Fast food sales have plummeted since covid.

We have stopped going.

I have, and recommend anyone to do the same.

Wendy's and Arby's know what stop going means. Here's hoping McDonalds enjoys it just as much next year.

So many reasons to not eat out and especially where that sandwich is likely from. Better to make a good meal with chicken, rice, and veggies for pennies compared.

Yeah the Taiwan food scene is incredibly competitive and everything tastes so amazing. If the good is not good, then you get priced out. There are even Michelin Stared street vendors, although it may not be indicative of the quality.

I had a full meal at a night market for 6 USD including desert.

Less than 1500USD, you can get a food stall and materials to start a food cart.

I bought a used school bus a few years ago, and as part of the search process I started running into food trucks for sale (here in the US). Oh my fucking god are those things expensive, even when they're already well-used. It's no wonder food truck food is so absurdly expensive, and it must still take them forever to pay off their initial costs. Additionally, a lot of places here won't even let you operate a food truck at all unless it's associated with a brick-and-mortar restaurant.

Now you’re making me want some fried sweet potato balls! Or what’s the new vendor item now?

The free market would be a kid opening a better burger van across the road from Maccas and everyone jumping ship. The reality is you need zoning approval from the local governance, licensing fees, parking fees, etc, before you even have a van or any cooking gear yet. Then everyone goes to Maccas anyway because it's familiar even if it's bad.

There's like 3 places within a half mile of my Chick-fil-a I can go to and get a REAL chicken sandwich for the same or less cost.

Real as in slab of chicken and it has that grill taste to it.

And I'm not giving my money to an anti-LGBTQ organization.

Whenever I've been in a Chic-fil-a I feel like I'm at some church social event. And there's cars wrapping around the building and jamming up traffic out into the street. It's some cult shit.

I've only been to Chic-Fil-A a few times. When I went, they always said something like "have a blessed day," giving me cult vibes.

Me neither. I heard the hype so I went, I love me a good chicken sandwich. It was fine. But I don't think I've gone again. Might if I was hungry and it was nearby. But it always has a line up the door and was packed. These people must see something that I don't in it.

The chicken is not fine. It's soggy and rubbery.

Also on a moral ground, the CEO is extremely anti-lgbtq and still every lgbtq person i know is addicted for some reason (mainly G's, some L's and a T)

I had heard so much about it that when I visited the US years ago I really wanted to make sure I tried it. I was rather disappointed to say the least, as you say, it was fine... nothing special, just fine.

The first one I've had recently that has really wowed me was Popeye's opening in the UK, holy crap that was amazing. Huge bit of chicken, perfectly cooked, so juicy inside and so crispy on the outside. The proper amount of sauce, it even looked like the pictures... I crave that experience again...

Probably gonna have american's rolling eyes at me waxing lyrical about Popeye's but I've had it before in America and it was really good, but not superlative like the UK one.

Do I think theres something magical about it here? No. My theory is that it is because its new here, expectations and standards are really, really high, they need to establish themselves as worth going to over KFC or the local bossman chicken shops but I have no doubt that the standards and quality will start to drop, corners get cut as more franchises open and it will be back to 'fine'.

Yet people queue like it’s Disney World. Why?

religious zealotry mostly. it's a shitty chicken sandwich who's only redeeming quality is the pickle.

Before Chick-fil-A built a restaurant in this area, they had a food truck that passed through every week. It was fantastic. Delicious, hot, efficient, and the employees all seemed pretty happy.

After they built a location here, and after the long lines died down, I tried it. The sandwich was barely warm. I spent the weekend with food poisoning, unable to leave the house because I was pooping constantly.

I tried again at a location in California, on a road trip. I again got a sandwich that felt like it had been sitting out, cooling for a long time. No food poisoning that time, but that's the last time I went. Now I buy a few bottles of their sauce when it's on sale and make my own chicken sandwiches.

people love the bigot biscuits.

My twin use to go to chickfila during the dress like a cow thing to get a free meal. My twin is gay. I think they felt it was taking food for free? They haven't done it in awhile, so guess not even free they're worth it anymore. I never went, I prefer Popeyes.

Why would you go to Disney world?

I don't get it either. You can either pay $12 for a sandwich that's continuing to shrink and taste funny, or hit up a bar that suddenly has the best chicken sandwich you have ever eaten.

I don't get the lines either, but I do think I enjoy it more than you do. Ill have it maybe a few times a year and im always satisfied with what i get, but the price is rough. I enjoy the grilled chicken sandwich with pepperjack and bacon. I will then throw a bunch of the chick fil a sauce on top since your right it is very plain. I almost wonder if they leave it plain just so you can do this yourself. Its a decent sandwich with all of that. We just got our first raising canes by us and i agree the chicken is way better, but i cant do the sandwich just the strips since its literally the same thing with less chicken for a little more money.

Never heard of chicken express before. I had steak and shake like 20 years ago when i was in the south and remember it being good as well. Wish i had that as an option.

I do think the popeyes chicken sandwich is still really good for a fast food sandwich. Its huge, tender, and the mayo somehow adds a lot of flavor. They also have deals sometimes which helps. Shake shack chicken sandwich was by far my favorite, but its so small its kind of insulting for the price asked. Its got some dill mayo spread on it thats really good, i wont even order the burger from them anymore. Again it seems like i go a lot but this is only my experience over the years lol, i get one maybe once every 3 to 4 months from some place.

Compared to chicken from other fast food restaurants, it’s top of the line. I don’t even like it but it’s so much better than ilk like McD’s, burger thing, windys

Actually...

2x is all I can do

ordinary fast food tacos are probably the worst. 'crispy' by name, hardly so once you open the bag and take a bite.

the shells are so thin now, they get soggy in mere seconds. the sad thing is, part of you is actually hoping for that outcome because the alternative is a shell that's already splintered into numerous pieces just from being wrapped-up and put into the bag.

The quality is still the same. Its always been shit.

It still does. Except now because the portions are tiny, for a price higher than ever. And they somehow maintain the calorie count!

They're still ridiculous compared to the rest of the world.

Yeah, well who's laughing at us now! 🥲

I paid for meat mountain, I damn well want meat mountain.

Lol you're a good one, BeUnique

The first one looks just like the sandwich I got there last week. I don't think I've ever gotten one like the second pic from there. That looks like it came out of the school cafeteria or something.

Promote that shit. Where and name?

Kj levels?

Perhaps. If they hadn't doubled the price at the same time.

This is chicken vs ground chicken or at least a lower quality chicken.

Totally agree, the portion sizes are way too large for a normal person in most Western countries and Middle East. However, also most people judge/rate restaurants based on portion sizes not quality, less food equal bad reviews.

Staged as fuck too. That chicken is hanging out of the bun entirely.

Some people need a low cost ozempic

As if literally everyone hasn't already switched their providers

r/USdefaultism

Hey check out mister doesn't get home at 10pm and has access to a safe kitchen

I used to live 6 hours drive from my parents and drive to theirs after work on Friday for a weekend roughly every month or so.

If there's somewhere around halfway I can get fed, go to the bathroom, and take a short break which also doesn't push my midnight arrival time much later, then of course I'm going to do that instead of going out to a full service restaurant, or cooking myself and having to clean up from it, again pushing my arrival later? I'd be shocked if most people wouldn't agree with this?

For those who are feeding whole families where economies of scale can apply and forty minutes of shopping, thirty minutes of setup, twenty minutes of work, and then ten minutes of cleanup can feed half a dozen mouths at least two meals per day for an entire week or more, it is indeed worth it. But if you are, however, working three jobs and barely have time to sleep let alone cook, and you factor in the time it takes as time you could have been on the clock earning money, and the ridiculous cost of groceries lately, sometimes self-prep is just not cost effective

Go ahead and let yourself grab that Costco rotisserie chicken and eat it straight out of the bag with your hands. There's still something primally satisfying to it, and no one has the right to take at least THAT away from you. You have symbolically hunted for this bird behind the punch clock. Savor the time it saves you.

That's normal Chik-fil-A.

Like saying 'fascist America'.

Photos don't have an expiration date?

You think normal people know how to migrate photos off of their phones to clear storage space?

No.

Expandable memory was removed, cameras moved up to 17,000 megapixels stitching together 8 shots from 4 cameras for each photo stored RAW. All so that you fill up your sad amount of default storage, tell everyone you have a "slow" phone and then pay to upgrade a 2 year old $1400 phone.