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OT: Let us discuss fast food...

I’ve never hear of that one. I only know this one...

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Somebody tell me about Chipotle. There’s one about a 1/4 mile from me at the moment, but I had it pegged as a little fancier Moe’s and I’m not a Moe’s fan..
It’s similar, but different. I like the burrito that I build at Chipotle better than the one I build at Moe’s. But I eat at Moe’s way more often because their tortia chips and queso dip is a bazillion times better and that’s where the wife prefers to go. But neither is comparable to the hole-in-the-wall mexican place that I used to go to in Chula Vista.
 
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Also, you should watch Breaking Bad.
TWICE. Just finished S5 E14 a couple years later.
And all of this Guthrie talk, I've known those guys since before they opened that first store in Auburn (live about 20 miles from me and sat in their suite the first night they had it in 1999). The guys that started Zaxby's used to work for them sprang off of Guthries, which had three stores in Athens, Ga at the time..

Zaxby's chicken and Zax Sauce is based on another smaller chicken finger chain called Guthrie's that existed in Athens, Georgia while Zach McLeroy attended the University of Georgia.

Raising Cane's founders later sprang off of Zaxby's and opened in LA, or that is what I have always heard. See below


I was reading somewhere that the founders of Cane's and Zaxby's worked a Guthrie's and stole the secret sauce recipe and have started their own very succesful chains. So it ends up if you live in the South and are near a college there is probably one of these near you.
Louisiana, Mississippi: Cane's
Alabama: Guthrie's
Georgia: Zaxby's
 
Back in the day when I lived off 280 I used to love Taco Casa. I don't think its there anymore and I don't go to T-Town ever.

Full Moon BBQ has a drive-thru, so I'm going to count it. Their BBQ is decent, but I love chow chow.

Chipolte > Moes but as mentioned you get stiffed on the extras.
 
Wtf did you wait an hour? That’s 50 minutes too long to wait imo.

It was an all around fail. I walked in the house, my preggers wife said she was craving it, and I walked out and left my phone. So I'm sitting there, oblivious to the world.

I realize at one point that I've been there forever and I ask the manager how long I've been waiting. He gives me a deer in the headlights look, and then goes "Oh you're next" and then leaves me the receipt on top of my food with REFUNDED on it.
 
It was an all around fail. I walked in the house, my preggers wife said she was craving it, and I walked out and left my phone. So I'm sitting there, oblivious to the world.

I realize at one point that I've been there forever and I ask the manager how long I've been waiting. He gives me a deer in the headlights look, and then goes "Oh you're next" and then leaves me the receipt on top of my food with REFUNDED on it.
So he lied about how long you were there, lied about your spot in line, and lied about the refund? You got the ole fast food trifecta.
 
Let me add this, Wasabi, at the Columbus/280/430 exit on I-85 at Opelika. They have 50% off sushi specials Monday through Wednesday. Sometimes on Thursday. The Chicken and shrimp teriyaki with fried rice is phenomenal and the portions are huge. If I knew of anyone else around that liked to eat at that place so I didn’t have to go by myself, I could probably eat lunch there every day and never get tired of it.
 
It was an all around fail. I walked in the house, my preggers wife said she was craving it, and I walked out and left my phone. So I'm sitting there, oblivious to the world.

I realize at one point that I've been there forever and I ask the manager how long I've been waiting. He gives me a deer in the headlights look, and then goes "Oh you're next" and then leaves me the receipt on top of my food with REFUNDED on it.
This happened to me yesterday at McAlister’s when I went to pickup a call in order for a grilled chicken ceaser salad. Still wasn’t ready when I got there 30 minutes after it was called in. Got there and had to wait another 30 minutes. The girl told me she “gave” me two cookies since I had to wait so long on a call in order. Got back to the office, pulled the receipt out of the bag and WHAMO!!! $1.49x2 for chocolate chip cookies. Really? Fug me!
 
This happened to me yesterday at McAlister’s when I went to pickup a call in order for a grilled chicken ceaser salad. Still wasn’t ready when I got there 30 minutes after it was called in. Got there and had to wait another 30 minutes. The girl told me she “gave” me two cookies since I had to wait so long on a call in order. Got back to the office, pulled the receipt out of the bag and WHAMO!!! $1.49x2 for chocolate chip cookies. Really? Fug me!

Got dang that is a kick in the nuts
 
This happened to me yesterday at McAlister’s when I went to pickup a call in order for a grilled chicken ceaser salad. Still wasn’t ready when I got there 30 minutes after it was called in. Got there and had to wait another 30 minutes. The girl told me she “gave” me two cookies since I had to wait so long on a call in order. Got back to the office, pulled the receipt out of the bag and WHAMO!!! $1.49x2 for chocolate chip cookies. Really? Fug me!
Sounds like fraud. Congrats on the free McAllister for a year.
 
So he lied about how long you were there, lied about your spot in line, and lied about the refund? You got the ole fast food trifecta.

A whole bunch of lies and all he had to say was one sentence. I didn't even call to complain later, I was impressed.

Also, found out my wife likes the idea of Greek food a lot more than she likes Greek food.
 
This happened to me yesterday at McAlister’s when I went to pickup a call in order for a grilled chicken ceaser salad. Still wasn’t ready when I got there 30 minutes after it was called in. Got there and had to wait another 30 minutes. The girl told me she “gave” me two cookies since I had to wait so long on a call in order. Got back to the office, pulled the receipt out of the bag and WHAMO!!! $1.49x2 for chocolate chip cookies. Really? Fug me!
I would have lost my fuggin mind. Like seriously would have been embarrassed after the spectacle I would have caused.
 
Let’s try to keep the McDonalds, BK, and Sonics of the world out of this one. Only interested in things you can’t find in every little hick town in Alabama.

Also- if you don’t eat fast food, that’s cool, but I don’t need to hear about it.

My favorite new spot is Fazoli’s Italian joint out here in Tejas. It’s really pleasing to my Scottish palette for some reason...
In n out. It's BY FAR the best fast food restaurant in the country.
 
Definitely doesn’t fit your criteria, but I eat Zaxby’s probably 3 times per week. The wife could live on a strict diet of Taco Bell. Everything fast food wise in Auburn is pretty standard stuff. Nothing really unique as far as that goes around here.
I now find it extremely likely that we've run into each other. Which one do you go to? I go to the one out by the theatre, the one by Walmart is trash.
 
Somebody tell me about Chipotle. There’s one about a 1/4 mile from me at the moment, but I had it pegged as a little fancier Moe’s and I’m not a Moe’s fan..
Chipotle sucks IMO... Barberito's is the best if that's the type of food yore after

Agreed with the guy that posted Raisin Cane's, it's good for sure. Much better than Zaxby's IMO. If I'm getting chicken fingers, the best is still spicy chicken fingers from Popeye's though with the spicy mustard sauce. Good shit bruh
 
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Man I didn't know you were poor.
I am a poor for future reference. Though DQ doesn’t usually enter my frame of thought when I am hungry. Guys if you pay more than $7.50 for your food alone, I have hard time calling it fast food. Fast food usually entails what you can buy for 1 hr of min. wage. So a lot of these “fast food” options put forward are really “fast casual”.
 
I am a poor for future reference. Though DQ doesn’t usually enter my frame of thought when I am hungry. Guys if you pay more than $7.50 for your food alone, I have hard time calling it fast food. Fast food usually entails what you can buy for 1 hr of min. wage. So a lot of these “fast food” options put forward are really “fast casual”.

Agree. Chic Fil A is borderline fast casual as well. Taziki’s, Zoë’s and even Chipotle don’t belong in this convo. This to me is more about the Panda Express, Taco Bell, BK, McDonalds, Milos, Popeyes, Bojangles, Wendy’s, Milos, Schlotski’s (sp), Arby’s, Jack’s, DQ, Taco Casa, Zaxby’s, Hardee’s, Krystal’s etc.
 
BTW I would put up Andalusia Hardee’s up agaisnt any other fast food place in the country as the slowest ever at service.
 
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I love the fingers of chicken, myself. And you're corect- the sauce makes it. A gas station down the road really has the best. For burgers, Burger-Fi is hard to beat. Not sure of availability, though...
 
This happened to me yesterday at McAlister’s when I went to pickup a call in order for a grilled chicken ceaser salad. Still wasn’t ready when I got there 30 minutes after it was called in. Got there and had to wait another 30 minutes. The girl told me she “gave” me two cookies since I had to wait so long on a call in order. Got back to the office, pulled the receipt out of the bag and WHAMO!!! $1.49x2 for chocolate chip cookies. Really? Fug me!
McAllister's in my area are really good. Great servive, decent food. I had a similar experience last week at Taco Bell. My own fault for even going there.
 
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