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19713093 No.19713093 [Reply] [Original]

What fast food chain is the best to go to?

>> No.19713106

Only ones I’m a repeat of are Jersey Mike’s and Wendy’s

>> No.19713112
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19713112

Rate my taste

>> No.19713114

McAllisters, Whataburger, chipotle and that's it

>> No.19713115

>>19713106
The bread is too spongy and too big for the filling and the cheese isn't melted enough but dem cheesesteaks can still hit the spot.

>> No.19713118

>>19713106
Wendy's is based but JM is overrated and overpriced

>> No.19713119

>>19713114
Mcalisters is probably my overall fave. Potato salad any time of day... Yes please.

>> No.19713131

>>19713114
The fuck is mcalisters?
Also never had whataburger either

>> No.19713156

>>19713119
I always get the choose 2 there are so many great combos but my favorite is - Chicken tortilla soup, chicken bacon baked potato, pour the soup onto the potato, with a sweet tea.

>> No.19713159

>>19713131
its the smallest chain under sandwich section on the chart https://www.mcalistersdeli.com/

Whataburger is texas lifeblood

>> No.19713164

>>19713112
>panda express
really sugary meat
>shake shack
Burgers are good, fries are garbage, shakes are good
>del taco
Really cheap items with real meat, but not a lot of flavor
>Qdoba
disgusting abomination
>raising canes
great chicken, great slaw, great dip sauce, terrible fries, just get 2 delicious slices of toast
>in N out
overrated normal burgers
>culvers
pretty good butter burgers, freddy's is their direct copycat competitor and is also good, but culvers has superior sides.
>wing stop
irredeemable trash
>el pollo loco
might try them tomorrow

>> No.19713166

>>19713159
Huh I actually have one 15 minutes away from me so I’ll check it out in the villages

>> No.19713168

>>19713093
I miss getting fresh White Castle.

>> No.19713170

>>19713159
I’ve been to Texas but never got a chance to try it

>> No.19713181

for me it's taco bell, culver's and wendy's

>> No.19713216

>>19713168
white castle/krystal are objectively low tier, if not trash tier. But they hit the spot that nothing else really does

>> No.19713232

>>19713093
Firehouse subs is the worst food I ever had, you'd have to be subhuman to enjoy that garbage. One opened near me and I was excited to try it. Well it was SHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It made me want to slap my peanus on the concrete.

>> No.19713233

>>19713093
For me, it's the McChicken
https://youtube.com/shorts/7qQ-aTQTwu8?feature=share

>> No.19713236

for me it's chick fila but I'll eat at any of the chicken places except for kfc

>> No.19713251

>>19713112
Dennys, Jack, and Caesars deserve higher tiers, but I can only get Sheetz when I am on business back in PA so you have a higher standards than I do.

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>> No.19713429

>>19713093
>subway has the most
>is also somehow the shittiest
i commend them

>> No.19713444

chicken express. you get a discount for quoting a Bible passage

>> No.19713472

>>19713112
I don't know about your taste but your poor understanding of normal distributions invalidates your tier list.

>> No.19713483

>>19713251
>Dennys Jack’s and Caesar’s deserves higher tiers
Fuck that shit
Literally bottom of the barrel garbage
>>19713472
Explain what’s wrong then faggot.
If you think you have better taste

>> No.19713486
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19713486

Everyone is already acutely aware that the greatest fast food restaurant that has ever existed is pic related.

>> No.19714055

>>19713483
I already explained what's wrong. Your bell curve is a wave.

>> No.19714075
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Dtop being a contrarian faggot and eating at other fast food places. You are not "too good" for McDonald's

>> No.19714076

>>19713093
Culvers

>> No.19714078

>>19713093
they’re all shit. everything worth eating at comes out to $30+ for two people and you can go to an actual restaurant for that or just buy really nice steaks

>> No.19714083

>>19713486
I haven't had a Gold Rush in years but I remember the it being really tasty and the people making them would get the honey mustard everywhere so my hand was always sticky.

>> No.19714271

>>19714078
Agree that they've all become disgustingly expensive for what they are, which is premade, shipped and reheated slop at most of these places. but chain dine-in restaurants basically do the same thing.
Broke people use coupons. I live in an apartment where my mailbox is full of junk mail and I always get a full page of coupons for burger king, popeyes, wendys, subway and carls jr. Other places like McDonalds and Chipotle put their coupons and rewards on the app so they can farm your data.

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>>19713093
Real answer: None of them. Most of them charge way too much for something that isn't even worth the money, and in the case of burger joints take an extra arm and leg off for the fries and drink. I stopped going to McD's when I realized that their serving portions were pitifully small while charging increasingly more, and the last "food" I bought at Pizza Hut was a pasta that I realized I could have just made myself at home for a fraction of what I paid.

I mainly buy at local chains nowadays, and only if I don't feel like cooking for myself and/or feel like eating unhealthy. Only times I buy fast food are if I'm on the road/vacation and don't have access to my kitchen. Depending on the country you visit one of these restaurants in, the cost might actually be worth it.

>> No.19714406

>>19713093
none. die.

>> No.19714474

>>19714078
Not sure what you're ordering but this isn't true. You can get two deluxe boxes at taco bell for 18 before tax, comes with a ton of food and drinks.

>> No.19714505

>>19713112
Genuine question, is it normal for Abstand to have eaten at 50+ fast food chains in your life?

>> No.19714509

>>19714505
Abstand = Americans, retard with a phone here.

>> No.19714520

>>19714474
>everything worth eating at
>taco bell
Pfffhahahahahaha.

>> No.19714522

>>19713093
How the fuck are there that many Subways? They're trash

>> No.19714543

>>19714505
Maybe if you've moved or travelled around the country a bunch, a lot of chains are regional. I've never been to the east coast for example so I've never been to a White Castle or a Checkers or anything, if I had to guess I'd say I've probably been to like 15-20 different chains in my life

>> No.19714549

>>19714505
Sounds doable if you count small local ones that only exist in a single state. Using the OP image as an example (and ignoring that it fucked up by differentiating Hardee's and Carl's Jr which are both the exact same thing), the average American will have probably eaten at a minimum of 27 of those places by the time they're 18 years old. Smaller localized chains within car distance of one's house (Eegee's, Quiznos, Wawa, etc.) will probably give you another 5-10 easy. Toss in vacation travel to other states and countries, and you're probably already there before you hit 30 years of age.

>> No.19714553

>>19713093
Are there really that many Jack in the Boxes? I've never seen one in my life. Is it just a west coast thing or something?

>> No.19714562

>>19714522
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDdYFhzVCDM

>>19714553
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_in_the_Box

>The chain has over 2,200 locations, primarily serving the West Coast of the United States. Restaurants are also found in selected large urban areas outside the West Coast, including Phoenix, Salt Lake City, Denver, Albuquerque, El Paso, Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, Austin, San Antonio, Oklahoma City, Baton Rouge, Nashville, Charlotte, Kansas City, St. Louis, Indianapolis, Redding, and Cincinnati as well as one in Guam.

>> No.19714569

>>19714553
I don't think they're too far into the northeast. I was in Cincinnati for work in 2012 and my coworker that had transferred from Texas to that office was telling me his wife was happy that jack finally made it to Ohio.

>> No.19714593

>>19714553
I've only ever seen them on the western side of the country

>> No.19714603

>>19713093
>Mcdonalds and BK are the worst burger places but have the most franchises
>dominos is the worst pzza place but has the most franchises
>Subway and arby's are the worst sandwhich places but have the most franchises
>KFC is the worst chicken place but has the most franchises
why is this so common? If you put a bojangles next to a kfc the kfc would be out of business in weeks

>> No.19714607

>>19714603
Arbys is great

>> No.19714633

>>19714603
Quality control vs rapid expansion. If Bojangles decided to open next to every KFC in the country the product would suffer. It's the reason hardly anyone has heard of Braums, they only open locations within a one day truck trip from their home farms in Oklahoma.
In N out is the same and just recently expanded by opening new centers for their beef.

>> No.19714645

>>19714505
I’ve been to all of these locations throughout my life.
I don’t eat fast food every single day

>> No.19714650

>>19714055
Yeah that’s what I thought you dumb faggot

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>>19713093
They all suck and now they are overpriced.

>> No.19714685

>>19714653
>grimace's lament is now real
woah

>> No.19714691

>>19713093
there's more Shipley's(s) in the US than there are Krispy Kremes
Also Dairy Queen definitely shouldn't be qualified as "ice cream"

>> No.19714704

>>19714691
DQ literally isn't legally allowed to call itself icecream in the US, that's why on the menu it reads
>Vanilla Cone
>A DQ® classic. Enjoy our world-famous soft serve.

>> No.19714735

>>19713093
For burgers: Culver’s
For pizza: Marcos
For sandwiches: firehouse subs

>> No.19714883

>>19713093
Steak’n’Shakebros…

>> No.19715917

Canes and Chic-fil-a are the only ones worth going to.

>> No.19715934

>>19713093
I haven't patronized any of these establishments in over 5 years now.

>> No.19715940

>>19713112
>five guys in F
>Bojangles in D
>Zaxby's in C
>all that garbage in A and B
you have shit taste