From my experience it seems like BK chains can vary wildly depending on management- growing up I loved it, but in later years in different areas I never had good luck. It’s also the only franchise I’ve seen have a location go out of business (besides Long John Silvers).
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ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml 4 days ago
Idk why everybody hates on burger king. They have probably the best cheap fast food burger of the major national chains and also some of the better fries as long as they’re fresh. Maybe I’ve just always lived around good burger kings, idk
GuerillaGorillas@lemmy.world 4 days ago
peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 4 days ago
A fucking whopper with just lettuce, onions on it, + chicken fries and a Dr. Pepper.
Fuck that is some goooood shit
0ops@lemm.ee 4 days ago
I don’t really like any burger and fries fast food, but when I am in one of those weird moods I tend to do Burger King. The spicy chicken sandwich is okay
Thatuserguy@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Meh I’ve just been to very few good Burger Kings. I’m sure they’re more common out there somewhere, but outside of maybe literally only one I liked, they all had incredibly bland and disappointing food
slowcakes@programming.dev 3 days ago
I like most fast food to be honest, they’re I would guess engineered to taste good. But I seldom eat it though, because of health reasons, and it’s become kinda expensive to eat bad good. For the same price, I can go to a local restaurant and have a good quality lunch.
HeyJoe@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I’m gonna agree! I really hated BK like 10 years ago because of pricing and they took away chicken fries, introduced nuggets that were awful and just generally worse food it seemed. I tried them a bunch last year just to see how they were doing and I gotta say the fries were improved, the chicken fries are back and even the nuggets tasted better now. The burgers were always decent and not much change. Add in the app with the offers and discounts and the pricing is no worse than the rest, sometimes it’s cheaper now.
Just to make it known, when I say good I’m talking about fast food good not that it’s impressive. If anything it’s just comfort food since we did have this or McDonald’s from time to time growing up. Fridays was the one day were cooking didn’t happen, and if we didn’t get pizza or Chinese, it would probably be this (my father hated it haha).
altima_neo@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
Same. The one by me has been great.
blindbunny@lemmy.ml 4 days ago
This is where I’m at it’s like 13$ for an impossible Whopper and a large fry at my local BK and it’s good. It’s not the best meal to eat but for 13$ I’m satisfied with a vegan meal no less
Sumocat@lemmy.world 4 days ago
We literally had Impossible Whoppers today because they’re good, can be veganized (reasonably), and we lost our local BKs. There’s one near a store we visit every few months. Puts a hard limit on the amount we can eat.
pimento64@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
This is the exact reason I don’t fuck with fast food anymore. Fuck a $13 fast food meal, I expect to pay one digit of dollars for a large combo, with tax, or I expect to be personally edged by the franchise owner while I eat my meal.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 3 days ago
I just looked at prices from my local chippy, and everything has doubled in price in the last 8 years.
I’ll tell you what hasn’t doubled in the last 8 years. My salary.
I suspect a good chunk of this is due to increases in electricity costs. While it went up to a cap for residential users in the UK, businesses had no such limit and around the time Russia invaded Ukraine it went to stupid levels. The only places that haven’t increased costs by a huge margin were those charging a king’s ransom anyway (mostly pizza places), and a couple of tiny Chinese restaurants that mostly use gas for cooking rather than electric.
Akasazh@feddit.nl 3 days ago
Funny look up fast food menus from the 70s