Deflection is what unintelligent people do when they can’t back up their statements.

Did you or did you not claim that a Fazoli’s lunch is a small serving of pasta with no sides or drinks? Were you or were you not wrong? You are deflecting. Admit it.

Your two statements are incongruent. I said nothing about starving my…

LOL. I’m willing to bet that A) You don’t have kids, B) You have no idea how much kids eat, and C) You don’t know what hunger looks like.

“Even a fool is thought wise if he keeps silent, and discerning if he holds his tongue.”

You should learn to stay silent. You might have a happier life.

So because you don’t know how to read, you say idiotic things online?

You clearly said “And lunch is not one small serving of pasta with no sides or drinks, sorry” but Fazoli’s lunch special comes with a drink and breadsticks. Take the L.

That’s great for you. Please enjoy. But stop trying to support a government that wants to FORCE this choice on everyone.

Um, you have proven you don’t know what their lunch combo is. But thanks.

(America is a fat country - including me. We could do with smaller portions, to be honest...)

My kids don’t go hungry, and you aren’t very smart for sounding so condescending without anything to back it up. So here’s some examples, just to shut you up:

Panda Express - I can get two 2-item combos for just under $20. I usually get one with chow mein and double orange chicken and a second one with fried rice,…

Dave’s Hot Chicken has awesome food, but they are crazy overpriced. A single chicken tender is almost $4.

My local Fazoli’s closed down last year because they were horribly run. But my parents live in Wichita, KS, which isn’t economically depressed at all, and although they raised the price a buck recently, their lunch special is still $7 and fettucini with spaghetti is $6:

You sound sanctimonious, but you are wrong. I get takeout on a regular basis for me and my three daughters for under $20. And I live in the Portland metro area where things aren’t cheap.

Use critical thinking before criticizing someone. Not everyone has the same experience or makes the same choices as you.

I do it weekly. I have five kids (two out of the house now) so on weekends it is me with three daughters. They are all teens/pre-teens and I feed us for $20 or less. In Portland.

Just because you aren’t creative enough to do it, that doesn’t mean it isn’t possible.

The prices is the problem. Period. If I can’t feed me and my kids for under $20, I won’t frequent your restaurant. And $12 for a bowl of noodles with one chicken breast doesn’t work for my budget.

I don’t know why other commenters are arguing with you. You are right. At this moment they are highlighting “cheap” $7 bowls of pasta that contain no proteins. That’s not cheap. Pasta is one of the least-expensive - and easiest to make at home - grocery items. Then they tack on $3.75 for six shrimp (I asked a manager…

I know, right? I have to deal with your faux-intellectual nonsense frequently and it got old a long time ago.

But thanks for being my number one follower. I’ll send you a Fan Club Kit in the mail with stickers you can put on your Big Wheel!

“Cultural ignorance?”

You guys suck. If my white teenage daughter wants to eat elotes because she likes the taste, it isn’t your place to say she needs to understand culture. You make everything less fun.

Listen to this: the internet was invented by white people. By posting this, you are appropriating white culture.…

Sadly, the only Fazoli’s in the Portland area closed two years ago because it was so poorly run. I ate there regularly (a couple of times a month) even though it was 15 miles from my home, but I can’t tell you how many times they left items out of my order, gave me the wrong item, made me wait for more than 30 minutes…

Anyone who worries about anything in this article (other than a restaurant closing down, making a gift card worthless) is a drain on humanity and needs to check their priorities.

Make sure the gift card covers the entire meal? Nope. Because then the recipient will be left with a gift card with $5.72 on it, or whatever,…

I saw an early screening last week and thoroughly enjoyed it. I also liked how the trailer didn’t spoil much and things didn’t go as I assumed they would.

I live near Portland and my daughters LOVE Cane’s. I’ve driven them downtown for it four times now and they ask every few weeks if we can go again.

The best food item they have is the Texas toast. I don’t know what kind of salty butter they put on it, but it’s amazing.

The spicy mac and cheese bowl was good, but it was spicy popcorn chicken. I wonder why they don’t have an actual spicy chicken strip?

Those *were* my go-to until they jacked up the price. Now my local KFC sells a single Chicken Little for $3.49. That’s crazy. The last time I tried to order one the employee said “Are you SURE you want that? You can get a full chicken sandwich for $1.50 more.” He was right.