Furr's

[SoonerQueen]

We loved Lady Classen and O'Mealey's. Queen Anne was also a wonderful place to eat. Back in the day, there was a Hart's Cafeteria in Casady Square. They made the best chicken pie.

[SoonerDave]

i thought it wa the other way around... morrison's on i-240 became wyatt's. -M

Well, I certainly wouldn't say you're crazy...was a long time ago

[Pete]

Nebu in the Devon complex is technically a cafeteria.

It's very, very nice but it's still a place where you take your tray down the line, select what you want and then pay at a cash register.

[Martin]

Well, I certainly wouldn't say you're crazy...was a long time ago

since this is *important* business, i had to look it up. : ) the morrison's on i-240 went in sometime 1982. an ad from oct. 1985 announced that location as the newest addition to the wyatt's chain. -M

[Martin]

Nebu in the Devon complex is technically a cafeteria.

It's very, very nice but it's still a place where you take your tray down the line, select what you want and then pay at a cash register.

well... i guess one could count hospital cafeterias, too. -M

[Jim Kyle]

I know of a number of semi-private cafeterias, also. For instance, Mercy Hospital has one, as does Oklahoma Heart Hospital, and I'm sure that most other hospitals have similar services...

[RadicalModerate]

If the defining feature of a "cafeteria" is sliding a tray along a platform construced of rails, then Oklahoma Station BBQ is a cafeteria. If the definition also involves a HUGE selection of items to choose from--beyond some really tasty BBQ and a few sides--then I guess it would only be "cafeteria style" . . .

[Pete]

If the defining feature of a "cafeteria" is sliding a tray along a platform construced of rails, then Oklahoma Station BBQ is a cafeteria. If the definition also involves a HUGE selection of items to choose from--beyond some really tasty BBQ and a few sides--then I guess it would only be "cafeteria style" . . .

Yes, important distinction.


My point about Nebu was that there are still cafeterias around, it's just the newer ones have evolved past cubed green jello.

Still the same concept, just with more options and custom-cook stations.

[RadicalModerate]

You had to mention cubed green jello . . . Thanks. It reminded me of those other two cafeteria staples: Jello with suspended brown banana slices/other old fruit and that frothy Jello mess that looks like something that washed up in a tide pool.

[SoonerDave]

I know of a number of semi-private cafeterias, also. For instance, Mercy Hospital has one, as does Oklahoma Heart Hospital, and I'm sure that most other hospitals have similar services...

There are folks I know who work near one of those heart hospitals and frequent their cafeteria very often, and offer that its typically very good and very reasonably priced..

[Larry OKC]

The Heart Hospital on Memorial has excellent food overall...decent prices...ate there when my Mom was in for something and when I worked up that way would eat there at least once a week (moved into my regular rotation). They have a small "cafeteria" line, a salad bar, short order grill (burgers and sandwiches) and at one point they even had a Pizza & Sub station. They have 2 soups daily that are usually excellent (total of 4/day if you count the soups across the hall in the Starbucks). The regular Mercy cafeteria is ok, but many of the staff go over to the Heart one instead (plus the Heart one doesn't have limited operating hours like the other one.

[ctchandler]

jdcf,
Wyatt's was what I thinking about. They also had one on the Northwest corner of 63rd and Rockwell.
Thanks,
C. T.

Wyatt's Cafeteria was at Rockwell and NW Expressway. There was also a location at Bryant Square in Edmond.

[boscorama]

Cubed jello, lol -- at Adairs they'd put the jello in the salad section, so I would select jello as a "salad", then a meringue pie for "dessert".

[poe]

We used to go to Wyatt's at Bryant Square in Edmond. A lot.

[Pete]

I used to take my grandmother to the Furr's in West Park Mall; really a fond memory because she loved it so.

And they had a big enough variety I could always find something I liked.

That place was really booming in the 70's and 80's.

[ljbab728]

jdcf, Wyatt's was what I thinking about. They also had one on the Northwest corner of 63rd and Rockwell.
Thanks,
C. T.

CT, the NW corner of 63rd and Rockwell is part of Wiley Post Airport.

As a side note, I received an email today from Furr's offering a discount which is only good at the 63rd street location. LOL

[ctchandler]

ljbab,
I meant MacArthur, not Rockwell. The strip center that used to have the post office.
C. T.

CT, the NW corner of 63rd and Rockwell is part of Wiley Post Airport.

As a side note, I received an email today from Furr's offering a discount which is only good at the 63rd street location. LOL

[ljbab728]

http://newsok.com/furrs-cafeteria-cl...rticle/3703295

[Roadhawg]

I know it's a lot easier to get a closer parking spot to the cigar store now that Furr's is closed.

[RadicalModerate]

Funny you should mention cigars in connection with disappearing restaurants . . .
There is a cigar store right next to the current location of Custino's . . .
I think a pattern is beginning to emerge.