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Warpaint
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Ah yes forgot about them. The term 'Cheeky Nandos' is enough to put me off ever stepping foot in there again.
Warpaint
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Have you completely given up on any for whatever reason? For me it would be....
KFC - Never seen a clean restaurant and the staff always look really depressed. The food has a weird greyness about it.
Frankie & Benny's - Used to be a greatest thing ever going out to this place when I was like 12 LOL. But a few years when I went the quality was awful, also the potions were tiny for the price. I'm sure it used to be nicer
Pizza Hut - Has been nose-diving in quality for the last 10 years. It's like they've given up.
Subway - Just feels like you're being ripped off. The sandwiches always look like they've taken a battering by the time they get to you
I might think of more but generally okay with the others.
KFC - Never seen a clean restaurant and the staff always look really depressed. The food has a weird greyness about it.
Frankie & Benny's - Used to be a greatest thing ever going out to this place when I was like 12 LOL. But a few years when I went the quality was awful, also the potions were tiny for the price. I'm sure it used to be nicer
Pizza Hut - Has been nose-diving in quality for the last 10 years. It's like they've given up.
Subway - Just feels like you're being ripped off. The sandwiches always look like they've taken a battering by the time they get to you
I might think of more but generally okay with the others.
ChampagneBox
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I have to chuckle to myself, reading this thread agreeing with you all and yet I still order chicken doner kebabs from a kebabby with a 2* hygiene rating 
Gym&Tonic
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I don’t eat meat anymore, but KFC is just rank. I’ve heard so many awful rumours about their chicken and where it comes from and the appalling welfare. There was a rumour in our town Years ago that someone went to KFC and when they bit into the chicken the realised it was actually a battered dead rat. It’s probably just an urban myth but that turned my stomach and put me off. I also knew someone who’s son got salmonella from eating KFC on holiday.
CatCafe234
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I really don’t get Subway at all. I only recently had one for the first time - we live near a drive-thru and the pandemic options for a lunch ‘out’ were limited - but the ordering process is just exhausting, I felt like I was taking an exam! I don’t know what it is with Subway and MacDonalds but both seem to have a thing where neither really display their menus at the drive-thrus and you’re just expected to know what to order somehow. I never do and I usually end up with something I don’t really want just because it’s all I can see.
Giggling Squid
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Ooh also won’t go to prezzo after they served me cold, raw prawns and tried to tell me they were cooked
Bitofthebubbly
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Used to love going to Pizza Hut for a buffet lunch on a Saturday with friends. All you could eat pizza for something like £5/6. Good times, pizza was really nice too. It’s definitely not as good as it used to be.
chandlercheesecake
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Dominos - overpriced and the food isn't that nice.
potatowaffles
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McDonald’s, still not over them changing that perfectly good veggie burger to that nasty ass goujon stuff they have now. But who knows, they were looking at adding more vegetarian meals so maybe I can be tempted to return 
Guitarwarrior
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Anywhere that has a poor selection of vegetarian/vegan options is at the top of my list. Places that think a portobello mushroom in a burger bun is an acceptable single vegetarian meal over a vegetable patty.
More specifically
TGI fridays
Just never looks appetising. Don’t get the hype.
Burger King
Again always looked unappetising. Also sold a plant based burger that wasn’t vegan which to me defeats the point.
Pizza Hut
My local dine in has closed (the separate take out is still operating) but it was incredibly expensive compared to our local family Italian. Quality was poor. The salad bar never looked good either all open like it was
More specifically
TGI fridays
Just never looks appetising. Don’t get the hype.
Burger King
Again always looked unappetising. Also sold a plant based burger that wasn’t vegan which to me defeats the point.
Pizza Hut
My local dine in has closed (the separate take out is still operating) but it was incredibly expensive compared to our local family Italian. Quality was poor. The salad bar never looked good either all open like it was
McDonald’s breakfasts. There’s nothing nice about them.
I’m partial to a double cheeseburger and fries from there though.
Burger King just reminds me of being hungover in airports coming home from hen do’s.
I refuse to get pizza from take away places as the mark up is just ridiculous.
I’m partial to a double cheeseburger and fries from there though.
Burger King just reminds me of being hungover in airports coming home from hen do’s.
I refuse to get pizza from take away places as the mark up is just ridiculous.
Giggling Squid
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Frankie and Benny’s for me too... years ago now, I went through a vegetarian phase. Ordered a pizza, I think it was ham and mushroom or something but asked for no ham as they didn’t have a veggie pizza except plain margarita. So, out it comes covered in ham. Reminded them I’d asked for it with out ham on so they took it away, and I watched them pick the ham off on the pass and bring it back to me 
Never been back
Never been back
BigMavis
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Only fast food places I've ever seen rats is KFC so I could well believe the battered ratburger. I'm talking about the customer carpark rather than the restaurant but still, also there was a kfc in Belfast that went viral and closed a few years ago because of rats. Rats rats rats sorry.
On the subject of KFC non ratburgers, daily mail had a story a while ago, someone had bitten into a chicken burger and found a teeny tiny chicken brain. I still eat the stuff, very partial to a zinger tower meal but I inspect every bite, just in case.
Dominos is my least favourite place, 100% rotten but my family love it.
On the subject of KFC non ratburgers, daily mail had a story a while ago, someone had bitten into a chicken burger and found a teeny tiny chicken brain. I still eat the stuff, very partial to a zinger tower meal but I inspect every bite, just in case.
Dominos is my least favourite place, 100% rotten but my family love it.
witchofwestbyfleet
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That reminds me - Wagamama. Bad quality food and why would you name a restaurant chain "Selfish"?
265
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Burger King, I only ever buy a meal from them at a service station, yes it's more expensive but at least you don't have to wait all that long for your meal. There are not very many branches, parking is a problem, the coffee is shit and they are wayyyy too slow for someone in my line of work who doesn't have the luxury of time.
Subway, only tried them once but the barrage of 20 questions and the time to get the sub is insane, no good to me.
Subway, only tried them once but the barrage of 20 questions and the time to get the sub is insane, no good to me.
orlyb1310
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A Spoons employee made a tiktok account which basically documented him working in the kitchens there and pretty much all of the food items there are ready meals. The curries, lasagnes definitely are. I'd much rather go somewhere a bit nicer for food like pizza express or an independent Italian and then Spoons for the cheap drinks rather than eat there
Facehugger
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McDonald's - awful. No.
KFC - that chicken coating is like eating wet sandpaper
Subway - like others, by the time I've answered all the 'do you want' I'm not even hungry any more!
Chinese - any. If this offends anyone I'm so sorry but since seeing pictures I shouldn't have looked at about animals in those wet markets my brain associates the two and I can't eat it. I now cook my own at home.
KFC - that chicken coating is like eating wet sandpaper
Subway - like others, by the time I've answered all the 'do you want' I'm not even hungry any more!
Chinese - any. If this offends anyone I'm so sorry but since seeing pictures I shouldn't have looked at about animals in those wet markets my brain associates the two and I can't eat it. I now cook my own at home.
I like KFC but I always take it away so I can ignore the cleanliness. Agree the restaurants are a bit
Hate Subway, Burger King is strictly emergencies only and usually just get fries.
Frankie and Bennies and Pizza Hut are dire, Frankie and Bennies have always been bad but Pizza Hut has gone downhill.
Controversial probably but don’t like Greggs. Got a pizza slice from there not too long ago and it was horrible. How can you mess up pizza?!
Hate Subway, Burger King is strictly emergencies only and usually just get fries.
Frankie and Bennies and Pizza Hut are dire, Frankie and Bennies have always been bad but Pizza Hut has gone downhill.
Controversial probably but don’t like Greggs. Got a pizza slice from there not too long ago and it was horrible. How can you mess up pizza?!