The only Burger King I've visited has been the one in the Russian market area. So far, the experience has been good:
1. Because it isn't as popular as McDonald's, there aren't the huge lines and scads of rude staring people who would as soon kill you as let you have a place to sit down.
2. The food actually tastes like what it's meant to taste like. McDonald's sandwiches mostly taste the same–like piles of congealed fat (or runny fat, depending on the temperature). You can discern meat in the burgers and chicken in the chicken at Burger King. Further, there are actual discernible vegetables on the sandwiches–real lettuce (not those three sad wilted shreds on the Mcd's), tomato and onion. Not that BK is health food by any means––it's just not such bad fast food as other places.
3. The coffee is actually very good, and cheaper than Starbucks'.
4. The staff are friendly and competent.
5. They deliver with a smile.
6. They'll make the sandwich the way you ask for it.
7. They have real BBQ sauce: not that pretend spicy junk.
The only downsides are:
1. The place is already a little sticky and dingy.
2. They labor under the common Asian delusion that burgers should have mayo, and their burgers are slathered in enough ketchup and mayo to drown three people. But since they'll make it for you without sauce, this isn't too big a deal if you remember to ask for no sauce at the beginning.
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beepac Submitted by Guest on Sat, 04/09/2011 - 13:05 Permalink
Re: Better than McDonald's–burgers actually taste like ...
Don't hate on mayo. God created it for a (oh so delicious) reason. It has every right to occupy a place on the top half of the bun. I surmise you must be British.
bluefish Submitted by Guest on Thu, 05/03/2012 - 15:34 Permalink
Re: Better than McDonald's–burgers actually taste like ...
Why on earth would you think me British? I'm American, and in America I've never once seen mayo on a burger. I'm not complaining even about the presence of mayo, either. It's the amount that's a problem. Why does there have to be so much mayonnaise that it takes 15 napkins to get through it?
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