i would just like to commend the fast fo od industr

“no matter how many other facets of my order they get wrong (usually no fries) they always ALWAYS remember the straw. 100 percent success rate. good job, guys. something to hang your hat on.”

“ya want fraaas wwith thaaat?”

“yea could you not forget them this time please?”

“forget what?”

“Sorry, did I forget the fraaaass??”

“Hey, Scoops. How often do they give you your food hot? Cold food seems almost universal in these places (unless it's pre-cooked and microwaved).”

“Isn't it all precooked and microwaved?
No, seriously. When they started talking about McDonald's laying people off and closing some of their restaraunts, I thought about what life without McD's would be like. It's always conviently located on the next corner. McDonald's is awesome after being in the back country, when you're hungover or both. Good n' greasy.”

“i work for arbys.


market fresh sandwich anyone?”

“actually been pretty lucky on the cold v. hot issue. i prefer hot, but i can appreciate the views of those who give me cold food, and i would like to apologize for those whose tender feelings may have been hurt by my comments about cold food, french fries, or straws (who prefer to be called cylindrical beverage sipping utensils)”

“2scoops, do you have any idea how many TT'rs you just offended? Never rip the fast food industry here, it's the #1 career of a TT'r.”

“I'M LEAVING TT!”

“too much is made of offense these days. offense wins games, but its defense that wins championships.”

“LMAO stratdewd!”

“freakin' mcdonalds ALWAYS forgets the sauce if I order some mcnuggety goodness! Basterds”

“Damn. Now this is the kinda' thread that a girl like me can get into. I love fast food. Strat, I love marketfresh sandwiches and potato cakes. But why don't you bastards serve sour cream for the potato cakes anymore? 2scoops, I wanted to correct you on the thinking that McD's is always around every corner. I lived for most of my life in a town that was 50 miles away from the nearest McD's.”

“what the heck are you talking about, ng? i didnt say dat”

“i'm about 48 from the nearest Mc'd's also!”

“Strat, are you in management?”

“if so, could you send me coupons?”

“Oh sorry, 2scoops, I guess that was Pineneedles. Sorry good buddy!!!”

“Newgirl..I love the potatoe cakes too. I always feel like I'm doing such a good thing but not eatting a greasy burger..till I bite into those potatoe cakes and all that grease squishes out!!!! The horsy sauce mixed with ketchup makes for a nice dip BTW!”

“Arby's.....
reconstituted beef?”

“Hey, Scoops. How often do they give you your food hot? Cold food seems almost universal in these places (unless it's pre-cooked and microwaved)."
treebeard
08:08:56 PM
01/27/03


and this is coming from a man that LOVES White Castle...yuk...”

“Macdogcrap should put the beef talus back in the oil for the french fries. They used to taste a whole lot better.”

“I prefer to call them McRat”

“you can get alot more burgers out of a dog than a rat! Ham-burgers!, yeah right!”

“fast food = fat food”

“Personally, I love the stuff. Will I die early from it? Yes, probably. But I don't care. God Bless Taco Bell!”

“Taco bell/del taco is the only fast food I will still consider eating. Oh yeah. And Chick FilA. Everything else can fall off the face of the planet.”

“Chick-fil-A like anyway? I saw one in Denver, but I didn't get a chance to sample the lovely stuff.”

“Whine Whine Whine!

Ya want fast food or complete orders? Which is it?”

“Ohhhhhh. Oh so goooooood. Waffle fries, plain sandwich and a large diet lemonade. There's only one in all of N. Ca and we make special trips there (hour away) for the grub. It's that good.”

“Newgirl..you haven't had
Chick-fil-A??? OMG

Taco Bell is actually worse for you than the steak house with golden arches.”

“Taco Bell is like the nectar of the God's Crazygurl. I will never give it up.

Rosey, how about for my b-day ya' mail me some Chick-fil-A. It's prolly well preserved anyway.”

“Oh..I didn't say I didn't like it newgirl...just said it was worse than the others :)

I'm loving the 99cent 7 Layer Nachos right now!”

“Taco Hell....
mmmmmmmm........”

“i usually hate fast food, but i must admit that Chik-Fil-A is da bomb. i just get waffle fries and lemonade! YUM.”

“I could talk the virtues of fast food for hours. I'm the kind of girl that would seriously not be offended if my beau took me out for fast food.”

“Chik fil a does have really good salads too.”

“I'm a huge Arby's fan. So is Corporal Nasty. There are none in my area, but there are a few up in some of the areas I hike. Goooooood stuff!”

“New Tampa, Florida - 12-year-old Jasmine Roberts is a seventh-grade student at Benito Middle School in New Tampa.

When it came time for her to choose a science project, she wondered about the ice in fast food restaurants.

Jasmine Roberts, 7th-grade student:
"My hypothesis was that the fast food restaurants’ ice would contain more bacteria that the fast food restaurants’ toilet water."

So Roberts set out to test her hypothesis, selecting five fast food restaurants, within a ten-mile radius of the University of South Florida.

Roberts says at each restaurant she flushed the toilet once, the used sterile gloves to gather samples.

Jasmine Roberts:
"Using the sterile beaker I scooped up some water and closed the lid."

Roberts also collected ice from soda fountains inside the five fast food restaurants. She also asked for cups of ice at the same restaurant's drive thru windows.

She tested the samples at a lab at the Moffitt Cancer Center where she volunteers with a USF professor. Roberts says the results did not surprise her.

Jasmine Roberts:
"I found that 70-percent of the time, the ice from the fast food restaurant's contain more bacteria than the fast food restaurant's toilet water."

Roberts' graph shows the toilet water, shown in red, had less bacteria in most cases than the ice inside shown in blue, and the ice from drive-through windows shown in green. Roberts' teacher says he wasn't surprised either.

Mark Danish, Honors Science Teacher:
"It does concern me and I think with any restaurant you have to think twice about what you may get there."

Roberts says she'll think twice before getting ice at fast food restaurants again.

Her project won the science fair at Benito Middle School, and she hopes to win the top prize at the Hillsborough County Regional Science and Engineering Fair, which starts Tuesday at the USF Sun Dome.

http://www.tampabays10.com/news/news.aspx?storyid=25442”

“SO that's how Jarred lost the weight (Stomach Flu)”

“Toilets are probably cleaned more often then the spouts where the ice comes from. They should check the soda itself. Tons o bacteria at the spout.”

“Check the Cook's fingernails....”

“I've seen a cook come out from a stall and not wash his hands.”

“Seinfeld doesn't count.”

“who gets ice for a drink anyway?? why pay for ice when the coke is already cold. You get twice as much coke when you don't get ice.”

“NASHUA -- When Jairo Moncada pulled up to the drive-through at Wendy's in Burbank, Calif., for his usual cheeseburger, fries, and soda, he knew things looked different. There was an extra lane.

But the 25-year-old could not see the biggest change: The woman taking his lunch order was sitting 3,000 miles away at a computer terminal in Nashua, and fielding calls from Wendy's customers at drive-throughs as far away as Florida and Washington, D.C.

"I had absolutely no idea I was talking to someone in New Hampshire," Moncada said in a phone interview later that day. "Our order was ready at the window. It was really quick."

It took a total of 66 seconds.

The Burbank store is one of several Wendy's restaurants around the country that have been testing the concept, and franchisees plan to expand to at least 200 stores by next spring because the initial tests are so promising. Other fast-food companies, including Burger King, Panda Express, and McDonald's, have also started routing drive-through calls to remote locations to get faster and more accurate orders and let in-store employees concentrate on making food, keeping the store clean, and ringing up sales.

http://www.boston.com/business/globe/articles/2006/11/05/miles_away_ill_have_a_burger/?page=full”

“wow! wonder how many people in remote stores one operator can replace.”

“What's next, a remote cow for the burgers?”