J.R. Higgins

J.R. Higgins American Cuisine and Insurance Emporium, (or simply J.R. Higgins), is a restaurant chain in Escharon specializing in typical American cuisine. It is a loosely based parody of American chain restaurants and heavily lampoons corporate run eateries such as T.G.I. Fridays, Applebees, and Bennigans; as well as Hard Rock Cafe, which is noted for having many items of memorabilia and kitsch displayed on the restaurant walls, as well as food items that many consider mediocre, boring, or sub-par. The restaurant is headquartered in Escharon City, with franchises scattered around the world map. The original J.R. Higgins location was built on PigRaid's creative server 1.

The restaurant chain's menu is known for it's rather unsavory and questionable food items; the edibility of which is further questioned by the chain's signature slogan: "It's Food?", Notable examples include: "Sauteed Trash Panda" (sauteed racoon), "Walrus Meat Pancakes", and "The Sun-Baked Dock Crab Pile" (which is simply rotten crab). It is implied that many of it's customers suffer from food poisoning as a result of dining at the establishment.

The restaurant also parodies many items of kitsch which are popular with American fare restaurants; including the display of various, seemingly random items (such as boats, minecarts, and upside-down mob heads) on it's walls; barber pole / vaudeville style decorative striping, wood paneling, and the lobbing of it's "famous" moldy bread rolls at customers' faces by Robert Stack look alikes (a parody of Landry's seafood restaurant's tossing of bread rolls at customers)

The chain is also shown to constantly fail health inspections due to it's line-cooking staff's propensity for exposing their genitalia in the kitchen. It is also heavily implied that the waitstaff are subjected to corporal punishment for transgressions as well as for customers' entertainment. The chain sidesteps these obvious violations of the law by selling insurance, taking advantage of a law in Escharon that allows restaurants more leeway if they do not make 100% of their profit from food. This is a parody of smoking laws in Florida that allow a restaurant to allow smoking if less than a certain percentage of it's revenue is derived from food.