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Went to P.F. Chang's yesterday. While we aren't a huge fan of it, we do have friends that have always liked it. The food yesterday was terrible, and tasted different from the past. It turns out this "freshly made food" restaurant has recently changed to be a "heat up the packages in the microwave" restaurant. It's ridiculous.  Stay away from this crap restaurant. Also below a reddit post from a server there.

Also, the prices are ridiculous. $7 for a tiny cup of Wonton soup.

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I remember when it was the place to go for a special occasion. It was always pricey, but really good and worth it once in a while. The last time we went was more than 5 years ago. It was horrible and they'd put the tables so close together, to get more people in the restaurant, that you couldn't even move. 

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29 minutes ago, Dr Fear said:

Could Mark Davis be reached for comment? I guess Pei Wei now has the superior product lol. I just looked it up, they split in 2017.

 

i haven't been to pei wei in a looooooong time, but it used to be pretty good 

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41 minutes ago, Dbeasy said:

Went to P.F. Chang's yesterday. While we aren't a huge fan of it, we do have friends that have always liked it. The food yesterday was terrible, and tasted different from the past. It turns out this "freshly made food" restaurant has recently changed to be a "heat up the packages in the microwave" restaurant. It's ridiculous.  Stay away from this crap restaurant. Also below a reddit post from a server there.

Also, the prices are ridiculous. $7 for a tiny cup of Wonton soup.

This is probably a decade stale, but I had a friend working for the Austin Chamber of Commerce that got data on a lot of payroll for restaurants in town and discovered the Austin Arboretum Chang’s head chef was one of the highest compensated in town.  It seemed sort of intuitive at the time-they were a hot restaurant, tons of tables and big kitchen, always full, and had lunch and dinner services to manage.  In other words, cash-cow.  
 

You go in there now and it’s empty like Highland Mall before it was sold to ACC.  

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47 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

p.f. chang's was good at one time, solid date spot for sure 

Back around 2003 Arboretum location won ton soup, lettuce wraps, orange chicken slammed and went hard. Those lettuce wraps must have been an aphrodisiac and it was heavily in my rotation 🤷‍♂️🤣

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Just now, QuesoEspecial said:

Back around 2003 Arboretum location won ton soup, lettuce wraps, orange chicken slammed and went hard. Those lettuce wraps must have been an aphrodisiac and it was heavily in my rotation 🤷‍♂️🤣

+ bottle of wine, and panties are dropping 

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Back it college, wetried to eat at a PF Changs in Baton Rouge. 3 hour wait. People were cheerfully holding on to their reservation buzzers and waiting it out. It was fairly new to town, but I was gobsmacked.  
 

I’ve always thought Pei Wei was ok. They had a spicy Korean dish with noodles that was pretty good. They’ve closed all the locations near my house and office. I probably won’t revisit it. 

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5 hours ago, LCHorn said:

This is probably a decade stale, but I had a friend working for the Austin Chamber of Commerce that got data on a lot of payroll for restaurants in town and discovered the Austin Arboretum Chang’s head chef was one of the highest compensated in town.  It seemed sort of intuitive at the time-they were a hot restaurant, tons of tables and big kitchen, always full, and had lunch and dinner services to manage.  In other words, cash-cow.  
 

You go in there now and it’s empty like Highland Mall before it was sold to ACC.  

The Goldmine rocked.

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5 hours ago, QuesoEspecial said:

Back around 2003 Arboretum location won ton soup, lettuce wraps, orange chicken slammed and went hard. Those lettuce wraps must have been an aphrodisiac and it was heavily in my rotation 🤷‍♂️🤣

The lettuce wrap recipe is online.  Sub minced dove for 1/2 of the chicken thighs and its even better.

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1 hour ago, 956 Worldwide said:

This is the story for chains, it has been played out time and again.  PF Changs was bought by private equity in 2012, saddled with a heavy debt load, and in 2019 sold to new private equity.  They are now slashing any costs and going to take it apart for parts.  That’s how this works. 

Has PE ever made a restaurant chain better?

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17 minutes ago, Cousin Strawberry said:

I don't know, I just know they made Whataburger worse, PF Changs worse and they inexplicably found a way to make Red Lobster shittier.

They bankrupted Red Lobster.  But it's not like prior ownership couldn't have done that all on their own.  

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3 hours ago, 956 Worldwide said:

This is the story for chains, it has been played out time and again.  PF Changs was bought by private equity in 2012, saddled with a heavy debt load, and in 2019 sold to new private equity.  They are now slashing any costs and going to take it apart for parts.  That’s how this works. 

Jersey Mike's just got rolled into the chop shop. Fucking makes me sick. 

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14 hours ago, 956 Worldwide said:

This is the story for chains, it has been played out time and again.  PF Changs was bought by private equity in 2012, saddled with a heavy debt load, and in 2019 sold to new private equity.  They are now slashing any costs and going to take it apart for parts.  That’s how this works. 

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My 12yo was on a big orange chicken kick so we went for her birthday last year. My wife and I hadn’t been in a decade so we were really talking it up to her. Everyone’s food pretty much sucked. My older daughter got sweet and sour and it was soggy and disgusting. They did have a cool show for Chinese new year so it wasn’t a complete bust. 

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On 1/5/2025 at 11:50 AM, QuesoEspecial said:

Back around 2003 Arboretum location won ton soup, lettuce wraps, orange chicken slammed and went hard. Those lettuce wraps must have been an aphrodisiac and it was heavily in my rotation 🤷‍♂️🤣

I was a valet there in 99-00. It was great and I got an employee discount. Always a great place to take a date. 

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On 1/5/2025 at 4:36 PM, 956 Worldwide said:

This is the story for chains, it has been played out time and again.  PF Changs was bought by private equity in 2012, saddled with a heavy debt load, and in 2019 sold to new private equity.  They are now slashing any costs and going to take it apart for parts.  That’s how this works. 

Like Tony Soprano in Davey Scatino's sporting goods store.

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