DAD's Travel Center I-15 Exit 113 Idaho Falls, ID

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  1. snowlauncher

    snowlauncher Road Train Member

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    I agree, but unfortunately the .25 CPM mega drivers can't afford sit down dinners...they only get subway when they have enough points on their rewards card for a free one...then it's back to the ramen noodles until next time!
     
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  3. Kindle

    Kindle Medium Load Member

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    So now it's mega-carriers fault because we get stuck with nasty Subway? No it's Subway making a deal every time Pilot/FJ opens or buys a truck stop. And we (as in megas and everyone else) get stuck with it. To blame it on megas is asinine.
     
  4. snowlauncher

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    Wasn't really blaming mega carriers, but I realize how it sounded, just dragging the bottom to see what comes up...I too was with a smaller carrier who fueled in the PFJ network...The truth is Subway is as common as McDonald's all over the nation. Its just an EXTREMELY successful franchise. Everywhere you look, Subway...still annoying to me though.
     
  5. Brucesmith

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    It's ironic that both Pilot and TA advertise how they are interested in promoting healthy drivers but install the crappiest restaurants! The old FJ restaurants were great! If you wanted to pig out you could. If you wanted salads they had good ones . What a shame
     
  6. volvo244t

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    Not as of the last time I went by there a few weeks ago. They still have the sit-down restaurant, the Maid-Rite and Taco John's.
     
  7. Jabber1990

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    Do you really think they are going to come out and say "we don't really give a #### about driver health?"
     
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  8. double yellow

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    A Flying J with a Subway and Cinnabon -- how unique... You old timers have probably seen it time and time again, but I can't believe they ruined this once good stop...
     
  9. bzinger

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    stopped there last tues and place looked like a junkyard ...no water ..no showers ..porta johns ...no food .
     
  10. Long FLD

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    They can't ruin it little by little. They do it all at once. And why make people actually walk from the parking lot across the street to get their footlong with double meat and double cheese when they can move it into the same building?
     
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  11. skibum_63

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    Well if they wouldn't charge such a huge monthly lease payment on the restaurant space,maybe then they would stay.
    But look at them now, they take places over, raise the rent , so only national chains can afford the rent. Denny's Huddle house.
    According to family that lives in the I.F. area, and used to go to the former resturant in there, the owners of the resturant closed, put 30 people out of work, because they didn't want to pay $4,500 a month lease payment.when they HAD been paying $2,000.
     
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