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In my area restaurants are closed on Mondays and after 3pm the other six days.
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 Do What! is that a one stop sign town or are both north and south city limit signs on the same pole ?
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03-03-2025, 07:22 PM
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The McDonalds nearest to me is supposedly 24 hrs.
Wife had an early flight to TX to visit her mom a couple weeks back. Dropped her off at the airport at 0330.
Driving home I thought Id get something for the dog and me to snack on.
Pulled into the McD at 0357. They still had the burger menu on the drive thru. No problem, quarter pounders are just as good as sausage mcmuffins. Well, the nice lady said that dinner was over, and they weren't serving breakfast yet.
I asked what time breakfast started, and she said 0400. I asked if she wanted me to wait the 3 minutes or take my order now. She replied that although breakfast "started" at 4am, they wouldn't be ready for some time.
No problem, another McD not too far.
Got to the 2nd one at 0406. It's also a 24hr franchise. The nice lady at that drive thru politely informed me that although dinner stops at 4am, breakfast wasn't available til 0430 and that the computer locks her out from even placing an order.
Guess it wasn't meant to be.
So, McDonalds is 23.5-hour service, I guess.
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LOL...best story I've heard for years...
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03-03-2025, 11:00 PM
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Only things open 24/7 here are Denny's, IHOPs, Whataburgers, and convenience stores. Everything else closes at 10 or 11 these days. Up until COVID we had several all night grocery stores and WalMarts, Now they mostly close at 11.
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03-04-2025, 01:42 AM
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There's always Buc-ees. Open 24 hours, lots of food, including a beef jerky "bar". The only catch is that you have to eat in your car, as there are no seats.
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03-04-2025, 02:11 AM
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Closest Buc-ees is 1200 miles away from me. About the same distance as the nearest Waffle House. That's a 4 day trip for some Beaver Nuggets. 
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03-04-2025, 05:29 AM
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There's always Buc-ees. Open 24 hours, lots of food, including a beef jerky "bar". The only catch is that you have to eat in your car, as there are no seats.
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Buc-ees brisket sandwiches and Mtn Dew gets me to Texas
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03-04-2025, 09:38 AM
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There's always Buc-ees. Open 24 hours, lots of food, including a beef jerky "bar". The only catch is that you have to eat in your car, as there are no seats.
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The reason I am unimpressed with Buc-ees.
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03-04-2025, 08:26 PM
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Not a 24 hr establishment but there used to be a little Mom & Pop diner in Clairton that opened at 9:00 pm and closed around 5:00 am. An assortment of seniors, couples, mill hunks going in or coming off shift at the mill. Great food! Best cheeseburgers around, served on fresh Italian bread. If you ordered the meal it came with fries and a side salad , for $4.25. If you wanted a real treat you could get sautéed mushrooms for about $1.75.
Shortly after my wife had our daughter we went there after the mall closed. My wife was making the diaper into a makeshift bed when the one waitress came over and demanded to know what she was doing and my wife explained. Oh no Nancy the waitress said. Give her here. My looked at me and I nodded. Nancy too her around to every table and person in the place. Back through the kitchen to the staff. Just showing her off. Made me a real proud Pa-pa.
As many times as I ate the I don’t remember there ever being any trouble.
Sadly the elderly parents turned it over to their son and that was the beginning of the end.
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03-04-2025, 08:52 PM
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It has been a number of years since there was an all night diner 5 miles south in next City. We have a significant percentage of population that just doesn't stay up late, or go to bars. Am thinking the large supermarket in town is open 24/7, not sure about the quick trips (gas stations).
Some of the smaller restaurants are only open during tourpest season, and almost all are shut sunday nights.
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03-05-2025, 03:05 AM
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Now this nostalgia train has got me thinking about driving 90 miles, one way, to a restaurant my dad always used to stop at. I swear he physically couldn't drive by without stopping. It's been almost 40 years since I've been there. It's not open 24 hours, but I may have to take a drive one day. Their sour cream raisin pie was fit for the Gods, back in the day. Wonder if it's still good?
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03-05-2025, 10:01 AM
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Another change is many/most all truck stops just offer fast food. I miss those big "anytime" breakfasts when I travel.
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Thinking about this, there is also the idea that many more motels are offering a breakfast. Some will have a sack pickup of you leave as early as 5:00 AM. Something quick isn't nearly as good as a sit down breakfast but it's paid for already and you don't have to wait for it.
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03-05-2025, 10:10 AM
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When I was a kid and would go to work with my father, he would always stop for breakfast at the Manhattan diner on 22nd and 10th Ave, his business being on 22nd and 12th. Usually around 5AM and the place was loaded with cops and taxi drivers. It was one of Manhattans few 24 hour diners. It is still in existence, more or less, a bit more froo froo than back then and now called the Empire diner but the bones of the old place are still there and you can see some of it in the photo.
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