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I only eat what we make at home.
I have a few severe food allergies.
Have done many jobs securing restaurants and seen some scary kitchens.
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I have a few severe food allergies.
Have done many jobs securing restaurants and seen some scary kitchens.
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I am not sure how it is possible to denigrate Whataburger and talk of love for White Castle in the same post. HERESY!
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They still have them, apparently because they didn't give them to you.
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That is like KFC having trash ass chicken. You literally have the word "chicken" in your name and you serve about the worst baby pieces of trash ass chicken ever created.
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My local KFC (near that shitty Taco Bell) produces crap chicken for sure.
But I know I've had good KFC chicken before, my Mom used to bring it home when I was a kid.
This location near me seems to buy really low quality chicken and then smothers it in KFC seasoning and fry it up in huge batches that they leave to get cold before they serve it.
I am honestly fascinated by this problem, because Fast Food is a bunch of old/known systems that we know worked really really well for many decades, insofar as: taking orders, preparing food, then serving it hot/fresh.
I've always thought it would be interesting to run a fast food franchise on a profit sharing model with a small group of dedicated employees that care about the business and the community, rather than the minimum wage rotating door model.
Fast Food franchises always seemed like opportunities for wealth-building partnerships between Middle/Lower income Americans, but instead have been bought up by absentee rich dudes.
Absentee-owned businesses are bad for local community IMO.
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I have never heard of Pancheros before today.
I have been to a Long John Silvers once in my life and have never even considered going back.
I have been to a Long John Silvers once in my life and have never even considered going back.
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Chick-Fil-A makes a tender, juicy chicken sandwich, which is something 99% of fast food restaurants can't do.
They're extremely fast and efficient. They always make sure you get all the extras you need - ketchup, sauce, etc. And every item they sell is fresh and hot. A novel idea! Most fast food places never sell something that tastes as fresh.
Also - at CFA they talk to you, look at you, care whether they get the order right! The local McD's I used to stop at for breakfast once in a while would hold the bag out the window while looking in the other direction, like they thought they were Magic Johnson throwing a no-look pass, without the smile.
Yes, I will be the one to die on the CFA hill.
They're extremely fast and efficient. They always make sure you get all the extras you need - ketchup, sauce, etc. And every item they sell is fresh and hot. A novel idea! Most fast food places never sell something that tastes as fresh.
Also - at CFA they talk to you, look at you, care whether they get the order right! The local McD's I used to stop at for breakfast once in a while would hold the bag out the window while looking in the other direction, like they thought they were Magic Johnson throwing a no-look pass, without the smile.
Yes, I will be the one to die on the CFA hill.
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My local CFA is not much better than the KFC.
Food is usually not hot/fresh and the raw chicken they use can be questionable.
Also, if my fam knew, I'd get in trouble for eating there.
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**** yes I'd go to McD's if Magic Johnson was throwing no look pass food out the drivethru window!
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The quality fades when these companies try to squeeze more profit out of existing working models without raising end prices.
They cut quality, portions, labor and try to package it as the same thing as before. It doesn't work, but people still give them money because they don't know, or are in to big of a hurry to care.
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It was that dang Taco Bell up on the North side of campus at UIUC wasn't it? Slowest Taco Bell in existence I swear
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I like Taco Bell but the meat is all full of gristle. Yuck
Same thing for White Castle, which doesn't even qualify as food
Same thing for White Castle, which doesn't even qualify as food
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White Castle really is terrible. I think they have found this niche market where it's so bad people think it's funny to eat it so they do alright. Past few times I went to Vegas it was always, lets get loaded and get White Castle for shits n gig.
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But, angry, apathetic Magic Johnson.
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Sure was lol.
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I literally quit purposely eating Arbies in any sort of intentional way literally months ago for two reasons;
I am no longer someone whomst bulks dirty
Secondally, you should have had confronted the kitchen staff of that Arbies because there is a minimum of slices of sliced beef per/ your sandwich and 2 slices is well under the minimum of the slices required to be inside the sandwich for it to pass a Arbies quality control secret shoppe.
But I agree they are literally inconsistent I their franchises and I have never received the same meat mountain sandwich at more than one restaurant even though despitely having visited and ordered the same exact order inside of more than 60 different arbies
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Taco Bell? Gross. When I do fast food now, it's usually Wendy's.
Anyway, there was a McD's I used to work next to that used to consistently **** up my order. I once ordered a grilled chicken with no mayo and they gave me a fried chicken with only mayo.
Anyway, there was a McD's I used to work next to that used to consistently **** up my order. I once ordered a grilled chicken with no mayo and they gave me a fried chicken with only mayo.
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The sliders are great drunk food and meh, but most of their other menu items are fucking good. Mozzarella sticks and Chicken rings are amazing. Although, they changed something with their chicken rings because they aren't as bomb as they used to be.
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Fast food is for fast people
Slow food is for slow people
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Who are the brain police?
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It’s crap. Well, at least it was 12ish years ago. That was the last time I ate there. When I’m in the mood for Mexican food I eat, you know….real Mexican food. Other than portillos I haven’t had fast food in over a decade.