Mediocre chain restaurants

[Moonlight Shadow]

Though it's meant to be really good for your health.

I'll stick to kimchi and sauerkraut for my fermented veg stuff...

[Jah Womble]

Does this "it's a thing" preposition rule also apply to Christmas and Easter?

That was my immediate thought. Not a logical ruling, really.

One of my books was published by a company in Chicago and the amount of irritating changes I was asked to make to the style drove me nuts: “Nobody says ‘in hospital’ - please change to ‘in the hospital’...’Couple of days’? What? No, no, it should be ‘couple days’!!” (Etc.)

In the end, I got so fed up with all this mangling of the language, I told them to take a ‘couple grand’ off my fee and get some staff member to do it. (Well, not as much as that, but y’know.)

Anyway - ‘mediocre chain restaurants’...

[Patrick Thistle]

Against my better judgement I went to Frankie & Benny's tonight. .....

How do these places stay open?

Turns out I won't be going there again. The Cardiff branches are slated for closure.

[slackster]

Anybody here joined the re-opened McDonalds UK drive thru queues that have been causing tailbacks and jams on approach roads to get a Big Mac or Nuggets fix? Probably not, I imagine.

Got caught up in some silly gridlock yesterday teatime whilst trying (and failing) to access an adjacent M&S food store.

[Ginger Yellow]

Nope. I was just exploring if any of the street food markets near me were reopened, doesn't seem like it.

[Greenlander]

No, but the one that is just off the main roundabout out of Plymouth on my way home and is often subject to queues had traffic back past that roundabout and onto the slip roads. Two hours wait apparently. Trying to get home last night was madness.

[Benjm]

I had a Nando's delivery last weekend. It was delicious.

[ad hoc]

This news shatters my hope in the possibility of a better world after Covid19.

(Edit: The McDonalds news, not Benjm going to Nando's)

[Logan Mountstuart]

Anybody here joined the re-opened McDonalds UK drive thru queues that have been causing tailbacks and jams on approach roads to get a Big Mac or Nuggets fix? Probably not, I imagine.

Oh, if only you knew. The Mcdrives have stayed open in The Netherlands throughout the crisis, so it's a bit calmer. But getting through to make deliveries is often a painful process, especially where the car parks are barricaded off.

Of course being transport, where nothing ever goes wrong, no extra time is planned into schedules to allow for this.

[Nocturnal Submission]

I must admit that I find this queuing-hours-for-something-you-could-make-at-home-for-about-the-same-cost-which-would-taste-much-better quite baffling.

[Walt Flanagans Dog]

Walkers Crisps launched a new promotion not long after the start of lockdown where they have flavours associated with different restaurants e.g. Nando's Peri Peri Chicken flavor, Pizza Express American Hot flavour, in which the draw is that if you buy a multi pack you get a code to get a voucher for the chain in question, which I think I'm right in saying expires before the end of September.

[Sporting]

I must admit that I find this queuing-hours-for-something-you-could-make-at-home-for-about-the-same-cost-which-would-taste-much-better quite baffling.

There are millions of people who never cook (microwaving etc doesn't count).

[Walt Flanagans Dog]

I must admit that I find this queuing-hours-for-something-you-could-make-at-home-for-about-the-same-cost-which-would-taste-much-better quite baffling.

When people have little else to do, they'll do that. See also the incredible queues for Ikea this week.

I'll admit to getting KFC drive throughs the last two Saturday lunchtimes with my daughter en route to the weekly supermarket trip. Each time it has been a 10 minute wait to get to the window and they have it quite well organised. The two of us can sit quite happily in a car chatting about fuck all, in a way that we wouldn't if we were sat in the kitchen eating homemade bad chicken as opposed to takeaway bad chicken.

[3 Colours Red]

There are millions of people who never cook (microwaving etc doesn't count).

Guilty as charged. I was so bad at home economics at school that I was actually excused it... fine by me, I could just go in the library for an hour and play Lemmings, Sensible Soccer and Wolfenstein 3D. No wonder I turned out the way I did.

[Rogin the Armchair fan]

The drive thru McDonalds in Leyland is situated on the same shopping estate as the town's LIDL, B&M and Morrison's. All the supwrmarkets and stores are open. Normally their coexistence causes no problem whatsover. The last two days since McDs opened up have seen that much tailbacked traffic of people trying to get their Big Mac fix that no-one's been able to get to the supermarkets, the whole town centre has been gridlocked and they've had uniformed coppers out directing traffic to turn around at the back of the queues and go home. Fucking madness.

[Nocturnal Submission]

When people have little else to do, they'll do that. See also the incredible queues for Ikea this week.

I'll admit to getting KFC drive throughs the last two Saturday lunchtimes with my daughter en route to the weekly supermarket trip. Each time it has been a 10 minute wait to get to the window and they have it quite well organised. The two of us can sit quite happily in a car chatting about fuck all, in a way that we wouldn't if we were sat in the kitchen eating homemade bad chicken as opposed to takeaway bad chicken.

KFC with a 10-minute wait I can see, even though you can get some lovely breaded chicken varieties from M & S for a reasonable price and the just have to go in the oven for 30 minutes or so and get turned once. But if there's something unique or outstanding about the food I get it.

A McDonalds burger though!

[Toby Gymshorts]

A KFC Zinger Tower burger is a very, very guilty pleasure of mine.

[Balderdasha]

I walk past a McDonald's on my way to and from town, so I used to sometimes get an egg and cheese McMuffin from there after dropping the kids off, or get the kids a Happy Meal on the way back from swimming lessons. We have not missed it in the slightest over the last three months though. And as it's only open for drive thru and we don't have a car, we'll still not be getting any for a while.

[DCI Harry Batt]

KFC doesn't reach the status of "mediocre chain restaurant" does it?

[Walt Flanagans Dog]

A KFC Zinger Tower burger is a very, very guilty pleasure of mine.

Word, as it were.

[San Bernardhinault]

The fast-food chains down the hill from me have had ridiculous, round-the-block drive through lines throughout the pandemic. Raising Canes, which is reasonable fried chicken, California icon In-n-Out, and homophobic god-botherers with excellent fried chicken and terrible spelling, Chick-fil-A, have totally been totally bunged up. Taco Hell round the corner has also been very busy. Oddly, McDonaldses and KFCs have been much less hectic.

[Moonlight Shadow]

I quite fancy a Big Mac but it won't be at the cost of endless wait and gridlock...I need to have a look how bad it is where I live, Tesco right next to it and the only exit point from industrial estate (where recycling center and a busy truck collection/delivery centre is...). Should be fun...

[Jah Womble]

Guilty as charged. I was so bad at home economics at school that I was actually excused it... fine by me, I could just go in the library for an hour and play Lemmings, Sensible Soccer and Wolfenstein 3D. No wonder I turned out the way I did.

Jesus, I wish I'd been able to take home economics.

Wasting my time in double physics, I don't know...

[WOM]

All the fast-food places here have had their drive-thru open the entire lockdown. You can't go inside and you can't walk-up, but car service sometimes 24/7. No cash....all tap, generally.

[Bored Of Education]

Anybody here joined the re-opened McDonalds UK drive thru queues that have been causing tailbacks and jams on approach roads to get a Big Mac or Nuggets fix? Probably not, I imagine.

Got caught up in some silly gridlock yesterday teatime whilst trying (and failing) to access an adjacent M&S food store.

You don't live in Bath, do you?