Today only. No purchase necessary.
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I go to fast food much less these days, but I’ll never swear off. Sometimes, salt/sugar/fat/umami bombs are what you want.
There was a coupon in the mailer for KFC. It’d been a good year since I had them. 9 pieces of chicken for $17 (drums/thighs). Sure.
No wonder these chains are struggling to fill crews and praying that automation will save them. They have turned, seemingly overnight, a fry cook job dumbed down to the point that a highschooler could manage it with reasonable competence, to, essentially, customer service reps and phone support for a technological ecosystem that, somewhere inside it, makes chicken. A crew of 4 people, none of whom appeared to have any particular authority, were dutifully reading computer screens, filling bags, stacking trays of chicken into warming boxes, and then desperately trying to match order ID’s with customer names, maybe CC#? A mistake, Wait right out side. One couple had been waiting 30+ minutes to resolve an error.
A 9 piece drum/thigh original recipe and 2 biscuits took 20 minutes from the time I ordered at the counter to the time food was handed to me.
This is not the fault of the crew. I can barely say it’s the fault of the industry, since so so many of use are happy to use the app and order through grubhub and all the sorts of thing that require the ‘technologizing’ of fast food and make it a worse thing than what it has traditionally been, which was never all that great, really.
I wish I had any sort of idea what should, or even COULD be done about it. Just another point on the dumbest timeline, I guess…
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Oh no! It’s all I can do to keep myself from starting a battle over whether the center layer of a Big Mac is a ‘slice’ or a ‘bun’. I’d vote that a ‘bun’ is the whole bread portion (cut in 3 for a Big Mac). If what you posted was the only bread-related choice then I’d say McDs didn’t provide an option for you to eliminate the center layer of bread. One more piece of evidence of the perils of all the movement toward software replacement of humans. It’s only as good as the software. 
My sample size is now 4, and it’s only come without the middle bun once. 2 times it’s come without any bun at all, and once it came with all buns but no big mac sauce.
Alas the BOGO offer is now gone, replaced by a BOGO$0.29 deal, thus no more stacking BOGO with $1.29 large fries deal
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I remove whichever bun the cheese isn’t on.
about a year ago i spent about an hour… an hour!!! … waiting like a moron at mcdonalds for … a mcplant. because my curiosity got the better of me and i could not fight off the sunk-cost fallacy - i mean, how can a single sandwich take more than another 5 minutes, and another 5 minutes, and another 5 minutes… they were getting slammed with ubereats orders, and they were short 1 person with a rookie manager. haven’t been back to mcdonalds ever since…
as long as the lines at in-n-out can be, you never get the sense that they could be going any faster…
on a fast-food related tangent, there are few things better than stumbling into freshly-made still warm/hot doUGHnuts. went into the local shop craving an apple fritter, walked away having housed a half dozen old-fashioneds…
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It happens. We had a kfc where I live . A good friend was visiting. I dropped him off for his order. I knew this place . I’m going shopping I’ll be back in around 20 minutes. I knew I would still have to wait , He was the only one in line . Lol . Out of business. Starbucks took over . State of the nation. waiting waiting.
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Check out sidecar they make fresh donuts every hour!
Hey let’s call them by their rightful name - they’re doughnuts, not donuts. lol
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Potato potahto 
Donut is an alternate spelling of doughnut . Some dictionaries point out that donut is rarely used outside the United States. All of them recognize doughnut as the main spelling, as do some of the more popular style guides. Doughnut might be the spelling you should use if you want to be sure you’re not making a mistake.
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I would share with credit an eater article for “21 best donut shop ham and cheese croissants”
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Take that up with…every donut shop name in Los Angeles 
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I have no preferences either way in this matter, but one of the employees I chatted with at Sidecar feels quite firmly Team Doughnut. (Thus my above tongue in cheek comment)
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so true so true, an underrated and oft underappreciated component of a competent doUGHnut shop - being able to turn out great breakfast sandwiches and burgers.
tried the shake shack white truffle fries and white truffle shroom sandwich, which use “Regalis Foods’ USDA Organic White Truffle Arbequina Oil”.
the shroom sandwich somehow tastes like a cousin of a big mac… which suggests that maybe big mac sauce + real white truffles would be a successful combo?!
the fries were adequate, but the truffle sauce mostly just tastes of umami.
the white truffle oil is not offensive, but also only in the most minute way touches on white truffle essence. overall, these items are 99% promotional hype to use the term ‘white truffle’, provide minimal actual white truffle value
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Sometimes you just need the big ass party tray of raising canes chicken fingers at 12am
They put their sauce in a 24 ounce drink cup for us.
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Some of my coworkers asked me to pitch in for a giant tray of those for a Thanksgiving potluck. It was handy.
Also @hungryhungryhippos should this have been on the Stoned, Drunk & Hungry thread?
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Yes this definitely should’ve been on that thread too lol
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That’s the only place it should have been LOL
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