mrken30

I just recently saw this statement, this may be fake news.

Restaurants like KFC are sourcing their meat from factory farms. These farms can give KFC the cheapest price for their chicken -- but it comes at a steep price to U.S. consumers. Many factory farms use and abuse antibiotics. They use these drugs on healthy animals to prevent a disease outbreak in the crowded and often squalid conditions of the factory farms.

Are there any fast food restaurants that use higher quality food than others?

Bob

Places like Mooyah? Smashburger, Elevation Burger and other similar places.

mrken30

Are those all local fast food places?

Rete

The one of those that I've ever heard of is Smashburger and from family reviews they suck. I've only seen them in the NE.

mrken30

I think I have found my answer

Only two companies -- Panera and Chipotle -- earned an "A." Chick-fil-A, McDonald's and Dunkin Donuts also received passing grades.

How Chipotle, McDonalds and other fast food and restaurant chains rate on antibiotics in meat supply - CBS News

Bob

Mooyah is based in Texas and the largest of the bunch, up and down the east coast I think. They've opened quite a few new ones down my way.

robin1234

They really don't have many places, oddly distributed too. And most of their international locations are in Saudi Arabia! I wonder if it is Arabic in origin or culture?

dc koop

Chick-Fil-A bloody awful. I never ate a more boring, mundane, tasteless, dried out chicken sandwich in my life. One visit was enough.

tom169

I think it's nice in fast food terms!

Hiro11

Smashburger and Chik-fil-A are both pretty damned good for terrible-for-you fast food. In-n-Out is hugely overrated. Five Guys' burgers are greaseballs but their fries are excellent. Shake Shack is superb. Chipotle actually uses reasonably high quality ingredients but is still terrible compared to any number of local taco joints. Tom n' Eddie's is an excellent local chain here in Chicago. Local places like Josh's in Northbrook, IL are better than everything listed above.

dave2702

Their Chocolate Chip cookies are fantastic though

dc koop

The Chick-fil-A nearest me is across the road from a large college so it does a very good business. The Burger King which was on the other side of the street from Chick went out of business which indicates that the Millenials are into eating healthier.

They're closed on Sundays as the owner of the chain is a church going Christian who got himself into the news a few years back when he made it clear that gays weren't welcome

Bob

I do like the dogs at Five Guy's, those aren't bad.

Also a bit of a guilty pleasure are the salads at Chipotle and it's not bad. That said, I'm not living in a area with a lot of Mexican joints, so not much to compare against and I'm not a massive fan of the other burrito joints like Boloco. Plenty of fab Brazilian joints though and I can get behind that.

Bob

The missus was saying that the chap who ran the local Papa Johns, I think it was, closed down in the new year after deciding not to bother open during the day for the previous few months as it was costing more open being open than they would lose having it closed. Also they would sell about 1000 pizza's a Fri-Sun and maybe about 100 the rest of the week, if there was a sports type thing going on.

He opened up a new franchise in Burlington, VT, near the college and clears about 1000 pizzas a day and about x3 that over a weekend if something is going on.

Bonkers.

zzrmark

I expect nothing less than Kobi beef in my $1.69 junk food.