The Fast Food Thread

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In addition to consistency, one primary reason pizza spots use premade dough is lack of physical space.

Until recently I was the corporate chef for a ski resort with 7 restaurants that would do very large volume during the tourist season. We sold a lot of pizza, some premade some scratch depending on the venue.

I don’t want to derail the chicken nugget talk too much, but I’d be happy to answer questions if there are any.
 

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I would be interested to know how much actual cooking goes on in different kinds of restaurants. I know cafeterias and such is almost 100% opening cans/bags and heating up pre-cooked stuff. I'm guessing fast food and even places like Denny's, IHop, etc. are not a lot different although there has to be at least someone running a grill and a fryer back there. Do they do prep work or is it all pre-grated cheese and pre-chopped onions and shit?

There was a thread on my town's message board a while back talking about the pizza at a local place that everyone has nostalgia about and they were speculating about if there was a way to get their recipe for pizza. After a while someone who had worked there posted and it was like "It's Sysco crust #7 and Sysco pizza sauce #2". Kind of a letdown.
 
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I would be interested to know how much actual cooking goes on in different kinds of restaurants. I know cafeterias and such is almost 100% opening cans/bags and heating up pre-cooked stuff. I'm guessing fast food and even places like Denny's, IHop, etc. are not a lot different although there has to be at least someone running a grill and a fryer back there. Do they do prep work or is it all pre-grated cheese and pre-chopped onions and shit?

There was a thread on my town's message board a while back talking about the pizza at a local place that everyone has nostalgia about and they were speculating about if there was a way to get their recipe for pizza. After a while someone who had worked there posted and it was like "It's Sysco crust #7 and Sysco pizza sauce #2". Kind of a letdown.
this is largely why i like chikfila, from the video everything is from scratch, even the biscuits
 
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I would be interested to know how much actual cooking goes on in different kinds of restaurants. I know cafeterias and such is almost 100% opening cans/bags and heating up pre-cooked stuff. I'm guessing fast food and even places like Denny's, IHop, etc. are not a lot different although there has to be at least someone running a grill and a fryer back there. Do they do prep work or is it all pre-grated cheese and pre-chopped onions and shit?

There was a thread on my town's message board a while back talking about the pizza at a local place that everyone has nostalgia about and they were speculating about if there was a way to get their recipe for pizza. After a while someone who had worked there posted and it was like "It's Sysco crust #7 and Sysco pizza sauce #2". Kind of a letdown.

It's a little bit of everything, way to much to unpack in one post. Dunkin' for example, all the donuts are fried daily, but it's done at a central location and delivered to each store. They start frying at 5 pm the day before so even if you go early in the morning, your donut is at least a half day old. They also have frozen back up donuts that are par fried and can be reheated at the store incase they run out. Mom and pop places are the same, it can be all fresh, all frozen, or a mix of both.
 

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I have not seen this, but can you guess where Im going for dinner this weekend?
I FUCKING LOVE GOOGLE STREETVIEW LOL

The billboard I saw is on the SW corner of 400 and Oak St in Goddard. Kind of in front of some sort of metal storage building.

I was coming back from the reservoir and it was only like 9:30am. And it looks like Cheney is south off of 400, so maybe the next time I'm out there for longer I'll look for someplace to stop.

I was wanting to stop at a Brahms, but I was already halfway between Topeka and Lawrence by lunchtime.

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lol they even serve mountain oysters. I'm gonna guess there's a meat processing plant next door.

Bro...you can get a Cheeseburger, Crab Rangoon, fried okra, crawdads, Brad McQuaid Mozz Sticks™ and a Rueben...all at the same time.

I can't handle all these possibilities

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Bro...you can get a Cheeseburger, Crab Rangoon, fried okra, crawdads, Brad McQuaid Mozz Sticks™ and a Rueben...all at the same time.

I can't handle all these possibilities

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They are in Kansas, so about 90% of the people will be on some combination of alcohol, weed and meth. That’s pretty much a munchies battlefront.
 
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I worked at a bakery years ago and we sold tons of dough to the local independent pizza shops. It's not always frozen Sysco shit.
 
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I made the mistake of getting the Deluxe Chicken sandwich at McDonald's. The chicken filet was flat and dry. I should have went to Wendy's instead. It isn't worth the price.
 

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I made the mistake of getting the Deluxe Chicken sandwich at McDonald's. The chicken filet was flat and dry. I should have went to Wendy's instead. It isn't worth the price.
I gave it a shitty review on here the first time I tried it then the next 2 times werent all that bad. It was todays meal of the day so I got another and 80% of the chicken was tough and inedible. Back to the hot n spicy's I go.
 
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I gave it a shitty review on here the first time I tried it then the next 2 times werent all that bad. It was todays meal of the day so I got another and 80% of the chicken was tough and inedible. Back to the hot n spicy's I go.
that's b/c no one orders the mcdonalds chicken shit (besides nugs and dollar chicken)

if no one orders it, then the chicken that was already dropped and in the heating tray, stays there until it's sold.

imagine a piece of chicken sitting in a heating tray for hours

if for some god forsaken reason you want chicken that is that is not nugs from mcdees, then ask for freshly dropped chicken and wait 5 or 6 minutes.
 

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if for some god forsaken reason you want chicken that is that is not nugs from mcdees, then ask for freshly dropped chicken and wait 5 or 6 minutes.
Thank god I got a Popeyes and Chick-fil-A 1000 feet from my house.
 
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Thank god I got a Popeyes and Chick-fil-A 1000 feet from my house.
my popeyes is shit, so i never got the chicken sandwich, did ppl try to buy a popeyes sandwich and just give up and walk over to chickfila back then?