What is the point of fast food anymore

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Fair enough. I'm not scraping by either. I just choose to vote with my wallet because that's capitalism.

Most times I buy fast food these days (few times a year) I just feel ripped off, because I know I'm paying extra just for shareholders; not for actual value.

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When I was in high school, we'd split a gram of weed four ways and go to Wendy's for the $4.20 meal. For less than ten bucks, you got stoned, a junior bacon cheese, four nuggets, small fry, and a small chocolate frosty. This was in the mid oughts so not that long ago!

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I wish I could move to Japan…

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The mid oughts was a different world, hundreds of years ago.

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In my days you could buy 420 chickens for $0.69.

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Fresh-cut, single-cooked fries are the worst kind. Soft, greasy, unsatisfying.

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Software development. I certainly didn't coin the phrase, but it's well-known and I agree, pretty fitting even outside of the IT industry.

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So true lol

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Not cheap, not convenient, not fast, and, let's be real: It's barely food.

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Me when I go to my local hangry chicken and order the chicken + fries nachos only for them to give me dark meat.

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...those areas are not on the West Coast. Pull up Portland and cry.

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Not even even an egg on it? I kinda want an egg on my breakfast sandwich

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Y'all oughtta know the mid oughts were a lit time to behold.

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If you have a college degree it's pretty easy to move to Japan. You just have to enjoy working for peanuts and singing songs to classes of little kids.

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If you have a Braum's nearby you can get a bomb-ass burger with two quarter pound patties, crinkle cut fries, and drink or shake for about $9.

But you probably don't have a Braum's around unless you are in the US and in one of like two shithole states.

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Dark meat at least tastes better and is more desirable where I'm at. Now you just get less meat in general for however much you're spending.

Give it five years and the taco bell quesadilla is probably gonna cost $10 and use the small tortilla instead of the big one. They may have won the franchise wars in fiction but reality is stranger.

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Wendy's is pretty decent, expensive but better if you use their app. I usually still see a code in there somewhere for $2 off or something, and their small frosty's aren't quite at fuck off levels of pricing yet.

Taco bell I feel like every restaurant is different. One near my house used to be bomb AF, then they had a changeover of all their staff and now it's terrible. Even the drive thru is different now they now have an AI taking your order lmao. Another location down the road is better at the food quality, but they fuck up what is supposed to go with your order half the time so at that one I always have to check the bag in the parking lot before I leave.

The older I get the most I just feel like it isn't worth it as much anymore. If I'm going to have to wait a half hour plus in the drive thru line, pay $15 for a meal now or $20+ if I wanted to get dessert or another side item too, and deal with people and the headaches of it, I'd rather just keep driving home and cook something there in about the same time. Plus I can usually get 3 or 4 meals out of that $20 worth if I make it at home so each leftover is faster to make.

Fast food industry is doing a great job making sure that I stay away as best I can and be inconvenient. The sole exception so far has been Little Ceasars, still $6 for a lunch combo and if you order in the app it's great, get notified when it's ready and I literally just park out front walk in grab my order out of the ready bin and off I go. I don't understand why others haven't pivoted that way as well.

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Honestly I don't think I've ate at Mcdonald's in the last six months now that I think about it. The enshittification of their app deals, price hikes, quality going down, the whole disease outbreak thing, just really turned me off of them. I know they had a bad quarter recently I hope they have another bad one

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Where I'm at it's definitely very restaurant dependent. Papa Racist's (Papa John's) and Pizza Butt (Pizza Hut) I avoid like the plague because their decisions have been jack up the price and nosedive the quality. Meanwhile Little Ceasar's is doing a $6 lunch combo and most pies I get there are usually $6-10.

I get it it's Little Ceasar's, but I got one thing to say to the LC haters

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Their burgers are bomb AF, I'll admit that, but my two complains from them are 1) they're small, we're used to big Whataburgers here so I practically have to get two of them and 2) their fries, yes it's oversaid but their fries are just different and not always in a good way.