Burger King has been testing the $1 Double Cheeseburger in various markets for the past 18 months, and as of today, unveiled it nationally. After fighting tooth and nail against it, franchise owners seem to have relented, and BK is talking tough about the superiority of their Double Cheeseburger:
“With more beef and cheese, the $1 [...]

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I always get mildly depressed by ideas that want to seem original, yet are just rehashed garbage. Enter McDonald’s and the product that they’ve been testing in certain markets for the last few months: the Mac Snack Wrap, previously mentioned on So Good here.  This is essentially a Big Mac without the bun, wrapped in [...]

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Before I get into explaining why I didn’t write about this sooner, I want to emphasize something right out of the gate: THIS SHIT IS REAL. Seriously. REAL.  Ladies and gentlemen, the KFC Double Down Sandwich:

Yes, it’s a “sandwich” containing bacon, cheese and Colonel’s sauce, with two fried chicken patties serving as the bread.  Now [...]

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We’ve already covered the Top Ten Fast Food Chains, as well as  #11 – #20, # 21 – #30 and #31 – #40.
These are the final 10 stores on the list of the QSR 50.
Once again, this list is determined by total dollar sales.

41 Jimmy John’s
42 Captain D’s
43 Jason’s Deli
44 Qdoba
45 Jamba Juice
46 Cold [...]

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We’ve already covered the Top Ten Fast Food Chains, as well as  #11 – #20 and # 21 – #30. Today it’s on to #31 – #40 as we get close to rounding out our top 50.
Once again, this list is determined by total dollar sales.

31 Boston Market
32 Culvers
33 El Pollo Loco
34 Bojangles’
35 Papa Murphy’s
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We’ve already covered the Top Ten Fast Food Chains, as well as  Top Fast Food Chains #11 – #20. Today it’s on to #21 – #30.
Once again, this list is determined by total dollar sales.

21 Carl’s Jr.
22 Chipotle
23 Panda Express
24 Whataburger
25 Church’s Chicken
26 Little Caesars
27 Long John Silver’s
28 Steak n Shake
29 Zaxby’s
30 Checkers/Rally’s

Wow. Who knew that Little Caesars still had enough stores open to clock [...]

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Last week my post about the Top Ten Fast Food Chains got a pretty good response, proving the old axiom “people love top ten lists.”  So I thought I’d follow up be delving a little deeper and look at the next 10 restaurants on the list.  The list is according to total $$ sales, just [...]

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Technically these are defined as QSR (Quick Service Restaurants).  The QSR 50, an annual ranking of the top QSR chains just came out this week. The rankings are compiled based on raw sales by dollar amount.  Three changes in the top ten this year, as Subway moved ahead of Burger King to become #2, Starbucks [...]

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Continuing the new 2009 tradition of Presidents visiting popular local burger joints, this past weekend fmr. President Bill Clinton paid a visit to Z Burger (see my review HERE). The irony? He was in town to speak at a conference on obesity prevention and control.

So what did Bill Clinton order? A double hamburger with all [...]

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SilentSketcher has re-imagined fast food chain mascots/owners as mafia members. Pretty awesome.  SilentSketcher says he’s working on a new version to add onto his original five, and may make prints of this available. Do it! I’ll buy one!

Update: Also from the site Deviant Art is this cool imagining of fast food mascots as characters in [...]

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If you’re anything like me, you enjoy an online existence.  Said existence involves not working, reading news, humor websites, screwing with people on 4chan, and trying not to read message boards on political sites.  We are inundated with advertisements and people propping up their causes, whether silly or not.  New memes like Failblog and LOLcats [...]

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About 6 weeks ago, So Good was offered the chance to travel to the Taco Bell Headquarters in Orange County, CA for a look inside the Taco Bell test kitchens and to learn more about their new Volcano menu.  I remember wanting to try the Volcano Taco when it came out last year, since I [...]

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Long John Silver’s has just released a new line of Baja Fish Tacos and are giving them away for free until 2:30 pm today.  This begs the question though, what took so long? You’re a fast food fish chain and you never offered fish tacos before? Weird.

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The Onion skewers Taco Bell, with a terrific video about the company’s “Green Menu.”  Why is it Green? Because it “takes no ingredients from nature.”

Taco Bell’s New Green Menu Takes No Ingredients From Nature

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In my online travels, in search for all things food, I often see attempts at innovation that seldom hit their mark.  However, I recently came upon a site, Fancy Fast Food, that tries an interesting angle – the “extreme makeovers of actual fast food items purchased at popular fast food restaurants.”  Apparently, the person/team behind [...]

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When it comes to food, I am very open-minded.  I will give just about everything a try.  But as Dirty Harry once said, man’s got to know his limitations.  Enter, the Pizza Cone. 
I know that the sharp folks in R&D think that America wants food “on the go” and “quick to prepare” (and yes, I [...]

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As in Franklin D. Roosevelt, who appears on the  U.S. dime.  This Taco Bell ad/video was made by Chris Applebaum, best known for videos for artists like Britney Spears and Rihanna. Message is pretty straight forward, “our food is cheap, you can buy it with pocket change.” I’m not jumping out of my seat for [...]

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(Want to try a McDonald’s Angus Third Pounder? See the bottom of this post to win free Angus burgers!)
Today, July 2nd, McDonald’s introduced a new burger to their menu across the nation.  The Angus Third Pounders are the first new burgers the company has launched since the Big ‘N Tasty in 2001, this after two [...]

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Recently, Adage reported on the latest in what they refer to as the recent fast food “smutfest” (perhaps they were thinking of the recent BK blow job ad or Hardee’s/Carl’s Jr’s continuing use of hot chicks in bikinis).  Proving that Hardee’s/Carl’s Jr. is basically unabashed in their use of sex and sexually suggestive terms to [...]

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Give Carl’s Jr. credit, they know how to get the maximum attention for commercials before they even air on TV.  We already covered the first photo they released, but today comes a release of not only a new photo, but the two commercials themselves, both the 30-second and 60-second version.  These aren’t as steamy hot [...]

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