Why is Buffalo Wild Wings so popular?!?!?!!?

[madoka]

I have only gone there when it's 50% off and I think it's still really overpriced. Yet I see people waiting out the door for them at full price. What's the attraction to that place?

 

[brainhulk]

It's just another place to watch the game with friends. Lots of TV's and team decorations. Too crowded though, but i guess some people like the crowded atmosphere?

I think Dave and Busters, local pubs are better...

 

[renz20003]

They come for the wings and stay for the girls

 

[shortylickens]

Its awful. I guess the marketing is what really works, rather than actual food quality. Everything there tastes like it went bad and was poorly cooked and then left to sit out for a while and reheated. My local franchise used to have a decent selection of beer but after a while they just started keeping the top 10 shit brands everyone around here loves. Miller Lite, Coors Lite, Bud Lite, and so on. I hate it.
Virginians dont know what qualifies as good food and their purchasing habits reflect it in every crummy little restaurant around here.

 

[nakedfrog]

I was quite fond of their smokey southwest sauce, but they got rid of it. Also always thought it was pretty pricey for what you get (which isn't anything special) but they do have a variety of sauces at least. The trivia machines were kind of neat 10+ years ago, our group would play it while waiting for the food.

 

[BurnItDwn]

Havent been a a while, but when there was one closer to work, it was a good place to go for lunch. Priced similarly to places like hooters. Lunch basket prices were similar to lunch at other places. The mango habanero wings with wedges were always tasty though I would have preferred if there was more habanero and less mango.

 

[iroast]

Seasoning and sauce and fun finger food. With rising demand for wings, I hope no chicken went to waste like sharks (shark fin market)...

 

[ElFenix]

it's meh. wings are small, the boneless "wings" are pre-breaded and frozen, the fries suck (wedges are good), and i'm pretty sure the dressings are bottled. it's like a bad chili's with big TVs.


wing stop has way better wings but isn't a sports bar, and I've got plucker's around the corner which is also better wings and sports bar. I've barely been back to bw3 since that opened.

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

Went there once for a going-away for someone. I ordered their 'super spicy' wings (whatever they're called) as well as a long island iced tea, since I wasn't driving. They brought me out shitty wings that were barely spicy (like somewhere between Cheetos and pickled japalenos), as well as a *pitcher* of 'long island iced tea' which tasted like a bad mixer. I drank the entire 64? oz or whatever, and felt nothing more than an intense urge to pee and not pay for my dinner.

 

[spacejamz]

Why is hard to figure out the attraction? People speak with their wallets and won't be waiting in line if they didn't like it...seems pretty simple to me...

Not really sure what type of answer the OP is looking for, maybe good food and atmosphere??

 

[NuclearNed]

I think their food ranks somewhere just above high school cafeteria.

To make things really confusing, we have a local sports bar named Wild Wings Café. From what I hear they are awesome, but it makes for some really WTF conversations when people say they love Wild Wings.

 

[Denly]

Back in the 90s, wings night near my school was 5c each usually $30 can feed 6 people including beers.... good old day. Now $30 can feed maybe 2.

 

[madoka]

Why is hard to figure out the attraction? People speak with their wallets and won't be waiting in line if they didn't like it...seems pretty simple to me...

Not really sure what type of answer the OP is looking for, maybe good food and atmosphere??

I guess if you're looking at the post like a simpleton, you'd have trouble understanding the question. As others stated, the food is nothing special and it's way overpriced; yet people are lining up for the place. That's the mystery. I've seen dozens of businesses like that go under, but Buffalo Wild Wings keeps growing strong. I'm trying to figure out what sets them apart.

 

[Ns1]

I have only gone there when it's 50% off and I think it's still really overpriced. Yet I see people waiting out the door for them at full price. What's the attraction to that place?

they show UFC fights.

 

[zinfamous]

The wings are....really quite terrible.

 

[AznAnarchy99]

I've always had horrible service at all of the So Cal BWWs. One time I ordered another beer because a game went into overtime. By the time they gave me the beer overtime was done. I saw the beer sitting at the bar the whole time.

I like their sauces though and they do sell them bottled so I bought one before and went home to make my own wings.

It sucks cause in So Cal most smaller sports bars are gone and you're left with Hooters and BWW.

 

[spacejamz]

I guess if you're looking at the post like a simpleton, you'd have trouble understanding the question. As others stated, the food is nothing special and it's way overpriced; yet people are lining up for the place. That's the mystery. I've seen dozens of businesses like that go under, but Buffalo Wild Wings keeps growing strong. I'm trying to figure out what sets them apart.

The part you (and others here) aren't getting is that just because you think the food isn't that good to you doesn't mean that other people think that...The lines are a pretty good indication of that, at least viewing it as a simpleton...

Heaven forbid that others have a different opinion than you....

 

[ElFenix]

I think their food ranks somewhere just above high school cafeteria.

To make things really confusing, we have a local sports bar named Wild Wings Café. From what I hear they are awesome, but it makes for some really WTF conversations when people say they love Wild Wings.

there's a wild wings café out on the west side of town, hit it up once, they had a lunch buffet. not bad, as I recall. just far from here.

 

[shortylickens]

I think their food ranks somewhere just above high school cafeteria.

To make things really confusing, we have a local sports bar named Wild Wings Café. From what I hear they are awesome, but it makes for some really WTF conversations when people say they love Wild Wings.

My high school was better. Some districts actually try for the kids.

 

[brianmanahan]

you know what's overpriced?

legos

just little bits of plastic and not very fun

 

[shortylickens]

you know what's overpriced?

legos

just little bits of plastic and not very fun

Why is there no Dislike Button?

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

you know what's overpriced?

legos

just little bits of plastic and not very fun

Commie, pinko, Trump lover!

 

[Svnla]

I do not know why places such as BWW and Hooters and others like them are popular. The foods are not great (meh are more like it), the beers are decent at best, the girls are mixed (some could be nice and some could be b****). Maybe the atmosphere/decor/TVs setting?

 

[shortylickens]

The Manassas Hooters has genuinely nice girls. Every once in a while a bitch will move in and try to establish dominance. They run her out.
The wings are acceptable. They have been getting UFC fights more and more frequently, and they offer all kinds of deals during the Superbowl and World Series and such.

 

[NoTine42]

I have a friend that absolutely loves the place, but I think it’s an emotional-type attachment. When he was new in town, he went to BWW on a college football game day and had a great time watching his team, even thought the crowd rooted for other teams.

I enjoy the Asian Zing sauce, but I’ve had much better wings at other places. Their Blazin sauce has a respectable 350,000 SCU.