The Fast Food Thread
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Arby's is the only fast food I actually "like". I'll eat everything and sometimes I crave McNuggets, but goddamn. Arby's is fucking delicious.
I get 6-8 junior roast beef sandwiches when I go there. Perfection.
I get 6-8 junior roast beef sandwiches when I go there. Perfection.
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I do like Arbys, but it has to be the most goddamn expensive fast food on the planet. A big roast beef sandwhich is like $6 by itself, no drink, no fries, nothing else. And its just plain meat on a plain bun, no bacon, no cheese, nothing else. 6 friggin bucks. It's *maybe* a quarter pound of meat...maybe
I miss Hardees having similar roast beef sandwhiches, they were just as good and a little bit cheaper. Their monster roast beef back in the day was the bomb, shitload of roast beef + like 4 pieces of bacon and melted cheese as well.
I miss Hardees having similar roast beef sandwhiches, they were just as good and a little bit cheaper. Their monster roast beef back in the day was the bomb, shitload of roast beef + like 4 pieces of bacon and melted cheese as well.
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Erronius
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Personally I've been torn on Arby's for years. Back in the '90s they had the 5 for 5 and that was pretty damn legit, though paying the extra for cheese sucked. But you could get a lot of food for $5. Now all their sandwiches have shrunk and it seems like they've made new sandwiches to fill the size slot the old ones did, but the new ones cost you an arm and a leg. I don't care about some grape and pecan salad, I want a pile of roast beef and cheddar, and I don't want to have to pay $15+ to get what used to be $5. Not to mention some locations I guess are doing the classic/mid/max bullshit - I ate some of the "classics" and my first thought was"they didn't use to be this small".
Seems like their roast beef itself changed at some point in time, but I still do love me some Arby's curly-fries.
I agree on Hardees, and I loved the mushroom and swiss that they used to have.
I also used to like Captain Ds and A&W but they really seemed to have changed a lot.
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I haven't been to a Hardees in so long I was unaware they stopped selling roast beef.
I remember one of my first jobs was at a Hardees....that roast beef came shrink wrapped and you stabbed in with a few holes and put it in their convection ovens to cook. Shit was like beef jello before it cooked and hardened up.
It was also delicious as fuck.
I remember one of my first jobs was at a Hardees....that roast beef came shrink wrapped and you stabbed in with a few holes and put it in their convection ovens to cook. Shit was like beef jello before it cooked and hardened up.
It was also delicious as fuck.
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Alex
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Doesn't qualify. In order to be a fast food restaurant, the restaurant must have a drive-thru.
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Arby's curly fries are amazing, if correctly prepared. If they fuck up, which somehow they do fairly often, they taste like greasy undercooked potatoes. Which is to say bad. I will never understand how you can fuck up a fried item at a fast food restaurant. You put the shit in the basket, lower the basket into the oil, and press the button with the picture of the food you are cooking on it and the timer starts. You don't even have to know how to read.
Tarrant
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One near me has one, your argument is invalid.
Also your argument is invalid anyways, we've already agreed that that is a retarded way to say if something is fast food or not when we were on FoH.
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No we didn't. There were people arguing about it both ways. Fast food has to be on the go. The only time I ever get fast food is when I'm in a rush or on a road trip and don't want to lose time. I'm not going to a Chipotle or Five Guys for that reason because that shit isn't fast.
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Little Caesar's Hot and Ready Pizza would like to have a word with you.
Sorry to break it to you, but I've waited longer for food at McDonald's than I have at 5 Guys. Since every fast food place lets you customize your order none of them are 100% "fast" anymore and it all depends on what you order and how crowded it is. Even McDonalds, the king of fast food, doesn't have racks full of premade hamburgers sitting there like they used to. They make it when you order it.
For me fast food is anything where you order at a counter, pick up the food, and bring it to a table yourself. The wait time for your food can run anywhere from 1 to 5 minutes, again depending on what you order and how busy they are. This encompasses everything from McDonalds to Subway to Panera Bread.
P.S. Not to mention all the mall food courts full of miscellaneous fast food places without drive thrus.
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Also, i completely forgot that fast food places would keep pre-made food out. That shit was lightning quick back in the day, I remember my dad breaking the news to me that BK wouldn't do a plain cheese cheeseburger.
Also, i completely forgot that fast food places would keep pre-made food out. That shit was lightning quick back in the day, I remember my dad breaking the news to me that BK wouldn't do a plain cheese cheeseburger.
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I think most places have gotten rid of them by now, but as of a couple years ago I would still occasionally run into an old ass McDonalds on road trips where you'd see the empty burger chute behind the registers.
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That queue was handy. You could see what was ready and order accordingly. Chik-Fil-A still has it, since there really isn't anything to customize.
Know what I miss? The 1992 Olympics promotion at McDonald's. What better way to celebrate our top athletes than to sell the least healthy meals on the planet in their honor? Triple cheeseburgers for like $1? Check. 64 oz sodas? Check. Fries served in the 64 oz cups? Check. Man that promotion kicked ass.
Erronius
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Yeah, we argued this back on FOH and it was still fucking retarded. Thanks for volunteering to be the Tad10 of this thread, though.
I've eaten at McDonalds in a number of foreign airports. Schiphol, Dubai...and they had no drive-thrus. Does that mean that those locations weren't fast-food? I ate at a BK in the Baghdad greenzone iirc, and it was in a sort of a trailer and served from a counter only. I remember there being a McDonalds in Toronto by the giant mall that had no drive thru, and there are similar places in large cities all over the place. Not to mention all of the fast food chains that started out early before drive thru windows were even a standard.
Sorry, but the drive thru argument is ridiculously stupid, the same as it was back on FOH.
Here's another thing: Fast Food restaurants are called QSRs (quick service restaurants) within the industry itself. They would never use a drive thru as a metric for what is or is not a fast food entity. Their metric has usually been along the lines of "Quick Food, minimal or no table service". This is clearly different from "casual dining". IHOP? That's casual dining - you are seated, you are served by a waitress, menus, you pay after you eat, etc. Chipotle? That's a solid QSR (fast food). You aren't seated, you aren't served, you place your order at the counter and they ring you up there, you pay before you eat, then you either sit down and wolf it down with no table service, or you carry it back home to eat.
http://www.qsrmagazine.com/category/chains/chipotle
http://www.qsrmagazine.com/category/chains/five-guys
Yeah, 5 Guys isn't super fast, but I've had a big variation on wait times (discounting a line). The one nearest my house is actually pretty quick, and if you can avoid lines you can be in and out in under 5 minutes pretty easily. The place I usually go to with friends that is farther away, we usually end up waiting longer. No idea why that is though, unless the people at one store are markedly quicker than the other.
The problem with those was that the product in those slides (at McDs at least) were timed at 15m iirc. When the place was busy it would cycle fast enough not to be an issue, but when it wasn't busy you'd make some stock, throw it in there, then have to throw it away if it wouldn't sell. The timing method I remember were metal "L" shaped pieces with numbers painted on them. What some people would do would be to just leave the burgers in there and keep changing the numbers, so you could end up with some dried-ass burgers if whoever was working gave no fucks.
