Simon HB

norock.bsky.social

13 October 2026 11:12

Similar, but different: Denny's US diner chain started a move into the UK in the late 2010s. It got blocked by Covid, but there remains one single outlet clinging on in Swansea, and I wonder if the parent company just forgot it was there

Stephen Bush

stephenkb.bsky.social

13 October 2026 11:12

Intrigued by the UK’s last remaining Pain Quotidian, and the chain’s transition from “perfectly fine mid-market” to “over-leveraged and making the food worse” to “charging a huge sum to tourists who don’t know better. Is it just going to remain there forever on its one profitable site?

Aaron Rupar

atrupar.com

07 October 2026 20:27

Natalie Harp and her bag boards Bribe Force One

Stephen Bush

stephenkb.bsky.social

07 October 2026 20:14

Intermittently I get a fit of the bleak giggles thinking about how much poorer the Iran war has made all of us. Bills and inflation going up on the theory of “drop a few bombs, magic happens, Reza Pahlavi comes back”.