Charlie Brown's Steakhouse

Absolutely love Charlie Brown's. Great steaks made to perfection.

The salad bar is one of the best in the business, especially at this rather low level.  The server at this location was excellent.  The steak was...well...I had lunch there and ordered a sirloin.  I don't know why people like this steak.  No marbling, so it is a relatively dry cut.  Ordered medium, the steak arrived rare.  Bleeding.  I had prepped my potato just right before cutting the steak.  :::sigh:::  Sent back.  Waited (not too long.)  Came back pretty much medium.  With a new potato.  Fixed up new potato.  Yummy potato, my way.  The steak?  Even though the manager brought it back to me with a flourish (although the yellow sweatshirt he wore was a turnoff) it was ... Meh.  Dry and tasteless.  How can a steak be so utterly tasteless?  It didn't even have that "seared meat" quality a grilled steak has absent any other kinds of flavorings or curing.  I think this says more about CB's steak source than anything about the place itself.  

Side note: there was some old guy and his wife sitting in a booth near the salad bar who was the loudest, most uncouth eater I have ever heard.  He was crunching his taco chips and then chewing with his mouth open. YOU COULD HEAR HIM ALL OVER THE RESTAURANT.   A complete pig.  What rock do creatures like this come out from under?  And who lets them mingle with humans?  If it hadn't been so disgusting it would have been comical.  Well, CB's can't be faulted for their clientele.  At least I was taught as a small child how to eat so as to not bother other eaters.  (That just makes me trying to be polite, not special.)  

You can do better and so can CB's.   Seems to me, though, this chain is circling the drain.

It is a former nightclub, not a diner or Perkins.