I dont really care if I have to drive 10 miles each way... but 30 miles 1 way to maple grove is a haul. KK was a good atmosphere though, I liked just chilling in the parking lot. I liked the weekly meets even though I didnt make it to all of them, but that was mainly because of the distance to kk.
There is an applebees in bloomington too, 2 of them actually

We could have an applebees meet up north and a meet down here every other week haha. I dont know where a good meeting place would be in the south metro though, there is a nice perkins off 494 and 100 that is pretty central, more so than AV.
DSMers are cheap though so thats why nice cheap donuts worked well over the past summers haha.