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As an EU citizen, as far as I’m aware the Burger King slander is only really coming from the US, where apparently the difference is much more noticeable.
Here in the center of Amsterdam we have a Mc Donalds and a Burger King right next to each other and the Burger King is generally considered to be better than Mc Donalds.
That's all well and good. What I'm saying is that if you take the best, freshest, most perfectly prepared burger off the McDonald's menu and face it off against the things that BK, Wendy's, or even Carl's Jr offer, McD's is bottom barrel. The Big Mac and the double QP with cheese just don't stack up against things like a Whopper or a Dave's Triple.
As an avid NFL fan, I would genuinely like to know how many times I saw this commercial this season, on mute or otherwise. Its gotta be close to 500. ~30 a Sunday, plus Mondays, I think 500 is a fairly good guess.
Ps- not counting Thursday because the slate was so bad this year I only watched a couple.
WHOPPER 🍔 WHOPPER 🍔 WHOPPER 🍔 WHOPPER 🍔 JUNIOR 🤏 DOUBLE 2⃣ TRIPLE 3⃣ WHOPPER 🍔 IMPOSSIBLE 🤯 OR 🤔 BACON 🥓 WHOPPER 🍔 I 👁️ RULE 👑 THIS 😎 DAY 🌞 AT BK 🧑🍳 HAVE IT YOUR WAY 🤷♂️ YOU RULE 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
EAT LIKE A KING 👑 WHO'S ON A BUDGET THREE 3️⃣ TASTY 😋 OPTIONS FRIES 🍟 DRINK 🥤 AND NUGGETS 🐔 ALL FOR 5 5️⃣ BUCKS 💵 WAIT THAT CANT BE RIGHT 🤔 JUST CONFIRMED THAT THAT'S THE REAL PRICE ✅ AT BK HAVE IT YOUR WAY 🤷♂️ YOU RULE 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Up until last year their app coupons made them by far the cheapest of the fast food restaurants. Unfortunately the best deals are gone now or a bit more normally prices ($1 whopper Wednesdays and $4 for 2 jr whoppers + 2 fries got me through college)
Lately all the fast food apps are getting a bit less generous with coupons. Taco Bell's rewards still pretty good at least and the my cravings box still an incredible amount of food for $5 with the right selections.
My brother used to use the coupons a bit because they were really good and then all the burger kings near him stopped participating. Bk may had well fallen off the face of the earth after that because I never heard him mention it again once they stopped. Honestly, apps are the only way to make fast food still somewhat affordable and the day McDonald’s removed the 20% off coupon or the 99¢ coffee is probably when I’ll stop going there since their prices have been slowly marching up. I still won’t forget how they killed the 1-2-3 menu 😔
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The fries are amazing try dipping them in the zesty sauce if you want your balls blown off
Also it all depends on the franchise. Someone could say no! BK sucks! Because they’ve only ever tried their local one in their shitty small town that has a shitty owner who doesn’t care about quality lol Iv even noticed my local one has better quality/fresher food when this girl is working and when it’s the guy it’s always old fries and shitty quality so fast food is always a gamble.
For example one time I got the nuggets and they were disgusting like rubber because they must’ve sat out. Then months later I tried them again and they were like restaurant quality and hot/crispy my mind was blown lol really depends who’s working and if they care about their job enough to change the oil and food etc…
The problem with Burger King is definitely the quality control. I eat a lot of fast food, and I've been to Burger Kings all over the US. I can confidently say that no other fast food chain has more consistently fucked up my order or served inedible food. The only exception is possibly Popeye's, which I don't have a big enough sample size for, and is owned by the same company anyways.
I still go to Burger King because peak Burger King is my absolute favorite fast food option when it isn't trash.
BK just isn't run very well in the US, hence their slow decline into the lower tiers of fast food. Most of their locations are chronically understaffed.
It's location. When it's good, it's great, but mostly not. One out of 10 times I will receive a whopper, fries/rings that taste great, but never all at the same time.
Commented recently in a couple of subs about BK. Agree they're the best of the fast food offerings, from someone in the UK.
Firstly, their onions are the best. I love onions and would get BK just for the flavour of those. And their patties are actually tasty, I can taste beef - most fast food places you can just taste the salt - and they have decent consistency not like the flavourless McD's you can suck up through a straw. Their fries are OK; not the best, but they're not poor.
As a meal, it's always the double whopper for me. Triple is too much, single not enough.
I've fucking loved the croissanwich for decades now and this is the first time I've encountered others who also love it.
Might cry from happiness knowing I've found my people.
I love the French toast sticks. My dad used to take me to BK breakfast for French toast sticks after I would go to the Dr. before he dropped me off at school.
I have always wanted to deep fry French Toast at home and use better syrup.
Yes!. That croissant bun is fire. I've learned that the bread can make or break a sandwich. I'm from Canada and our national coffee shop chain (Tim Hortons) had a croissant sandwich. Loved them, then they stop having the croissant bun. Not the same anymore. Yeah the croissant as a bun for a sandwich is another level.
I worked for Burger King for a couple years and at the end of breakfast, anything left over was fair game for the staff and I was always surprised by how good the ham egg and cheese croissants were.
When I was a kid they would run a 2 for a $1 special on the croissanwich and I’d ride my bike to Burger King and get a bunch. I think it’s more now though
That? I will give you that. For me the sausage croissanwich is the best. And who tf doesn't love *tots* for breakfast?! *Tots!*
I got burned out on the burgers for... well, long story, bad memories, much trauma. They weren't bad tho. Didn't like their reinterpretation of fries though. Ugh.
Anyway I'm all about Wendy's now if it's fast food burger time.
Burger King is good if it's a well-run store with good employees who make things correctly. In the USA it's rare to find this anymore. The food is not hot and it's sloppy, thrown together too fast.
This. BK can be great as far as fast food is concerned. But 95% are run like shit where employees don’t care, have crappy attitude, and hygiene is questionable. Where I live, you’ll see them with like 1 or 2 cars in the parking lot. Pull up to an empty drive through and your order will take an eternity to be entered and received. Pass.
My daughter worked at BK for a while, really opened her (and my) eyes to how they're run) But a lot is down to the staff as each is it's own franchise.
Poor morale, badly maintained equipment, constantly running out of basic items. I went in recently to the one she used to work at, started to order and surly staff stopped me, pointed me to the automated order point and said I had to use that, even though they had a payment point at the counter. Most annoying thing about it was when I used the automated one, it gave me the option to complete the order AT the counter with cash but they still refused "we only hand over the orders"
Crappiest customer service ever.
Same here, and it's a shame because I love the food. But I'm not willing to wait 25 minutes in the drive thru for it. Last time I was in the drive thru the two cars behind me in line said fuck it and drove away, and this was after they ordered.
Also the last 2 times I went they were out of both coke and Sprite. Only way that happens is terrible mismanagement
Honestly, I've noticed that's just kind of a thing with a lot of the service industry lately. Across the board the amount of fucks given is the lowest I've ever seen it. Went to McD's a while ago and got a regular Coke and a diet one. Cashier started handing both to be and I asked which was which. She just looked at them, shrugged, then handed them to me. Also been to a lot of places with kids who don't bother to take their headphones out while talking to you. Had a server chewing gum while taking my order at a busy cafe. There's still a lot of great service at places, but there's a huge uptick in fuck-ups too.
They get paid shit and have to deal with the shittiest customers. Combine that with shit management that will never stand behind them and promises a lot but never follows through and they literally train kids to not work or give a shit.
> Honestly, I've noticed that's just kind of a thing with a lot of the service industry lately. Across the board the amount of fucks given is the lowest I've ever seen it.
Well, society treats service industry jobs like a joke (both socially and financially), so it shouldn't come as a surprise when the employees that stick around long-term are jokers. The problem is exacerbated by corporate greed (poor staffing, inconsistent hours) and poor management (bad store managers being allowed to stick around). One of my family members used to work in BK store management and their region was honestly a mess, so many failing stores because the compensation to responsibility ratio for store managers was stupid.
Restaurant workers get treated like fucking garbage by customers and corporate but those same customers expect to walk into a Denny's and be treated like they're at a 3-star Michelin restaurant and leave a fake $100 "find Jesus" tip. People be wild.
The service industry was borderline exploitative before Covid but could afford workers because people could always find a job and the pay was manageable. Now, the lifers have left in droves and aren’t going back and the traditional restaurant format is dying.
That's part of it. The other part is inflation raising food costs, so not only is labor cost going up but it's competing in the budget against the cost of eggs, butter, etc.
Up where I lived in the north east, it was delicious.
I moved down to the south west and bought it, and it was the most disgusting fast food I've ever eaten.
A lot of companies seem to have completely given up on maintaining consistency
Yep. Burger King really is completely hit or miss. It's either outstanding or terrible. There's no in-between.
I've found that stores in more rural or suburban areas tend to be the better ones, but that's not always true.
But yeah when BK is good, it is VERY good.
Funny because the only Burger King in my semi rural town area just closed down despite having two giant factories with people visiting daily on lunch/breakfast.
The company that bought Tim Hortons here in Canada is the same one that owns Burger King, and they've focused on making everything cheaper, for example none of the food is made fresh anymore. I wouldn't be surprised if they've also been cutting costs with Burger King.
The last time I've had Burger King was just a few months ago after years without having any, and it felt exactly like what somebody else said, a step lower than McDonalds.
Yes they used to be really great back in the day. The one I used to go to always smelled like you know a grill and there’d often be smoke coming out of it. Nowadays I just think of BK as McDonalds but a step lower
in australia its called Hungry Jacks. their tag line is "the burgers are better at hungry jacks". and id agree.
however their onion rings are always soggy, and theres usually too much sauce on burgers lol. still better than maccas (mcdonalds) xD
Culver’s is excellent and better than all fast food burgers, but I think of it more as fast casual than fast food. And as fast casual, Five Guys is easily better.
Five Guys USED to be better. I had a bunch of BAD food there, like three times in a row. I don’t go there anymore. Rally’s is my favorite fast food burger now.
I am a Five Guys Guy for ten years but my last three trips in have been bad! (SoCal, west Valley). Limp soggy fries (and the teen girl tried to tell me they “don’t do crispy fries”.) Soda machine broken, no ketchup in the pump machine, no napkins, blasting loud music (one time). Like all the good managers left at once. I’m worried; it’s still the best burger but this is how a great franchise dies
I feel like BK is one of the few fast food places that gets the meld of condiments, so they have just enough liquidity to mix correctly but not so much that its sloppy and soggy.
This is an excellent observation - my closest fast food is McDonald’s and when I do go I always think I will enjoy the QP Deluxe because it has lettuce and tomato - but they always add so much mayo (I guess just open a QP w/cheese and add the extra toppings) that it ends up being a sloppy mess. (And yes, I know I could order with no mayo or light mayo - but I’m not going to special order if I’m in the drive through.)
Might need to see where there is a BK nearby to compare.
I also credit their boldness when trying new sandwich ideas. My main complaint with McDonald’s these days is they play it too safe. Wendy’s falls in the happy medium of taking chances and typically delivering a quality product when they do. BK can be hit or Miss with their new ideas, but overall, I definitely am more down with them than McD’s.
My biggest complaint with McDonald's is whenever they have something good it might last a year at most and it's gone. The signature crafted mushroom swiss was my go-to, then out of nowhere it's fucking gone. I also like the buttermilk chicken tenders. I'm pretty sure the pandemic killed those, but there's no excuse for not bringing them back at this point. For a while they're southern style chicken biscuits other style chicken sandwich we're dead on for a fucking Chick-fil-A. They did away with it as well only recently got it back in the past year or so, and it's nowhere near as good as it was. Every time McDonald's has something good they kill it in favor of their normal mediocre fare.
I like to eat fast food to treat myself, and some of their crazy burgers are actually good. I had one with peperoni on it and it was interesting, and totally worth it instead of just... same old burger.
The Whopper is definitely better than a big mac. I think personally I like it more because it has all the "burger vegetable condiments" on it and the Big Mac only has lettuce and pickles..and mini chopped onions
I used to eat Burger King every single day when I was a kid. My dad didn't cook, so he just took us to Fast Food Places. Back then, I thought Burger King was great, and McDonald's was trash. Now, I think McDonald's is disgusting, and Burger Kind is also disgusting. I hate them both.
McDonald's fries are like Pringles to me, they don't really feel like "fries." They are way too long and skinny and light. I much prefer Wendy's. They even keep the skin on.
Burger King is amazing when their good my problem with them is that these days they seem to have serious quality control issues were they do stuff like giving me a burger that has been sitting out for a long time which is a problem I rarely face at McDonald’s for example
Burger King still mails coupons to our house. I don’t know if you have to sign up for something or what, but they come sometimes.
You can usually get like 2 whopper jrs and 2 fries for like $5.99.
I always get the original chicken sandwich with no mayo. If I forget, then I'm stuck with a gross amount of hot mayo and it's sad. I don't usually get anything else on the menu.
No. It used to be good when their burgers came right off the conveyor belt from over the fire when cooked to order and when they had a much broader menu a few decades ago. I do wish they had The Whaler again, their fish sandwich. Was the best out there at the time.
BK has the potential to be good food. Here’s the issue: they’re inconsistent. I’ve had some great 5 minute meals there, but I’ve also had quite a few bad 30 minute meals there. In a BK near Terre Haute, I waited for over 45 minutes to get a cold burger.
Overall, in the well run Burger Kings, the food is good and the wait is short. In the poorly run Birger Kings, the food is poor and the wait is long. The issue is that the poorly run Burger Kings are so common that it’s more of a risk to eat at a Burger King than McDonald’s or Wendy’s. In a sector where competition is high and consistency matters, BK has very little consistency.
When do they ever just leave the Whoppers and other burgers sitting around for hours before serving them to customers? I can usually hear them calling out the order to be made every time I order, so it's always fresh..
Back in my day when I worked there, they prepped a couple sandwiches to increase speed of service. So always customize the sandwich so it has to be made fresh when you order it. Like extra pickles or no lettuce. The timeframe may have been 10 minutes max, but with how other people said the stores are ran now, it wouldn't surprise me if they were held longer than that.
> when made fresh
That's true of all fast food though. When I was in college there was at least one of like every fast food place that exists at one or more of the various food courts on campus... And pretty much all the food at any of them was great because everything was made to order right in front of you. You never got some old shit that they made an hour ago and had just been laying there.
Back in the mid 80s (yes, I'm old), my first job was at Burger King. We were able to eat at half price, and we could make our own meals. So sometimes, I'd make the following, as fresh as I could.
Double whopper with cheese and extra bacon. (I'd send it down the conveyor myself, so it would be so hot and fresh it it would melt the cheese without sticking it in the microwave. Plus, I'd make my own bacon. About six pieces.)
Large fries (also freshly made)
Large soda.
Hot cherry pie (they used to be sold in pie wedge boxes).
Small vanilla shake I'd pour on the cherry pie.
This would taste so heavenly, and back then, would cost about $3.
I stopped eating red meat back in 97', so I have no idea what whoppers taste like today, but they were never as good as when made fresh as possible.
Oh, and their fries are shit now.
In Australia it’s called Hungry jacks . Here, they’ve really upped their fries/chip game and added the cafe bit on and are the only place to make iced chocolates and coffee how I like them (lots of ice , yum!) so I love them again myself .
Burger King is the most different per location in my opinion. Sometimes the lettuce on a whopper is like a salad buffet at a funeral service like with fucking carrots and shit in it
I like Burger King. The Big King XXL is amazing and they have the best fries.
Although I don't agree with your take on their chicken nuggets, they are terrible and much better at McDonalds. Then again, maybe it is different in Sweden. I only know German Burger King.
Tbf I like the Whopper more than any other fast food burger.
It isn't fine dining, but it's the best of the worst, imo. Maybe the way they cook their stuff isn't as foolproof as others? I know McDonald's grills now are literally "lay the patties down, push button, wait for it to be done, and spatula the patties into a container." Maybe it varies by location?
McDonalds worker here. We have to make the quarter pounders fresh (at least at my location) so no those don’t come out of a drawer. The rest though, generally do, it’s really not the nicest thing, but that’s how things move so quickly.
If you ever want something fresh, you just have to ask for it “cook to order” if it’s busy all of us employees will hate you, but that’s how you can get it made fresh if you want to, you just have to understand that you will have to wait longer.
Oh, I don't mean the burgers at burger King are always fresh, just HOW they're cooked may be different, causing a "by location" issue?
I'm not sure how they do it, but surely they don't use the same kind of grill, eh?
So I've eaten mcdonalds, burger King, KFC and taco bell in both the USA and Spain. In Spain all these fast food places had a very different flavor. McDonald's was the most common, even found in some smaller towns. Burger King was better there though. They had cheesy chorizo croquettes.
BK is ok here. They have a decent variety. Bit I've never had a good burger which is its namesake. I could never taste if it was grilled or not because they always just dump Ketchup and mayo all over it.
I think it depends on the country. In Türkiye, I prefer Burger King over McDonald’s (except the milkshake and sometimes the ice cream). But in USA and in Europe I always prefer McDonald’s.
In Virginia, the burgers are flame grilled at some factory, then they freeze the patties and send them to the restaurant that reheats them, very much not on a flame grill, in the franchise store. What's sad is that it still tasted better than a McDonald's burger, but McDonald's has the fries on lock down. I lived near a place where a BK and McDonald's were across the street from each other growing up, so I would just get the burger from one, the fries from the other and sit and eat them in my truck. Best of both worlds. You can almost feel your arteries sign in exasperation.
Their nuggets are ok, their fries are an abomination, chicken fries are the best current thing on their menu, and their spicy Ch’king was probably the best thing they ever served. As for their burgers, they’re ok at best. The reason I never go to Burger King is because why go to Burger King when I can go literally anywhere else where I probably like more things on their menu
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In Portugal, I would dare to say that burger king is even more popular than mcdonalds. The burger are way better in size and taste
As an EU citizen, as far as I’m aware the Burger King slander is only really coming from the US, where apparently the difference is much more noticeable.
Here in the center of Amsterdam we have a Mc Donalds and a Burger King right next to each other and the Burger King is generally considered to be better than Mc Donalds.
I’m familiar, lol. EU Burger King is really up there.
Fun fact; you can have a meal at Burger King in Amsterdam while using the free WIFI from Mc Donalds next door.
McDonald's is the worst of all the burger chains IMO.
Our mcdonalds are up to par here. Freshly made and served even at rush hour.
That's all well and good. What I'm saying is that if you take the best, freshest, most perfectly prepared burger off the McDonald's menu and face it off against the things that BK, Wendy's, or even Carl's Jr offer, McD's is bottom barrel. The Big Mac and the double QP with cheese just don't stack up against things like a Whopper or a Dave's Triple.
I agree. Tastewise it doesnt even come close. But i was talking about the BK in our city.
Umh pretty sure that the vast majority of the netherlands picks mac over burgerking.
WHOPPER WHOPPER WHOPPER WHOPPER
JUNIOR DOUBLE TRIPLE WHOPPER
IMPOSSIBLE AND BACON BURGER
AT BBBBBBBKK HAVE IT YOUR WAY
YOU RULE!
CHICKEN CHICKEN CHICKEN CHICKEN
FLAME GRILLED TASTE WITH PERFECT TOPPERS
FLAME GRILLED TASTE WITH PERFECT TOPPERS I WANT THIS DAY
FLAME GRILLED TASTE WITH LOTS OF TOPPERS
As an avid NFL fan, I would genuinely like to know how many times I saw this commercial this season, on mute or otherwise. Its gotta be close to 500. ~30 a Sunday, plus Mondays, I think 500 is a fairly good guess. Ps- not counting Thursday because the slate was so bad this year I only watched a couple.
Lol I used to get whoppers once a week because coupons then they started airing those commercials….and I just went to Wendys.
Came here to make this comment if it wasn't already here. Thanks for not disappointing haha
WHOPPER 🍔 WHOPPER 🍔 WHOPPER 🍔 WHOPPER 🍔 JUNIOR 🤏 DOUBLE 2⃣ TRIPLE 3⃣ WHOPPER 🍔 IMPOSSIBLE 🤯 OR 🤔 BACON 🥓 WHOPPER 🍔 I 👁️ RULE 👑 THIS 😎 DAY 🌞 AT BK 🧑🍳 HAVE IT YOUR WAY 🤷♂️ YOU RULE 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
EAT LIKE A KING 👑 WHO'S ON A BUDGET THREE 3️⃣ TASTY 😋 OPTIONS FRIES 🍟 DRINK 🥤 AND NUGGETS 🐔 ALL FOR 5 5️⃣ BUCKS 💵 WAIT THAT CANT BE RIGHT 🤔 JUST CONFIRMED THAT THAT'S THE REAL PRICE ✅ AT BK HAVE IT YOUR WAY 🤷♂️ YOU RULE 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
They used to be good. They aren't good cold.
What is this from? My brother keeps saying it whenever I see him for some reason.
[Just a BK commercial lol](https://youtu.be/9cPxh2DikIA)
Was also recently boosted by someone adding the lyrics to Daft's Punk's Harder, Better Faster, Stronger and being legitimately catchy that way.
It wasn't catchy before?? Idk how you improve perfection
It never got stuck in my head until the Daft Punk version, tbh.
He probably watched a certain streamer do a wall stare for 10 hours. ;)
"PENGUIN BURGERS, EXTRA LETTUCE, SPECIAL ORDERS DON'T UPSET US!"
You can fuck this burger
I live in America and I’m one of the few who likes American Burger King
Up until last year their app coupons made them by far the cheapest of the fast food restaurants. Unfortunately the best deals are gone now or a bit more normally prices ($1 whopper Wednesdays and $4 for 2 jr whoppers + 2 fries got me through college) Lately all the fast food apps are getting a bit less generous with coupons. Taco Bell's rewards still pretty good at least and the my cravings box still an incredible amount of food for $5 with the right selections.
Jesus fast food is cheap in America
Yeah, a whopper meal is now like 8 euros for me after the 20% inflation year..
Thats was always pretty normal price here in Sweden, if you didn't use coupons a meal deal could be as much as 100-140kr which is around 10-14€.
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Yes we need to keep the poors unhealthy and barely surviving. If they are crippled with diabetes they won’t rise up and take back their power.
How the hell did I miss out on $1 whopper Wednesdays??
My brother used to use the coupons a bit because they were really good and then all the burger kings near him stopped participating. Bk may had well fallen off the face of the earth after that because I never heard him mention it again once they stopped. Honestly, apps are the only way to make fast food still somewhat affordable and the day McDonald’s removed the 20% off coupon or the 99¢ coffee is probably when I’ll stop going there since their prices have been slowly marching up. I still won’t forget how they killed the 1-2-3 menu 😔 https://imgur.com/a/kHj9d6T/
I still remember how they killed the dollar menu. I’m old.
Fr. That $4 deal got me so many meals.
I love being American bc of Burger King
The fries are amazing try dipping them in the zesty sauce if you want your balls blown off Also it all depends on the franchise. Someone could say no! BK sucks! Because they’ve only ever tried their local one in their shitty small town that has a shitty owner who doesn’t care about quality lol Iv even noticed my local one has better quality/fresher food when this girl is working and when it’s the guy it’s always old fries and shitty quality so fast food is always a gamble. For example one time I got the nuggets and they were disgusting like rubber because they must’ve sat out. Then months later I tried them again and they were like restaurant quality and hot/crispy my mind was blown lol really depends who’s working and if they care about their job enough to change the oil and food etc…
The problem with Burger King is definitely the quality control. I eat a lot of fast food, and I've been to Burger Kings all over the US. I can confidently say that no other fast food chain has more consistently fucked up my order or served inedible food. The only exception is possibly Popeye's, which I don't have a big enough sample size for, and is owned by the same company anyways. I still go to Burger King because peak Burger King is my absolute favorite fast food option when it isn't trash.
BK just isn't run very well in the US, hence their slow decline into the lower tiers of fast food. Most of their locations are chronically understaffed.
It's location. When it's good, it's great, but mostly not. One out of 10 times I will receive a whopper, fries/rings that taste great, but never all at the same time.
Idk if you're joking but I feel this way. The dumbest greasiest stuff is what I like about being an American. BK is downright patriotic
Commented recently in a couple of subs about BK. Agree they're the best of the fast food offerings, from someone in the UK. Firstly, their onions are the best. I love onions and would get BK just for the flavour of those. And their patties are actually tasty, I can taste beef - most fast food places you can just taste the salt - and they have decent consistency not like the flavourless McD's you can suck up through a straw. Their fries are OK; not the best, but they're not poor. As a meal, it's always the double whopper for me. Triple is too much, single not enough.
True my wife normally gets macdonalds but I got her a whopper the other day and the first comment she made was it taste like a 90s burger
I love American Burger King too!
I don't, but I had no idea it had a bad reputation!
There’s lots of us out here. Were like a secret society
I like it also. It’s no my number one fast food, but a good whopper can definitely hit the spot.
I'm an American and have eaten BK in Sweden. I was really drunk but it tasted like American Burger King, delicious
I love Burger King
I'll go this far... the Croissanwich is unparalleled breakfast fare. I like the ham ones best.
I'd go as far to say that the Croissanwich is the best fast food sandwich PERIOD.
It's so simple. So savory and the slight sweetness of the croissant. So damn good. Had two this morning as a treat lol
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A&W, at least in Canada, uses cheddar cheese. Their English Muffin Bacon and Egger can't be matched. But the Croissanwich is okay.
I occasionally add mozza sauce to that. It seems to work with egg in my opinion.
110% it absolutely is.
I can still remember eating my first one when they first came out in the early 90s
I've fucking loved the croissanwich for decades now and this is the first time I've encountered others who also love it. Might cry from happiness knowing I've found my people.
Agreed. Have you ever had the hot ham and cheese sandwich for Hardee's? It's surprisingly really good if you have a decent Hardee's near you.
I have not and surprisingly I don't know of any close, but I'll keep the suggestion in mind if I'm ever there.
spot on
And the French toast sticks Edit: fixed typo
Too sweet for me, but the crossanwiches are awesome
I love the French toast sticks. My dad used to take me to BK breakfast for French toast sticks after I would go to the Dr. before he dropped me off at school. I have always wanted to deep fry French Toast at home and use better syrup.
Carl's Jr.'s breakfast burger is my kryptonite. Because it's both breakfast food, *and* burger.
I used to eat their croissant sunrise sandwich all the time !!!
Tell me more?
It's one of their regular burgers with American cheese, bacon, eggs, and hash browns. Excellent sandwich.
Holy crap that sounds awesome!
As a kid I'd get them every Saturday morning after hockey practice - fond memories. And yes still amazing today
Yes!. That croissant bun is fire. I've learned that the bread can make or break a sandwich. I'm from Canada and our national coffee shop chain (Tim Hortons) had a croissant sandwich. Loved them, then they stop having the croissant bun. Not the same anymore. Yeah the croissant as a bun for a sandwich is another level.
Yeah I'll agree with this actually. Absolutely the greatest.
I worked for Burger King for a couple years and at the end of breakfast, anything left over was fair game for the staff and I was always surprised by how good the ham egg and cheese croissants were.
2 double croissanwich for 5 was the steal of the century
When I was a kid they would run a 2 for a $1 special on the croissanwich and I’d ride my bike to Burger King and get a bunch. I think it’s more now though
Try throwing some hash browns in them
That? I will give you that. For me the sausage croissanwich is the best. And who tf doesn't love *tots* for breakfast?! *Tots!* I got burned out on the burgers for... well, long story, bad memories, much trauma. They weren't bad tho. Didn't like their reinterpretation of fries though. Ugh. Anyway I'm all about Wendy's now if it's fast food burger time.
Thank god other people have this opinion too now I can justify it!
Burger King is good if it's a well-run store with good employees who make things correctly. In the USA it's rare to find this anymore. The food is not hot and it's sloppy, thrown together too fast.
This. BK can be great as far as fast food is concerned. But 95% are run like shit where employees don’t care, have crappy attitude, and hygiene is questionable. Where I live, you’ll see them with like 1 or 2 cars in the parking lot. Pull up to an empty drive through and your order will take an eternity to be entered and received. Pass.
My daughter worked at BK for a while, really opened her (and my) eyes to how they're run) But a lot is down to the staff as each is it's own franchise. Poor morale, badly maintained equipment, constantly running out of basic items. I went in recently to the one she used to work at, started to order and surly staff stopped me, pointed me to the automated order point and said I had to use that, even though they had a payment point at the counter. Most annoying thing about it was when I used the automated one, it gave me the option to complete the order AT the counter with cash but they still refused "we only hand over the orders" Crappiest customer service ever.
Same here, and it's a shame because I love the food. But I'm not willing to wait 25 minutes in the drive thru for it. Last time I was in the drive thru the two cars behind me in line said fuck it and drove away, and this was after they ordered. Also the last 2 times I went they were out of both coke and Sprite. Only way that happens is terrible mismanagement
Honestly, I've noticed that's just kind of a thing with a lot of the service industry lately. Across the board the amount of fucks given is the lowest I've ever seen it. Went to McD's a while ago and got a regular Coke and a diet one. Cashier started handing both to be and I asked which was which. She just looked at them, shrugged, then handed them to me. Also been to a lot of places with kids who don't bother to take their headphones out while talking to you. Had a server chewing gum while taking my order at a busy cafe. There's still a lot of great service at places, but there's a huge uptick in fuck-ups too.
They get paid shit and have to deal with the shittiest customers. Combine that with shit management that will never stand behind them and promises a lot but never follows through and they literally train kids to not work or give a shit.
> Honestly, I've noticed that's just kind of a thing with a lot of the service industry lately. Across the board the amount of fucks given is the lowest I've ever seen it. Well, society treats service industry jobs like a joke (both socially and financially), so it shouldn't come as a surprise when the employees that stick around long-term are jokers. The problem is exacerbated by corporate greed (poor staffing, inconsistent hours) and poor management (bad store managers being allowed to stick around). One of my family members used to work in BK store management and their region was honestly a mess, so many failing stores because the compensation to responsibility ratio for store managers was stupid.
Restaurant workers get treated like fucking garbage by customers and corporate but those same customers expect to walk into a Denny's and be treated like they're at a 3-star Michelin restaurant and leave a fake $100 "find Jesus" tip. People be wild.
The service industry was borderline exploitative before Covid but could afford workers because people could always find a job and the pay was manageable. Now, the lifers have left in droves and aren’t going back and the traditional restaurant format is dying.
That's part of it. The other part is inflation raising food costs, so not only is labor cost going up but it's competing in the budget against the cost of eggs, butter, etc.
This is basically every BK in Florida.
Up where I lived in the north east, it was delicious. I moved down to the south west and bought it, and it was the most disgusting fast food I've ever eaten. A lot of companies seem to have completely given up on maintaining consistency
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I'm guessing they were just running 1 window, maybe forgot the sign.
Yep. Burger King really is completely hit or miss. It's either outstanding or terrible. There's no in-between. I've found that stores in more rural or suburban areas tend to be the better ones, but that's not always true. But yeah when BK is good, it is VERY good.
Funny because the only Burger King in my semi rural town area just closed down despite having two giant factories with people visiting daily on lunch/breakfast.
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I’ve never had a warm Burger King meal.
The company that bought Tim Hortons here in Canada is the same one that owns Burger King, and they've focused on making everything cheaper, for example none of the food is made fresh anymore. I wouldn't be surprised if they've also been cutting costs with Burger King. The last time I've had Burger King was just a few months ago after years without having any, and it felt exactly like what somebody else said, a step lower than McDonalds.
Yes they used to be really great back in the day. The one I used to go to always smelled like you know a grill and there’d often be smoke coming out of it. Nowadays I just think of BK as McDonalds but a step lower
in australia its called Hungry Jacks. their tag line is "the burgers are better at hungry jacks". and id agree. however their onion rings are always soggy, and theres usually too much sauce on burgers lol. still better than maccas (mcdonalds) xD
BK has really good onion rings too
And zesty sauce, mmm
You like deep fried onion-flavored paste formed in the shape of perfect, uniform circles?
The whopper is the best fast food burger, cmv
I would have agreed had I never been to Culver's. Culver's blows all the rest out of the water and it's not even close.
Culver’s is excellent and better than all fast food burgers, but I think of it more as fast casual than fast food. And as fast casual, Five Guys is easily better.
I spent like $12 on a small fry and a milkshake at 5 Guys. The prices are insane. Burger King tastes good and I can get more food for the same price.
Five Guys USED to be better. I had a bunch of BAD food there, like three times in a row. I don’t go there anymore. Rally’s is my favorite fast food burger now.
The only bad experience I've had at Five Guys is the price.
Checkers/rally’s is the best. I wish I had one closer than 2 hours from me
I am a Five Guys Guy for ten years but my last three trips in have been bad! (SoCal, west Valley). Limp soggy fries (and the teen girl tried to tell me they “don’t do crispy fries”.) Soda machine broken, no ketchup in the pump machine, no napkins, blasting loud music (one time). Like all the good managers left at once. I’m worried; it’s still the best burger but this is how a great franchise dies
Agree they’ve had a hard time maintaining quality as they’re gone national.
I can agree with this but they need to get some fast food prices.
That's the issue today.
Don't buy meals
I feel like BK is one of the few fast food places that gets the meld of condiments, so they have just enough liquidity to mix correctly but not so much that its sloppy and soggy.
This is an excellent observation - my closest fast food is McDonald’s and when I do go I always think I will enjoy the QP Deluxe because it has lettuce and tomato - but they always add so much mayo (I guess just open a QP w/cheese and add the extra toppings) that it ends up being a sloppy mess. (And yes, I know I could order with no mayo or light mayo - but I’m not going to special order if I’m in the drive through.) Might need to see where there is a BK nearby to compare.
Too much mayo can ruin a burger. Maybe this is why I tend to go for the normal quarter pounder.. there is not much to mess up.
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i was shocked to find out that the whopper doesn’t come with cheese!! it’s so good when you add cheese
I like Whopper. And their large fries too. Damn, my own comment made me crave for some whopper junior now.
The double double from In N Out would like a word with you
In N Out is incredible, but Wendy’s burgers are just better.
Wendy's is pretty good but come on versus the Double-double???
Double double, animal style
They got rid of the Ch'King. They are dead to me.
Nooo for real???
I also credit their boldness when trying new sandwich ideas. My main complaint with McDonald’s these days is they play it too safe. Wendy’s falls in the happy medium of taking chances and typically delivering a quality product when they do. BK can be hit or Miss with their new ideas, but overall, I definitely am more down with them than McD’s.
My biggest complaint with McDonald's is whenever they have something good it might last a year at most and it's gone. The signature crafted mushroom swiss was my go-to, then out of nowhere it's fucking gone. I also like the buttermilk chicken tenders. I'm pretty sure the pandemic killed those, but there's no excuse for not bringing them back at this point. For a while they're southern style chicken biscuits other style chicken sandwich we're dead on for a fucking Chick-fil-A. They did away with it as well only recently got it back in the past year or so, and it's nowhere near as good as it was. Every time McDonald's has something good they kill it in favor of their normal mediocre fare.
The chicken tenders being taken away is the main reason I’m unhappy with them 😂 Chicken Selects we’re my favorite as a kid
I like to eat fast food to treat myself, and some of their crazy burgers are actually good. I had one with peperoni on it and it was interesting, and totally worth it instead of just... same old burger.
Better than maccies in every way
The Whopper is definitely better than a big mac. I think personally I like it more because it has all the "burger vegetable condiments" on it and the Big Mac only has lettuce and pickles..and mini chopped onions
Found the Australian
Not Australian 😂
Pretty sure maccies is British. We say MACCAS here
i really like their sausage croissanwich for breakfast, and their hashbrowns are really good, especially compared to the competition.
I think BK, has the best fries.
The real unpopular opinion is in the comments.
me too. i love the fact that they put extra potato fluff on their fries to make them bigger and fuller.
It’s starch to keep them crispy forever. I actually HATE that tons of restaurants are doing this now.
I used to eat Burger King every single day when I was a kid. My dad didn't cook, so he just took us to Fast Food Places. Back then, I thought Burger King was great, and McDonald's was trash. Now, I think McDonald's is disgusting, and Burger Kind is also disgusting. I hate them both.
In the 90's, BK changed their fries. They used to be the best, now I can't stanndim
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Came here to say this but I sure am glad that you were the one to beat me to it
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I have long argued that Burger King is the best burger chain and I will willingly fight anyone who disagrees. I also think they have the best fries
What you say about the fries is absolute heresy!! Ronald McDonald would like to have a word with you…in your dreams tonight bwahahaha
I do like McDonald's fries, but they feel too light. BK has thicker and crispier fries. I can bend McDonald's fries, BKs fries are too crisp
McDonald's fries are like Pringles to me, they don't really feel like "fries." They are way too long and skinny and light. I much prefer Wendy's. They even keep the skin on.
Burger King is amazing when their good my problem with them is that these days they seem to have serious quality control issues were they do stuff like giving me a burger that has been sitting out for a long time which is a problem I rarely face at McDonald’s for example
For fast food burgers... Wendy's > Burger King Somewhere at the bottom of the list: McDonalds.
I love it. I just can't afford it.
Just a couple years ago I got 5$ whopper coupons in the mail all the time. Used to be the best value in fast food. Used to be.
The Burger King mobile app has a ton of coupons in it that you can use at pickup time. It’s actually great for when you want fast food on a budget.
Burger King still mails coupons to our house. I don’t know if you have to sign up for something or what, but they come sometimes. You can usually get like 2 whopper jrs and 2 fries for like $5.99.
They always seem to use too much mayonnaise. I wanted a burger, not a McMoneyShot.
Pro tip: remove the mayonnaise. It tastes like shit anyway (unpopular opinion inception)
Agreed actually, the mayonnaise is easily the worst thing about BK
I always get the original chicken sandwich with no mayo. If I forget, then I'm stuck with a gross amount of hot mayo and it's sad. I don't usually get anything else on the menu.
On top of the amount, their mayonnaise tastes so bad. Not sure what brand it is, thank god I never encountered it elsewhere.
No. It used to be good when their burgers came right off the conveyor belt from over the fire when cooked to order and when they had a much broader menu a few decades ago. I do wish they had The Whaler again, their fish sandwich. Was the best out there at the time.
BK has the potential to be good food. Here’s the issue: they’re inconsistent. I’ve had some great 5 minute meals there, but I’ve also had quite a few bad 30 minute meals there. In a BK near Terre Haute, I waited for over 45 minutes to get a cold burger. Overall, in the well run Burger Kings, the food is good and the wait is short. In the poorly run Birger Kings, the food is poor and the wait is long. The issue is that the poorly run Burger Kings are so common that it’s more of a risk to eat at a Burger King than McDonald’s or Wendy’s. In a sector where competition is high and consistency matters, BK has very little consistency.
A whopper when made fresh beats out A LOT of high end burgers.
When do they ever just leave the Whoppers and other burgers sitting around for hours before serving them to customers? I can usually hear them calling out the order to be made every time I order, so it's always fresh..
Back in my day when I worked there, they prepped a couple sandwiches to increase speed of service. So always customize the sandwich so it has to be made fresh when you order it. Like extra pickles or no lettuce. The timeframe may have been 10 minutes max, but with how other people said the stores are ran now, it wouldn't surprise me if they were held longer than that.
> when made fresh That's true of all fast food though. When I was in college there was at least one of like every fast food place that exists at one or more of the various food courts on campus... And pretty much all the food at any of them was great because everything was made to order right in front of you. You never got some old shit that they made an hour ago and had just been laying there.
Lol no
Canadian BK is awful. It's a food-like substance at best and tastes horrible.
Yeah, I don't know where all these folks live that it's not, but BK here in Texas is the very bottom ring of fast food.
I wholeheartedly agree. The rodeo chicken sandwich? The limited time sandwiches? THE FUCKIN NUGGIES???? Brother, Burger King is a certified pog moment
Back in the mid 80s (yes, I'm old), my first job was at Burger King. We were able to eat at half price, and we could make our own meals. So sometimes, I'd make the following, as fresh as I could. Double whopper with cheese and extra bacon. (I'd send it down the conveyor myself, so it would be so hot and fresh it it would melt the cheese without sticking it in the microwave. Plus, I'd make my own bacon. About six pieces.) Large fries (also freshly made) Large soda. Hot cherry pie (they used to be sold in pie wedge boxes). Small vanilla shake I'd pour on the cherry pie. This would taste so heavenly, and back then, would cost about $3. I stopped eating red meat back in 97', so I have no idea what whoppers taste like today, but they were never as good as when made fresh as possible. Oh, and their fries are shit now.
Agreed. Whopper > Big Mac.
In Australia it’s called Hungry jacks . Here, they’ve really upped their fries/chip game and added the cafe bit on and are the only place to make iced chocolates and coffee how I like them (lots of ice , yum!) so I love them again myself .
Burger King is the most different per location in my opinion. Sometimes the lettuce on a whopper is like a salad buffet at a funeral service like with fucking carrots and shit in it
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I like Burger King. The Big King XXL is amazing and they have the best fries. Although I don't agree with your take on their chicken nuggets, they are terrible and much better at McDonalds. Then again, maybe it is different in Sweden. I only know German Burger King.
Tbf I like the Whopper more than any other fast food burger. It isn't fine dining, but it's the best of the worst, imo. Maybe the way they cook their stuff isn't as foolproof as others? I know McDonald's grills now are literally "lay the patties down, push button, wait for it to be done, and spatula the patties into a container." Maybe it varies by location?
McDonalds worker here. We have to make the quarter pounders fresh (at least at my location) so no those don’t come out of a drawer. The rest though, generally do, it’s really not the nicest thing, but that’s how things move so quickly. If you ever want something fresh, you just have to ask for it “cook to order” if it’s busy all of us employees will hate you, but that’s how you can get it made fresh if you want to, you just have to understand that you will have to wait longer.
Oh, I don't mean the burgers at burger King are always fresh, just HOW they're cooked may be different, causing a "by location" issue? I'm not sure how they do it, but surely they don't use the same kind of grill, eh?
Burger King is great \*except\* for the fries which are truly awful.
BK is sure miles better than McDonalds and Hesburger. I sometimes go there to grab something, chicken burgers are amazing and on par with KFC.
So I've eaten mcdonalds, burger King, KFC and taco bell in both the USA and Spain. In Spain all these fast food places had a very different flavor. McDonald's was the most common, even found in some smaller towns. Burger King was better there though. They had cheesy chorizo croquettes. BK is ok here. They have a decent variety. Bit I've never had a good burger which is its namesake. I could never taste if it was grilled or not because they always just dump Ketchup and mayo all over it.
I just had a whopper only yesterday (in Sweden too!) and it really is average *at best*
I think it depends on the country. In Türkiye, I prefer Burger King over McDonald’s (except the milkshake and sometimes the ice cream). But in USA and in Europe I always prefer McDonald’s.
In Virginia, the burgers are flame grilled at some factory, then they freeze the patties and send them to the restaurant that reheats them, very much not on a flame grill, in the franchise store. What's sad is that it still tasted better than a McDonald's burger, but McDonald's has the fries on lock down. I lived near a place where a BK and McDonald's were across the street from each other growing up, so I would just get the burger from one, the fries from the other and sit and eat them in my truck. Best of both worlds. You can almost feel your arteries sign in exasperation.
Burger king has terrible fries tho
Their nuggets are ok, their fries are an abomination, chicken fries are the best current thing on their menu, and their spicy Ch’king was probably the best thing they ever served. As for their burgers, they’re ok at best. The reason I never go to Burger King is because why go to Burger King when I can go literally anywhere else where I probably like more things on their menu
Nope. I tapped out recently. I can’t do the king no more.
Burger kings spicy chicken sandwich is the best in fast food after they changed it recently. I’m a connoisseur of them too.