This week in ill-advised new fast food items

Order a large and you'll have enough taters for a family. If, of course, you're of the mind to share.

 

My wife and I ate at Five Guys once. It earned the nickname "Diarrhea Burger" and it wasn't because it tasted like shit.
Chalking it up to a bad experience, I ate there alone a second time. The nickname was validated.
There has not been a third visit.

 

Five Guys is great. The only negative is that on a mobile order, they won’t make the fries in advance.

 

They will have the fries ready if you click the link in the confirmation text to let them know you’re on your way.

I just did that exact thing on Friday.

 

The Five Guys I go to is nice. That they keep up the franchises is impressive.

 

Our local one won’t do that. You have to show up first.

 

I’m in the major metro near My Fair City to pick up my brother and brother-in-law after today’s airline mess, and I stopped in a local BK to grab a snack tonight.

No cars out front. Doors unlocked. No staff inside.

I went next door to Zaxby’s.

 

That’s creepy.

Zaxby’s, that is.

 

There are actually several things on the BK menu that I kinda like. I've just given up trying. I've dealt with crappy service, tables left uncleaned, messed up orders, you name it. The capper was the night I gave them one more chance. I went through the drive through and ordered a Whopper combo, and they told me that they were sorry but they were out of french fries and Coke.

I've gone to BK once in the couple of years since, and that was to one that I know to be decent, and it was for a breakfast croissant. Screw 'em. Too many choices out there to mess with them any longer.

How the hell to you run a Burger Doodle and run out of fries?

 

Mine doesn't make anything until you tell them that you are there. Have to pretty much wait as long as if you just order it in the store. So I sit and eat peanuts.

Chick fil A's also doesn't make it until you are there. Freddy's used to do that but they changed it.

I think all apps should just do it when you order unless you pick a time.

 

That happened to me once at a Jack in the Box. Nobody seemingly in the store at all when I went to place an order at the counter. They were probably in the back room smoking and joking.