The Fast Food Thread

I'll admit that I have a slight bias against Wendy's since busting my lip on the queue bars as a kid.

McCheese_sl said:

I'll admit that I have a slight bias against Wendy's since busting my lip on the queue bars as a kid.

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No joke, I swear what I'm about to say is true. In high school we had open lunch, they wouldn't chain the parking lot exits so you could drive to get food. Some high schools the entrances they would chain between concrete pillars so you weren't going anywhere. This was the Wendy's in Las Vegas on Lake Mead just west of Rock Springs Dr. So some buddies and I drove there, ordered, got our food and started eating. A massive fight behind us broke out with some jocks, it was chaos, something out of a fucking movie, like every punch was landing. It was probably 10 kids deep. If I live to be 1000 years old I will never forget (and keep in mind this was when Wendy's had salad bars) this guy grabbing someone half his size, face planting him into one end of said salad bar, pushed into the middle of it, and just dragged him through every vegetable and sauce, then tossing him towards the counter. It was fucked up, but epic to watch at the same time.

We went closed lunch campus shortly after that as pretty much every fast food place within 5 miles would not seat high school kids after that. The only saving grace is we had Pizza Hut and Taco bell in our lunchroom. But on the real, my god that was some Roadhouse level fighting.

We have a less than 1 year old Wendy's down the street from our house and it's probably the best Wendy's I've ever had. We talk about this every time Wendy's gets brought up, but it is by far the fast food restaurant that is the most inconsistent... but when you find a winner, you'll drive out of your way to go to that one every time.

In other burger news, the new Olive Garden burger!

Eyashusa_sl said:

In other burger news, the new Olive Garden burger!

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At least the fries look decent.

If the bun was made out of breadsticks, they would sell millions of these things.

I think that burger looks pretty good. I didn't realize Olive Garden was introducing a burger.

I spent 5 years working at Olive Garden and I really have a lot of respect for the restaurant, even though it tends to get a bad rap from lots of people. For example, all of their soup was made fresh daily in-house from simple, raw ingredients. None of it was canned or frozen. Likewise for most of the sauces and and other dishes. The only thing I can think of that was frozen and reheated was the stuffed pastas like ravioli, tortellini, etc. Hell, they even made the lasagna fresh every day and that is a fuckton of work to put together.

They also had really, really good controls for cleanliness and service. They have a rule that a server is only allowed to work a 3-table section, which obviously the servers hate cause it means slightly less money, but for guests it is awesome because it means the servers rarely get super busy. Granted I'm sure lots of these things vary by location, but I worked at 2 different ones (and knew someone who worked at a 3rd) and all 3 were the same in these regards.

In short, I really want to try this burger.

The picture is from Business Insider's review that they did today

http://www.businessinsider.com/olive...review-2013-12

Anyone have Superman Hardee's where they are? By which I mean that any time of day, it's devoid of customers and is seemingly run by 2 individuals, but at lunch it transforms...5+ people working and a nonstop 7 car drive-thru line. I ate there today and it's fucking mind-blowing. It's like some sort of elaborate prank that has gone on for almost 10 years now.

Go at 3:30pm: 1-2 people working, only car there, order takes 5-10 minutes.

Went at 12:30pm today: at least 6 people working, ass-to-ass cars and the service was so fast I pulled up one car behind the menu and didn't even get to peruse the menu before I could make a decision.

ZyyzYzzy_sl said:

Wife and I decided to get fried chicken from the Roy Rogers by us for dinner last night. It was actually pretty amazing, but as other have said in regard to Wendy's it's probably due to the manager actually giving a crap.

When we went in there was a book case and a good dozen old people just sitting and drinking coffee and reading, with mugs, not Styrofoam cups. I have never been in a fast food place like it ever.

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All the A&w's here are like that, rootbeer comes in a giant chilled mug.

The guys at work got some Roy Rogers chicken once, I thought it was terrible.

The only issue with Olive Garden, at least around here, is that there are plenty of other "red sauce" Italian restaurants that are loads better in my opinion. I have nothing against Olive Garden other than some of the food being a little salty, but that can happen anywhere really. I just don't go enough to have an opinion.

I do love to laugh at all the fake Italian words they make up to describe their food.

Just did the Blazin' Challenge @ B-Dubs. It is the worst kind of hot, the one where eating more helps temporarily but you know at some point you'll be done or have to stop. Walked around the parking lot for 30 minutes getting my head straight.

Those wings suck. I really enjoy hot food - much more than the average hot food lover, but the Blazin' wings from BW3 are just painful and gross.

Salshun_sl said:

Just did the Blazin' Challenge @ B-Dubs. It is the worst kind of hot, the one where eating more helps temporarily but you know at some point you'll be done or have to stop. Walked around the parking lot for 30 minutes getting my head straight.

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I've done those. They A: taste like butt and B: burn your asshole next day. Enjoy!

Eyashusa_sl said:

The only issue with Olive Garden, at least around here, is that there are plenty of other "red sauce" Italian restaurants that are loads better in my opinion. I have nothing against Olive Garden other than some of the food being a little salty, but that can happen anywhere really. I just don't go enough to have an opinion.

I do love to laugh at all the fake Italian words they make up to describe their food.

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As a lover of languages I used to get pissed off at the fake words. Their favorite word, "Hospitaliano" that they love to scrawl across menus and say in commercials is a completely made up bullshit word. People used to ask me what it means and I hated having to tell them it was marketing gibberish.

McCheese_sl said:

As a lover of languages I used to get pissed off at the fake words. Their favorite word, "Hospitaliano" that they love to scrawl across menus and say in commercials is a completely made up bullshit word. People used to ask me what it means and I hated having to tell them it was marketing gibberish.

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Bro, with much respect if you associate Olive Garden with authentic Italian, the blame lies with you. I had a buddy that worked there, all the pasta was pre-bagged and boiled for individual sale. It's real Italian the way Taco Bell is real Mexican food.