Most Overrated Fast Food Restaurant

[honeychile]

I've only had one Whataburger, and it was unmemorable as being bad or good. We went because we liked the logo!

[Rollergirl2001]

One more restaurant I forgot to mention:

KFC. Its chicken strips taste like beer. Yuck!

[FAB*SpiceySpice]

Originally posted by Betarulz!
It's only a Nebraska thing, but Amigos, is entirely overrated. They have only about 30 locations, and I think they are only in Nebraska now (the only location I ever saw outside of Nebraska was in Lawrence KS, and it closed a couple of years back).

NOOOOOO...I love Amigos! But that's probably b/c I live in Missouri and there is nothing like that here. It's only good when you're extremely, extremely wasted. Nothing is better than a crisp meat burrito when you're drunk. Now I want Amigo's and I will have to wait until the end of November to have it! (I miss Amigo's, Runza, and Valentino's like it's my job when I'm at school...I didn't really care for them until I no longer had them, go figure! )

[whiteandblack]

Originally Posted by Rollergirl2001

I would have to say Quizno's. Quizno's not all that great.

I so agree. been once and have never gone back.

[IUHoosiergirl88]

I'm gonna have to go with:
Quiznos
Olive Garden
Uno's (I'm biased though, I live close to Chicago so I can eat REAL pizza there)
and...
Chipotle. I prefer Qdoba waaaaaaaaay more.

[bostongreek]

cheesecake factory.

[33girl]

Originally Posted by bostongreek

cheesecake factory.

AMEN. We ate there in Chicago and it was good (I think mainly because we were freezing and starving) but at the CFs around here, mediocre describes it the best. And the service needs to get up to mediocre.

I think places like this bother me more than bad fast food. Fast food doesn't pretend it's fine dining.

[KSigkid]

Originally Posted by bostongreek

cheesecake factory.

It's weird - I've found that the Cheesecake Factory in big cities (Boston for example, and I've heard good things about the Chicago one) aren't half bad, and the food quality is fairly good. I have heard that the service and food quality isn't as good in smaller cities, though (like the one in the Hartford area).

I will agree that it's overrated in the sense that some people think it's the greatest thing since sliced bread, and people get too crazy in their praise for it. In big cities, you can usually find a place of comparable cost with much better food quality.

I'll reiterate my distaste for Olive Garden - in many places you can get better Italian food at the local hole-in-the-wall places.

[bostongreek]

Originally Posted by KSigkid

It's weird - I've found that the Cheesecake Factory in big cities (Boston for example, and I've heard good things about the Chicago one) aren't half bad, and the food quality is fairly good. I have heard that the service and food quality isn't as good in smaller cities, though (like the one in the Hartford area).

I will agree that it's overrated in the sense that some people think it's the greatest thing since sliced bread, and people get too crazy in their praise for it. In big cities, you can usually find a place of comparable cost with much better food quality.

yeah, my problem with them is that, while i will admit their cheesecake is fab, the food itself is nothing special and yet everyone acts like it's the best restaurant ever and wants to go there all the time. i have the same beef with pf changs. they're not bad, per se, but they're incredibly overrated.

[cheerfulgreek]

Originally Posted by bostongreek

cheesecake factory.

I love the cheesecake factory. There isn't one here as far as I know of. The one I know about is in Chicago.

[honeychile]

Originally Posted by bostongreek

cheesecake factory.

I'll spare everyone my Cheesecake Factory nightmare. Sadly, I had met a sister there (in another city), so she knows. Never, ever again.

Tim Horton's shouldn't be allowed to call itself a doughnut store. I think that's where old hockey pucks go to die.

Good to see that a couple of my favorites haven't been mentioned - Arthur Treacher's & Popeye's, for starters. I think we need a thread on late, great restaurant chains that are no longer with us.

[AlwaysSAI]

Originally Posted by honeychile

late, great restaurant chains that are no longer with us.

Bob Evans
Pondarosa

(or these could be northern chains that just don't exist in the south)

[AGDee]

Originally Posted by MysticCat

Cool! It's weird, I know. I love deli meats (most of them, at least), and love cheese, but I just don't want them on bread. I'd much rather just roll the meat up and eat it right by itself.

I agree, that's why I like wraps! I hate when you eat a sandwich and there is more bread than "insides". With the wraps, you get a lot more insides and not much of the breadstuff.

Originally Posted by AlwaysSAI

Bob Evans
Pondarosa

(or these could be northern chains that just don't exist in the south)

They are both still open in Michigan.

ETA: The only time I've eaten at Cheesecake Factory was in Chicago. My son and I had New York pizza and my son and I both got a kick out of saying we went to the Cheesecake Factory in Chicago for New York style pizza because it just made no sense. It was the closest restaurant to where we had to meet the school buses after being in the Hancock Building though.

[AlphaFrog]

Originally Posted by AlwaysSAI

Bob Evans
Pondarosa

(or these could be northern chains that just don't exist in the south)

Bob Evans are all over the Charlotte area.

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by honeychile

I think we need a thread on late, great restaurant chains that are no longer with us.

Roy Rogers. I still have cravings for Double R Bar Burgers.