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Fuck yeah bro! Fuck Chick-fil-A. My gay friends still go there and I'm absolutely floored by that!

In my area, Popeyes is so much better too.

I'll take Burger King over McDonald's any day. I get a craving once in a while that can only be satisfied by their onion rings.

Not my favourite but at least they haven't been hit as hard by shrinkflation

The last two times I went to Burger King, I ended up throwing up. Two separate locations, multiple years apart. I will never go back.

Same, but with McDonald's.

You, me, and more than half the US military. That shit is like the exclusive fast food on every military base everywhere.

That was my entire childhood experience of fast food

I haven’t had Burger King in 20 years.

It was my eighteenth birthday and I had a bad experience

I don't understand cheesecake factory. It literally does nothing well. Jack of all trades. They do almost every type of food and yet somehow all of it is bland and boring. It's a nice restaurant for people too afraid to try new food

I went there once like maybe 10 years ago or so and I was shocked at how bad it was. Got the lasagna it was straight up Stouffer's. Tasted like garbage. I sent it back. I've never done that in a restaurant before first time in my life. Plus the soup tasted like it came from a can. The whole restaurant is just straight up gross.

Yeah... while your description is accurate, I'm still gonna eat there. Because sometimes warmed cans of LaChoy just hit that spot.

My niece suggested this place for lunch today and was quickly shouted down by the rest of the kids here. They know!

That’s a shame. I like Wendy’s too.

You don't go to Taco Bell, you end up at Taco Bell.

Having worked at almost every fast food restaurant, the only thing I can say for Taco Bell is that nothing gets "cooked" in store. Browning a tortilla or heating up a bag of beef or beans really doesn't count.

I guess technically the cinnamon twists and nacho chips are fried fresh each morning. If you want to recreate the cinnamon twists, those are literally deep fried twisty pasta. It starts out about ⅛" in diameter, and 1" in length, and puffs up in the deep fryer to the big twists. You do need something to press them into the oil, or they will try to jump out like popcorn.

We have a restaurant like that in our city called 529 Wellington.

It's supposed to be a incredibly upscale chef run steakhouse.

While the old building and decor is wonderful, the dining experience is a complete farce.

The first thing they do is parade in front of you, several gigantic trays of raw meat, dripping with myoglobin. They want to sell you on how wonderful their meat is. I'm already here fuckface, get that fucking raw meat, which smells like raw meat, away from my table and my date. It's an implicit understanding that if you are charging me $60 for a steak, it's going to be the best mother fucking aged steak around, within reason of course.

I was looking at this tray of meat and noticing that there was no marbling in any of the cuts. We were already there and we were already going through the whole rigmarole... But I was braced for a bad steak.

Then, each dish is served separately, so now I'm expected to pay $24 for mashed potatoes and butter. Two heaping tablespoons of mashed potatoes, 2 fronds of dried chives on top. No other flavors except salt. $24. Don't put a scratch of nutmeg or garlic in there or anything just fucking boring potatoes with butter.

Of course, the steak arrives, and it's predictably like a gym mat. Dense, dry, flavorless as a result. I did not even want to finish eating it.

My date and I did not even order drinks, and we barely scrambled out of there for $200. I think in today's money it would be a $400 meal.

For dog shit.

Now I just go and get a really fatty marbled ribeye steak in the discount bin, for like eight bucks, and it's a hundred times better. Those pretentious steakhouses can go to hell, they are almost uniformly rotten in my experience.

Lol what if the occasion is dinner?

I moved to Texas for a job. I decided to try what a burger. The buns were stale and the burger was greasy. The mix of the two resulted in a taste like instant mash potatoes that weren't cooked right... I threw out 3/4 of the burger and found another place to eat.

Still haven't been back because yuck...

I lived in Texas for a number of years and that place is super overrated. I don't think it's the worst place, but ended up disappointed because of all the hype vs what I got. Shake shack was the same to a lesser degree. Still have never had in-and-out.