Separate non-smoking areas. Shoney's puts together a great strawberry pie, mounts a breakfast buffet that has its moments, and serves what's got to be one of the vilest turkey dinners that ever hit a plate. Damon Runyon would've given up Broadway for the kind of color that peopled those wee-hours repasts. The spreads were big and diverse and delicious. Or so they seemed, after highly energized disco evenings with Donna Summer and Long Island Iced Tea.
Breakfast is still good, if a good bit tamer.
Burgers for the kids. As we would soon learn, all-day breakfast might be a better idea. Sympathetically, an Apalachee Parkway cashier heard our lament for days gone by. Not to worry, she said, the late-night weekend breakfast bar still rocked from 10 p.m. till 2 a.m. at the other store. A mere hour past midnight last Saturday, the North Monroe parking lot was empty, the chairs were stacked on the tables, the lights were down to the eerie overhead fluorescents, and not a creature was stirring inside.