know there's a Rallys on High and Hudson like 2 minutes from CCS, right? Sorry if someone already mentioned it,I may have missed it.
I think I remember a GD Ritzy's on Stringtown in GC. Did it have ice cream? I seem to remember ice cream there.... Don't remember the food at all.
Corner of Reed and Henderson in UA too. Loved that place. Real cherry/vanilla/chocolate cokes, grilled PB&J with sliced strawberries, great dogs, burgers and shoestring fries. Damn, that takes me back to 1986.
If Rax was so much better than Wendy's, why does only 1 exist? Let the white Castle jokes roll. Why are there holes in White Castle burgers? Because they have to carve the shotgun pellet out of the rats. Wakka, Wakka!
In the spirit of conviviality, given the mentions of Rax and GD Ritzy's, allow me to humbly offer up Zantigo
Scroll down 1/3 of the way on the Columbus Restaurant History page to see where all the GD Ritzy’s were.
Continuing the awesome discussion of Matchday 1: Does anyone recall DaddyO's? I don't know anything about it except that is ruled. I am not sure if it was a superior Rally's knock off: beer battered fries, 2 drive thrus and no interior seating, same red and yellow color scheme. But so much better, flame grilled burgers, Hershey's "cool" chocolate shakes. There were not many nights in the early 90s that I didn't get DaddyO's on my way home late from somewhere. The only one I know of in Columbus is now the duel drive-thru Starbucks on Fifth Ave.
There used to be a DaddyO's on campus near 15th and high (a block South from where Long's Bookstore used to be). Another decent burger place was Snaps which was at the corner of 17th and High. DaddyO's had awesome fries.
In college we had 1 about 2 blocks from my apartment and in 4 years I only ate there once. It was the last week of my senior year. Lets just say I was upset that I didn't try it earlier.
What a great great site. MANY thanks. GD Ritzy's was a great place, the fries were superb, as was the ice cream, plus they were the only place you could buy a decent hot dog. (For years there was a place in Mansfield with the unfortunate name "Weiner King". Their dogs were lousy which was OK because it was embarrassing to admit that you'd actually been there) Lums was great too. The Ollieburger was inexplicably odd but it was what I always ordered there. Ridiculously good but as I recall it was way too expensive for a burger place. And I miss the hell out of TeeJayes. Nothing like sausage gravy and biscuits served by stone cold rednecks at midnight. Rax was good, just s good as Arby's IMO but Arbys was much better at marketing. Burcger Chef was terrible. The food was dreck and the places were dirty and cheezy BUT when you were really low on funds it was someplace you could go and stuff your gut. My wife still mourns Arthur Treachers. Not me. I could never figure out what to do with those Hush Pupies they served which looked like dog turds. Sisters sucked.
There are still a few TeeJays here in Columbus. Morse and High has one and I believe there is one down by my stomping grounds on Stringtown in Grove City. And wow, you mentioned Sisters. And your assessment was correct in the sense that it did suck, but you surprisingly feel short on correlative adjectives to tell the degree to which it did. Where I grew up, we had Sumburger. Could not understand the fascination with the place. After the one time I had it, I came to the conclusion that they harvested the leavings from a cow pasture.
Sodexo was serving Horse Meat in Europe. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodandd...pplied-by-firm-selling-contaminated-beef.html
Natural casings on the hot dogs.. they snapped when you bit them. ummmmmm. Hamburgers were awesome.. they smashed them on the grill to be crispy around the edges.
TeeJayes was the one with the Haystack, right? They had a second plate that was similar to it as well. Basically your breakfast covered in Sausage Gravy.... mmmm....
The Barnyard Buster. After every initiation for my college fraternity we'd all dine at Tee Jayes and attempt to put down 2 of them in one sitting. My arteries still haven't forgiven me.