Hello, I want to tell you about my favorite restaurant franchise in my city. There are like 3 big franchises owned by only one corporation and I fell in love with one of them.

It started when my father got a gift voucher to all of the three franchises and invited me to go with him for some serious father-son bonding. Of course I accepted this invitation and throughout few days we went into all three of them.

Few of the reasons I fell in love with this particular franchise are that every restaurant was themed differently, you could just come in with your friend and only one of you had to buy and eat anything and the other could just chill and watch you or others eat without the need to buy anything at all, you could also choose the exact table you wanted to sit at. In case it was already taken you could either leave or tell them to hold it for you and you could just go for a walk or something and they would call you when the table was free.

There were also some downsides that I started to notice only after few weeks of going there frequently. Some meals had ingredients that just were not supposed to be there but were not big of a problem. Such as baked macaroni & cheese & banana, Bolognese spaghetti with fries or eggplant salad while drinking 50/50 Pepsi and Coca Cola (they called it pepla and were not selling Pepsi nor Coca Cola separately). Also, some of the tables and walls had a clear glass just sticking out of them so it was pretty common to bump into them.

Of course the visitors complained about all of these things and a little bit more so the corporation that owned the franchise decided to finally do something about it. They made a poll on what kind of food to change. Heavy food (lasagna with pickles or cheesecake with cabbage) and hot food (chilli con carne with apple or pasta with chili & orange) were tied so they made a new poll where you voted by eating heavy/hot food. Hot food somehow won and the corporation said that there will be a big renovation of all said franchise restaurants soon, they even picked few of the usual visitors to help them with ideas.

That was one year ago, many visitors have stopped visiting said franchise restaurants and the only thing we heard from the corporation since are only hype words for the "big renovation that is just around the corner".


Now you are probably interested in the name of said restaurant franchise, but I am going to disappoint you. No restaurant like this is real, but there is a game with a very similar story like this.


[spoiler]3 big franchises = HL2, TF2, Portal
gift voucher = orange box
Corporation = Valve[/spoiler]