Remember when restaurants let you toss peanut shells on the floor and charged your kid by the pound? That beloved, wonderfully messy chain is back in its home state, and you can find it tucked inside a former Chinese-Japanese restaurant in central Massachusetts.
The original brand was born here in 1969, but after a roughly twenty year absence, a family of new owners decided to bring it back. They kept the free popcorn, the nostalgic chaos, and even revived the famous “pay what you weigh” promotion for children on Tuesdays.
The building itself was constructed in 1998, but the spirit inside is pure 1980s and 1990s, when cartoons flickered on the walls and dining out felt like a playful adventure…