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World's Largest Fast Food Chains
Food & Wine ^ | 6/20/23 | Food & Wine editors

Posted on 09/22/2024 5:07:14 PM PDT by DallasBiff

From burger behemoths to international pizza joints, F&W rounds up the world's largest fast food chains.

McDonald's

The burger behemoth tops the list over Subway by a few hundred stores worldwide. While the Big Mac is ubiquitous in the United States, in Europe the chain also sells the Big Rösti for a limited time each year — beef patty, hash brown patty, Emmentaler cheese, and bacon on an onion-flavored bun.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Food
KEYWORDS: bigrosti; fastfood; thebigrosti
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This is not an advertisement for McDonald's, but I grew up in the golden era of fast food, late 60's early 70's/

I know there are a lot of local fast food chains that are favorites.

It's Sunday have fun, and flame away.

1 posted on 09/22/2024 5:07:14 PM PDT by DallasBiff
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To: DallasBiff

They are all now owned by Venture Capital companies.


2 posted on 09/22/2024 5:09:14 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: DallasBiff

You know what they call a quarter-pounder in Europe?


3 posted on 09/22/2024 5:16:00 PM PDT by Sarcazmo (I live by the Golden Rule. As applied by others; I'm not selfish.)
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To: DallasBiff

Drive-through death.


4 posted on 09/22/2024 5:17:19 PM PDT by xoxox
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To: dfwgator

That’s where the employment is for young folk starting out-that plus retail. it gives them a bad attitude about work that they carry into middle age. On the plus side they can learn the value of a buck as well as a 401k program if they are taught to use their heads and not spend their money on tattoos. If rests weren’t so explosive they could stay in share rentals with strangers. I works at a young age.

Me, I bypassed all that and joined the military for 4 years. That and then 4 years on the GI bill. 8 years on the dole but earned.


5 posted on 09/22/2024 5:20:43 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: DallasBiff

I remember when their burgers were 25 cents.


6 posted on 09/22/2024 5:22:35 PM PDT by BipolarBob (Sorry I'm driving the speed limit but some of us have warrants.)
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To: Sarcazmo
A quarter-pounder?

I've eaten at McDonald's a few times in Europe, not recently, but don't remember what they call the quarter-pounder. Don't think I ever ordered it.

Hundred grammer?

7 posted on 09/22/2024 5:23:20 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: DallasBiff

1. McDonald’s
2. Subway
3. Starbucks
4. Kentucky Fried Chicken
5. Burger King
6. Domino’s
7. Pizza Hut
8. Dunkin’ Donuts
9. Taco Bell
10. Wendy’s
11. Papa Doc’s Ducks, Pups and Pussy Cats


8 posted on 09/22/2024 5:25:15 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (7/13/2024:The day the Democrats and their SA chose assassination as their primary political tool.)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

There’s more. Working an odd shift can free ones days to engage in other money making/learning experiences. They don’t need any sleep. I think Trump as POTUS can and should encourage every 13-year old to work in one of those joints 12 hours a weekend and get a head start on those 401k’s. Middle class kids like Kamala can bypass those endeavors.


9 posted on 09/22/2024 5:25:27 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: Sarcazmo

Royale with cheese.


10 posted on 09/22/2024 5:26:27 PM PDT by LouAvul (DEI = Didn't Earn It. )
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To: Verginius Rufus

Royal Cheese: In France, Belgium, Croatia, and Cyprus
Hamburger Royal: In German-speaking Europe
Hamburger Royal TS: In Germany, which includes lettuce and tomato
Royal Cheeseburger: In Russia and Ukraine
Grand Cheeseburger: In Russia since 2016
McRoyal: In Poland


11 posted on 09/22/2024 5:27:27 PM PDT by coalminersson
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To: KarlInOhio

Whomever is running Wendy’s these days ought to be whipped.


12 posted on 09/22/2024 5:29:22 PM PDT by OKSooner (Domestic animals for Trump.)
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To: DallasBiff

we had a lot of local chains that are dead. I miss many of them.

Currently we have a a burger place that is down to three.

They were bought by a different restaurant chain for some reason maybe 15 years ago and while the food is the same, they keep closing locations because development and ada requirements or other excuses.

I still go a few times a year even if the closest one is 15 miles away, despite the fact that I used to be able to get a double bacon burger and fries for $5 and now it is $16

I just don’t want them all to close.


13 posted on 09/22/2024 5:29:39 PM PDT by algore
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To: KarlInOhio

Whomever is running Wendy’s these days ought to be whipped.


14 posted on 09/22/2024 5:29:52 PM PDT by OKSooner (Domestic animals for Trump.)
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To: DallasBiff

Aren’t there something like 10,000 KFC outlets in China? I read some time ago that KFC is extremely popular there.


15 posted on 09/22/2024 5:31:24 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: Verginius Rufus
Pulp Fiction "Royale with cheese" scene.

Tarantino foul language alert, but surprisingly a whole minute and a half with no deaths.

16 posted on 09/22/2024 5:33:54 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (7/13/2024:The day the Democrats and their SA chose assassination as their primary political tool.)
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To: LouAvul

Dang... everybody been to Europe these days.


17 posted on 09/22/2024 5:34:26 PM PDT by Sarcazmo (I live by the Golden Rule. As applied by others; I'm not selfish.)
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To: Verginius Rufus

It’s a joke from a movie. They don’t have quarter pounders because they use the metric system. The correct answer is “Royale with Cheese”.

So, what do you think they call The Whopper?


18 posted on 09/22/2024 5:34:29 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: DallasBiff

I never buy anything from fast food chains though years ago, ChickFilet was OK with me. And decades ago, Steak and Shake, great food, nice shops.

I hate pizza. I don’t eat wheat or pork ,and gave up beef recently when they started injecting MRNA vax into cows. Which leaves me with organic, pasture-raised chicken. Also eat Pacific Coast Canadian salmon. And organic Tofu, which I make yum enough with Trader Joe Sweet Chili Sauce. Trader is great source for all my faves, lucky to have one within walking distance.


19 posted on 09/22/2024 5:35:08 PM PDT by Veto! (Kamalamadingdong Sucks Rocks)
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To: DallasBiff
Halo Burger.

Their Olive Burger is good, their onion rings are good.

But.... their fried apple pies are SO good!

A nice cold Vernors to wash it all down.

Milo's is pretty good as well. We stop there every year while traveling to visit family.

The little local chains are always fun to visit.

I miss Mr Fables.

20 posted on 09/22/2024 5:35:59 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
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