Love some Babes. However not all of them are created equal.

Yep, and I have been eating at the original in Roanoke long before it was trendy, and long before they expanded.

Cedar Hill is sub standard, both food and service. Yes I have eaten there multiple times at the request family/friends and have reached a point a where I refuse.

OP do yourself a favor and check out Roanoke. Be warned, if any of your party goes there thinking they can the "other" items that are found on the Cedar Hill menu they cannot. It is about 20% the size of Cedar Hill, if you arrive at peak lunch and dinner hours on the weekend expect to wait, a very long wait.

It is Chicken or Chicken fried steak, plus the trimmings, no other choices. Cabelas is right down the way at 10 - 15 minutes so you can do a little shopping as well.

Well we won't refuse to go to the Cedar hill Babes again and we heard Roanoke is almost as good even before You thought you were trendy

and having spent a too much time in food service when I was young..."the scope of menu i.e number of item presented and the number of patrons feed has a direct impact on the quality of any food service establishment," add to that the "all you can eat" impact...operating an establishment the size of Cedar Hill Babe's is incredibly difficult.

and I am long way from trendy, my preference is for holes in the wall, greasy spoons, and other out of the way places, but I was eating at Babe's long before they were trendy, when they we a single hole in the wall in small town.
One place I worked we used feed about 800 to 1000 folks @ Sunday lunch...and the food was not as good as the other days of the week, no way, just not possible. The rest of the week we cooked the Chicken Fried steaks one at a time on a sheet grill, on Sunday into the deep fryer they went, no other way to keep up with demand. The same was true of other stuff as well.

I was just telling you about the original and a good excuse for a trip to Cabelas, but then "heard" about the original is not the same as having done, kinda like high fence/bait hunters(you know feed the pets all year long then shoot them when they walk up to the feeder and hunters, two different things.

But, have it your way...eat at Babe's in Cedar Hill I must admit it is one step above Luby's.

Never heard of one person that didn't care for Babe's.

you got one here. I'd rather have chicken express.