Dave & Busters

About 30 years ago there was a strange revolution in the suburbs of a lot of American cities.  For whatever reason the downtowns were all nasty and crime-ridden and the middle class was mad they didn't have anywhere to PARTY.  So weird businesses started popping up.  Like Bennigan's and TGIF, and Chili's.  Places that were ostensibly family restaurants, but were really for people to get hammered and hook up.  To this end, each one of those places had a "bar".  It was silly.  The bar was sometimes 1/20th of the floor space of the rest of the joint but that's where rowdy middle classers were pounding down daiquiris and margaritas. 

Out of this weirdness came Dave & Busters.  At some point two dudes on Dallas were like "let's get the middle classers hammered and then let them play a bunch of video games!"  What a country.

The Grunion got invited to a birthday party for his buddy Gus at the Rogers D&B and I went cause I wanted to see what was up.  Also, completely unrelated to this, the people hosting the party told me that they would be serving french fries.

This D&B has the largest bar I have ever seen in Northwest Arkansas.  I'm not kidding.  It's like 15 yards long on the big sides.  Insane!  And there are like 30 huge tvs above the bar.  Overload.

Imagine the sensory overload of a casino and you get the idea.  I can't image what a nightmare this place must be on a weekend night.  I hope I never find out.  The Grunion immediately won a something (no idea) from the claw machine and was overwhelmed with joy.

Then the D&B staff people filled these big banquet chafing dishes... 

and I was overwhelmed with joy.

Sweet googly moogly!  That's a lot of fries!  And chicken tendies too!

Host dad Bryan tested them.  He approved.  And approved.  And approved.  Seriously he probably ate like 1/3 of the total pan by himself.  Who eats that many fries man?

They also had a huge amount of these trick burgers they call "sliders" hoping you don't figure out that they're just tiny hamburgers for suckers and kids.  I ate 12.

I gotta say that the fries were solid.  I can't assign a cost to serving ration because we would have to take what they paid for the party and divide it by how many people were there and what percentage of the total package the fries constituted, etc.  Anyway host Bryan and I pretty much split the whole pan of fries anyway so it doesn't matter.  DO IT?