What is your favorite meal at your favorite chain restaurant?

Jules said:
As a former easterner who now lives in the desolate west where the chickens refused to give up their teeth, it’s almost impossible to find a Swiss Chalet. As a kid I went to the original one in downtown Toronto. I love that sauce; DH hates it but will go for one meal when we’re visiting family in Ontario.

In the US, I like the Red Lobster. By the time I’ve had the Caesar salad and extra hot rolls I barely have room for the seafood sampler. That may not be exact name.
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You are correct, it is Red Lobster :)
 
Aneeda72 said:
Mine is the sampler meal at Cracker Barrel. You get a large slice of ham, a large piece of meatloaf, and a large dish of chicken and dumplings; plus your choice of three sides with biscuits/cornbread. We each get this meal, take home the leftovers, and we each have three to four meals left.

I usually have four meals, him three. 😂. It’s great for the price.
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Love the Cracker Barrels but sadly, there are none nearby. Used to eat at them when driving to and from Florida each winter. There is one in Rhode Island but it's across the state line about 40 miles from home. Long trip if only for the meal.:(
 
Like everything else, we don't have 'chain restaurants' in this area, but if we're somewhere away from home, we can usually find a J D Wetherspoons for lunch and a cheap beer. At least, even here in Scotland, they sell English beer.

Before going to the theatre in Aberdeen, we usually have a light snack in 'Muffin Break'.
 
Seldom do I eat at a chain restaurant, except last Sunday, I took a lady to dinner at the Cheesecake Factory in Washington, which is just up the road. It was her suggestion, but I have been there before and was ok with it. I had the Chicken and Broccoli Pasta, easy on the garlic. We split a bottle of wine. Then we drove through the city, which is a dump and looks nothing like it did 5 years ago. After that, I asked her should we have a little dessert? She was in agreement so I took her to my favorite ice cream shop in D.C. Mt. Desert Island.
https://www.mdiic.com/washington-dc
 
Been There said:
Seldom do I eat at a chain restaurant, except last Sunday, I took a lady to dinner at the Cheesecake Factory in Washington, which is just up the road. It was her suggestion, but I have been there before and was ok with it. I had the Chicken and Broccoli Pasta, easy on the garlic. We split a bottle of wine. Then we drove through the city, which is a dump and looks nothing like it did 5 years ago. After that, I asked her should we have a little dessert? She was in agreement so I took her to my favorite ice cream shop in D.C. Mt. Desert Island.
https://www.mdiic.com/washington-dc
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Please pick me up some Maine Sea Salt Caramel ice-cream next time you're out that way 😋
 
squatting dog said:
Not fillers per say, but, there is some additives that are kind of hard to discover without deep digging

While the Golden Arches discloses that beef is the only ingredient in their patty, they stray away from mentioning how their cattle are raised. A 2017 report by several public interest organizations, Chain Reaction III, reveals that although McDonald's announced a goal to curb the use of medically-important antibiotics in their beef supply, the company's "Vision on Antibiotic Stewardship" ultimately never established a deadline.
Other popular burger chains guilty of using medically-important antibiotics in their 100 percent beef patties include Burger King and Jack in the Box, which both failed to set time-bound commitments to ceasing use of the meds.
Fast food chains, such as Wendy's and McDonald's, have vowed to reduce their use of antibiotics on meat, but until government agencies enforce regulations against the injudicious use of antibiotics on meat, consider making your own hamburger at home with organic, grass-fed beef.

Most fast food chains are transparent about their meat's production process, but the other ingredients that go into their beef patties? It gets murky. For example, Jack in the Box states that it uses 100 percent beef in its burgers, but a comprehensive Ingredient & Allergen Statement lists a slew of other ingredients found in the patty including saturated-fat-filled hydrogenated cottonseed oil, natural flavors, corn fiber, corn starch, and sugar.

Then, there's this....
A&W also boasts that its burgers are made of 100 percent beef, but a closer look at the ingredient list reveals that the chain adds some sketchy additives as seasoning—allowing them to make good on their claim that the burger is, in fact, only ground beef. The seasoning includes ingredients such as appetite-spiking MSG derivatives, disodium inosinate and disodium guanylate, sugar, cornstarch, and silicon dioxide (an anti-caking agent).

That's the reason I don't do fast food.
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Decades ago jack in the box used horse meat in their burgers, as reported at the time. Never ate there again. We recently bought a meat grinder and now make our own ground beef. I find many stores add either water or careless grind their beef and it ends up with pieces of bone in it. Now at least I know what is on my ground beef-beef only. 😊
 
We rarely, if ever, ate in chain restaurants before we moved to Idaho last year.Now that`s pretty much all that`s here so we have no choice.The Chinese food here is awaful,and the Mexican food here is as well. Those two are frequently not chains and are usually good,but not so here. There is a chain here called Smokey Mountain Pizza and Grill,it`s only in the "Mountain Time" states,I believe.Their pizza are pretty good and their Italian style dinners are excellent. So that is mostly where we go.

On Wednesday we head to California for a week and will arrive around dinnertime,so dinner will be at our favorite Mexican restaurant where we are friends of the owners. We will no doubt have dinner there a few times while there lol. We are also going to make a trip down to the San Francisco Bay Area one of the days to have dinner at our old favorite Italian place-also are friends with the owner. Probably the last time we`ll ever go there...
 

What is your favorite meal at your favorite chain restaurant?​

The 'chain' is pretty much to our own dining table

But

I can't seem to drive by a Chang's Mongolian Grill

Grab a plate
Pick yer choices down the line
ending with some pretty spicey sauces

Hand to the guy at the grill



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get the rice buns (for plate cleaning) from the little lady that pours the beverage

Clean yer plate

Grab another plate

go back for more


Oh, and KFC
Prefer just ordering a bucket of skin


But
We don't do the eat out thing no more
 
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