I prefer BK to most burger fast food places, but even I rarely end up going there. I can't believe the ones around me have stayed open the last 5 years.
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I prefer BK to most burger fast food places, but even I rarely end up going there. I can't believe the ones around me have stayed open the last 5 years.
Was going to stop at Casey's to grab a breakfast Sandwich ($3.50?).
Thought, I hadn't been to BKing Drive-thru in a while.....probably the same price?
BK Sandwich was $3.99. Meal, which inlcudes coffee & hash-round thingys...$6.49
OK, I go for the meal.
They ask if I want the Medium or the Large (I assume 2 sizes), oh I don't need anything extra, just the Medium, please.
I'll take a Diet Coke, instead of Coffee (I assume a $.30 upcharge or something).
Bill comes to $11.28, or something.....WTF?
Well sir, you ordered the Medium, which is a $1.59 upcharge?.....hunh?
The Pop (pop vs coffee actual charge is what $.07?).... Pop Upcharge is $1.89, plus $0.35 to upgrade it to the Medium...
Plus Tax/title/liscencing...
$11.28, for a very crappy breakfast....(food cost was probably about $1.50).
Again, WT actual F....
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Thought, I hadn't been to BKing Drive-thru in a while.....probably the same price?
BK Sandwich was $3.99. Meal, which inlcudes coffee & hash-round thingys...$6.49
OK, I go for the meal.
They ask if I want the Medium or the Large (I assume 2 sizes), oh I don't need anything extra, just the Medium, please.
I'll take a Diet Coke, instead of Coffee (I assume a $.30 upcharge or something).
Bill comes to $11.28, or something.....WTF?
Well sir, you ordered the Medium, which is a $1.59 upcharge?.....hunh?
The Pop (pop vs coffee actual charge is what $.07?).... Pop Upcharge is $1.89, plus $0.35 to upgrade it to the Medium...
Plus Tax/title/liscencing...
$11.28, for a very crappy breakfast....(food cost was probably about $1.50).
Again, WT actual F....
End Rant.
Yes, the variability in efficiency from the Ames to Ankeny CFAs is pretty mindboggling. The Ames one you hardly need to tap your brake going through the drive-through. In Ankeny you can about park and take a nap in the drive-through.
The thing with Chick-fil-A is that it's all about the franchise owner. if you are still in the "growth stages" those restaurant owners are usually really involved and in turn they get some pretty incredible rewards. Once stores plateau they aren't nearly as incentivized and that's when you see quality/consistency start to slide.
I think the local Mexican restaurants are pretty much the optimum cost/quality in most places in Iowa.
Have been hitting up the one in Northern Lights in Ames since it opened, but the word is getting out, since we saw JP there on Friday.
I can eat a lot, and I can easily stretch two good sized meals out of the birrias tacos meal that I think is like $12. Take some of the beef out of the tacos because they are absolutely loaded, throw that and a bunch of the rice in the leftover consommé, and you've got a kickass leftover meal.
Have been hitting up the one in Northern Lights in Ames since it opened, but the word is getting out, since we saw JP there on Friday.
I can eat a lot, and I can easily stretch two good sized meals out of the birrias tacos meal that I think is like $12. Take some of the beef out of the tacos because they are absolutely loaded, throw that and a bunch of the rice in the leftover consommé, and you've got a kickass leftover meal.
Yeah, when BK is good it's solid, but it seems like most of the locations are garbage these days. Slow service, cold food, dirty restaurants. Not sure how the one in Ankeny stays open. There are so many burger places right next to it, unless you really want a whopper
Did their commercials make the "Commercials that need to be shot into the sun thread?" If not, they should be high on that list. Nothing makes me want to eat at your place more than you showing me that you hire a bunch of morons to run it.
In reality, lilving in the Chicago burbs, I have so many mom and pop hot dog/burger places around that if I were to eat "Fast Food" I'd go to one of them. Most of them blow any chain burger away by a mile. Usually though, if I'm looking for a quick take-out, I hit one of the mom and pop mexican places. This is making me hungry for a Milanesa Torta as I type this.
The one that closed down a year ago on 86th by Texas Roadhouse literally had bugs everywhere the few times I went into it. Even the drive through felt like you needed a shower or car wash afterwards.
BK went downhill when they got rid of the rodeo burgers. It's been sh*t since they really tried to push the impossible burger and made different sections at their locations. I'm all for having options, but it really seemed like they were trying to push a dead market instead of refining and pleasing their current customer base.
Honestly don't think the problem is the offerings including the impossible burger. It's more a widespread problem of quality control across the chain that would be a problem no matter what they put on the menu
I recall Wendy's having a salad bar. My wife was so adamant that there were salad bars in Wendys that I'm now second guessing myself. Help me out here, CyFan.
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Yeah, probably. I guess if you don't reinvest or tighten up your inefficiencies and glaring issues, they'll eventually eat them alive. My perception of them just hasn't been great over the years since college. Kind of a dying brand that just never seem to become innovative and create something better beyond their attempt at the whopper. Oh well, I won't lose sleep over it.
They did apparently, I only remember the BK salad bars though. The 80's was the golden age of salad bars.
There were two different levels of salad bars. Some stores had Salad Bars, some had Super Bars. The latter had some things like chilli, tacos, etc. Since they were all you could eat, they ran out of fashion around the late 90s (some places early 00s).
