Ponderosa is where I'd take my young family maybe once a week or so. Needless to say, we were pretty strapped for cash at the time. The thing was it was just a block away so we walked....The salad bar was a big deal back then....I remember that they had the best Catalina-style house dressing.
LOL....Our local chi-com restaurant was about the same distance away in the opposite direction. Trouble was by the time we walked home we were hungry again.