We now have burger king!!

[2dimes]

Burger King can be pretty nasty at some locations. Here it is ok to excellent. Carl's Jr has been slightly better every time we've been. My wife likes the Green Burrito.

[Gilligan]

by the way,

french people don't say nike, they say "naik"
french people don't say levi's, real old french say "lewees" and youg say "levees"
french people don't say sweat shit, they say "sweet shirt"

lewees and sweet shirt just fucking annoy me. and the fucking wooper.

is your shit sweaty? ew.

[Fruitcake]

I am often in and out of various French Airports, Cities etc. I do, from time to time, use 'Quick'.

I have to say I love the French style of service. You wait for ages in a queue while one server (the rest are holding a meeting on whether to go on strike or not) slowly serves the food. The attitude he/she has is too good to miss and every one should experience it at least once in ones life. They stare at the customer as if they are doing a favour for some paysan who just crawled in from the fields. Then after grudgingly taking le money and shutting the draw, they then look at the customer as there is no food in the service hotplate. The customer asks when it will be ready to be rewarded with that wonderful Gallic shrug which says "this is not my problem".

I have been in a state of mirth watching this as various overseas visitors have looked utterly bemused and shuffled to the side. At this point the server then just looks at the next in the queue as if the previous customer, who is now waiting, no longer exists (which of course they didn't in our dear French cousin's eyes anyway!)

The next stage of this process is when the original customer dares to ask when the food will be ready. At this, the server turns slowly, looks at the empty hotplate, looks back at the customer and shrugs their shoulders again. At last some operators shuffle into the kitchen, look up at the orders on the screen in the Kitchen and start producing food. There are so many customers hanging around by the counter by now that nobody else can be served until the backlog is cleared.

We tend to pick the junior member of the travelling party, give our orders to them and go and sit down. I have managed to answer multiple emails, hold a telephone conversation and check my IMs all before the said junior member comes back with some of the order. We then send them back to somehow convince the uninterested server they haven't produced all the order. It is a joy to watch.

For the above, Paris has to be my favourite. but then Paris is the Capital of habitual bad manners, and the French do this with an aplomb and an ease I can find nowhere else in the world.

[betiko]

There you go! 1h line to get my whopper. Some people were staring at us wondering if the burgers were free to explain the line. Special thanks to saxi, he showed me where the hell in the train station the bk was located.

Over rated? Of course! But i just wanted BK back!! It s exactly what the voice is saying.
Anyway, i am sure that if tomorrow BK closes in the whole US and comes back in 2029 you guys would want a whopper real bad too.

[Gilligan]

Anyway, i am sure that if tomorrow BK closes in the whole US and comes back in 2029 you guys would want a whopper real bad too.

I disagree...for me at least. I'm not a fan of McDonalds or Burger King. Those two chains are pretty much the only ones in my area that we can go to for fast burgers. The only time I'll have a burger is if I'm home, or I'm going to a sit-down restaurant.

Actually, most of my fast-food business goes to Subway...if you guys have those.

[betiko]

Anyway, i am sure that if tomorrow BK closes in the whole US and comes back in 2029 you guys would want a whopper real bad too.

I disagree...for me at least. I'm not a fan of McDonalds or Burger King. Those two chains are pretty much the only ones in my area that we can go to for fast burgers. The only time I'll have a burger is if I'm home, or I'm going to a sit-down restaurant.

Actually, most of my fast-food business goes to Subway...if you guys have those.

Yeah we have subways, an indecent amount of them opened in no time about 10 years ago, came pretty late here. I heard it s extremely profitable to open one of these franchises.
And there are just times where your body cries for junk food, a burger remains junk food and i almost never order one when i go to a normal restaurant, even if they are good.

[Gilligan]

Anyway, i am sure that if tomorrow BK closes in the whole US and comes back in 2029 you guys would want a whopper real bad too.

I disagree...for me at least. I'm not a fan of McDonalds or Burger King. Those two chains are pretty much the only ones in my area that we can go to for fast burgers. The only time I'll have a burger is if I'm home, or I'm going to a sit-down restaurant.

Actually, most of my fast-food business goes to Subway...if you guys have those.

Yeah we have subways, an indecent amount of them opened in no time about 10 years ago, came pretty late here. I heard it s extremely profitable to open one of these franchises.
And there are just times where your body cries for junk food, a burger remains junk food and i almost never order one when i go to a normal restaurant, even if they are good.

When I get the "junk food" craving, I like to get KFC (Honestly, though, Popeye's is better...there's only one near here, and it's farther away than KFC) or Taco Bell.

I believe that Subway is very profitable. People in the US are getting bigger and bigger...and Subway is probably number one for "healthiest fast food".

[betiko]

I am often in and out of various French Airports, Cities etc. I do, from time to time, use 'Quick'.

I have to say I love the French style of service. You wait for ages in a queue while one server (the rest are holding a meeting on whether to go on strike or not) slowly serves the food. The attitude he/she has is too good to miss and every one should experience it at least once in ones life. They stare at the customer as if they are doing a favour for some paysan who just crawled in from the fields. Then after grudgingly taking le money and shutting the draw, they then look at the customer as there is no food in the service hotplate. The customer asks when it will be ready to be rewarded with that wonderful Gallic shrug which says "this is not my problem".

I have been in a state of mirth watching this as various overseas visitors have looked utterly bemused and shuffled to the side. At this point the server then just looks at the next in the queue as if the previous customer, who is now waiting, no longer exists (which of course they didn't in our dear French cousin's eyes anyway!)

The next stage of this process is when the original customer dares to ask when the food will be ready. At this, the server turns slowly, looks at the empty hotplate, looks back at the customer and shrugs their shoulders again. At last some operators shuffle into the kitchen, look up at the orders on the screen in the Kitchen and start producing food. There are so many customers hanging around by the counter by now that nobody else can be served until the backlog is cleared.

We tend to pick the junior member of the travelling party, give our orders to them and go and sit down. I have managed to answer multiple emails, hold a telephone conversation and check my IMs all before the said junior member comes back with some of the order. We then send them back to somehow convince the uninterested server they haven't produced all the order. It is a joy to watch.

For the above, Paris has to be my favourite. but then Paris is the Capital of habitual bad manners, and the French do this with an aplomb and an ease I can find nowhere else in the world.

I have to agree that the french don t have the anglo saxon customer service, not even close. Nevertheless, it will always depend on the person serving you. I can t generalize. I have to say that most often I find that customers are total douchebags and that these people are not doing an easy job. Not to mention that the pay is shit and these guys are just finding a way to pay for their studies.

[Serbia]

And there are just times where your body cries for junk food, a burger remains junk food and i almost never order one when i go to a normal restaurant, even if they are good.

When drunk or hungover, I crave White Castles. They are amazingly bad, which makes them awesomely delicious. It's odd, I know, but you have to experience it.

Bollocks.

[betiko]

And there are just times where your body cries for junk food, a burger remains junk food and i almost never order one when i go to a normal restaurant, even if they are good.

When drunk or hungover, I crave White Castles. They are amazingly bad, which makes them awesomely delicious. It's odd, I know, but you have to experience it.

Bollocks.

When i was an exchange student in the US i used to go to jack in the box when i was super high or drunk with me mates. God a jack in the crack was shit, but god it s awesome!!

And whitecastle is just a legend for me. I first heard of them thanks to harold & kumar. That movie is so bad that I love it and watched it 3 times. I was told after a while that whitecastle actually exists. One day, i will fulfil my filth dream and try those drunk. You are a lucky man, serbia! Your mum must be proud!

[2dimes]

Chicken rings!!

[Trevor33]

KFC SUCKSSSSSSSSSSSS here. I don't like the fires at burger king, here McDonalds is better but in the states both are crap. I never saw a burger king in Peru but i'm sure they have them, McDonalds wasn't that busy but KFC was packed everyday, much like McDs here. I didn't see the point of KFC in Peru because they have a million other chicken places but i guess it's the American factor.

Went into my first subway a couple of weeks ago :O

[Shannon Apple]

I had an apartment right in a town centre and you could see Burger King from my window, right across the car park. Walk outside and there was McDonalds across just a few doors down, Supermacs (an Irish one) right next door to my building, and friggen KFC a few minute walk up the road, and guess what? I never set foot in any of them for the entire 4 years that I lived there, except maybe once. I was proud of myself for that. Some people live on that shite though. XD.

[notyou2]

***fancy talk***

In France, do they call it Burger Roi and replace the "Kids Meal" with the "Guillotine Special?"

You are looking in the wrong direction! That s your friends from up north! We actually leave most things untranslated in france. The classic quarter pounder with cheese is actually the "royal cheese" not the "royale with cheese" travolta is full of crap. But that s the only one with a different name (note that it remains in english, but something that the average french would understand; quarter pounder is a measure that doesn t mean shit here).
In quebec, they call the the happy meal the "menu joyeux". That is absolutely hilarious for french people. People from quebec just translate absolutely everything, and that s when I realize how many anglicisms we have in the 21st century french.

And yes, the mcdonalds is significantly better here. In the US it s probably the worse fast food of all, i was surprised by their quality standards in their home country.

Quebec has some really fucked up language laws.

[Lootifer]

Anyway, i am sure that if tomorrow BK closes in the whole US and comes back in 2029 you guys would want a whopper real bad too.

I disagree...for me at least. I'm not a fan of McDonalds or Burger King. Those two chains are pretty much the only ones in my area that we can go to for fast burgers. The only time I'll have a burger is if I'm home, or I'm going to a sit-down restaurant.

Actually, most of my fast-food business goes to Subway...if you guys have those.

Subway is the worst.

I dont even know about their food but f*ck me their brand/advertising drives me insane.

[jonesthecurl]

by the way,

french people don't say nike, they say "naik"
french people don't say levi's, real old french say "lewees" and youg say "levees"
french people don't say sweat shit, they say "sweet shirt"

lewees and sweet shirt just fucking annoy me. and the fucking wooper.

Americans don't say "notre dame" they say "Note-ur-dayme".

[smegal69]

We have a couple of new ones in Beijing (bringing the total to about 5 or 6). Given I can be reasonably sure that BK won't contain harmful metals, 'recycled' oil, rat meat or whatever other shit has been unearthed during the most recent food scandal, I actually eat there relatively often. #notevenbothered

And what is wrong with Rat Meat? fire up the BBQ......



I eat it all the Time

[Gillipig]

Taco bell is better than burger king

Fucking Mexican

F*ck you Nietzsche, F*ck you! Take your taco bell, tapas and pincho and shove it up your ass!!

BK tastes a lot better than McDonalds, haven't been to a McD resturant in at least four years, if I want to buy a burger I buy it at BK. But I prefer to make my own burgers and fries actually. Fries are really cheap to buy in the supermarket, 2 dollars gets you 2 pounds of fries, that's even enough to satisfy BBS's appetite!

[mrswdk]

But I prefer to make my own burgers and fries actually. Fries are really cheap to buy in the supermarket

Not sure you quite understand what the process of 'making' fries involves.

[Trevor33]

But I prefer to make my own burgers and fries actually. Fries are really cheap to buy in the supermarket

Not sure you quite understand what the process of 'making' fries involves.

Yeah I was about to say if he had heard of this wonderful discovery called the potato.

[Gillipig]

But I prefer to make my own burgers and fries actually. Fries are really cheap to buy in the supermarket

Not sure you quite understand what the process of 'making' fries involves.

In that sense I'm not "making" the hamburgers either, I'm not "making" the hamburger breads, I'm not "making" the ingredients that I fill the burger with either, yet I'm still "making" it. I guess what you need to understand is that you can use the word "make" in more than one way.

[Trevor33]

But I prefer to make my own burgers and fries actually. Fries are really cheap to buy in the supermarket

Not sure you quite understand what the process of 'making' fries involves.

In that sense I'm not "making" the hamburgers either, I'm not "making" the hamburger breads, I'm not "making" the ingredients that I fill the burger with either, yet I'm still "making" it. I guess what you need to understand is that you can use the word "make" in more than one way.

You're not making the fires, you're cooking them. You don't need to make the ingredients of a burger to make a burger, you just need to assemble to ingredients. If you want to make fries you need an ingredient... we'll call it a potato.

[fadedpsychosis]

you know it's funny, but this is the only US base I've been on in the entire world that doesn't have a BK on it (and yes, the bases I went to in both Iraq and Afghanistan had BKs... well the main bases anyway)... any way you slice it though, BK, while preferable to McDonalds, is not on my list of food preferences...

[betiko]

you know it's funny, but this is the only US base I've been on in the entire world that doesn't have a BK on it (and yes, the bases I went to in both Iraq and Afghanistan had BKs... well the main bases anyway)... any way you slice it though, BK, while preferable to McDonalds, is not on my list of food preferences...

I didn t know soldiers had fast food brands on military bases!