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How Gen Z Saved Chili's

2025-07-20 Entertainment
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Today, Josh is joined by Trevor (Nicole was sick, but feeling better!) and the two try to figure out why Chilis – out of all the fast casual restaurants – was the one Gen Z chose to save. Is it the triple dippers? For more Trevor, check out @trevorevarts and @yaptimepod on Instagram. Leave us a voicemail at (833) DOG-POD1 Check out all the episodes of A Hot Dog Is A Sandwich: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLW8XZTagL0oIGE0YPFlWbxfk332rLzoCy Want more Mythical Kitchen? Check out these playlists: Last Meals - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLW8XZTagL0oLPu4rowq_WOqg6nJ_oToRN Food Battles - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLW8XZTagL0oKvNweUd0NzXBTUgmVDXbTe Meals of History - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLW8XZTagL0oJzDtzkhoE_KeH_macdrpHJ Check out our podcast, A Hot Dog Is A Sandwich! Apple Podcasts: https://mythic.al/ahdias Spotify: https://mythic.al/hotdog CHAPTERS 0:00 I Want My Baby Back 0:36 Welcome Trevor To The Show! 2:13 How Gen Z Saved Chili's 4:23 Incredible Deals & The Triple Dipper 5:48 Josh's Valentine's Day At Chili's 7:05 We're Adults & We Can Do Whatever We Want 8:20 Emotional Time Travel 10:45 Ironic Megalopoly 12:44 Chili's Vs. Applebees 15:15 Hyped Chili's Employees 17:50 Chili's Prices 19:18 FuddRuckers 23:38 How Millenials Were Dorks 26:36 The Need For Eccentric Drinks 28:40 Trevor's Ideal Triple Dipper Combo 33:12 Opinions Are Like Casseroles 33:42 Do People Taste Like Bacon? 35:07 Why Do We Only Salt Pasta Water? 37:29 Hot Fruit Smoothies 41:22 M&Ms Wrapped In Pepperoni 44:09 The Proper Way To Cut Mushrooms Pick up official Mythical Kitchen merch at https://mythical.com/collections/mythical-kitchen Check out Sporked, Mythical's new website dedicated to helping you find the best food on the shelves! - http://www.sporked.com Submit your Dreams Become Food photos here: https://forms.gle/cBopySaTXdzG7RFr5 Join the Mythical Society: https://www.mythicalsociety.com Follow Mythical Kitchen: Instagram: https://instagram.com/mythicalkitchen Facebook: https://facebook.com/mythicalkitchen Mythical Chef Josh's Instagram: https://instagram.com/mythicalchefjosh Check Out Our Other Mythical Channels: Good Mythical Morning: https://youtube.com/goodmythicalmorning Rhett & Link: https://youtube.com/rhettandlink Ear Biscuits: https://applepodcasts.com/earbiscuits Good Mythical MORE: https://youtube.com/goodmythicalmore In the spirit of minimizing food waste associated with the filming of this series, Mythical is donating to the Hollywood Food Coalition who provide daily, nourishing meals to underserved communities in the Los Angeles area. Closed Captioning provided by Rev

Top Comments (10)

@lyinarbaeldeth2456 2025-07-20

Chili's: Offers low-price specials while the rest of the industry gets more and more expensive Customers: Flock to Chili's Everyone else: Shocked Pikachu face

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@femmefuntime 2025-07-20

“Hi, welcome to chili’s” probably has something to do with it

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@sp33rmint 2025-07-20

chili's saved gen z - the prices on everything else is CRAZY these days. god bless my baby back baby back baby back :3

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@chrischambers4379 2025-07-20

Hipster foodie places are dying because they decided to charge 20 dollars for a cheeseburger from a food truck.

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@Gqc23 2025-07-21

I think a big thing to consider as well is that Chili's isn't owned by a private equity firm. Red lobster was killed by private equity selling their real estate and leasing those same buildings back to them.

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@matth6059 2025-07-20

For me, it really comes down to the value you get. For a family retirement party, my family went out to eat at a fancy “gourmet” local steak house where the cheapest cut on the menu was $50 and it didn’t even taste that great. Why go there and be unsatisfied and broke when I can go to chilis, get a 3 for me and (like Trevor said) get chips and salsa, a bunch of quesadillas and a margarita for $15! More food, better taste, cheaper prices than a lot of these fancy places in my area, so yeah chilis for the win here.

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@decoolz 2025-07-21

It surprises me every time how well spoken and articulate Trevor is. I expect him to be just a silly guy. It shouldn’t surprise me anymore at this point honestly, but it’s always great to hear Trevor’s takes on things.

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@kiidjoda 2025-07-22

Hi Josh and Trevor, I'm a Zoomer and my friends and I kinda discovered going to casual restaurants was so much fun after quarantine lightened up. Most of us work in or have worked in restaurants before and our favorite restaurant that we always return to is Actually Denny's. That $8 burger after a bar crawl or bender is just magical! Drinking hot cocoa and eating pancakes outdoors at midnight when restaurants started opening up again is the MOST nostalgic memories I have with my friends!!

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@donglebong 2025-07-20

The people's princess, Trevor! I've never had Chili's but their commercial's song lives rent-free in my head.

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@RuinedChapel 2025-07-21

Listening to you two talk is like if we were able to translate what honeybees talk about in English

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