Fast Food - Any Chains That Ireland Lacks and Needs?

saa

Nooo no actually nice fast food restaurants here [down with this sort of thing]
I'd be massive

happypants

katharinewheel wrote: »

A proper Pizza Hut wouldn't go amiss.

I know there are those PHQ delivery things all over the place but after ordering from a few different ones I can't help but think that they're quite substandard.

Phq isn't pizza hut pizza at all, I'm convinced it's godfathers pizza (awful) under a different name. I would rather get a takeout from an actual pizza hut than order one from these delivery places.

the groutch

Gregg's
Krispy Kreme

deandean

CINNABONS

The Cheesecake Factory

Cinnabons....but in Celtic Tiger years I heard they were looking for €6M or the likes for an all-Ireland franchise. Nice, but not worth that.

lord lucan

Agent Smith wrote: »

Dennys

+1.

Quite sad but one of the highlights when i go to Florida for holidays is going to Dennys for breakfast.

All American Slam FTW.:)

bnt

I love Japanese food, and it just occurred to me to wonder whether there was such as thing as Japanese Fast Food. I know there is in Japan, of course e.g. Hokaben places at railway stations where you can pick up a Bentō Box for lunch, and noodle bars for that post-pub-pigout. But I don't know how well it could be "commoditised" in a way suitable for a Western fast food joint, while keeping up the quality.

The most likely candidate I've found so far is Tenya, who specialise in Tempura (deep-fried) cuisine. Google Translate can't quite hack their website e.g. the current special appears to be a "Tendon happy bustle of winter". :cool:

Herb Powell

Anyone wrote: »

Quizno's

http://www.quiznos.ie/location.html

Luap

Bimbo's Burgers.

Yakult

This thread makes McDonalds & Co. very very SH;T.
**** this country and our lack of unhealthy but delicious food. Looking at that baconater and my stomach just rumbled. Never mind White Castle, Taco bell, Wendys, In and out etc.

Boring sh;thole.

rossie1977

even the smell of taco bell puts me off :mad: not to mention this little fact

five guys which nobody has mentioned is far superior than the over-rated in-n-out burger

i agree with wetherspoons

nice_very

Chuck Stone wrote: »

I would love if there was a really good American Diner like one you'd see n the program Diners, Drive-ins & Dives.

A high quality fast food, BBQ, steaks, ribs etc with everything prepared from fresh.

Applebys (spelling?)

Jack in the Box yum yum

demanufactured

Fookin hell...no wonder so many americans are so obese.
We need less of this ****e not more.
Taco bell = liquid sh1te.
Decent delis would be.welcome..not this overpriced muck.

bnt

nice_very wrote: »

Applebys (spelling?)

You probably mean Applebees. Never been to one of those, but I did go to a Denny's in Houston in 2009, for breakfast. I had a pretty good full breakfast, but was a little surprised at the cost, which came to something like $15. They had a no-tip policy IIRC, so I suppose the "tip" was in the price.

saywhatyousee

seamus wrote: »

There used to be at least two Pizza Huts in Dublin up till a couple of years ago. One was in Rathmines, beside the Garda Station. Think there's a cafe there now. If you look on Google maps, the old Pizza hut sign is there.

The other was on Suffolk Street. Again if you look on Google maps, you can see where it was.

Back in college (2001/2002), used to meet the missus there for lunch. They did an all-you-can-eat lunch buffet for a fiver, or something ridiculously cheap like that. Fecking nyom. Not sure why they left Ireland. Best pizza around, though no doubt seriously bad for you.

There is a pizza hut in Sligo they do a all you can eat for 7 euro monday-thursday.When i was a student we used to take up a couple of zip lock bags fill them up and under the jumper.Used to eat for 2-3 days for 7 e it was a life saver more money for drink:pac:

hada

Dunkin' Donuts.

Big Nasty

hada wrote: »

Dunkin' Donuts.

Can't see them ever taking off here. We don't have the fascination for donuts like they do in the states.

Big Nasty

Also someone should tip off a certain American franchise that it's been completely ripped off over here:

gigino

its not really fast food, but I ate in an Outback restaurant a few times, thought it was great, but maybe it was just the staff that was on.

January

Anyone wrote: »

Quizno's

One in St. Stephens Green Shopping Centre.

BrianJD

Spread wrote: »

Semi fast food........ Friendly's, Applebee's, Uno's and Denny's. Sit down affairs but you can be in and out in 20 mins. Having said that ..... how come nobody has come up with a Bacon 'n Cabbage Fajita?

After been to America 6 times, we only discovered Applebee's last September. My God, it kicks Denny's Bottom

Hoping to go to Canada in September and we've already looked up where they are. Also it is so cheap for great food.

http://www.applebees.com/menu

Nom Nom Nom

eire1

Chipotle and Smoke's Poutinerie

bb1234567

Dublin needsa few Krispy Kreme stores.They are the donut gods of Britain.

Scubadevils

bb1234567 wrote: »

Dublin needsa few Krispy Kreme stores.They are the donut gods of Britain.

Yes would love to see Krispy Kreme here, all over the place in London.

+1 also on Pret A Manger which was already mentioned, huge favourite for me when in London.

Also Pod Food in London, amazing healthy food and they do a great Thai Green curry.

SteoL

MCMLXXV wrote: »

hada wrote: »

Dunkin' Donuts.

Can't see them ever taking off here. We don't have the fascination for donuts like they do in the states.

They were here in the 90's. Obviously didn't take off.

Duckworth_Luas

MCMLXXV wrote: »

Also someone should tip off a certain American franchise that it's been completely ripped off over here:

Coincidence I believe!

psychward

http://www.innout.com/

http://www.pandaexpress.com/


Dunkin Donuts too because I seem to remember they had good toasted cream cheese bagels

Laura_lolly87

mackg wrote: »

Not fast food, but one of those Ben and Jerry's stores where they have all the different flavours would be cool.

They have one of them downstairs in the cinema in Waterford.

ProudDUB

Popeyes. They kick KFC to the curb in the fried chicken department. I think that they are only in the Southern US.

Moe's Grill, Willie Burritos

Taco Bell should never darken our shores EVER. I wouldn't feed their crap to a dog.

ellieswellies

Krystal burger, hands down.


Anyone who has come staggering out of a club on Bourbon st New Orleans and gone for a few Krystals will attest to this.

Taco Cabana could be added to that list...and Sonic (No. 1 with mustard ftw)

JupiterKid

Taco Bell is revolting rubbish.

I would, however, like if Applebee's, Wendys and In N Out Burger came to Ireland.:)

For those on here who loathe fast food, no-one forces you to go and eat their food. Live and let live.