1) Wendies - The moment they took the greek pita off their menu I have hardly gone. It was the BEST thing on their. Now it's either a baked potato, or a salad.

2) McDicks - Last time I got something from there I was sick. And it was only a shake. As for the veggie burgers... WHO THE HELL BOILS THEM? Haven't been there in years.

3) Dairy Queen - Only things I get there are the ice cream cakes and pizzas.

4) Quizzno's - Ever since Subway discontiuned my favorit sub I've liked them the best outa all the sub places.

5) Pizza Hut - Best pizza I can get around here. The place we order from (Closer) tastes like cardboard at times.

Never heard of the rest except for Olive Garden, and I don't think we have one of em around here anymore.

Firstborn Dragon

Does anyone really care?

AndyDuncan

Uurp

ArtestWillHitYou

Where's Rubio's?
Where's In-N-Out?
And why is McDonald's on there?!
Who submitted the votes?

Kalik

Wynner3

My friend said, "look, I may be new to the job market, but I'm pretty darned sure all those questions are illegal for you to ask me. Keep the job. No thanks." and left. I hope their hiring practices have improved! Great food, tho.

bukkler

The HZA

mermaidshoes

it's nice seeing the top winners, but i'm more interested in the bottom rung fellows.

jaewon223

allthatsevil

JDAC

I heard the STL Wendy's closed due to some problem with the franchisee that apparently owned all the Wendy's in the area (including as far away as Wentzville). We still have them in Columbia and KC so I'm happy.

mcrbpc

Carrabba's would have smoked Olive Garden, and possibly even Outback.

Asvetic

Grrrrrrrrr

I must say, my latest Wendy's experience was quite pleasant (I get chili and chicken nuggets usually) because the service was fast and friendly and communicated well. The last couple times before that the help at this particular Wendy's communicated about as well as a drunk hobo.

sandwich_pants

BartClan

That's crazy! I've had Three Star Chefs tell me that's what they eat at their Menu creation meetings. I used to live on Wendy's 99cent menu when I was a Bike Messenger in NYC. Clean restrooms too. Cracker Barrel has totally fallen off in recent years. If you make it down to NC you have to check out Cookout, killer grilled chicken sandwich.
Zagat does a thankless job, fairly well. Thank you Zagat

Dubnacious

Gloria

G-Dog

roche

I do like their chocolate shakes.

Buran

I've actually taken quite a shine to their frescatta sandwiches, even if I have no idea how to actually pronounce them. It may be three bucks of a turkey sammich, but it's damn good and I'd probably spend the same amount on the meat and condiments myself, make one sandwich, forget the fixins are in the fridge, have it go nasty... Etc., etc. Wouldn't be the first time that happened.

Personally, I'd have put Roy Rogers at the top of the list. All of the ones I've ever been at have been clean as a whistle and it's the only restaurant I've ever been able to order sasparilla at. Shame there's only a handful open anymore...

@JDAC: That was my initial thought. They even have lousy napkins.

bluemeep

mmcnary

Since all their side dishes seem to be swimming in pork fat, I'm thinking that maybe they hate Jews, Muslims, and vegetarians, too.

acambras

I actuallly agree with the list. Except for McDonald's and KFC. Ick. But Wendy's, Quiznos, Cracker Barrell, Outback... all places I like. And my brother planned out our roadtrip to Florida to hit all the Sonics we could since we don't have one near us.

Youthier

I do like Chick Fil A and Sonic, but where's Hardee's? That's a meaty, massive burger, made fresh and much better than Wendy's?

JDAC

mikyrok

For the record, Quiznos is good. Subway, however, is often inedible. 50% of the time I go to Subway the bread is rock-hard stale and obviously from the previous day.

rmz

quantum-shaman

That might be a cool name for a restaurant. You could play Lisa Lisa and Duran Duran, serve PuPu platters and have special cross promotions with Little Caesars.

RandomHookup

BeastMasterJ

Spogmonkey: "We like the suuuuuuuubs..."

And is there a maximum number of locations or a geographical range or radius that a company can expand to before the masses decry them all as horrid?

BeastMasterJ

Canadian Impostor

slapstick

Good job, Dave.

Buran

Buran

"Oh, we think you should switch to Sunday".

Buran

Wendy's is tits. They have by far the best fast food around. Once in elementary school we had a guy from Wendy's corporate come (it could have been the local store manager for all I know but he didn't seem greasy enough) and he said to us "Do you know why Wendy's hamburger patties are square?" and we were all like "noooooooooo" and he said "Because we don't cut corners." nyuk nyuk.

DeeJayQueue

nightbird

These days they say they don't discriminate and deny that they even had discriminatory policies in the past. Needless to say that when I lived in the south, I absolutely refused to eat there.

Tallanvor

He

From the Chick-fil-A website: Closed Sundays. It's part of the Chick-fil-A® recipe.
Admittedly, closing all of our restaurants every Sunday makes us a rarity in this day and age. But it's a little habit that has always served us well, so we're planning to stick with it.

Our founder, Truett Cathy, wanted to ensure that every Chick-fil-A employee and restaurant operator had an opportunity to worship, spend time with family and friends or just plain rest from the work week. Made sense then, still makes sense now.

slapstick

quantum-shaman

quantum-shaman

mantari

TinaB

So people tend to only submit for places they like.

nweaver

support your local mom and pop restaraunts, where they might actually serve real food and not mass produced products.

billybastion

Are they closed on sundays?

winnabago

PFAH!

nweaver

Seconded.

I think what they did, was choose 5 random restaurants from each category (except maybe the "Chain Restaurants" category - I would mostly agree with that), and put them in order from best to worst. That would explain why places such as Quiznos and Sonic are on there.

North Antara

Outback is good but too expensive. You can get just as good a steak for a lot less money at Lone Star.

quantum-shaman

Hallik09

Olive Garden, KFC, Pizza Hut - these places don't serve food!

I do love Sonic for their delicious limeades, and Chick-fil-A is delicious, even though the universe conspires against me because I always crave it on a Sunday.

slapstick

matukonyc