rolling new food laboratory inventions for american chain restaurants thread

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Del Taco has decent fries, too. Haven't tried the TB fries yet.

my dreams in the hell-pits (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 13:56 (six years ago) link

Burger King’s chicken fries isn’t even a fry

hueg if true

j., Wednesday, 31 January 2018 14:15 (six years ago) link

https://i.imgur.com/xuJsk1c.jpg

"IT'S A COOKBOOK!"

pplains, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 14:44 (six years ago) link

While it seems like fool’s errand, Taco Bell has more space in the fried potato game than they lead on.

About what you'd expect from a 'journalist' who rates fast food.

A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 20:08 (six years ago) link

voting other for 'perfect' because every time i hear him sing 'dancing in the dark with you between my arms' i wanna punch the radio because who the fuck says 'between your arms' instead of 'in your arms'? ffs i hate this cunt

― grim-n-gritty hooty reboot (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 19 January 2018 10:55 (two weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

heard this again on the radio and almost swerved into oncoming traffic yelling about 'between my arms'

ed sheeran's gonna get me killed before i get to look for the first time upon the face of my infant daughter

i gotta be a gazpacho man (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 5 February 2018 14:32 (six years ago) link

tbf, the ed sheeran flavored biscuits 'n' gravy are delicious

Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Monday, 5 February 2018 14:35 (six years ago) link

ed sheeran’s fucked me up so much i can’t keep threads straight ffs

i gotta be a gazpacho man (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 5 February 2018 15:44 (six years ago) link

doritos sells sour cream flavored chips here, not sour cream and onion, just sour cream

there's also "cool american" which is cool ranch

sour cream come in a green bag & cool american in the familiar blue bag so I think they're not the same

I do not want sour cream flavored doritos

note that plain doritos are the best tortilla chip widely available here though they are still not great since all the corn tortilla products widely available here have a lot of flour in them instead of being straight corn, wtf

droit au butt (Euler), Monday, 5 February 2018 15:45 (six years ago) link

at one point I was unsure whether to be angry about "cool american" instead of "cool ranch" but tbh that substitution reveals many things

mh, Monday, 5 February 2018 15:54 (six years ago) link

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/mcdonald%E2%80%99s-fries-chemical-may-cure-baldness-study-says/ar-BBIJqnv

Japanese scientists may have discovered a cure for baldness and it lies within a chemical used to make McDonald’s fries.

A stem cell research team from Yokohama National University have used a “simple” method to regrow hair on mice with dimethylpolysiloxane, the silicone added to McDonald’s fries to stop cooking oil from frothing.

j., Monday, 5 February 2018 18:35 (six years ago) link

so do I rub the fries directly on my head, or

mh, Monday, 5 February 2018 18:56 (six years ago) link

My arteries are clogged with solidified fat but my hair looks terrific

my dreams in the hell-pits (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 5 February 2018 19:30 (six years ago) link

xp
Directly on your thighs, iirc.

nickn, Monday, 5 February 2018 21:11 (six years ago) link

that Doritos article made me think of:

http://www.clickhole.com/article/powerful-pringles-has-unveiled-line-damp-chips-won-5938

silverfish, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 01:46 (six years ago) link

I guess most of the articles posted on this thread might as well also be posted in the "things that look like onion articles but aren't"

silverfish, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 01:48 (six years ago) link

thread

silverfish, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 01:49 (six years ago) link

I'm listening.

pplains, Thursday, 8 February 2018 14:00 (six years ago) link

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-13/chipotle-taps-taco-bell-ceo-as-new-leader-in-major-culture-shift

attn landfill indie wannabes, "The Ailing Burrito Chain" is just sitting there, waiting to be your band's name

the portentous pepper (govern yourself accordingly), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 02:13 (six years ago) link

I don't know what to think, but I hope the basics stay good enough

mh, Wednesday, 14 February 2018 02:20 (six years ago) link

this could also the beginning of real machine-printed humane meats, who knows

mh, Wednesday, 14 February 2018 02:21 (six years ago) link

pretty sure "The Ailing Burrito Chain" is the subtitle to human centipede 4

Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 02:55 (six years ago) link

https://www.therestaurantcoach.com/

lmao this dude

the portentous pepper (govern yourself accordingly), Tuesday, 20 February 2018 04:06 (six years ago) link

One is if your not growing, you’re dying

direct to consumer online mattress brand (silby), Tuesday, 20 February 2018 04:08 (six years ago) link

why is his signature in the Disney signature typeface

mh, Tuesday, 20 February 2018 17:08 (six years ago) link

want action

make change

take crap

j., Tuesday, 20 February 2018 18:17 (six years ago) link

Probably a succinct encapsualtion of working there

startled macropod (MatthewK), Tuesday, 20 February 2018 19:59 (six years ago) link

ugh *encapsulation

startled macropod (MatthewK), Tuesday, 20 February 2018 20:00 (six years ago) link

never had a good delivery with dhl

j., Wednesday, 21 February 2018 00:06 (six years ago) link

KFC now stands for Kan't Find the Chicken.

2018 has to be better (snoball), Wednesday, 21 February 2018 00:08 (six years ago) link

double down fallout

nxd, Wednesday, 21 February 2018 09:35 (six years ago) link

People who go to actual KFCs when there are fake Turkish-run KFCs around only have themselves to blame.

Three Word Username, Wednesday, 21 February 2018 10:48 (six years ago) link

The presence of one of the Chuckle Brothers pretty much qualifies this for the Real England thread.
'Don't call police over KFC crisis'

2018 has to be better (snoball), Wednesday, 21 February 2018 12:06 (six years ago) link

I’d order that

direct to consumer online mattress brand (silby), Thursday, 22 February 2018 17:22 (six years ago) link

not a food lab invention but...

Welcome to “McDonald’s of the Future,” where you order without interacting with anyone, but then a real person brings your McNuggets right to your table. The McDonald’s at 327 Washington St. in Downtown Boston reopened this week after two months of renovations that included the addition of digital self-order kiosks and table service. While it’s the first downtown Boston location of the ubiquitous fast-food chain to become “modernized,” as the marketing language promises, it’s one of over 3,000 upgraded locations around the United States, around 125 of which are in New England. About 100 more New England stores will get these changes (and facelifts, too) later this year.

maura, Thursday, 1 March 2018 20:52 (six years ago) link

Apparently it's already like this all over Europe? At least that's what a friend in a touring band was saying, hence drunk dudes pressing all the buttons and returning to the bus with bags and bags of fast food.

change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 1 March 2018 21:00 (six years ago) link

several of the local McDonald's stores are like that, although they still have one cash register open, next to a couple kiosks

mh, Thursday, 1 March 2018 21:06 (six years ago) link

yes here in olde europe we have table service at mcdo, with kiosks for ordering. I think it helps them manage the lines better, as they’re often less spacious than their USA counterparts

droit au butt (Euler), Thursday, 1 March 2018 21:08 (six years ago) link

Yup, haven't had to ask an actual human being at McD's for some years now for my order. You tap in your preferred gross food on a life-size tablet/touch screen thingy, and the last soul alive will serve it to your table. I'm not complaining tbh.

Google Atheist (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 1 March 2018 22:13 (six years ago) link

They are quite Jetsons-y, those places. With touch screen round tables you can eat at that also bring game-entertainment 4 the kids.

Google Atheist (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 1 March 2018 22:15 (six years ago) link

We have those in London, the table service feels bizarre at first but it's pretty cool, and as someone who's always messing with the order IME the touch screens are more reliable than saying to the server, "I don't want pickles"

papa don't take no meth (stevie), Friday, 2 March 2018 13:07 (six years ago) link

It’s like that in Chicago too. At least at the ones downtown and the one near my house. (Why do I know about so many McD’s?)

In this sense, we are America’s most European city.

Je55e, Sunday, 4 March 2018 14:19 (six years ago) link

you've got trains, there are many strange sausages available there, etc.

so in many senses

j., Sunday, 4 March 2018 14:43 (six years ago) link

the rock n roll McDonald’s has kiosk ordering? What a world

mh, Sunday, 4 March 2018 15:23 (six years ago) link

Actually I’ve never been to that one!

Je55e, Sunday, 4 March 2018 18:15 (six years ago) link

And you never will, at least with that concept. https://chicago.eater.com/2017/12/14/16778726/chicago-rock-roll-mcdonalds-closing-remodel

Jeff, Sunday, 4 March 2018 18:28 (six years ago) link


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