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[–] Krudler@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

There is this franchise in my country called Boston pizza. Decades ago, I am talking in the '80s, it was amazing, but now all of the food is made frozen in Toronto or something and flown in!

The last time I went there, and it was like 20 years ago almost... I went with a group of eight or nine people, my family. Every single one of us had cold food - like I'm talking "put your finger in the lasagna and it's still ice in the middle cold"

We were not allowed to make any substitutions on our pizza, we couldn't even have toppings taken off.

In complete exasperation at the end of this whole experience, my father asked the server what the hell is going on. Most of the meals were sent back. He sheepishly confessed that every single thing is there frozen, they can't even take toppings off pizza because they're all frozen in a giant block. You get what you get.

This place charges double what any family pizza restaurant would charge.

Just utter garbage.

And the worst thing is, it's kind of become the de facto hangout for people in our city. So you have to go and sit and politely order some piece of shit food that is horrible and choke it down just so you can socialize with people. They can barely even make nachos correctly, they don't have trained cooks on staff

The dingbats in my city do not even understand this is the worst possible food in the restaurant universe, they go and gobble it down with zeal. Mmmm grease

[–] inthearizonasun@lemm.ee 7 points 22 hours ago (1 children)
[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 1 points 22 hours ago

I went there once like maybe 10 years ago or so and I was shocked at how bad it was. Got the lasagna it was straight up Stouffer's. Tasted like garbage. I sent it back. I've never done that in a restaurant before first time in my life. Plus the soup tasted like it came from a can. The whole restaurant is just straight up gross.

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 4 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Five Guys.

One was opening up near me and my friends were all excited to try it. Paid 14 bucks for a 3 dollar Steak n Shake Burger, a medium drink, and the most limp, bland, and unappealing fries I've ever had, and I've had microwaved frozen fries before.

Never gone back, and I never intend to.

[–] Krudler@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Five Guy worship is a complete cult. It's pedestrian, boring food that successfully hyped people up to the point they're willing to spend a week of grocery money for a soulless burger and fries. Where I live, for a grown man to have a proper burger and fries at that clown show is like $27 a f'king go after tax

[–] mutat0@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago

Chipotle. Got it once and can't forget how much rice was packed into the burrito. Scarred for life..

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 37 points 2 days ago (5 children)
[–] Bristlecone@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Fuck yeah bro! Fuck Chick-fil-A. My gay friends still go there and I'm absolutely floored by that!

[–] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I still don't understand it. Their chicken is mediocre, at best. And the sauces are all available elsewhere. Same with Raising Cane's, except there the chicken is even blander and reliant on the sauce, which again is a generic mayo and ketchup based fry sauce you can make at home.

[–] mutat0@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago

Agreed. Went there once and was like...that's it?

[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Agreed, one of my friends is a trans woman and it blows my mind that she loves Chick-fil-A.

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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

If you define the term "Restaurant" generously, it's McD.

[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 12 points 1 day ago

McDonald's. If you can call that a restaurant

[–] besmtt@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago

McDonald's.

[–] M137@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Any chain restaurant.

[–] miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Burger King - Absolute worst of the whole fast food genre.

[–] ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago

I'll take Burger King over McDonald's any day. I get a craving once in a while that can only be satisfied by their onion rings.

[–] Ashenlux@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 day ago

The last two times I went to Burger King, I ended up throwing up. Two separate locations, multiple years apart. I will never go back.

[–] Kowowow@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago

Not my favourite but at least they haven't been hit as hard by shrinkflation

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[–] roguelazer@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The Cheesecake Factory is somehow a nationwide tourist trap — go somewhere exciting and then eat at the same overpriced trash faux-destination restaurant you could've eaten at back home.

I don't understand cheesecake factory. It literally does nothing well. Jack of all trades. They do almost every type of food and yet somehow all of it is bland and boring. It's a nice restaurant for people too afraid to try new food

[–] Penguincoder@beehaw.org 11 points 2 days ago

McDonald's. Worst most overpriced saltiness yet bland ass food.

[–] zewm@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

Literally all of them. I just go to the grocery store now for food.

[–] numbermess@fedia.io 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I haven't been to a Taco Bell since before Covid started, and I feel pretty good about keeping it that way.

Having worked at almost every fast food restaurant, the only thing I can say for Taco Bell is that nothing gets "cooked" in store. Browning a tortilla or heating up a bag of beef or beans really doesn't count.

I guess technically the cinnamon twists and nacho chips are fried fresh each morning. If you want to recreate the cinnamon twists, those are literally deep fried twisty pasta. It starts out about ⅛" in diameter, and 1" in length, and puffs up in the deep fryer to the big twists. You do need something to press them into the oil, or they will try to jump out like popcorn.

[–] owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 day ago

You don't go to Taco Bell, you end up at Taco Bell.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 7 points 2 days ago

One particular local place: Went to this Chinese buffet (creatively named "Chinese Buffet") and there were cockroaches in the fried rice. Never ate there again.

Chain restaurants: Fuck Olive Garden. The only thing amazing about the place is they somehow managed to fuck up pasta, which is only amazing because it's hard to fuck up pasta.

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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Pizza Pizza. My dad was once in change of ordering pizza for a company lunch, and Pizza Pizza cancelled his order without notifying him, leaving him with a roomful of hungry people. When he phoned to ask for an update on the order, they blamed him for not calling to confirm an order he had already placed.

It was probably just that one franchise that was poorly run, but we've tried to avoid the company ever since. I think I've bought pizza from them maybe twice in my life.

[–] owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Wendy's. Used to be my favorite. Then I moved to a town where they were all really, really awful. But that town had a Rally's, so overall significant upgrade.

[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

That’s a shame. I like Wendy’s too.

I miss their soup and salad bars

[–] fyzzlefry@retrolemmy.com 2 points 1 day ago

Best fast food nuggies

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Panda Express. Like warmed over cans of LaChoy from the 1970s.

[–] owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago

Yeah... while your description is accurate, I'm still gonna eat there. Because sometimes warmed cans of LaChoy just hit that spot.

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[–] semisimian@startrek.website 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Everyone's going low, but Ruth's Chris is the worst fucking restaurant experience I've ever had. And I've been a couple of times, once with family and once because we were given a gift card. Shit apps, shit sides and an acceptable steak for way more money than it should be. The wait staff was creepily servile, like the "how may I pleasure you" that Chick Fil A used to force. And the lights were a cool 5K color temp like I was eating dinner in the parking garage. Fucking garbage.

[–] Krudler@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

We have a restaurant like that in our city called 529 Wellington.

It's supposed to be a incredibly upscale chef run steakhouse.

While the old building and decor is wonderful, the dining experience is a complete farce.

The first thing they do is parade in front of you, several gigantic trays of raw meat, dripping with myoglobin. They want to sell you on how wonderful their meat is. I'm already here fuckface, get that fucking raw meat, which smells like raw meat, away from my table and my date. It's an implicit understanding that if you are charging me $60 for a steak, it's going to be the best mother fucking aged steak around, within reason of course.

I was looking at this tray of meat and noticing that there was no marbling in any of the cuts. We were already there and we were already going through the whole rigmarole... But I was braced for a bad steak.

Then, each dish is served separately, so now I'm expected to pay $24 for mashed potatoes and butter. Two heaping tablespoons of mashed potatoes, 2 fronds of dried chives on top. No other flavors except salt. $24. Don't put a scratch of nutmeg or garlic in there or anything just fucking boring potatoes with butter.

Of course, the steak arrives, and it's predictably like a gym mat. Dense, dry, flavorless as a result. I did not even want to finish eating it.

My date and I did not even order drinks, and we barely scrambled out of there for $200. I think in today's money it would be a $400 meal.

For dog shit.

Now I just go and get a really fatty marbled ribeye steak in the discount bin, for like eight bucks, and it's a hundred times better. Those pretentious steakhouses can go to hell, they are almost uniformly rotten in my experience.

[–] semisimian@startrek.website 1 points 18 minutes ago

Ha! Gym mat! I can feel the toughness and taste the salt; that is a grim picture you paint.

My wife and I never really went to steakhouses that often, but now that we can cook a better steak than anyone else, it's once in a blue moon that we go out for one. Marcel in Atlanta is the only place we go for steak and it's an incredible experience. I just want to put that out there so that people know it can be done right, just rarely is.

[–] Albbi@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

Arby's. Like, not even the fries tasted good. The meat sandwich was just insulting.

[–] Jimmycakes@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Chipotle you're likely to get some kind of mass food poison plus the food literally doesn't have flavors anymore. Unless you get one of the salsa then everything just tastes like that. Chicken no flavor, rice no flavor, beans no flavor not even salt.

[–] Bristlecone@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Chili's. Woody chicken disease.

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