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Yeah Fiery Garlic Parm is really good.

The LB play is a major question mark still , depite having multiple LB coaches on staff last year. This was the biggest flashing signal I saw for needing new coaches.

Not really, the made from scratch places will have smaller menus because they can't turn out a huge menu in time. Most restaurants do the prep work or make large batches of the sides for the dinner rush. All the knife with done early and food in the walk in. Grab a handful of trimmed green beans and toss them in the running steamer, 5 min. Potatoes already cut and peeled and probably boiled 15 lbs at a time to make 30 servings. Stuffing by the sheet pan prepped in advanced, baked beans in a slow cooker started in the slower afternoon hours. Salads chopped and ready to toss together, etc. Scratch doesn't have to mean slow, just have to prep early and cook large batches in waves. If you make it good every time people won't care if the menu only has 10 entrees and 6 -7 options for sides.

Off the top of my head only thinking for 5 minutes in my area (centered in New Jersey), here's just a few I can think of which are breweries with full-blown excellent restaurants as well (not food trucks, or associated nearby restaurants which many breweries have and are sometimes really good). It would take me days to think of all of the ones I've been to. Almost all of these are single locations; a few have expanded to be a small chain...

Triumph Brewery, Princeton NJ.
Tun Tavern, Atlantic city NJ.
Woodbridge Brewing Co., Woodbridge NJ.
Harvest Moon, New Brunswick NJ.
Iron Hill Brewing, locations in NJ, PA, and DE.
Golden Otter, New Paltz, NY.
Crooked Hammock, Lewes De.
Big Oyster Brewing, Lewes DE.
Thompson island Brewing, Rehoboth DE.
Dogfish Head Brewery, Rehoboth DE.

Yea we have the Culver's and what a burger on 210 but both feel overhyped (except for what a burger gravy, that shit is good). Myself and oldest like woodpeckers bbq for lunch, I'll go up to Angie's for lunch too.

You are also located kind of in between so the selection isn't going to be there until that area builds up a little more. Cracker Barrel would work but you don't have one close enough. I think there's a Golden Corral on Blanding in Orange Park...quite a ways for you (35 minutes?) but it would probably be what you are targeting. Culver's is not far from you. It's fast food but a greater variety on the menu; lots of people go there to eat in and the kids can be kids; and you can do the free ice cream coupon thing with the receipts...tho you do have quite the flock.

I'm not sure 6-6 in SEC is better, it's probably true, but ACC plays more P4 teams in OOC than any other conference. In the SEC you could have beat an absolute terrible MSU and a really not good KY or not good Auburn and then 3 G4 teams and a FCS team. An SEC team should be able to beat some bad G4s just on talent alone.

I made no comments about the food at a brewery or the availability for a sit down meal. But you're generally right that there aren't many restaurants at breweries nowadays. The closest thing that has started to happen is a brewery bringing in some sort of quick fast casual restaurant model into a section of the brewery like a permanent food truck. Frequently it's tacos or pizza where a lot of the food can be premade and/or quickly cooked. The first example that came to mind is Sapwood Cellars in Columbia, MD. They just opened a taqueria in their space. EDIT: just remembered Jailbreak in Laurel, MD that has run a restaurant at their facility for years and makes really good beer (I know the brewer).

It's that or bringing in food trucks, sometimes on a more permanent basis. Port City in Alexandria, VA brought in a permanent food truck this past fall. And I've had a lot of food trucks that make amazing food and it's a good partnership for the brewery. I'm fine with ordering from a food truck and grabbing my order from them, but that's not the conceit of Fireman's post I guess.

Being at a brewery for long work days, I have had to corral wild kids in dangerous situations and one or 2 adults that were in sandals while the brewing process were going on, to the point of challenging my authority in my own brewery because....they knew an employee.

"Filibertos. The name you know." LMAO!

Honestly don't know where yall are finding good food at an actual brewery?? because it aint around Phoenix or Baltimore Maryland or Vegas, etc. It's food trucks at best, bar food standards- wings, etc. I've never had good sit down food AT an actual Brewery.

The Texas Roadhouse in Harrisonburg is decent. We eat there quite often and their steaks are usually good. Longhorn Steakhouse on the other hand is absolutely terrible. Subpar steaks, subpar seasoning on the sides, subpar service.
I guess for a good eat out steak you have to go to a Ruth's Chris but then you're paying mighty for it.
I don't do buffets and shoney's and Golden Corral are about equal with or maybe one step above dogshit.
5 Guys is okay but overpriced, as is McCallisters.
At some point this week while we're in Florida we'll probably try Whataburger for the first time.