Lou Schneider
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I guess someone has to pay to bring the meat and fixins over the mountains.
What is your favorite fast food restaurant?
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DonTom
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I have tried Dickey's, but I like the Crazy Ass Fries at BJ's BBQ in Sparks, NV much better than anything at Dickey's. And I will have to take at least half of it back home, because they give a lot.
-Don- Barstow, CA
DonTom
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Does MCD still have their one-dollar menus?
I rarely go to MCD for anything except for the places where they are the only game in town.
-Don- Barstow, CA
DonTom
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I have had many $20.00 hamburgers in CA. Seems to be the going price these days in many CA restaurants.
-Don- Barstow, CA
Tulecreeper
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About 15 years ago I had a hamburger in a restaurant in Napa, CA that cost $13. Just the hamburger...no fries. That was the last time I paid more then $4 for a hamburger.
DonTom
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I assume the Thai restaurant had all legit reviews, but perhaps too many 5-star so they (YELP, IIRC) assumed it was not legit. But IMO, the place deserved all 5-star reviews.
I now believe that is what happened there, as that would explain why only the 5-start reviews were not posted. Just too many of them.
If that is the case (and most likely is, now that you mentioned such a possibility) it just shows another great reason to ignore all restaurant reviews.
-Don- Barstow, CA
LarsMac
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When the Big Mac came out, I tried, and was completely unimpressed.
When I find myself in a place where MacDonald's is the choice, I take a Quarter-pounder sans Cheese. Sometimes a Double.
LarsMac
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We've taken Dickey's a few times. It's not bad. especially when all the other choices are burgers.
Ex-Calif
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I am pretty sure they now call it their "$1-$3" menu. When I do visit McD I almost never get a combo. First of all it's crazy to pay $17 for a Big Mac combo. That's what you used to pay to sit down in a bistro and get a "fancy" burger and a beer.
In the morning I get the sausage McMuffin and an OJ off the dollar menu. Lunch or dinner it might be a couple of cheeseburgers.
I don't like any fast food fountain drinks. I get my drinks at the gas station...
Mountain high
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Never eat at McDonald's, so I don't know what they serve.
Our closest McDonald's are on I-70 in Clifton and now further east at the Loves in Parachute, Colorado which are 40 miles apart. Also, both are where our other closest fast food restaurants are located. There are no fast food restaurants in-between in De Beque or Palisade and anywhere north/south.
My eldest daughter's family purchased McDonald's food and filled up at the Loves in Parachute during the Thanksgiving weekend after leaving our home. I know that they had some issues with getting their food in a reasonable time that delayed their trip back home over the Rockies. Loves was packed with travelers.
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Skookum
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That’s funny. A Big Mac meal is $10.39 here, just outside Seattle, when ordered through Uber Eats.
If I’m ever hungry for fast food, I definitely skip places with captive audiences like rest stops, airports, etc. pricing at those is insane.
Edit: I’m also reminded that Starbucks donates most of its unsold food. It started under Howard.
If I’m ever hungry for fast food, I definitely skip places with captive audiences like rest stops, airports, etc. pricing at those is insane.
Edit: I’m also reminded that Starbucks donates most of its unsold food. It started under Howard.
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Mountain high
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Watch purchasing items in the small towns too. Our local prices are insane. The 85 octane (only grade available) gasoline prices are still probably the highest in the state. The sign out by the highway states $5.99 Last Chance gasoline, whereas, driving through the mountains to I-70 it's $2.50 less, but that's some 30 miles round trip. We reimbursed our eldest daughter's family the $150 she spent during Thanksgiving after purchasing some items at our local store. Had a line behind her and didn't want to make a fuss. Probably 2 to 3 times the prices of a normal region.
Skookum
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With minimal planning and using an app, we avoid those places for fuel all together. They're not doing the small communities a service by charging super high prices for fuel, that's for sure.
SeilerBird
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I don't understand their logic at Chick-fil-A. Drive into their parking lot and there is a line to use the drive through. The line splits into two lanes, each one serviced by either an employee taking your order in person or at the speaker. Then the two lines merge back into one line. So what is the point of splitting the line in two and then joining it back together? I have only been to one Chick-fil-A so I don't know if this is a nationwide thing or just a local issue.
Lou Schneider
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Easy, if there's more than one person in a car it takes longer for everyone to spell out what they want, then enter and confirm a credit card than it does to shove a bag or three through a window. Even McDonald's has gone to this model of having multiple ordering lanes funneling to a single pickup window. During the pandemic when the restaurant lobbies were closed and the drive through doubled in volume Chick-fil-A had two and sometimes more employees per ordering lane and it worked well.
Ex-Calif
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In any manufacturing process you identify the bottlenecks and eliminate the delays. You also want to keep the staff fully engaged.
You wanna make more fries, add a fryer, you wanna make more burgers, add a cooker. You wanna move people faster open more input streams. That's why at peak times there is more than one register, that's why they are encouraging people to order with an app. That's why they are putting in self serve order kiosks.
Someone has figured this out. I personally will scope out the line - if it's any length at all I will eat later (come back) or go somewhere else. Life is too short to wait for food...
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LarsMac
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A lot of Chik-Fil-A units are like that. I can't understand it, myself. Tried them a few times, and have yet to be impressed.
I'd rather eat KFC, and I am not really fond of KFC.
jymbee
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Call me a cynic but I'm not buyin' the thought that 2 lanes at McDonalds benefits the customer in the least. The main reason for two lanes is to keep traffic from backing on to the street. It also can give the impression that line is shorter than it actually is.
Assuming that both lines converge into 1 and there is but one payment window and one order fulfillment window:
Scenario: 20 cars arrive at McDs at the same time.
One lane: By the time the 15th+ car goes to line up, many (myself included) will bail out and not be willing to wait.
Two lanes: Same # of cars, same wait time, but somehow 2 short lines "seems" like less of wait than one long line. Make sense? Nope, but that's human nature and the restaurants know that.
There's not much drive through restaurants can do to make customers order faster. Organized menu boards and meal "packages" that include entree/soda/fries help. "I'll take a "Number 3".
Then there's always the customer that gets up the order window and.. "Hmmm... let me see... "
Lastly, fulfilling an order involves far more than just shoving "a bag or three through a window".
Skookum
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Double drive-throughs drive me nuts! I always seem to get stuck behind the guy who won't pull up far enough after he orders.
