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For soft drinks etc while on the road McDonald's is my go to. While not the best, the coffee, ice tea and soft drinks are about the same coast to coast. Portillo's for Chicago style hot dogs and Italian beef sandwiches. Toss up between White Castle and Crystals for sliders. Carl's Jr for their California Burgers and their biscuit breakfast sandwich.
 
darsben said:
. While not the best, the coffee
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I find MCD coffee to be the best tasting of all the fast-food places, but all the other places are at least tolerable. I don't know what Denny's use, but I do not care for it. But Denny's is not fast food anyway.

It doesn't make much difference to me these days as I now always have my perfect for me coffee made at home from my Keurig, made the exact way I like it ever morning. Italian Roast. I fill up my HFT coffee Tumbler by using both the large and medium setting with the same pod and it fills the cup with only enough room to put the lid on and it is the exact taste I like. Consistently the exact same every morning. I have a Keurig at each house, so I take one with me on these RV trips.

BTW, if I fill up the HFT Tumbler in the morning, the coffee will still be hot in the afternoon. It sure works well.

So now when I go to the FF places for breakfast, which I often do, I get a bottle of orange juice instead of the coffee. I limit myself to one 20 oz cup of coffee every morning, never more and never later in the day. It's always right when I first wake up, before I eat anything at all.

-Don- Gila Bend, AZ
 
Ray-IN said:
Cheddars. I can get a meal there faster than Wendy's or Steak N Shake.
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Tom & I went to Steak & Shake one time many years ago in Reno. Never again.

Remember the old advertisement "Where's the beef?" That really applies to the Steak N Shake hamburgers. The biggest rip-off of all the FF places.

BTW, when the S N S first opened up in Reno next to Hwy 395 in Golden Valley, it has a very long line of to-go customers. I have no idea why, but I would not get in that line if they paid me $200.00 plus all the food I can eat. They probably had some type of promotion deal when they first opened up in Reno.

Many months later, there was no longer any line, that was when Tom & I tried it and we had probably the worst hamburger we had in our lives.

BTW, the place is now closed down. It went out of business, I wonder why. . .

BTW, I never heard of "Cheddar's" before. I just now looked it up on the web. If I knew about it while in Texas, I would have tried it.

-Don- Gila Bend, AZ
 
The new Loves truck stop in Parachute, Colorado along I-70 within the Colorado Rockies has a McDonald's. It's our closest fast food at nearly 30 miles away. It's also the only truck stop with fast food for the next 200 miles east to Denver. I don't think that they'll be going out of business, but based on the reviews I'll never eat there. 2.2 stars out of 5. Their intention must be to give manure to the travelers passing through and make them wait for it.

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Forced to eat food at the major fast food chains on ocassions across the country i am still attempting to figure out what makes up the hamburger patty professed to be called hamburger. I have purchased and try to purchase fresh ground up meat for hamburgers on the grill myself.

So I feel like I know the difference in the texture, cooked look and taste anyway. So this is one of the biggest reasons, if at all possible I travel with my own porta potty and my local 60 mph fast food bed and breakfast, lunch and dinner chain behind me. :cool:
 
Western Slope said:
The new Loves truck stop in Parachute, Colorado along I-70 within the Colorado Rockies has a McDonald's. It's our closest fast food at nearly 30 miles away. It's also the only truck stop with fast food for the next 200 miles east to Denver. I don't think that they'll be going out of business, but based on the reviews I'll never eat there. 2.2 stars out of 5. Their intention must be to give manure to the travelers passing through and make them wait for it.
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MCD's should all be the same quality these days.

I find it is best to ignore restaurant reviews.

Several years ago, Tom & I often went to a Thai restaurant in Pacifica, CA. Tom got online and gave it a five-star review. It never got posted. We told the owners about it at the restaurant. We were then told other customers told them the same thing, their five-start reviews never get posted, but any negative or mediocre review will get posted. They had no idea what was going on and neither did we. Never did find out.

We also often found places which had great reviews to be very lousy as well as vice versa.

-Don- Gila Bend, AZ
 
McDonalds and Starbucks drip coffee are on par with each other. McD sells almost as much coffee as Sbux. When I grab breakfast at McD's I actually do like their coffee. Or if it's a cold beverage morning, a large unsweet Iced Tea.
 
DonTom said:
MCD's should all be the same quality these days.

I find it is best to ignore restaurant reviews.

Several years ago, Tom & I often went to a Thai restaurant in Pacifica, CA. Tom got online and gave it a five-star review. It never got posted. We told the owners about it at the restaurant. We were then told other customers told them the same thing, their five-start reviews never get posted, but any negative or mediocre review will get posted. They had no idea what was going on and neither did we. Never did find out.

We also often found places which had great reviews to be very lousy as well as vice versa.

-Don- Gila Bend, AZ
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When I worked for Bonneville's radio stations in San Francisco the company wanted to see if they could make Fortune's 100 Best Companies to Work For list and asked employees to go to Fortune's web site and fill out the questionnaire. They were disqualified because they got too many 5 star responses. It really was that good of a place to work.
 
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Bojangles is my favorite Fried Chicken. Popeye's is good back east, but they don't seem to be able to keep consistency outside of the South.

MacDonald's is OK for a simple breakfast munch on the go, and their Coffee is reliably good.

Culver's and Whataburger have been very consistent for a good Burger. I never eat the cheese at fast food burger joints. "American Cheese" ain't Cheese. Just sayin'.
 
LarsMac said:
Bojangles is my favorite Fried Chicken. Popeye's is good back east, but they don't seem to be able to keep consistency outside of the South.

Culver's and Whataburger have been very consistent for a good Burger. I never eat the cheese at fast food burger joints. "American Cheese" ain't Cheese. Just sayin'.
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Several stories as it relates to your comments,, sadly or one may say to the credit of wanting to have fresh cooked chicken at Bojangles , the outlets are required to throw away their fried chicken after 20 minutes of sitting in their display cases, or so I am told.

I had several discussions with the management about this, telling them thats such a waste and a nonsense business policy. There are always a lot of alternatives. I told them to at least put the chicken in their coolers and then sell packages of it to the public. There is nothing wrong with their 20 minute cooked chicken. We carry it ourselves when we have leftovers from buying in bulk. Their prices have gotten crazy though.

But funny you speak about the cheese, I can't stand the yellow cheese that is served on most hamburgers that i am forced to buy when on the road and in need of a quick belly fill up. My DW hates it when I call it "snot cheese"

And Popeye's, they are the only outlet that has chicken livers, which we absolutely love. And to their credit, they only cook them to order. So they are hot and fresh.
 
Jayflight said:
Several stories as it relates to your comments,, sadly or one may say to the credit of wanting to have fresh cooked chicken at Bojangles , the outlets are required to throw away their fried chicken after 20 minutes of sitting in their display cases, or so I am told.

I had several discussions with the management about this, telling them thats such a waste and a nonsense business policy. There are always a lot of alternatives. I told them to at least put the chicken in their coolers and then sell packages of it to the public. There is nothing wrong with their 20 minute cooked chicken. We carry it ourselves when we have leftovers from buying in bulk. Their prices have gotten crazy though.
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I've seen a number of click-bait articles in the past couple of months that are bashing the stores for throwing out food that has hit the "sell-by date". The same old complaints: "Why can't they give it to a food bank?"; "Why can't they give it to a homeless shelter?"; etc., etc.

I always reply, "Because it's illegal," and, because food banks don't have refrigerated storage compartments, and because someone is just waiting for a store to give away food then someone contracts food poisoning and gets the hell sued out of them.

It's just easier for the establishment to throw it away.
 
Tulecreeper said:
I've seen a number of click-bait articles in the past couple of months that are bashing the stores for throwing out food that has hit the "sell-by date". The same old complaints: "Why can't they give it to a food bank?"; "Why can't they give it to a homeless shelter?"; etc., etc.

I always reply, "Because it's illegal," and, because food banks don't have refrigerated storage compartments, and because someone is just waiting for a store to give away food then someone contracts food poisoning and gets the hell sued out of them.

It's just easier for the establishment to throw it away.
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My comments were generated after experiencing the action in person. The outlets have the ability to sell it as cold chicken, recouping some of the costs of raw materials and the labor to cook it. To this day when I go into another operation to get even their seasoned fries, I make it a point to ask someone that carries the torch as manager about this policy in their operation if there has even been an alternative. Yes I am a royal pain about folks throwing out good food anywhere. And most soup kitchens do have coolers, if that's your concern.
 
Jayflight said:
My comments were generated after experiencing the action in person. The outlets have the ability to sell it as cold chicken, recouping some of the costs of raw materials and the labor to cook it. To this day when I go into another operation to get even their seasoned fries, I make it a point to ask someone that carries the torch as manager about this policy in their operation if there has even been an alternative. Yes I am a royal pain about folks throwing out good food anywhere. And most soup kitchens do have coolers, if that's your concern.
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I understand, and fully agree with your reasoning. But think about how much trouble the establishment has to go through to set up a way to do that.

To put already cooked chicken into a refrigerated area with the raw chicken isn't allowed because FDA regulations forbid the two to be together. To set up a whole new system of packaging for said already cooked chicken that is separate from their cooked chicken packaging system...etc., etc., etc. They would in all effect have two separate restaurants running from the same establishment - one for their fresh-cooked product, and one that sells their fresh-cooked product that didn't sell when it was fresh-cooked. The cost of basically creating an entirely separate operation would not be cost productive so it's just easier for the establishment to throw it away.
 
Tulecreeper said:
I've seen a number of click-bait articles in the past couple of months that are bashing the stores for throwing out food that has hit the "sell-by date". The same old complaints: "Why can't they give it to a food bank?"; "Why can't they give it to a homeless shelter?"; etc., etc.

I always reply, "Because it's illegal," and, because food banks don't have refrigerated storage compartments, and because someone is just waiting for a store to give away food then someone contracts food poisoning and gets the hell sued out of them.

It's just easier for the establishment to throw it away.
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Most health departments, who supervise restaurants have clauses on how "Aged prepared food stuff" needs to be disposed of.
 
LarsMac said:
Most health departments, who supervise restaurants have clauses on how "Aged prepared food stuff" needs to be disposed of.
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Aged? LOL Buckets of chicken sits on the warming counter in most all grocery stores and even Walmart for a lengthy period of time that far exceeds the time frame stated by Bojangles. To date I have not seen lengthy articles dealing with food poisoning from the big named grocery stores.

But the same people handling cooked chicken handle the uncooked chicken. In house coolers hold the side selections all the time. But for sure my next stop I will make sure I pursue this area with the king chicken attendant. :cool:
 
I don't normally use BBQ and fast food in the same sentence. BUT if you're on the road and need a BBQ fix, there's Dickey's BBQ. Its sorta like McD's vs Fudruckers, but it is real BBQ
 
Not my favorite fast food, but when you're hungry there's Pete and Earl's here in Western Colorado. $25.50 for a plain hamburger, fries, and a Pepsi.

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