VAIL SUCKS

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Macdonald's coffee is a great deal and the quality is good. So I take advantage of that on a regular basis.

Egg McMuffin is a great grab and go breakfast. Cheap/fast/more_or_less_healthy, what's not to like?

In the evening, I lean strongly to Wendy's. Actually, if you're driving home after skiing, I strongly suggest no food stops. Just eat a few granola bars and wait till you get home. Half the time, fast food joints are slow and screwed up.

 

[abc]

I don't love nor hate McDonald. I eat there when I'm in a hurry and it's the most convenient place to grab and go.

The fact there's almost always a McDonald in every cross road makes it the de facto option.

 

[abc]

Since the pandemic, drive through line had gotten quite long. Sometimes it's faster parking and going inside (and get to use the bathroom too).

 

[snoseek]

Since the pandemic, drive through line had gotten quite long. Sometimes it's faster parking and going inside (and get to use the bathroom too).

Probably because they cant staff the place properly.

Dunks lines have gotten ridiculous around here spilling into roadways. Not worth it imo.

 

[abc]

Probably because they cant staff the place properly.

Dunks lines have gotten ridiculous around here spilling into roadways. Not worth it imo.

Or that people aren’t going to sit down place to eat?

The lines in some of the fast food joints were often longer than I‘ve ever seen even customers inside. Places that are usually totally empty are now having a long drive through line!

 

[deadheadskier]

I still see plenty of fast food restaurants with closed lobbies. Drive through only due to low staffing

 

[Edd]

A Qdoba near here had to close for indoor service due to staffing. Online orders only and they bring it to your car. A Whole Foods opened recently about 1000 feet from them so I wonder if they sucked the labor dry in that area.

 

[abc]

A Whole Foods opened recently about 1000 feet from them so I wonder if they sucked the labor dry in that area.

Oh, that would do it for sure!

 

[BenedictGomez]

Chick-fil-A pretty much destroys all the other fast food chains while we're on the topic. Spicy chicken sandwich with waffle fries or the Southwest salad are my go to options.

 

[ss20]

Chick-fil-A pretty much destroys all the other fast food chains while we're on the topic. Spicy chicken sandwich with waffle fries or the Southwest salad are my go to options.

....that'll be $8.50...

 

[Smellytele]

....that'll be $8.50...

But not on Sundays

 

[raisingarizona]

Chick-fil-A pretty much destroys all the other fast food chains while we're on the topic. Spicy chicken sandwich with waffle fries or the Southwest salad are my go to options.

Out here Chick-fil-A and In And Out are among the hottest fast food places. The lines at in n out are massive.

 

[abc]

Speaking of fast food joints, I used to LOVE Kentucky Fried Chicken. I used to go out of my way to hit one during my travel. But they've gone steadily downhill in quality. For the past 5 or so years, I couldn't find a single place that didn't dump a ton of salt on the chicken.

In the meantime, other joints had finally caught up on how to cook chicken (or rather, how NOT TO OVERCOOK chicken). I don't do KFC any more.

 

[Whitey]

Speaking of fast food joints, I used to LOVE Kentucky Fried Chicken. I used to go out of my way to hit one during my travel. But they've gone steadily downhill in quality. For the past 5 or so years, I couldn't find a single place that didn't dump a ton of salt on the chicken.

In the meantime, other joints had finally caught up on how to cook chicken (or rather, how NOT TO OVERCOOK chicken). I don't do KFC any more.

I'm in the same boat, but it's been a lot longer than 5 yrs since I had KFC. Used to love it as a kid/teenager. But as an adult I always found that after eating KFC about a 1/2 hr later I'd be drinking water like man at an oasis in the desert. Just sooo much salt in it that it literally dehydrated me. And then came the stories of people finding fried chicken heads in their buckets of KFC and I had to nope the hell away from KFC.

 

[thebigo]

But as an adult I always found that after eating KFC about a 1/2 hr later I'd be drinking water like man at an oasis in the desert. Just sooo much salt in it that it literally dehydrated me.

Happens to me with any chain restaurant, fast food or sit down. I will get a coffee on occasion but have not had any fast food in the better part of a decade. Just not worth it. Would rather run into the grocery store than fast food line, you can even buy low sugar pre packaged coffee at the grocery store now. I go through a mountain of those vermont meat sticks during the season.

 

[kingslug]

Went to in out in Utah..don't know what the hype is all about...

 

[abc]

I'm in the same boat, but it's been a lot longer than 5 yrs since I had KFC. Used to love it as a kid/teenager. But as an adult I always found that after eating KFC about a 1/2 hr later I'd be drinking water like man at an oasis in the desert. Just sooo much salt in it that it literally dehydrated me. And then came the stories of people finding fried chicken heads in their buckets of KFC and I had to nope the hell away from KFC.

The KFC recipe probably has a lot of salt mixed in already. I like the taste enough to put up with the thirst afterward. (kind of like putting up with hangover after drinking a bit too much?).

But lately, they changed the recipe itself (or the way they cook the chicken) that it just taste like eating raw salt tablet!

I mean, I eat "less than healthy" food once in a while: fatty pork belly, any kind of fried food etc. As long as it's not a regular diet routine, my body can handle it while I enjoy the taste, as a treat once in a while.

But the KFC chicken now taste just awful. The excess salt was just too overwhelming, there's no other taste but that of salt tablet. For a while, I thought it was just one particular place or another (there's one in Springfield Mass that's consistently too salty way back!). But now, after trying one after another across the country, they all taste awful like that. I'm finally accepted the fact the KFC I knew is no more. (there're also other restaurants that changed like that, I stayed away for the same reason)

 

[snoseek]

Went to in out in Utah..don't know what the hype is all about...

Its decent quality for fast food and cheap as hell. Compare it against McDonald's and it is miles better imo.

 

[gittist]

Does Vail own KFC, Chik-fil-a, McDonalds, or a pot farm? Just wondering...

 

[2Planker]

In & Out Burger in CA was definitely WAY BETTER than McD's, BK or KFC

Will not patronize Chik Fil A