/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>13751095
Because they all buy their shit from the same place (Sysco) but, the chains have dumped a ton of money into designing a menu that the mom and pop shops haven't.

It depends on your city. If you live in a good one, chain restaurants are the worst choice.

because they've entered into Faustian bargains with major food producers, leaving profit margins so fucking high that they can literally just shove unlimited garbage at you. Even if the food isnt great they give you a lot of it, so you at least feel like you're getting your money's worth.

>>13751095
GTFO! I got local mom&pop joints that blow those crapholes away faster than you can say wtf just happened.

>>13751134
I'm thinking about how "Faustian" could be interpreted, and now I wish I were a food producer. Most CEOs would definitely assent to a contract that gave the business short term savings in return for the supplier owning a portion of the business after the CEO had left to be a CEO for another business.

>>13751127
Sometimes people want bullshit, that's like twats coming to NYC, staying in Times Square and going to KFC, they're the standard morons.

>>13751127
Some people are stupid and just want standard bullshit. They don't want to go to residential neighborhoods, they don't want to explore. They want to be full of shit and they are what they are with expense accounts.

>>13751164
But KFC is based

>>13751095
Consistency and typically cheaper by and by. There are some local restaurants that serve better food but they are almost always more expensive or the quality control is manic at best depending on what felons are cooking that evening. You eat at an olive garden in new york and can usually expect the same taste and price in montana. Ma&Pa locations are a crap shoot you have to invest multiple meals to get a fix on what is good or not. Chains you must do it as well but then going forward you can go anywhere and apply that knowledge.

>>13751181
It used to be back when it was Kentucky Fried Chicken, when the name got dumbed down to kfc then it became disgusting, maybe some brasil or euro company bought it out.

>>13751181
When the name got dumbed down then they started appealing to "the urban youth."

>>13751183
That's why even in NYC that you go to residential neighborhoods for good food and if it's a chain then avoid it like the plague, anyone in their right mind avoids tourists at all costs.

>>13751208
>Come to the Big Apple and enjoy our massive gun violence problem and garbage piling up on the side walks!
The fuck visits new york? Shit I'd go to Somalia before NYC.

>>13751223
Fuck, I lived there for a very long time and learned to get the fuck out. Seriously, live and learn.

I am the bone of my appetizer
Garlic is my spice, and butter is my sauce
I have contained over a hundred and twenty calories
Unknown to limitation
Nor known to restriction
And yet, these takeout bags will never hold enough
So, as I eat...
UNLIMITED BREAD STICKS!

>>13751236
Maybe have some Station to Station?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAj2iX9xqCo
David Bowie, Station to Station

>>13751238
David what? Nobody cares about your newfag zoomer hipster shit.

>>13751241
Newfag is he? OK, you must be right then.

>>13751241
With stupid terminology like that you must be right from reddit.

>>13751236
GET YOUR BLAND ITALIAN SHIT LOGS OUT OF HERE

I AM THE GOD OF FREE APPS, WRAPPED IN CHAINS YET LORD OVER ALL CREATION

>>13751241
ironic shit posting is still shitposting

>>13751253
Indeed

>>13751254
Ironic moron bullshit is still bullshit coming from an asshole.

>>13751261
Hastur, Goddess of Love.

>>13751095

A chain restaurant provides a minimal standard of food. That's it. If you want better quality, you have to go elsewhere.

Of course, mom and pop restaurants depend on the particular mom and pop who own and operate the restaurant. If they are good, their restaurants will put any chain restaurant to shame.

>>13751287
Exactly, that's what people with expense accounts deal with. Its very low level stuff, MQS (minimum quality standards)

>>13751287
Some people don't have the approval level to get out of low level expense accounts, some people are morons and it is what it is for them.

Dealing with twats in some corporate booking thing is too far goofy for me, I wont deal with them. I'll bill them for my time and expenses and ask questions later.