To be honest, we find the idea so gross that we can’t get ourselves to eat at co-branded restaurants. What about you guys? Are you cool with Taco Bell/Pizza Hut? KFC/Long John Silvers? Taco Bell/ Long John Silver’s? —MEGHANN MARCO
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On I-35 just north of San Antonio there is the legendary “KenTacoHut”, featuring KFC, Taco Bell, and Pizza Hut.
“I’ll take two dark meat drumstricks – extra crispy, a burrito supreme, and a slice of pepperoni thin crust, please.”
It never occurred to me to either like it or be grossed out. Who even cares?
i love these things…i feel like i’m in a walmart for fast food. mmmm.
Let me join the “who the fuck cares?” category. When did this change from Consumerist to OCD Daily, anyway?
Yeah man. Throw it all in a blender for artery chokin smoothie. BYODefibrillator and all that.
Makes life easier for me. Fewer trips to make the family happy.
The only problem I see is the doubled chance of messing up an order… I would love to have hushpuppies with my extra crispy chicken… but if they gave me the less greasy option of salad instead of the coronary inflicting friend chicken I would be obesely furious.. more menu options means the more chances of hurting the company preferred customer experience… whether the preferred customer experience is killing the customer or not…
If it were not for co-branded restaurants, I wouldn’t be able to get Long John Silver’s in most places around the NYC tri-state area. Standalone LJS restaurants aren’t nearly as common.
I say they dispense with all pretense and just open a chain called “Bucket o’ Food” where, for 99 cents, they stuff a waxed-cardboard bucket full of microwaved cheeseburgers, tacos, chicken, ice cream, and fried fish, top it off with coca-cola, hand you an oversized spoon and have at it! It all ends up in the same place anyway! har har.
I like cobranding, if only because it means there are fewer buildings devoted to fast food. There’s no need for a LJS and an A&W in separate buildings when most of the traffic of both places is drive-through and their dine-in areas are both almost empty all the time.
They’ve got Wendy’s/Tim Horton’s in Michigan too, but the one near where I used to live had separate counters. It would be kind of handy to be able to order chili, doughnuts and tea at the same counter and pay for it all at once.
Who here has children? And has gone on a road trip?
Anybody who answered those two questions in the affirmative should love these combined restaurants. If you need further explanation, have some kids.
Ahh man am I the only one who Loves Long John Silvers? I grew up in the south where they are pretty common…move out here to California and the nearest one to me is 22 miles away EEEKKK! Plus its a Taco/silvers…It doesent gross me out I just like it better when its just one resturant. But I see the family argument preventer angle too.
My hometown has a KFC/Taco Bell and the only reason I went there was because they sold weed in the drive thru.
I wouldn’t touch that slimy chicken or grade D beef.
Ditto on the “doesn’t matter to me” choice…