defend the indefensible: SBARRO

Isn't there a big old Olive Garden right smack dab in the middle of Times Square that's always chock full?

yeah, but that's for stupid tourists. so it doesn't count.

besides, if they didn't eat @ olive garden, they'd eat at some place even shittier -- like tad's steaks.

and..

http://photos1.blogger.com/img/120/2094/640/an-najah-sbarro-02.jpg

That's all modernized and spiffed up and everything now, right? And didn't it kind of sprawl over and absorb Greece Town Mall too? Last time I was there, like 12 years ago, those places were still sort of rundown and full of great wacky '70s "installations" and stuff. One of them had this like shag-carpeted relaxation pit.

Poor Rochester. I guess it's hard with Kodak evaporating and all.

But you've still got Sbarro, I guess.

when i worked at the mall in college, sbarro was a quick easy meal that didn't cost too much, although i wouldn't eat there unless i was trapped at work for 7 or 8 hours at least.

how 'icky' of me....

what other 'embarrassing' food have I eaten?

How is it pronounced? What does it mean?

this did not stop her from being kicked into the management track midway through the summer though.

also, the cheese they use on their pizza is nasty. put that shit on a comics page and it'll copy every drawing upside-down.

Wow, pretty cool! I'm going to have to remember to try this the next time I find myself there.

Actually I always thought their pizza was passable (not great), if over-priced.

I used to know this completely stupid girl who called it "sharpo." I tried to explain it to her, have her sound it out, but no go.

It is! I used to go there all the time when we lived in Ohio!

it's the WMD of the spice world.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaKuT3dIwfc&feature=related

YUP (re Michael Scott)

SUGGESTBARRO

when i knew no better i loved their ziti. in fact i prob would still like it.

ha! was just going to say that their ziti is sort of great in a "I'm at the airport and this is the best shitty food I'm going to get so why the hell not" sort of way.

3rded about their ziti and lasagna ... it's at least edible (if never great), and i'd eat Sbarro ziti and lasagna before i'd eat same from Olive Garden or certain non-chain pizza joints.

I've never been to Olive Garden and I kind of want to change that.

their breadsticks are delicious

and never ending

I have heard this rumor.

BANGKRUPTCY.
NABKIN DISPENDER.

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4060/4307940750_3abc3ebe28.jpg

No one will miss Sbarro. But expecting it to be "Italian" is like expecting German food at a hot dog stand. Stick with the pizza, fake marinara is the worst thing on earth!

SBARRO. NOT PIZZA PROBLEM. CHANE STOREFRODS IN MALLS, IS DOUBLE WHAMY. TRAFFIC DOWN. CONSUBERS PUT AWAY WALITS. CAN'T BOOST REVANUE. CAN'T ADD BREKFESET OR LATE MENU. NOT LIKE OTHER CHANE. COMPEDIDORS LIKE DOMANO AND PIZZUT NO DEBT. STRONG CASH FLOW. INTENISY PRESSURE ON SBARRO AS KEY DET PAYMENTS COME DUE IN 2009.

― mumps (iiiijjjj), Tuesday, February 10, 2009 7:01 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark

beaten to the punch ... i hope the Sbarro thread can live on though!

worst fukn food

seems like it would burn

i didn't know t✧✧@k✧✧.e✧✧ had a finance degree!

http://www.slate.com/id/2293006/pagenum/all/#p2

slate officially half a decade behind ilx

I swear so many journalists crib their ideas from ilx

I laughed out loud reading most of this; a shame he didn't visit Sbarro locations at interstate rest stops.

Pizza Hut is emphasizing its "WingStreet" brand

I swear so many journalists crib their ideas from ilx

― dayo, Wednesday, May 4, 2011 8:42 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

ditto

we should sue!

Blair Chancey, editor of fast-food trade journal QSR magazine, told me that Sbarro's target demographic is "young, hungry males," and this might be so. But it also seems as though Sbarro courts the indifferent eater—tourists, children, people who just want a slice and a place to sit while they talk about the amazing pants they saw on sale at The Limited.

like we suspected ... sbarro targeted hungry bros and Michael Scott.

the dispender demo

I swear so many journalists crib their ideas from ilx

― dayo, Wednesday, May 4, 2011 8:42 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

ditto

― cop a cute abdomen (gbx), Wednesday, May 4, 2011 7:57 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

rolling thread?

Aww, Sbarro…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu-s-SeigWs

NAPKIN DISPENDER.

I swear Little Caesar's is infinitely better. But all they have are 2-second pizzas and yummy breadsticks.

My brother-in-law just gave me this as a wedding gift at the groom's dinner:

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8463/8104389200_660fede01b.jpg

u read my mind eric h. i knew it was time for the yearly revival of this thread.

also lol @ that t-shirt.

COST MORE MDONILLDS. BETTER THEN MDONILLDS. COST MORE BURGER KING. BETTER THEN BURGER KING. SBARRO COST MORE DOLLARS AND BETTER THEN THOSED ONES.

THEY DO THE REST.

there's a sbarros near the kremlin in moscow and i've eaten there.

*sbarro.

СБАРРО

Was just in Manhatten and only saw one Sbarro's. They used to be everywhere there when I was a kid.

Is it near penn station? That area is like a radiation zone of undead chain restaurants you don't see elsewhere in the city

Similar deal at port authority iirc

Yeah you could probably just mark penn station to Times Square as a corridor of that. I really hate that whole part of manhattan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S06TVYqXcxk

if you really miss 'em in Manhattan, you can hop the PATH and eat @ the one in the Newport Centre Mall. there's one @ the Hoboken train station, but it's still closed on account of Sandy.

they also have two in Dublin, Ireland!!

155 fewer nabkin dispenders.
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/sbarro-close-155-locations-22589321

Oh no

They should just use money.

SBARRO IS GOOD. EAT AT SBARRO. SBARRO. EAT THERE. HAVED SOME FOOD. SPADGETTY. BIG BOWLS. SBARRO. FORK. KNIFE. MILKSHAKE DRINK. TASTES GOOD. NABKIN DISPENDER. HOT AIR BLOWER. COST MORE MDONILLDS. BETTER THEN MDONILLDS. COST MORE BURGER KING. BETTER THEN BURGER KING. SBARRO COST MORE DOLLARS AND BETTER THEN THOSED ONES. HAVED SPADGETTY. SBARRO. BIG BOWLS. SIT AT BOOTHS. WAIT FOR SPADGETTY. FORK AND KNIFE. HOT AIR BLOWER. THEY COST MORE. THEY ACT NICE. SBARRO PAY THEM. YOU PAY THEM. JUST USE MONEY. DISPENDER. HOT AIR BLOWER. GARLICK BRED. FORK AND KNIFE. BIG BOWL OF SPADGETTYS. TO GIVED THEM MONEY. EATING BOOTH. JUST PAY WITH MONEY. THEY DO THE REST. PARMAZING CHEEZE DISPENDER. TASTES GOOD. BETTER THAN MDONILIDS. HOT AIR BLOWER. GARLIC BRED ROLL. TASTES GOOD. WAIT FOR SPADGETTY. CHAIR FOR BABIES. USE DISPENDER. USE FORK. USE KNIFE. USE BOOTH. USE SBARRO. THEY DO THE REST.
― T✧✧@K✧✧.E✧✧, Wednesday, October 19, 2005 12:16 PM (eleven years ago)

they have one in Aruba. i know, because i walked past it in the airport.

http://vintage.johnnyjet.com/photos/Aruba-April-2009-285.JPG

pizza has to be pretty fucking bad before I won't eat it