Missouri does it again!

Someone actually did a documentary on Rich Hill and got air time on the Daily Show about a decade ago. It follows narratives of a couple kids and their struggles with prosperity.

https://www.cc.com/video/cto317/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-tracy-droz-tragos

No where to go but up.

black sheep is my all time fave ❤️❤️

Buy online, if budget is the primary issue then Walmart or Amazon are going to be your cheapest options. I would also suggest gamefly, they are kinda whatever as a service, but they give the option to keep rented games for price that is better than buying it new from a retailer. Plus you can try out a game before dropping 60 bucks in it. You just to put up with long transit times

Annie's all the way!

We're number 1! We're number 1!

I didn't even know there was a school over there. I just cant comprehend how Carver and Sherwood Elementary schools are less than 1/2 a mile from a Battlefield Fire station. The Sherwood neighborhood the elementary is named after isn't in the city limits.

Finally! An answer to the question! Kinda like the Aldi philosophy, then.

They aren't owned by the same people, and haven't ever been. FD's was started by the same family, but the owner of the franchise in Springfield is Gene Marsh. Additionally, Cheddar's sold to Darden Restaurants in 2017.

Sources all over this page, and now I know way more than I ever wanted to about a couple of restaurateur families in Springfield.

I'm from that area, that isn't a city, it's a wasteland.

This goes to show that I know you just as well as you know me. While I'm not doubting stories "you've been told" I do doubt this is a primary issue of homelessness in Springfield. I do recall stories of Springfield police doing exactly this, providing one way tickets out of town, and this comes from a credible source that works with Springfield's homeless population.

The reason for my initial comment was to call out bullshit. As disclosed, I don't know you. I do have some knowledge surrounding this and many acquaintances that are heavily involved in this social issue. Hell, for all I know you may be one of those people I know. The issue is your comment wants to push the problem of homelessness and thus the responsibility of homelessness away. Your comment really has a bad NIMBY vibe to it, doesn't it?

Perhaps I do need to be involved more. I know I do. But you don't know me. You don't know my community involvement. You don't know what I do.

that makes so much sense! thank you!

This 100%. There goes getting a table this weekend now.

Love FDs.

Its extremely busy basically every day of the week because its reasonable price wise and the food is pretty good. So how do they do it?

A small limited menu. Seriously.

Whenever you see that at a restaurant, its usually a good thing. It means the food will likely be fresh and the ingredients of a better quality because they arent worried about wasting a ton of money on daily food waste for a large massive menu.

If you ever have watched Kitchen Nightmares, you'll notice the restaurants often lost alot of money on food waste of already crappy frozen and premade ingredients because their menus were so big. The food already wasnt good, so they would get into a kind of doom spiral. (Bad food quality, less customers, less money for any quality ingredients, repeat.)

FDs keeps cost down by buying enough of what they need, making alot of it on the same day of order, and no more. If they run out, they run out. I noticed this with their fish fry. I'm not sure how fresh the food actually is, but the quality of ingredients is far better than most places around and often compares to your much more expensive restaurants in the area.

They end up with a very loyal and expanding customer base that fills up the place constantly and havent had to adjust their prices as high for inflation as others. It's a winning recipe that keeps people coming back for something thats hard to find around here: Quality food at a very reasonable price.

Not sure why you would think that.. if you had the decency to even speak to someone in need every once and awhile, you would know too.

So, entirely full of shit comment?

Oh yeah‽ my uncle works for Nintendo.

Most major cities surrounding Springfield participated in a campaign that gave a free bus ticket to homeless people and would drop criminal charges if they agreed to move. My source is countless homeless individuals in Springfield telling me that is how they got here and that they were lied to by being told Springfield was a save haven for them.

I went with a group, all who love Springfield Chinese / buffets but hadn't been to Ichiban, and everyone had the same consensus. Maybe it was an off night, but it was bad enough that none of us would give it another chance.

Finding a good Chinese buffet will be a challenge these days. For real, are there any good buffets of any kind anywhere in 100 miles?

Brett Farve must be licking his chops thinking of all that federal poverty support money.

Oh that's so funny, sounds exactly like something my grandpa would do 😆 I don't think I ever did actually go to Chicken Mary's, we were a Chicken Annie's family too! My grandpa always said it was better but it was also at least partly because it was closer lol I have one of their old magnets on my fridge now ❤️

Please enlighten us with your knowledge cause this stinks of someone that is clueless to our homeless population.

Wages in Springfield for alot of entry level jobs - especially ones that require no experience - are actually not bad. Moved from NW suburbs of Illinois a few months back and the wages here are basically the same for those positions with some of the manufacturing, distribution, etc jobs actually paying a bit more.

Then there's odd cases like Buckys- a big gas station with shit inside basically. A wealthy suburbs like Vernon hills in Illinois doesn't pay its retail associates and clerks 18$ an hour though the new Buckys opening up here starts at that. Store managers here will make 100k. Why the disparity? No idea.

The grass always looks greener I suppose, but this still prominent labor shortage means Springfield is in a position to still grow despite a wealth of issues plaguing it.

Working remotely helps - but it doesn't pay as much as people think. Entry level manufacting jobs here make almost as much as I do.

What's really key is the cost of living here, lowish housing prices (not rents) and property taxes that aren't basically the equivalent of having a permanent second mortgage on top of sky high interest rates for potential homeowners. (Illinois property taxes on just a condo is like 2500$ a year for example. 1800 Sq foot house with 4 bed and 2 bath? 5-9k a year and the schools aren't any better than the ones here, the parks are lacking, and the roads are still in need of desperate repair.)