/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>5109325
Wendy's menu is amazing now. High quality ingredients, diverse menu, and stellar promotional items.

Burger King. Half of them by the end of 2015 will be closed, I hear.
BK is far shittier than W's.

>>5109329
but BK never started out very good. It was always meh, Wendys used to be really good IMO. and is BK doing that bad?

>>5109329
fuck off they better not, they just introduced the spicy original chicken sandwich

>>5109331
I wouldn't know as I seldom eat at chain fast food but I guess you're right in that BK has always been crap. When last I went to W's, I bought nuggets and fries. The fries were awful, but the nuggets were the same as they always are.
How has the quality for W's dropped?
And lemme see if I can find the article I read about BK and its plans to close half its locs.

>>5109329
I think you are wrong

Brazilian private equity firm 3G took Burger King private in 2010, but the company came back to the public market in 2012 with a renewed business model and increased profitability. The stock has risen by more than 30% over the last year, so investors seem to like the way things are going for the company.

The company has refranchised many of its restaurants in the last few years, and it now operates under a fully franchised business model. Burger King is also remodeling its stores and introducing smart menu innovations like its successful lower-calorie french fries, Satisfries.

These initiatives are having a strong positive impact on profitability; adjusted EBITDA margin increased to a whopping 64% of revenue during the third quarter of 2013 versus only 35.7% in the same quarter of 2012. Burger King still has room for store expansion, especially in international markets; the company opened 592 new restaurants during the fiscal year ended in September to a total of 13,259 stores.

Burger King is materially more expensive than McDonald's, with a forward P/E ratio near 24 and a modest dividend yield of only 1.2%. But the company offers higher growth prospects in the middle term if it can continue increasing its profit margins and expanding its store base over the coming years.

>>5109346
The burgers just taste bland and the buns never seem fresh, neither does anything really. They used to. and the fries are awful.

>>5109345
I think I'm wrong, too. I just checked their stock for the last five years and I must have read that article around late 2012 because that's when it was at its lowest. It's been climbing steadily since.

>>5109353
I dunno. I've never had a single thing from BK I've liked. Everything has been bad. Even McDo has that chipotle barbecue sauce (which for all its corn syrup and artificial flavours is actually pretty tasty) and Checkers has great fries and decent nuggets (both chicken and fish).

>>5109363
How I dont know but they are lol. Even though they redesigned some near me, they always look beat up compared to mickey d's

Taco Bell.
Both food and menu quality just keep going further and further down, while they continue to push garbage like the cantina menu and their new rice.

>>5109384
Taco Bell is my favorite widespread cheap fast food place. I won't vouch for their quality, but the taste is good. I agree that the cantina and new rice is shit though. Doritos tacos and smothered burrito more than make up for it.

>>5109384
>78% meat

>>5109384
The Cantina burrito was pretty shit

>>5109398
>cheap

Except that's not even true anymore.

Fucking subway. They used to be like deli quality sandwiches a few years ago. Now it just like.... meh. Its probably still worth $5 but... what the fuck happened?

>burger king
>no more chicken fries

>>5109426
>what happened

You graduated high school.

>>5109325
i dont know if this is a state thing, but McDonalds took away chicken tenders where i am, now i refuse to eat there.

>>5109448
ya the select tenders are gone

>>5109432
This anon gets it
BK has gone down hill the most
THOSE SHITTY FRIES
THAT HORRIBLE FAKE 'GRILLED' TASTE, THEY TASTED FUCKING FINE BEFORE BURGER KING
ALSO GETTING RID OF THEIR DELICIOUS CHICKEN FRIES WAS FUCKING SUICIDE
IM STILL PISS ABOUT THAT

perhaps your tastes are what's changing??

>>5109457
the chicken fries were dead to me the minute they lost the buffalo sauce

But those boxes with the built in sauce holder were a stroke of genius.

>>5109465
No I still enjoy other fast food

>>5109326

I miss wendys original fries so much

They were my favorite fast food fry and they moydad'em.
And for what? Even unhealthier cardboard-tier fad-fries

Wendy's always seems like it'd be the best in theory, but they're always staffed by give-no-fucks and everything always costs 30% more than it should.

Last time I went to one, the entire staff was just sitting in the lobby screwing around on their phones until I showed up.

>>5109407
>$1 grillers from 2-5
>get two nacho grillers and bean burrito
>three dollars and change

how is that not cheap

>>5109329

Yeah, this, actually.

BK used to be my favorite, but they've changed so much shit around they've gone way down hill. Especially their fries.

>>5109486
>every restaurant in a chain has the exact same staff

The Wendys food still tastes pretty good, but fuck these prices. Paying $7 just for the damn burger? At that cost I could go to a casual diner and get a better sanwich.

>>5109325
I remember Dave Thomas's son was in when rehab when I was there. Maybe that is part of it. The only other kid he had was some fat chick and woman can't be trusted with a business, especially if they can't even manage their own weight.

>>5109526
shes pretty hot though, u mean the chubby redhead?

>>5109502

The prices vary too much depending on location. The $1 grillers are $1.49 at some locations. The stuft nacho they advertise at $1.29 is $1.69.

>>5109502
If you have to order all your food off the dollar menu to feel like you're getting a decent deal then the menu isn't cheap.

I mean look at the Grilled Stuft or the Cantina burritos, almost 5 bucks for those things.
And I'm amazed just how much they want for a few of their value meals. A Mexican Pizza and some tacos shouldn't cost anywhere near that much.

Wendy's is fuckin' expensive, but I love their Baconator.

The only way to get it is with all three patties.

>>5109476
The new shitty sea salt fries suck. Not only that but the prices have gone up. I am not surprised by that at all, because everything is going up, but the quality is going down. I have also been having problems with the service too. Whenever I go to the drive-through they always ask me to pull up from the window and park, then wait for someone to run out my food. It really defeats the purpose of the drive-through.

>>5109600
All the fast food places I've gone to in the past couple of years have been slow as fuck, it shouldn't take over ten goddamn minutes to get my order when there's only two cars in front of me. Wendy's was the worst offender.

Chick-Fil-A was probably the only fast food place that kept the line at a decent place.

>>5109502
>from 2-5

If you held a regular job, you could see why this is pretty much impossible to take advantage of for normal people. Also bean burritos suck.

Compared to other value menus, you don't get nearly as much, and the regular food items are $3-5 bucks for what was formerly a low quality cheap burrito.

Shit's no longer cheap anymore.

>>5109633

It's not aimed at people with typical jobs. It's clearly pulling for the teenage/college kids market.

>>5109642
But...I have a cool job in show biz, and I like to take a later lunch not only because it makes the post-lunch part of the day shorter but also because I can get in on sweet one dollar griller deals.

captcha: raheak satisfied

> And lemme see if I can find the article I read about BK and its plans to close half its locs.

If that were even close to being true, it would be huge news. You wouldn't have to go "looking for it", it would be on every news channel in the country.

> captcha: raheak satisfied

Am I the only one who has never laughed at a captcha?

And besides, pony up a couple $ for Moot you fuckin hobo faggot. You'd be amazed at how much more peaceful your experience will be when you don't have to deal with those fuckin things.

> Xmas eve. Could not post a single post because captchas were in fuck-you mode. I couldn't make out a single one.
> I feel retarded that I didn't buy a pass earlier, I was just worried about the interface. Some Paypal would really help the situation (wink wink if you're listening)

>>5109526
> The only other kid he had was some fat chick and woman can't be trusted with a business, especially if they can't even manage their own weight.

That's Wendy dumbass.

And you don't say that shit about girls. It hurts their feelings. I don't care how fat she is.

You a fag or something?

>>5109732
>It hurts their feelings
Do men have feelings?

>>5109735
Faggots do.

I had one of those pretzel bun burgers a few months ago. First time I had Wendys in at least two years. Because being fat sucked. Anyhow, I remembered Wendys being awesome as compared to the other chains. Burgerking is sloppy and infected with salmonella/ E. coli. Mcdonalds tastes like the conveyor belt it was assembled on. Taco bell is I don't want to pay for diarrhea. But Wendy's was the shit. Then I had that pretzel burger. It was fucking disgusting. Everything about it was gross. I didn't even finish it.

so yeah, I would definitely stomp-fuck the shit out of the girl in the television ads. Holy shit.

>>5109740

>>5109715
>paying money for 4chan
>still being bound by post timers
>trading the annoyance of captcha for the annoyance of having to login if you're using a separate device or clear your cookies

No.

>>5109325
wendys is pretty good if you add your own salt/ its also pretty good if you do not want to eat salty ass burgers as well. wendys nacho cheese burgers are the best!!!!

>>5109740
So heterosexual males of this species don't have chemicals in their brain that alter their mood, making them angry, sad, happy etc.?

>>5109745
That's a neat pic. Taking a wild guess its Marines @ Okinawa

Could be anywhere I suppose. Goddamn that was shitty war.

>>5109742
>>5109742
Wendy is a billionaire. She could easily make this happen to you if you keep runnin that smart mouth of yours. Just mentally picture her in a leather corsette, riding crop, getting a pedicure, while your ass is out on the pond riding the boat.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaphism

>>5109768

Serial killer much?

>>5109803
I had a really bad dream when I was about five. The girl from the Wendys sign was riding this miniature mechanical bull and for some reason it scared the shit out of me. I never ate there and would even avoid looking at the sign when driving by. When I later saw the real her I thought "ah fuck... Another fat chic got over on me.. Aaaargh"

Pic related. When I first saw that movie it reminded me of that shitty dread. They seemed related.

>>5109760
No, that's why they make up the majority of rapists and serial killers.

>>5109854
just to let you know. cereal killers are the most mentally stable people around

>>5109398
Their new nacho thing is pretty good. that cilantro cheese sauce has a really nice zest to it.

Wendy's is too expensive when looking at their quality.

BK is fucked. They had the "I just want fast food and i dont care what it does to me" market locked the fuck up
>Chicken Fries
>Rodeo Burger
>Spicy Chicken

Then they fucked with them all, removed them and brought them back. Their new fries are shit, you never get fresh onion rings and
>satisfries

Their burgers are fucking gross now and taste like the $5 for 20 burgers you get at Cosco's. Also they are ALWAYS FUCKING BURNT

Meanwhile Mc'Ds revamped their menu and have some fucking awesome food now in the $1-2 range
>BBQ Ranch Burger
>Bacon Buffalo Ranch McChicken

Burger King is doomed. They tried to conform to McDonalds way of doing things, and then McDonalds came around and took a huge portion of their market share lost in the transition.

I live across from a BK and in the past year the average customer count has probably halved.

are these oreo milkshakes any good?

>>5109715
It's not that bad for people that lurk more than they post. You still have to deal with post-times and you can still get banned

And they fixed that god-awful captcha they had last month. It was only a issue for firefox users. You're an idiot.

Eh I miss the sourdough whopper, esp the Texas one with mustard, jalapenos, and bacon. Anymore all 3 of the major chains is shit. Though something about McDonalds McRibb, shits magic.

I do enjoy taco bell but the one by me is so dirty i'm surprised it hasn't been shut down by the board of health.

>>5109513
You wouldn't think, but it's been a pretty fucking consistent experience for me around here. McDonalds has sweet old laides and clean-cut teenagers staffing it. Culver's has a bunch of dudes with tattoos, but they seem like they actually give a shit. Wendy's just gets the lazy-ass white-trash lifers.

>>5109745
>faggots.gif
Yup.

>>5110145
And Burger King are the crazies.

I worked at one from 2006-2009 while I was in high school. NOTE: You have to pass actual classes, tests, and THEN get interviewed for a manager position.

These were some of the managers we hired/fired during my time there:
>Guy is a lazy faggot and a clean freak. Got fired because he would let his friends into the store after the dining room closed and played Pokemon cards at the front counter instead of working
>Ugly hag bitch manager fucked a ton of employees in the stockroom
>Guy supervisor got caught buying alcohol for minors and fucking them (all employees)
>Guy gets fired for calling a downs-syndrome person a fucking retarded prick
>Qt (seriously was qt till we got to know her) got fired for multiple offenses. She was normal but went into giga-cunt mode at random. She would get in you face and grab you by the collar and scream at the top of her lungs. She also would throw shit at you. Once someone was holding on chicken from the frier and she pulled them from the frier and dumped it on his hands. Got caught selling weed to 13 year olds. Also did "cleanses and talked about shitting in front of customers. This included a time she talked about how she accidentally shit herself
>Guy supervisor used to bring his girlfriend into the back and make shit excuses to go out into his car and fuck them. I once witnessed him getting a BJ from her with a donut around his dick. He also would bring prostitutes to the store and fuck them. Got caught stealing cleaning supplies to make meth.
>Guy supervisor gets fired for bumping all the car times from the drive-thru in a desperate attempt to bring our Speed of Service down. We had 12 cars and none of their times ended up being registered.

>Tfw I live in Eastern Ohio and never imagined this shit.

Ironically our store was #1 for cleanliness and food quality.

>>5110122
> And they fixed that god-awful captcha they had last month. It was only a issue for firefox users. You're an idiot.

Yeah they fixed it after a couple hours. And I'm not using firefox, I'm using my phone. Therefore you're a genius I suppose?

>no ketchup on that baconator, please
>put ketchup on it anyway

every fucking time
why is this so difficult?

>>5110145
I have the opposite in my area. For culvers and mcdonalds that is. I love culvers. Dat Wisconsin Swiss melt

>>5110239
They do the same thing here. I ordered stuff for co workers a few times, and every time they put stuff on it I asked to be left off. EVERY FUCKING TIME.

>>5109600

Even when Wendy's was still good, it was one of only two fast food places I would religiously check the bag to make sure they got the order right. They fucked it up 3/4 of the time, location didn't matter.

Now the food is so fuckawful I just won't eat there. Burgers ruined, fries ruined. Dave Thomas must be spinning like a top.

>>5109325
all fast food I know sucks, anyway Wendy's has been a massive scapegoat of all the other fast food chains. this is probably anti-wendy's propaganda. (even though fast food sucks anyway)

>>5109339
they turned you into a commercial

>>5109438
no they actually got worse. anon noticed a real difference in quality that many others also noticed.

>>5110744
agreed, the burgers used to have a distinct taste and difference from other fast food. now its slop

>>5110239
>order baconater, no condiments
>ask for red jalapeno dressing
>put that on the burger instead
>??????
>PROFIT!!!

>>5109633
>>5109647
lots of stores and companies all over the place do the same thing with deals and coupons. they just want to be able to say "SEE WE HAVE DEALS" while not having to give any deals for real.

>>5110776
protip: It was always shit

>>5110787
its like albertsons having buy one get one free sales on their meat that costs 8 dollars a pound. bu dont worry any food that rots because it is so expensive will just be made up by charging more for poor people items in stores in poor people neighborhoods

>>5110804
>never went to subway long ago when it was good

im vegetarian now

>order baconator with no cheese in drive-through
>it has cheese
>go inside and ask for no cheese
>new one has cheese, ask for another one
>they give me the last one with the cheese scraped off
>point this out and ask for a real new one
>they don't want to remake, they start taking down to me
>secretly take out phone and record
>real life trolling, repeating dumb questions and pretending I'm half deaf
>they go insane and start screaming at me
>take burger and leave because they "don't do refunds and they already did a remake"
>post video on youtube as private, send email to store owner
>owner apologizes, gives $50 free gift card
>my weed guy loves wendys, trades me weed for card
>mfw wendys gave me free pot

>>5110939
should have shown it to corporate prob would have got more

>>5109426
The size of the sandwiches have shrunk, too.

>>5109377
They've been expanding a lot in Europe. They just got into central Europe like two years ago for instance.

>>5109384
Imho the best fast food place is Bageterie Boulevard.

If only due to the american potatoes they serve with their tartare sauce

>>5109325

Wendy's went to shit, blame the fat cunt who took over.

>>5109325
I don't go there anymore. The lettuce and tomatoes they use give me the pain shits. I think their bleach wash is a little too powerful for my always angry guts.
I loves me lettuce and tomatoes, and since their burgers taste like nothing, without those on it... well, whats the point?

Fries are unremarkable, and people know it. So the fries are cooked in huge batches, and sit there for hours.

I live near Canada's #1 A&W, and its way better here than the states to the south. It's remarkable there! They serve coffee at your table, bring you a copy of the paper. I shit you not, they serve you like a diner from A&W's beginning.

The quality of the food is amazing. All fresh. Beef, tomatoes, crispy green leaf lettuce, cheddar cheese (not cheese product*)...

Fuck I want me some A&W burgers and breakfast, and some McDonald's fries, with a 15 pack of lucky lager.

>>5111065
I'm lucky I got $50, they probably have fatasses do this kind of thing all the time trying to get free food.

>>5111915
>I'm lucky

Not if you ate at Wendy's you aren't.

>>5110827
You didn't miss out on anything taste-wise, just the portions were gigantic (vegetable portions, they were still greedy with the meat but I vaguely remember it being cut slightly thicker. Same with the cheese).

I havent eaten at a wendy's for years prior to just a couple weeks ago, when I got a single stack and a cup of chili.
I'm not sure if it's just my tastes changing, but it was the first time in a while that I've felt sick after eating fast food. It just didn't sit well in my stomach.