What is the best chain fast food restaurant?

[Bohandas]

All fair points depending on whether @Bohandas is talking during the pandemic. Afterall there was a mass euthanasian of chickens about 2 years ago due to bird flu if I'm not mistaken. Pre-pandemic my money would be on point 4.

No, this was before the pandemic

 

[R_J_K75]

No, this was before the pandemic

Then I'd order one of their chicken pot pies if they were out of something else I came in for. They are actually pretty good. A few hours after I read your initial post I had a vague recollection of the same thing happening to me. Could've been the power of suggestion but I seem to recall them being all out of their crispy chicken, and only had a small selection of pieces of their traditional recipe. Must be a nefarious plot by "Big Chicken"!!

 

[Undrave]

I have found it gives me angst, and my gut rebels. That said, they are delicious with a side of fried tiktoks and snapchat sauce

It's part of the Burger Family! The Baby Burger, Teen Burger, Mama Burger, Papa Burger, Grandpa Burger (3 patties!) and Uncle Burger! Uncle Burger sorta comes and go though. There's also a Double Teen Burger! And I guess the Buddy Burgers fit too?

A&W Canada

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[Bagpuss]

Greggs

 

[R_J_K75]

It's part of the Burger Family! The Baby Burger, Teen Burger, Mama Burger, Papa Burger, Grandpa Burger (3 patties!) and Uncle Burger!

I immediately thought of Toby Hoopers "Texas Chainsaw Massacre."

 

[Richards]

Whereas my brain took me straight to the "Baby Shark" song. Thanks a lot, brain!

Johnathan

 

[Ruin Explorer]

The KFC near me kept running out of chicken. It was like the Monty Python skit where the cheese shop didn't have any cheese.

During the pandemic in the UK the KFCs managed to run out of chicken, which was just um, incredible. We didn't even have the mass-kill or anything, it was strictly a supply-chain thing - they were pretty open about it - they couldn't get enough deliveries to keep up. Lasted less than a week I think.

Ah here's the BBC report:

KFC's apology for running out of chicken is pretty cheeky

The fast-food chain switched the three letters in its name around to apologise to customers.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Undrave]

During the pandemic in the UK the KFCs managed to run out of chicken, which was just um, incredible. We didn't even have the mass-kill or anything, it was strictly a supply-chain thing - they were pretty open about it - they couldn't get enough deliveries to keep up. Lasted less than a week I think.

Ah here's the BBC report:

KFC's apology for running out of chicken is pretty cheeky

The fast-food chain switched the three letters in its name around to apologise to customers.

www.bbc.co.uk

All the KFC from my area pretty much disappeared a few years ago... then, I think before the pandemic, one reopened. It was SO popular they would run out of chicken on a daily basis.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

All the KFC from my area pretty much disappeared a few years ago... then, I think before the pandemic, one reopened. It was SO popular they would run out of chicken on a daily basis.

Yeah they seemed to undergo a resurgence in the last decade. Like, there were loads in the '90s, then in the '00s, it seemed like they got completely overtaken by ludicrously named local chicken shops (I think my favourite being "Arizona Chicken" - for Americans, whilst most were/are chicken-associated states, like Tennessee or whatever, a certain proportion were/are just random US states), and then from sometime after about 2017/2018 I've seen a lot more KFCs and they've been a lot more "together" in terms of design, food quality and so on. A new one just opened near me.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

Voting-wise as the conditions seemed to rule out UK fast food (we don't have many drive-thrus - certainly no chain can be relied on to have them anywhere near you), I went with Dairy Queen, mostly because I have good memories of the times I went there in US, but also because I love that there's a first-food place where you can get like, a full-on birthday cake or whatever (the ones I went to were mostly in Indiana, and were all decently-sized and had burgers and drive-thrus, interested to read that isn't always true on the East Coast).

(Also all the best UK fast food isn't named chains, it's local places which chain-like in that they will have a menu 90% similar to other shops in the same "genre" of food - i.e. Turkish kebab, Lebanese kebab, Fish & Chips, Chinese (actually Anglo-Chinese - very different to US Chinese - a lot healthier, a lot less sugar, many just totally different dishes), Indian (actually Anglo-Indian/Pakistani/Bengali/Sri Lankan), and so on. I think that's true to a lesser extent in the US, like local pizza places will always be better than pizza chains, but it feels like in the US chains are better-quality, relatively - the only UK chain which really competes with local restaurants well is KFC and that's solely frying chicken is more of a science than an art.)