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Fast Food - Any Chains That Ireland Lacks and Needs?

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    #122
    saa
    Registered Users Posts: 2,194 ✭✭✭saa


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


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    #123
    happypants
    Registered Users Posts: 280 ✭✭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.


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    #124
    the groutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,096 ✭✭✭✭the groutch


    Gregg's
    Krispy Kreme


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    #125
    deandean
    Registered Users Posts: 2,218 ✭✭✭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.


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    #126
    lord lucan
    Registered Users Posts: 9,575 ✭✭✭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.:)


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    #127
    bnt
    Registered Users Posts: 12,959 ✭✭✭✭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:

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    #128
    Herb Powell
    Registered Users Posts: 3,097 ✭✭✭Herb Powell


    Anyone wrote: »
    Quizno's
    http://www.quiznos.ie/location.html


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    #129
    Luap
    Registered Users Posts: 2,642 ✭✭✭Luap


    Bimbo's Burgers.


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    #130
    Yakult
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 7,941 Mod ✭✭✭✭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.


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    #131
    rossie1977
    Registered Users Posts: 11,342 ✭✭✭✭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


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    #132
    nice_very
    Registered Users Posts: 1,723 ✭✭✭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


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    #133
    demanufactured
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,756 ✭✭✭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.


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    #134
    bnt
    Registered Users Posts: 12,959 ✭✭✭✭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.

    From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch’.

    — Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 Astronaut



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    #135
    saywhatyousee
    Registered Users Posts: 1,511 ✭✭✭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:


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    #136
    hada
    Registered Users Posts: 699 ✭✭✭hada


    Dunkin' Donuts.


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    #137
    Big Nasty
    Registered Users Posts: 22,080 ✭✭✭✭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.


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    #138
    Big Nasty
    Registered Users Posts: 22,080 ✭✭✭✭Big Nasty


    Also someone should tip off a certain American franchise that it's been completely ripped off over here:
    30102011255.jpg


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    #139
    gigino
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,350 ✭✭✭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.


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    #140
    January
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,865 ✭✭✭✭January


    Anyone wrote: »
    Quizno's

    One in St. Stephens Green Shopping Centre.


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    #141
    BrianJD
    Registered Users Posts: 1,094 ✭✭✭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


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    #142
    eire1
    Registered Users Posts: 651 ✭✭✭eire1


    Chipotle and Smoke's Poutinerie


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    #143
    bb1234567
    Registered Users Posts: 5,494 ✭✭✭bb1234567


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


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    #144
    Scubadevils
    Subscribers Posts: 8,322 ✭✭✭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.


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    #145
    SteoL
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,545 ✭✭✭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.


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    #146
    Duckworth_Luas
    Registered Users Posts: 5,733 ✭✭✭Duckworth_Luas


    MCMLXXV wrote: »
    Also someone should tip off a certain American franchise that it's been completely ripped off over here:
    30102011255.jpg
    Coincidence I believe!


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    #147
    psychward
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,187 ✭✭✭psychward


    http://www.innout.com/

    http://www.pandaexpress.com/


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


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    #148
    Laura_lolly87
    Registered Users Posts: 212 ✭✭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.


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    #149
    ProudDUB
    Registered Users Posts: 11,569 ✭✭✭✭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.


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    #150
    ellieswellies
    Registered Users Posts: 191 ✭✭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)


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    #151
    JupiterKid
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 12,590 Mod ✭✭✭✭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.


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