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DICK'S

Robin Laananen

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(115 Broadway E., 323-1300; 500 Queen Anne N., 285-5155; 111 N.E. 45th, 632-5125; 9208 Holman N.W., 783-5233; 12325 30th N.E., 363-7777)

I used to be vegetarian. Then I met a Dick's Deluxe. It's true. We fell in love, and I wanted to marry it, but I ate it, and then it was gone. I was sad but fulfilled—ecstatic with a strange new brand of satisfaction, and it wasn't just the sensation of eating a cheeseburger; it was a Dick's. A Dick's Deluxe. And I wanted more. Everybody wants more. That's why meat-loving folks stand in lines out to the sidewalk to get the damn things. Since 1954, they've come. And they come for more than the Deluxe—the real ice cream shakes, the house-made French fries, the understated cheeseburger. Dick's fare, in all its delectably greasy goodness, is an American classic—but somehow better. K.M.

Second place: Red Robin (everywhere)