Favorite Chain Restaurant

Pretty sure there’s still a Pancho’s in Arlington (Texas, that is).

 

I think I know one person who doesn't like Chick-fil-A and that still surprises me.

In my neck of the woods you used to not be able to get it other than a few mall locations and my wife would have nothing else if we came across one. Now we have two stand alone locations in our town and my kids would eat it every meal if they could. So she's sick of it and almost never wants it now. I think it's funny how the the Chick-fil-A cravings changed for her. She still likes it a lot, though, no matter what she says.

 

Three out of every four Arby’s roast beef sandwiches are tasty and the fourth tastes like something Upton Sinclair wrote about.

 

The like is for The Jungle.

Arby's sucks, although I like Ving in the commercials.

 

Do people like Steak and Shake? I thought it was decent, but I may have had "not available in Canada" bias.

 

Freddy's is much better than Steak 'n' Shake.

In-N-Out is way better than both. Shake Shack, too.

 

Freddy’s is what Steak N Shake had going 10-15 years ago before it started severely cutting corners with food quality. Also, the SNS locations in this market (two of three closed years ago) were pioneers in total breakdowns by the service staff years before it became trendy.

 

Never tried Newk's even though I drive past its corporate HQ the days I work in market these days. Their menu looks like it tries to be everything to everybody. Multiple quotations in the sports world address this.

 

Buc-ee's is the current cool place to get a T-shirt, and a lot of times they have cheaper gas than anywhere else locally. That's about the extent of the allure.

 

I became a bigger fan of McDonald's during the quarantine because they made everything so simple. I order two McDoubles for $3.50, the app special $1 medium fries and a $1 sweet ices tea and then pull up to the curb and check in and they bring it to my car.

 

The mall thing was the case in everyone’s neck of the woods for years. From 1967-1986, the only freestanding CFA was the Dwarf House in Hapeville, Ga., which is (was? I think they’ve changed it some) more of a sit-down restaurant than a true CFA.

I remember going to Perimeter Mall just to get Chick-Fil-A (‘cause you couldn’t get it anywhere else) way back when.

 

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When you’re traveling, the bathrooms are the allure.