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[richhodg66]

Only fast food, I frequent is Arby's, couple time a year. Never use the drive thru..............always packed. I park and go inside to order. They pretty much ignore, the walk in folks. Full concentration on the drive up window.

When you teach high school for a while, you are suddenly on a very familiar basis with most of the fast food servers in the area. I've been there, but lately it doesn't seem to be the case. Had to go to MacDonald's yesterday, wife forgot to bring a lunch to work and since I wasn't working, I got her something. I couldn't get anyone to answer at the drive though, oddly, so I went in which I prefer anyway. Took a while before anyone came up to the counter, this one relies heavily on the self ordering things I refuse to use, but the young lady was nice and efficient (I didn't know her). The industry really is going to drive up and self check out stuff, figured that's how that 15 bucks an hour push was going to turn out.

I eat way more fast food than I should, and restaraunts vary wildly in how good the food and service is, but none seem to be much like the old soda fountain days

 

[richhodg66]

All the fast food places here are staffed by about 60% people my age or older (63) who need the $$$, 10% 30 somethings who can't find a better job despite that degree in lesbian Eskimo art studies and the rest is kids doing their best to just piss everyone off and having an attitude while doing it.

Things vary across the nation.

Damn! I wasted all that time in accounting and management classes in college when I could have been studying lesbian Eskimoo art? Ohhh, the missed opportunities and regrets my life is simply fraught with.

 

[Rick]

I don't eat nearly as much fast food as I used to. Probably would if I could find any that was actually edible. Shocking how bad nearly all of it has become.

 

[smokeywolf]

While living on the leftist coast, we ate "fast food" pretty regularly. Our go-to places were a mom & pop Chinese food joint, a mom & pop Mexican food place and In-N-Out Burger. One more that saw a fair amount of business from us was Costco Pizza. Sure do miss having a Costco 10 minutes away.
Both Mrs. smokeywolf and I enjoy cooking and as we have made considerable effort to sequester ourselves from sources of transmission of the Chinese Flu(s), we do all of our own cooking.
Chicken Provencal is on the menu for tonight.
Thank you JWFilips.

 

[JonB]

I don't eat nearly as much fast food as I used to. Probably would if I could find any that was actually edible. Shocking how bad nearly all of it has become.

I couldn't agree MORE.
About once every few years, I see a ad for some new special sammwich offered by Arby's, that looks sooo tasty and good. Now, I don't think I've ever had a good sammich from Arby's. But I get suckered into trying the new sammich with some coupon, that seems like a good deal. Yes, I can't seem to learn...always disappointed with Arby's.

 

[Rick]

Maybe your local Arby's, here they are the best fast food in town. Not what they used to be but still . . . .

 

[JonB]

Maybe your local Arby's, here they are the best fast food in town. Not what they used to be but still . . . .

Surely could be, I haven't tryed any other Arby's locations in a couple decades.
What I can say is, there are some sammichs on McD's menu that are better than anything I ever got from that Arby's.
Arby's melty cheese sauce is the WORST food type substance I ever encountered.

 

[Rick]

McDonald's here is the worst burger in town and about the most expensive. Kentucky fried rat is without doubt the worst food in town, can't figure out how they even pay the electric bill, rare to ever see even one car there so it's not just me. I hear from people around the country that Kentucky chicken is great so it must be the franchise owner. Arby's here is still fairly good but not their new burger, it's frozen and nuked in the store. They don't have a grill in any Arby's I've ever been in.

 

[richhodg66]

Actually, I never cared for Arby's in the least when I was younger, recently, the wife and I have eaten at the one here in town a few times and I am much more impressed by their menu choices than I ever was before.

We have a chain here called Freddie's Frozen Custard, more or less local to Kansas though I think there are a few in Missouri and Oklahoma. The guy who started it served in WWII and was a huge sponsor for making these Honor Flights happen, I know several people from Wichita who knew him, good guy. Their food is better than most fast food and the restaraunts are always good in terms of service and atmosphere (60s music, etc.). They make no secret of their patriotic roots either.

Without getting too much into politics, that absolute abortion of a pull out in Afghanistan really, really had me sad and angry when those 13 troops got killed, all those Afghani citizens who helped us being abandoned to be tortured to death, etc. (blame whoever you want, not going there), we went into the local Freedie's and the manager and staff there had actually put together a fallen comrade table like you would have at a military ball. I got so choked up I couldn't eat. Shook the manager's hand, I hate that he probably thought when a customer asked for him, he was gonna have to deal with some Karen, maybe I made his day.

 

[Rick H]

I like Arby's but don't like their seasoned curly fries. I have to admit that once in a great while I get a hankering for a simple McDonalds cheeseburger and fries.....yeah I know, but they taste damn good to me.

 

[richhodg66]

We have an A&W here, not the traditional drive up like we remember, it's inside a big truck stop out on I-70, but really, as burgers go, it's better than the rest (Freddies sells Patty melts which is all I eat there, don't recall ever having a burger).

MacDonald's is at least a known quantity, wherever you go, they are about the same and I have to agree, once in a while I get a hankering for their simple stuff, but not real often.

 

[smokeywolf]

I kind of miss the old burger joints with the car-hops; Bob's Big Boy and A & W Drive-In. The Sonic in Tucumcari, NM is the last place I went that had car-hops. Last Bob's Big Boy I know of was on Riverside Dr. in Burbank, CA and they still had car-hops. They were within a few minutes of Warner and Universal Studios.

 

[Bret4207]

Actually, I never cared for Arby's in the least when I was younger, recently, the wife and I have eaten at the one here in town a few times and I am much more impressed by their menu choices than I ever was before.

We have a chain here called Freddie's Frozen Custard, more or less local to Kansas though I think there are a few in Missouri and Oklahoma. The guy who started it served in WWII and was a huge sponsor for making these Honor Flights happen, I know several people from Wichita who knew him, good guy. Their food is better than most fast food and the restaraunts are always good in terms of service and atmosphere (60s music, etc.). They make no secret of their patriotic roots either.

Without getting too much into politics, that absolute abortion of a pull out in Afghanistan really, really had me sad and angry when those 13 troops got killed, all those Afghani citizens who helped us being abandoned to be tortured to death, etc. (blame whoever you want, not going there), we went into the local Freedie's and the manager and staff there had actually put together a fallen comrade table like you would have at a military ball. I got so choked up I couldn't eat. Shook the manager's hand, I hate that he probably thought when a customer asked for him, he was gonna have to deal with some Karen, maybe I made his day.

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Lets just say I'd get choked up too and for the same reasons. I've probably been warned not to get political more than anyone else here, so we'll leave it at- You hit the nail on the head!

 

[Bret4207]

Arbys up her still has a turkey club type of sammich that's actually good. That's about all I can handle fast food wise anymore.

 

[popper]

We got a Freddy's, very good place. Don't eat out often but a fav. They are like steak & shake burgers, good quality meat. Sheridan's frozen custard place in Overland Park, got hooked on it when there. Started one here but it wasn't too good. Culver's is also good.

 

[RicinYakima]

Culver's in the mid-west is pretty good, at least the one time I ate there.

Four years ago a "Five Guys" franchise opened in town and was going down the tubes within a year. Company came in told franchisee to fire everyone and hire a new crew. He did, but took a couple of years to get business back.

Also a "Habit Grill" burger joint is open with a limited selection, but the ones they make are tasty.

I know, $10 for a burger makes me shiver, but money is not what it used to be now that minimum wage is $15.65 for high school kids.

 

[david s]

KFC, aka Kentucky Fried Rat was pretty much down for the count awhile back. Then the China market opened and there supposed to be pretty big there. Don't have to worry about the old home market if you're catering to a billon plus in China.

 

[glassparman]

In Cali many of the fast food workers get $18-20 an hour. Then they complain when a kids meal is $18. They also by law split all the tips so we don't tip here anymore.

Now Gavin Newscum enacted a law for 2023 to build a team to go monitor and regulate about everything the fast food companies do as far as benefits.

I see many FF may leave the state. I like Five Guys and Habit Grill.

 

[richhodg66]

Lets just say I'd get choked up too and for the same reasons. I've probably been warned not to get political more than anyone else here, so we'll leave it at- You hit the nail on the head!

The older I get, the more that kind of thing gets to me. It didn't help that it caught me totally by surprise and right while I was still reeling from the whole thing going down. I really don't like people seeing me come unglued emotionally, especially in a place where I run into a lot of people who I know, and I was pretty close that evening.

The Steak and Shakes we have around used to be very good, the one in Topeka was a favorite haunt when we lived there. They overhauled their menu a few years ago and then none of the stores I've been in since seem to have the level of care they used to so I've all but stopped going there.

Sounds to me like the entire state of California needs to take and pass a basic economics 101 class, it ain't rocket science.

 

[Missionary]

Pass !!! Now that is funny.
In ILL-nois just show up now and then without getting caught burning the building down.