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Can chain restaurants be good?
I was reading over the staggering list of Chain Restaurants in the US and I actually like some of them. Five Guys, Shane's Rib Shack, and Moe's to be specific. The portions, price, service, and food quality are all above average. Shane's Rib Shack especially. I'm just looking for other people's input on the subject. Can chain restaurants be good, or does cookie cutter culinary arts lack flavor?
Also, I fucking hate P.F. Chang's, Olive Garden, and TGI Friday's. The food is bad, and the prices are way too hi.
List of International chain restaurants. It surprises me that Subway has more locations then McDonalds and is still the fastest growing.
Also, I fucking hate P.F. Chang's, Olive Garden, and TGI Friday's. The food is bad, and the prices are way too hi.
List of International chain restaurants. It surprises me that Subway has more locations then McDonalds and is still the fastest growing.
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Also, Chipotle.
If you want to open a new McDonald's, they will probably tell you no. They research locations a great deal, and they do not want you to open a new franchise that will fail. It looks really bad if a brand new McDonald's is built, and then disappears. Have you seen that happen? It's pretty rare, and they like to keep it that way. They also don't want you to cannibalize another McDonald's.
Subway, on the other hand, will let you open fuck anywhere. You got money, feel free to open a Subway in the middle of death vallye. Also, opening a Subway is really cheap compared to opening just about anything else. Think about the equipment and amount of real estate you need to open a McDonald's. Now think about a Subway. A Subway can be handled by a single employee. Most of the food there requires minimal preparation, and is inexpensive. Subway takes up only a little space, so rent is tiny. Franchising efficiency is pretty much the key to Subway's success.
P.F. Chang's is good food, even though it's pricey.
I don't like Five Guys. I wouldn't say it sucks, but I don't prefer it. The peanuts and potatoes are a good shtick, but the burger's are unimpressive. I think there are two reasons I don't like it. First of all, in NYC there are multiple other competitors that do not exist out in the uncivilized areas. When a Five Guys is competing with fast food, it wins every time. It's only when you have the likes of Good Burger, Island Burger, and the other amazing NYC burger chains that Five Guys gets beat. Even so, they are doing good business in NYC. Also, I don't like them because the default is a double burger. Not a fan. One patty only please.
Five Guys needs to 1) offer milkshakes and 2) give you alternate choices of cheese.
Has anyone been to a Joe's Crab Shack? I keep seeing the commercials but I don't think there's one in NY.
Yes, chains can be good. Many people say a chain restaurant is bad by virtue of being a chain, and not because it actually has bad food. Those people are pretentious snobs. It's fine to say you don't like going to chains because you like unique places, but they shouldn't say they are Bad just because they are chains.
Also, having tried Good Burger and Five guys, are there any other burger places in NYC worth visiting?
EDIT: Website says 5.5 oz. A single Five Guys burger patty is 94 grams. 188 grams for two. That's 6.6 ounces. They might be able to keep up if they cook their burgers to medium rare, but I doubt that.
In other news, Olive Garden is overpriced fast food Italian. I do, however, like their soup.
Cooking an individual burger from the raw starting when a customer ordered would be ludicrous.