Food What is your favorite fast food chain?

Definitely Subway

You get some salad on it so you can convince yourself its somewhat healthy, and it tastes lovely.

I always have the same order:

Foot long club with cheese on wheat bread, toasted
Lettuce, Tomato, lots of Onion, olives
Light Mayo
A pack of cheese and onion crisps and a diet coke.

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The only better sandwich I had was in Raleigh Int'l airport in South Carolina, and I doubt I will go back there very often.

 

Burger King, but only about 3 times a year. Gave up FF long ago but get a craving once in a blue moon. Gave of Soda Pop 10 years ago and feel soooo much better since then!

 

I don't do much fast food, but when I do I prefer Culvers! Always great food, and it was the first place the wife and I ever ate together, so it holds a little something special there. No I do better than fast food for a date. It was a first meet as friends, although things escalated very fast from there! It was pretty funny to, she spilled her soda all over the place right at the self serve fountain!

 

I grew up in Chicago and there are Vienna Beef restaurants everywhere from the city to the suburbs. Hot dogs and Italian beef are the specialties. Nothing beetter than a juicy Italian beef sandwich with hot and/or sweet peppers. Perhaps a cheesy beef with mozzarella cheese or an Italian combo with a big Italian sausage added. Don't forget the onion rings or tamale on the side. A Vienna beef hot dog is great with nuclear green relish, onions, tomato slices, pickle slice, mustard, sport peppers and celery salt. NO CATSUP - considered sacreligious on a hot dog in Chicago. Catsup is only for fries, which goes great with the hot dog. This is my kind of fast food - Chicago style.

 

Mine also MadMan317. I am a Chicago native. I miss that food.

 

Portillos is not fast food.

 

So does a bank

 

When you can get your order in under 5 minutes, that's fast food. Just because it doesn't have a big national chain name attached to it does not disqualify it as fast food. It's how it's served, not what it's called.

 

Portillos IS fast food.... it's awesome food, but it's still fast food.

With that being said, you Chi-Town people need to experience the epic-ness of Whataburger. The west coast too, so you can finally get over your weird obsession with the grossly inferior In-N-Out...

 

I don't believe I've ever gotten my order in under 5 minutes at a Portillos. Usually, that's at least how long I have to stand in line to place my order.

 

Ok I guess some people need things spelled out. Five minutes AFTER you place your order. And even McD's can take longer that during rush times.

 

Chipotle
Jersey mike's
Panera...I think of it as fast food
Panda express
Hovan
Five guys

One thing about living near the mall is that all of them are less than 2 minutes away from my house. Which is both a good and bad thing.

 

Instead of the moniker 'fast food', how 'bout take-out or take away?

I mentioned a Vietnamese place I like. I phone in my order, they always reply "10 minutes" and I drive over and pick up & bring it home. I can do the same with a 'good' pizza. Call ahead, order, etc.
Now a sit down joint may have some take out items but often not the entire menu. I would use that to distinguish between so-called fast food and not-fast food.
Many fast food restaurants have been going though a major transition in what they serve and how they serve it so it's no wonder that it is hard to define what constitutes fast food.

Drive up/thru has nothing to do with it. In a ritzy town down the road, zoning laws prohibit both MacDonald's and Burger King from having a drive thru.

 

Discovered a new sub place in the "Further Great White North" called Cousin's. They're a not-national-but-not-local sandwich shop, they're less expensive than Jimmy Johns and, for my money, much more tasty. If they delivered I'd never have to go to Subway or Jimmy Johns or Quizno's again.

 

You're making me homesick, my friend.

 

And what of Bleacher's, Gino's, The Ambo and The Library?

Clearly there's only one solution for this conundrum.

 

Dominos pizza for me..