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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Five Guy worship is a complete cult. It’s pedestrian, boring food that successfully hyped people up to the point they’re willing to spend a week of grocery money for a soulless burger and fries. Where I live, for a grown man to have a proper burger and fries at that clown show is like $27 a f’king go after tax
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
