Olive Garden is nasty
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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.
Five Guys.
One was opening up near me and my friends were all excited to try it. Paid 14 bucks for a 3 dollar Steak n Shake Burger, a medium drink, and the most limp, bland, and unappealing fries I've ever had, and I've had microwaved frozen fries before.
Never gone back, and I never intend to.
Chipotle. Got it once and can't forget how much rice was packed into the burrito. Scarred for life..
If you define the term "Restaurant" generously, it's McD.
Chick Fil A.
Fuck yeah bro! Fuck Chick-fil-A. My gay friends still go there and I'm absolutely floored by that!
I still don't understand it. Their chicken is mediocre, at best. And the sauces are all available elsewhere. Same with Raising Cane's, except there the chicken is even blander and reliant on the sauce, which again is a generic mayo and ketchup based fry sauce you can make at home.
Agreed. Went there once and was like...that's it?
Agreed, one of my friends is a trans woman and it blows my mind that she loves Chick-fil-A.
In my area, Popeyes is so much better too.
Popeyes is great, and consistent. Easily the best chicken sandwich as well, especially the spicy version. I wonder why they don't use the spicy chicken in the spicy version in addition to the spicy sauce. I assume the two throw it off somehow, too much pepper, etc.
Get their apple pie.
Also, Popeyes fries > Arbys fries.
I love Popeyes. So damn good.
Any chain restaurant.
McDonald's. If you can call that a restaurant
McDonald's.
Burger King - Absolute worst of the whole fast food genre.
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.
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
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The Cheesecake Factory is somehow a nationwide tourist trap — go somewhere exciting and then eat at the same overpriced trash faux-destination restaurant you could've eaten at back home.
McDonald's. Worst most overpriced saltiness yet bland ass food.
Literally all of them. I just go to the grocery store now for food.
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Pizza Pizza. My dad was once in change of ordering pizza for a company lunch, and Pizza Pizza cancelled his order without notifying him, leaving him with a roomful of hungry people. When he phoned to ask for an update on the order, they blamed him for not calling to confirm an order he had already placed.
It was probably just that one franchise that was poorly run, but we've tried to avoid the company ever since. I think I've bought pizza from them maybe twice in my life.
I haven't been to a Taco Bell since before Covid started, and I feel pretty good about keeping it that way.
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.
You don't go to Taco Bell, you end up at Taco Bell.
One particular local place: Went to this Chinese buffet (creatively named "Chinese Buffet") and there were cockroaches in the fried rice. Never ate there again.
Chain restaurants: Fuck Olive Garden. The only thing amazing about the place is they somehow managed to fuck up pasta, which is only amazing because it's hard to fuck up pasta.
Arby's. Like, not even the fries tasted good. The meat sandwich was just insulting.
Wendy's. Used to be my favorite. Then I moved to a town where they were all really, really awful. But that town had a Rally's, so overall significant upgrade.
That’s a shame. I like Wendy’s too.
I miss their soup and salad bars
Best fast food nuggies
Panda Express. Like warmed over cans of LaChoy from the 1970s.
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!
Everyone's going low, but Ruth's Chris is the worst fucking restaurant experience I've ever had. And I've been a couple of times, once with family and once because we were given a gift card. Shit apps, shit sides and an acceptable steak for way more money than it should be. The wait staff was creepily servile, like the "how may I pleasure you" that Chick Fil A used to force. And the lights were a cool 5K color temp like I was eating dinner in the parking garage. Fucking garbage.
Chipotle you're likely to get some kind of mass food poison plus the food literally doesn't have flavors anymore. Unless you get one of the salsa then everything just tastes like that. Chicken no flavor, rice no flavor, beans no flavor not even salt.
Any club restaurant that has any form of a dress code. I dress for the occasion, not for dinner.
Lol what if the occasion is dinner?
As I said: I dress for the occasion. If I'm dressed appropriately for the occasion (I assume everyone else in attendance is too), and the restaurant denies me entry because of what I'm wearing, I'm waking out and going somewhere else.
the restaurant denies me entry, I'm waking out and going somewhere else.
Yes, that's how being denied entry works.
Yup. It's also how exercising choice by wallet does, too.
So if the occasion is meeting friends or colleagues at a fancy restaurant, you won't go because they don't allow cargo shorts and flip flops?
Unless my friends ask otherwise, yes. If they say 'dress nice, we're all wearing cummerbunds' no problem, I'll turn up dressed nice without a cummerbund. If they say 'dress nice, btw restaurant rules cummerbund', im out.
Edit: if it's my dinner, and the restaurant does that to one of my guests, and will not accommodate them, I'm also leaving with them and taking my entire group with me.
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