Eating Out
Eating out used to be easy. You picked up the telephone and called a restaurant and made a reservation. Now, with the mega-restaurants, it has become somewhat more challenging. These chains take the attitude that their food is good, and the "folks" can just wait in line to get in. The Cheesecake Factory, Brio, Brava Cucina, Outback, think nothing of telling you that there is a 2 hour wait on a Saturday night. My wife and I have solved the problem by nurturing our inner coot-itis. Translated, we eat at 4:oo on Saturday afternoon. The wait then is usually just 15 minutes. Throw in an Early Bird special, and we are ready to retire in Miami. But every now and then, you gotta do what you gotta do. A case in point was this past Friday night. I have been craving Chinese food for the past several weeks. In Youngstown, good Chinese food is hard to come by. That leaves the choice of doing without, or driving to The Sesame Inn in Pittsburgh, or to PF Changs in Cleveland. Of the two choi