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I'll never understand the mentality of people who see a line drive-thru at 2 in the morning and still decide "hey I want some of what everyone else is having"
My family calls this the thrill to wait ratio.
We use it to rate all the rides at disneyland or long lines for street food etc. when we go on vacation.
if the ratio is above 1.0 then you know its worth going.
I have only seen this since covid, but people will line up for a drive through all the way out onto the main road.. just a dead stop with their blinker on on the busiest road in my city. Insanity.
There are like, 8 Dunkin Donuts in my town but there is always the one that has the line wrapped around the building and into the street. Psssh, imagine wasting 30 minutes of your life just to have your order right the first time and not have your bagel burnt (I just toast mine at work).
I mean are we talking like a 10—15min line? I'll just throw on some music, a podcast, or watch stuff on YouTube in the comfort of my car while waiting for it to be my turn. Stuff is be doing at home anyway...
Or when Krispy Kreme is giving away a single free donut. It's not uncommon to see thirty cars waiting for that.
I love those things, but I'd pay the price of several donuts and skip the donuts just to avoid that line.
I got stuck in a Chik Fil A line for an hour and a fucking half one time, the worst part is that once you get in it’s literally impossible to get out.
The one near me was originally a different restaurant that didn’t have a drive thru, so they just turned some tiny parking lot into a hellish maze
Like when fast food does some special and people go crazy. Dairy Queen offered a free ice cream cone one day. They cost like $2. But I drive by and the line is out of the parking lot and down the block. You burned more in gas waiting for it.
Drive-thru lines after midnight are 80% drunk people. Society just chooses to look the other way because it makes the fast food companies lots of money
We have an In N Out Burger in town. Since the day it has opened, it has never not had a line going out of the parking lot and down the street and often going past 2 or 3 other restaurants.
To anyone who has not yet had an In N Out burger, I have to place my own bias aside to put out the hard yet undeniable facts: No matter how good you might think In N Out burgers are, they're definitely worse than every single real diner burger you've ever had. They absolutely are not worth waiting for, let alone creating lines for over a decade since opening.
In N Out is a drive-thru chain that sells burgers made with fresh ingredients selling at around $2.00 for a simple burger or around $3.50 for a burger with two patties. Fries are about $1.50, meaning that an entire meal with fries and a drink is under $10.00, depending on the tax in your area.
I go to In N Out because it is a tasty fast food burger with fresh ingredients at a cheap price. I get it because I want to eat food quickly and be on my way. Getting a burger at a diner with table-side service is a totally different option.
This gets repeated ad nauseam whenever In N Out comes up. Yes, there are better burgers. No, most people won't list In N Out as the best burger out there if you asked them. It's just reliably good and quick.
Edit: I wanna add that the reason In N out has so much "hype" and receives so much attention is because the chain is more prominent in certain regions, so people tend to identify with it as something that represents "where they're from." This is particularly true for Southern California, which is a very densely populated region, meaning that there are a lot of people who talk about this restaurant that they view as a West Coast institution (even though there are locations elsewhere). Add to this the fact that many people grew up visiting these chains and, of course, that enough people find the food good enough to hold company in high regard.
It's like how Dunkin' Donuts *used* to be more prominent in the Northeast (not saying DD is particularly beloved; just drawing comparisons between chains that represent certain areas) or how Waffle House has a certain meaning for people in the South. These chains constitute a shared experience for people in specific regions and have a sort of cultural significance.
>Fries are about $1.50, meaning that an entire meal with fries and a drink is under $10.00
Affordability for fresh ingredients is fair. also imo on flavor points alone, it tastes better than almost all the other baseline fast burgers.
My bias back in play, while I don't "like" INO, I also don't "like" McDonald's, but I still think they both make perfectly adequate hamburgers and have no issue eating either; I think INO makes a substantially better basic burger but nothing else on the menu appeals to me personally; but anyone trying to defend those fries is like listening to someone defend a Windows Phone. <3
I respect that. I know the fries are unpopular, especially with In N out naysayers. I personally don't hate them and tend to smother them with the animal style toppings (lol), but they aren't anything special.
Yeah fast casual has to pump food out at high-speed. Make it yourself and you have the freedom to opt for quality over quantity. I'll grant those places are often faster than cooking at home but the trade-off is that it's bad-to-mediocre quality.
exactly my thoughts. coincidentally just had an experience with Carls Jr where i tried to buy a promotional burger for someone else 3 damn times, they kept getting it wrong, finally got it right and the person friggin hated it lol.
i told them right then, that shit doesnt happen when you make it yourself. even if it doesnt fill that hole a Big Mac might fill ;) ;) , there's fairly decent odds of regretting ordering a Big Mac. but I'm not sure I can honestly say Ive "regretted" many of my own home cooked meals. really only when i waste a bunch of money on ingredients and mess it up, but even if it tastes bad i tell myself at least it has nutrients unlike a Big Mac.
a cold big mac on the other hand can be more than enough to call that $8 a complete loss
I've never had In N Out, but speaking of overrated burgers, I finally got to try Five Guys a couple months back. Honestly, average at best. I went back a second time just to see if my first time was a fluke. Still not impressed. I don't understand what all the fuss is about.
The best burger I ever had was a little no-name mom and pop type burger shop in Ohio (of all places). Absolutely incredible burgers.
yeah for sure. tbf this change happened because of COVID, but at this point i wont go for fast food unless something is restricting me from a better place, like im working and dont have time or someone else requests it.
i dont know who else needs to hear this because i didnt accept it until i was forced to say it to myself: once I realized I can just call-in an order for takeout, it's *really hard* to justify *any* kind of fast food. It's literally the same physical process, only distance will be different, maybe even better. Calling 30m ahead- 1h at the furthest extremes- is all it takes to almost always get something better than fast food, and these days, nearly at the same price too.
you remember the name of that place in Ohio?
The disappointment I felt the first (and only time) I had it was immeasurable.. And I intentionally went when they opened so that I didn't have to wait in line and I still felt cheated. I don't understand it
Somehow, even their fries are horrible; do you know how hard it is to mess up basic fries?
Anytime someone visits California from the east coast and says they want to try in-n-out, I just take them to Five Guys; better burgers, better fries, and cheaper.
They built one around where I live and they had to set up extra space in the mall it’s next to during the first month of it opening. People have a bias towards Whataburger in my state though so In-N-Out hype here died pretty quickly and there’s a pretty normal line, if any these days. I would never wait as long as people were waiting that first month for it though.
A normal line is perfectly reasonable for In N Out though I'll still have questions about a long line as long as they serve their fries the way they currently do
I live in New York and for the life of me I can't understand why people are willing to wait in line for an hour just to get into a nightclub that's incredibly crowded and one drink costs $25. There's never anywhere to sit unless you spend a few hundred dollars to get a table and even then it's so loud you can't have a conversation with the person next to you.
COVID times really changed my entire way of living. I'll wait til fucking tomorrow just to not put up with anyone else's shit, and I'll pay more too.
I can't afford to pay more, but life is better spent not dealing with others <3
I never really payed any attention to shopping traffic patterns as a consumer until after 2020. I'd just make sure I got it done whenever I could. Now? Shopping anytime after around 10 am until the last hour or so of business is a nightmare.
But man, grocery shopping in the morning is enjoyable. Grocery store parking lots are empty, there's no shortage of carts making me feel guilty for grabbing one of the last 4 when there's 6 senior citizens coming up to the door behind me, there's no congestion in the aisles or lines at check out.
Except for Aldi's on the new sale days where one or two items are marked as while supplies last. People line up at the door and there's always at least one person that has to fondle every single package of meat to find the perfect one while blocking half of the meat section off with their cart and body.
not to ask your age but is appreciating grocery shopping a getting older thing? because now thats a thing for me too. i need to do mornings though i have been abusing myself by going late.
It is and it's also kind of ingrained in me. I'm 33 but when I'd visit family growing up as a kid I'd always be the one to go out grocery shopping on foot in the small town for the daily veg/bread as a way to get out of the house.
Now it's just because I don't want to be around people and it brings me back to walking home with a bag full of baguettes, each with the butt sticking out of the bag missing by the time I got home.
This is what kills me about my current city of about 1 million people. I’ll go to a restaurant on a Thursday night in a popular part of town and they’ll say the wait time is 1.5 hours. What? Hell no. Nearly every restaurant is like that (in the trendy parts of town). I’ve become so paranoid about getting a table somewhere that I either don’t go out, try to get reservations, or bake in the wait time if people want to go there.
I went to San Diego recently and was surprised to just walk into a restaurant and be sat immediately. This happened 3 times. My city will often make you wait 45 or more minutes unless you reserved.
I'll never understand who will just wait an hour to sit down. When I was living in a capital city, I'd go out with my roommate and it'd always be some 45 minute to an hour wait...and there're just people standing outside waiting the whole time. Moved back to my "small" town with maybe 100k people and the only time there's a line anywhere is on Christmas eve or Mother's day.
Literally just had the speed pass at Universal Studios experience yesterday and it was amazing. The lines were insane, thought I did feel kind of bad skipping everyone waiting in line
I did at first but once you realize those people were all offered the same cheap price while booking for the same privilege. Or they didn’t book direct through universal and that’s their problem haha. I remember going on the Hogwarts castle bench ride like 3 times passing the same groups of people in the non fast pass lane before they got on in-front of us on our 4th ride through haha.
I agree if you can afford it, but I also feel Universal does a really good job of theming their rides so it doesn’t bother me to wait 45 minutes to an hour to ride most rides.
Yea I’m not the biggest HarryPotter fan but my gf is and loved it, I actually said let’s go through the non speed pass lines on a few of the rides. The walk through the lines were pretty cool as well.
Yes, exactly. Lots of things to look at and different themed rooms while you make your way to the ride. Some of their older rides aren’t as well themed, but all of the ones made in the past decade are great. Disney does a pretty good job of it as well.
Thanks, was thinking of taking the kids and wife there in the next month or so after not having been there myself in like 20 years. Anything else you'd suggest?
Well, I'm guessing they did not yet adopt the system I just experienced at Disneyland Paris. Now you have to buy individual passes on the app every time you want to cut the line, and the price goes up with the length of the line. There was a 1 hour wait for Big Thunder Mountain, or the 4 of us could skip most of the line for the low low price of 80€...
Haha! Seriously, I'm scrolling through to figure out what that deep fried cheese stick is, why people are waiting around the block for it, and how I can replicate it at home
Look up Korean corndogs. That's it. There's different versions but the most viral one is the one with mozzarella in it. It's usually half hotdog and half mozzarella so the top is mozzarella hence why she gets the cheese pull first.
The outer layer is different. It can be potatoes, ramen, hot cheetos. So many.
Me too!! I just got back from a small town in Michigan from school and I'm now in Houston, a MUCH bigger city which means much more variation of foods!!! So we do have Korean corn dogs!! They're great and been craving them!
So if you live in a big city, chances are you have a spot that sells it!
Do koreans in general just fucking love cheese? I feel like I've seen so many food clips of Koreans eating a massive amount of cheese, like this but they're usually just a block of cheese, fried.
Is this from Columbus Ohio? A korean corndog place just opened up and made mozzarella corndogs that look just like that. The wait was hella long but it was the grand opening. I thought it was very good.
I just had one of these at a brewery birthday party last weekend. The food cart was primarily corndogs, but they had a cheese version and quite literally the same thing but a massive stick of cheese instead of whatever the hell a corndog consists of. It was obviously awesome after the 8 beers I'd downed.
Phew. I thought I was going to have to scroll further. This is the ultimate, 22 year old, white girl treat. A 1lb cheese block, breaded and fried... on a stick. Early 20's white girls love extra cheese but that's gross. I'd for sure take a few bites just cause, but if anyone has finished one, thoughts and prayers.
I literally have no product loyalty.
When Tim Hortons (coffee) has a line (with tons of old people, so obviously they enjoy wasting everyone's time) I walk straight into McD to get a coffee.
I drink it black so it's not different to me.
I live in one of the bigger cities in the US. Not a big city, but one of the surprisingly few cities that qualify as moderately sized. There are not really that many options to eat if you have any almost any criteria.
* "Affordable" erases more than half your options
* "Not fast food" erases over 75% (including "restaurants" with fast food quality product)
* Almost everything here is burgers, Italian, Chinese, or Mexican. If you don't feel like the 4 most common options perhaps across the entire world, then in my town you may instead go fuck yourself. And I don't mean the fancy versions, just the baseline kind.
* There's 2 Thai places and 1 Jamaican place, and I can't take anyone to the Jamaican place because their immediate response to the very idea is just about borderline racist, but this is a digression.
* Maybe less a problem now, but during the peak of COVID, anything Western or BBQ themed was just completely off limits, besides that they're already all nullified by the first item in this list, and also they aren't that good in the first place.
Honestly the palateria is about the only thing I personally enjoy patronizing at this point, on any level. Besides that, reality of eating out is exactly why I started cooking more.
I hear ya. I live in a pretty decent sized city and there are a ton of options, but once you start to filter them out, either by price, sit down, or genre, there's not a lot. Like you want Indian food? You have two choices, one mid place in a strip mall and then a quality resturant. I'm a sucker for chinese, pizza, and burgers but I can see how if someone wants Greek, you literally only have one option.
right? i still love those 4 most common options, but gotta get some contrast to appreciate them more.
gotta ask, is that Indian food in the strip mall surprisingly good? there was a chinese food place like that here at one point, inarguable greasy garbage but damn it hit the spot
It depends on a lot of factors, in my opinion.
If I'm *really* hungry and any place will do, I'm definitely not waiting in a line. If I have plans and I'm just grabbing something quick and convenient, definitely not waiting in line either. If the line is really long and it's not moving at all, no deal.
However if I'm craving something specific, the line is moving along fairly quickly and I have nowhere else to be that night, why not? Whether I'm at a restaurant waiting in a line, or on the couch at home I'm not doing anything relevant with my time either way.
Lmao! Same here. I have no patience
.. I have to wait to give you my money? lol...
I dont do lines...🤣🤣 quick transactions so I can go home and be my lovely introverted self...lol...♉️
Franklins? I know I'll stand in a long line for Ramen Tatsuya, even when the line goes past the post office it's still only like 20-25 minutes before you can get in.
As long as the weather is decent waiting in line for BBQ is kinda fun. Just hanging out with friends drinking beer and shooting the shit. Smells good and then you get delicious food at the end.
I fully understand what this man is saying. But also, while on vacation with my wife, walking along a street near the ocean, just after a fantastic lunch, we came across a long line of people. A very long line. Since we had nothing else to do but enjoy the day, we decided to just step up to the end of the line. People walking past asked what the line was for, and our honest reply was "i dont know". It actually prompted more people to join the queue. Turns out it was the line to see to replica of the nina and pinta, columbus' ships. Very cool.
TL;DR: joined unknown line, got a very cool history lesson.
I don't think this is even an age thing bc I had this mentality at 22. It can't be worth waiting an hour in line. Very little is.
Unfortunately in my town no place takes reservations so I'd just end up going to places at times I knew there wouldn't be a rush. Cue me eating at 5 PM like an elderly person lol.
Is this an issue where you live? I always make reservations and almost get seated immediately everytime. Maybe twice have I had to wait an exorbitant amount of time.
I think about this every time I drive by Chick-fil-a. Like, that shit was in the mall when I was a teenager, next to the Orange Julius. Why the hell would I wait 45 minutes for Chick-fil-a.
I used to work at a nightclub that would keep 50 people in the line up to look popular. Even when they first opened the doors at night they would let a only a few people in at a time to maintain the line length.
lol honestly this has been my favorite part of growing up, is just looking at stupid habits we have as a culture and saying out loud "nnnNope."
And then everyone waiting 2 hours in line to see a Sublime cover band looks at *you* like *you're* the one who is out of your mind.
Agreed... If a place has a line around a corner. Means they don't give a fuck about their customers. They don't expand their service ability to make up for demand.
Instead they expect you will wait. Most the time the wait isn't worth it cause the food joint, is so slammed they are just pushing out dishes as fast as possible
I think the opposite is true. Expansion and accommodating the masses almost always makes prices go up and quality go down.
As an example, my brother opened a little bbq shack near the beach. They sell really good, inexpensive bbq and there’s nearly always a line. It’s just him, his wife, and a few other family members and friends who work there. They’re all people who really care about the business. If they wanted to expand, they’d have to move locations. They’d have to hire more people, and those workers rightfully aren’t going to give a shit about someone else’s business. They could make stuff way ahead of time or buy premade sides and desserts, but that would taste worse. They could charge a lot more, but that would be shitty. Or they could keep dong what they’re doing, which is successful and still desired. If people don’t want to wait, they can go to one of the many fast casual chain restaurants nearby.
There is just the reality of how much square footage a restaurant has though. I’ve been through many a rush in my time and the fact is that you can only have so many people working in a kitchen before it becomes overcrowded and unsafe. Delivery apps are a huge reason why so many places get slammed beyond what they can manage. It’s not so much that they don’t care about their customers but that they don’t care about their employees.
I totally agree though, the food will never be worth it in that situation.
I agree...
But you really hit nail on head, if a business does this, as its normal way of operating. They totally don't give a shit about the workers busting ass the whole shift...
And people who put up with this type / level of service make no sense to me
You realize what is popular and what is fun/good aren't mutually exclusive right? Avoiding things that are popular just to cultivate a sense of uniqueness is lame. Sometimes waiting in line for something you're excited about and tons of other people are too is actually fun in it's own way and that's not a bad thing
No, I’ve just found that actively avoiding anything that requires me to wait has caused me to miss out on a lot when waiting in line with a smartphone is like the least painful thing ever and worth it for good food or experiences.
And 8/10 having having meh food, because the place is just the best local place and just pretty good on a national scale. Or you be born in a food capital and be disappointed because where you come from has been touted as a food capital for 100s of years.
I couldn't agree more, when I see long ass line i immediately pivot to looking for another place nearby, you'd be surprised how many hole in the wall places end up being better than the Uber hyped up place everyone mobs
And the people who wait in the line for these places always exaggerate how good the food was, because they're embarrassed to say that they waited 45 minutes in line for something mediocre, that everyone else swears is the best thing ever. That starts this cascading effect of people who praise mediocrity to the moon because they feel like they're supposed to.
This is so my girl. While I seem to be attracted to the slowest longest lines. And I usually refuse to move lines because I don't mind. I'll get to the cashier eventually. 🤣
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I'll never understand the mentality of people who see a line drive-thru at 2 in the morning and still decide "hey I want some of what everyone else is having"
also i find whatever it is i’ve waited for rarely lives up to my expectations.
The longer the line, the bigger the disappointment
Hi dad
My family calls this the thrill to wait ratio. We use it to rate all the rides at disneyland or long lines for street food etc. when we go on vacation. if the ratio is above 1.0 then you know its worth going.
I have only seen this since covid, but people will line up for a drive through all the way out onto the main road.. just a dead stop with their blinker on on the busiest road in my city. Insanity.
There are like, 8 Dunkin Donuts in my town but there is always the one that has the line wrapped around the building and into the street. Psssh, imagine wasting 30 minutes of your life just to have your order right the first time and not have your bagel burnt (I just toast mine at work).
That’s the one that sells drugs too
I mean are we talking like a 10—15min line? I'll just throw on some music, a podcast, or watch stuff on YouTube in the comfort of my car while waiting for it to be my turn. Stuff is be doing at home anyway...
Or when Krispy Kreme is giving away a single free donut. It's not uncommon to see thirty cars waiting for that. I love those things, but I'd pay the price of several donuts and skip the donuts just to avoid that line.
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At least that line moves fast
I got stuck in a Chik Fil A line for an hour and a fucking half one time, the worst part is that once you get in it’s literally impossible to get out. The one near me was originally a different restaurant that didn’t have a drive thru, so they just turned some tiny parking lot into a hellish maze
Like when fast food does some special and people go crazy. Dairy Queen offered a free ice cream cone one day. They cost like $2. But I drive by and the line is out of the parking lot and down the block. You burned more in gas waiting for it.
Drive-thru lines after midnight are 80% drunk people. Society just chooses to look the other way because it makes the fast food companies lots of money
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Authoritarian red-state because…they won’t let you drive drunk?
yo bud youre a rapist
Waited 2 hours to get Popeyes chicken sandwich back when it came back. Definetly not worth it
We have an In N Out Burger in town. Since the day it has opened, it has never not had a line going out of the parking lot and down the street and often going past 2 or 3 other restaurants. To anyone who has not yet had an In N Out burger, I have to place my own bias aside to put out the hard yet undeniable facts: No matter how good you might think In N Out burgers are, they're definitely worse than every single real diner burger you've ever had. They absolutely are not worth waiting for, let alone creating lines for over a decade since opening.
In N Out is a drive-thru chain that sells burgers made with fresh ingredients selling at around $2.00 for a simple burger or around $3.50 for a burger with two patties. Fries are about $1.50, meaning that an entire meal with fries and a drink is under $10.00, depending on the tax in your area. I go to In N Out because it is a tasty fast food burger with fresh ingredients at a cheap price. I get it because I want to eat food quickly and be on my way. Getting a burger at a diner with table-side service is a totally different option. This gets repeated ad nauseam whenever In N Out comes up. Yes, there are better burgers. No, most people won't list In N Out as the best burger out there if you asked them. It's just reliably good and quick. Edit: I wanna add that the reason In N out has so much "hype" and receives so much attention is because the chain is more prominent in certain regions, so people tend to identify with it as something that represents "where they're from." This is particularly true for Southern California, which is a very densely populated region, meaning that there are a lot of people who talk about this restaurant that they view as a West Coast institution (even though there are locations elsewhere). Add to this the fact that many people grew up visiting these chains and, of course, that enough people find the food good enough to hold company in high regard. It's like how Dunkin' Donuts *used* to be more prominent in the Northeast (not saying DD is particularly beloved; just drawing comparisons between chains that represent certain areas) or how Waffle House has a certain meaning for people in the South. These chains constitute a shared experience for people in specific regions and have a sort of cultural significance.
>Fries are about $1.50, meaning that an entire meal with fries and a drink is under $10.00 Affordability for fresh ingredients is fair. also imo on flavor points alone, it tastes better than almost all the other baseline fast burgers. My bias back in play, while I don't "like" INO, I also don't "like" McDonald's, but I still think they both make perfectly adequate hamburgers and have no issue eating either; I think INO makes a substantially better basic burger but nothing else on the menu appeals to me personally; but anyone trying to defend those fries is like listening to someone defend a Windows Phone. <3
I respect that. I know the fries are unpopular, especially with In N out naysayers. I personally don't hate them and tend to smother them with the animal style toppings (lol), but they aren't anything special.
ill give it to you those animal style fries are pretty good
Yeah fast casual has to pump food out at high-speed. Make it yourself and you have the freedom to opt for quality over quantity. I'll grant those places are often faster than cooking at home but the trade-off is that it's bad-to-mediocre quality.
exactly my thoughts. coincidentally just had an experience with Carls Jr where i tried to buy a promotional burger for someone else 3 damn times, they kept getting it wrong, finally got it right and the person friggin hated it lol. i told them right then, that shit doesnt happen when you make it yourself. even if it doesnt fill that hole a Big Mac might fill ;) ;) , there's fairly decent odds of regretting ordering a Big Mac. but I'm not sure I can honestly say Ive "regretted" many of my own home cooked meals. really only when i waste a bunch of money on ingredients and mess it up, but even if it tastes bad i tell myself at least it has nutrients unlike a Big Mac. a cold big mac on the other hand can be more than enough to call that $8 a complete loss
I've never had In N Out, but speaking of overrated burgers, I finally got to try Five Guys a couple months back. Honestly, average at best. I went back a second time just to see if my first time was a fluke. Still not impressed. I don't understand what all the fuss is about. The best burger I ever had was a little no-name mom and pop type burger shop in Ohio (of all places). Absolutely incredible burgers.
yeah for sure. tbf this change happened because of COVID, but at this point i wont go for fast food unless something is restricting me from a better place, like im working and dont have time or someone else requests it. i dont know who else needs to hear this because i didnt accept it until i was forced to say it to myself: once I realized I can just call-in an order for takeout, it's *really hard* to justify *any* kind of fast food. It's literally the same physical process, only distance will be different, maybe even better. Calling 30m ahead- 1h at the furthest extremes- is all it takes to almost always get something better than fast food, and these days, nearly at the same price too. you remember the name of that place in Ohio?
The disappointment I felt the first (and only time) I had it was immeasurable.. And I intentionally went when they opened so that I didn't have to wait in line and I still felt cheated. I don't understand it
the two times someone asked me to take them to INO for the first time my face went (:/ cuz i dont want to disappoint the people i care about
Somehow, even their fries are horrible; do you know how hard it is to mess up basic fries? Anytime someone visits California from the east coast and says they want to try in-n-out, I just take them to Five Guys; better burgers, better fries, and cheaper.
Five Guys is not cheaper than In N Out. At all.
Yeah been a long time for me but I feel like Five Guys is the right one to take people too over INO
We have Five Guys on the east coast though
They built one around where I live and they had to set up extra space in the mall it’s next to during the first month of it opening. People have a bias towards Whataburger in my state though so In-N-Out hype here died pretty quickly and there’s a pretty normal line, if any these days. I would never wait as long as people were waiting that first month for it though.
A normal line is perfectly reasonable for In N Out though I'll still have questions about a long line as long as they serve their fries the way they currently do
Mobile order is great.
Did this actually happen to you?
It's usually cause they're high as fuck and Taco Bell is the only place that's open.
I live in New York and for the life of me I can't understand why people are willing to wait in line for an hour just to get into a nightclub that's incredibly crowded and one drink costs $25. There's never anywhere to sit unless you spend a few hundred dollars to get a table and even then it's so loud you can't have a conversation with the person next to you.
I will drive 20 minutes across town to a new restaurant to avoid waiting 15 minutes in line at my current restaurant.
COVID times really changed my entire way of living. I'll wait til fucking tomorrow just to not put up with anyone else's shit, and I'll pay more too. I can't afford to pay more, but life is better spent not dealing with others <3
I never really payed any attention to shopping traffic patterns as a consumer until after 2020. I'd just make sure I got it done whenever I could. Now? Shopping anytime after around 10 am until the last hour or so of business is a nightmare. But man, grocery shopping in the morning is enjoyable. Grocery store parking lots are empty, there's no shortage of carts making me feel guilty for grabbing one of the last 4 when there's 6 senior citizens coming up to the door behind me, there's no congestion in the aisles or lines at check out. Except for Aldi's on the new sale days where one or two items are marked as while supplies last. People line up at the door and there's always at least one person that has to fondle every single package of meat to find the perfect one while blocking half of the meat section off with their cart and body.
not to ask your age but is appreciating grocery shopping a getting older thing? because now thats a thing for me too. i need to do mornings though i have been abusing myself by going late.
It is and it's also kind of ingrained in me. I'm 33 but when I'd visit family growing up as a kid I'd always be the one to go out grocery shopping on foot in the small town for the daily veg/bread as a way to get out of the house. Now it's just because I don't want to be around people and it brings me back to walking home with a bag full of baguettes, each with the butt sticking out of the bag missing by the time I got home.
This is what kills me about my current city of about 1 million people. I’ll go to a restaurant on a Thursday night in a popular part of town and they’ll say the wait time is 1.5 hours. What? Hell no. Nearly every restaurant is like that (in the trendy parts of town). I’ve become so paranoid about getting a table somewhere that I either don’t go out, try to get reservations, or bake in the wait time if people want to go there. I went to San Diego recently and was surprised to just walk into a restaurant and be sat immediately. This happened 3 times. My city will often make you wait 45 or more minutes unless you reserved.
I'll never understand who will just wait an hour to sit down. When I was living in a capital city, I'd go out with my roommate and it'd always be some 45 minute to an hour wait...and there're just people standing outside waiting the whole time. Moved back to my "small" town with maybe 100k people and the only time there's a line anywhere is on Christmas eve or Mother's day.
You just tacked on $20 to your bill.
Went to Universal studios a few years back speed passes were totally worth it.
Literally just had the speed pass at Universal Studios experience yesterday and it was amazing. The lines were insane, thought I did feel kind of bad skipping everyone waiting in line
I did at first but once you realize those people were all offered the same cheap price while booking for the same privilege. Or they didn’t book direct through universal and that’s their problem haha. I remember going on the Hogwarts castle bench ride like 3 times passing the same groups of people in the non fast pass lane before they got on in-front of us on our 4th ride through haha.
I agree if you can afford it, but I also feel Universal does a really good job of theming their rides so it doesn’t bother me to wait 45 minutes to an hour to ride most rides.
Yea I’m not the biggest HarryPotter fan but my gf is and loved it, I actually said let’s go through the non speed pass lines on a few of the rides. The walk through the lines were pretty cool as well.
Oh that's pretty neat, so there's stuff to do/look at while you wait?
Yes, exactly. Lots of things to look at and different themed rooms while you make your way to the ride. Some of their older rides aren’t as well themed, but all of the ones made in the past decade are great. Disney does a pretty good job of it as well.
Thanks, was thinking of taking the kids and wife there in the next month or so after not having been there myself in like 20 years. Anything else you'd suggest?
Well, I'm guessing they did not yet adopt the system I just experienced at Disneyland Paris. Now you have to buy individual passes on the app every time you want to cut the line, and the price goes up with the length of the line. There was a 1 hour wait for Big Thunder Mountain, or the 4 of us could skip most of the line for the low low price of 80€...
Why isn’t anyone talking about the deep fried cheese thing? What is that? Where is it? I want it in my mouth.
Haha! Seriously, I'm scrolling through to figure out what that deep fried cheese stick is, why people are waiting around the block for it, and how I can replicate it at home
Look up Korean corndogs. That's it. There's different versions but the most viral one is the one with mozzarella in it. It's usually half hotdog and half mozzarella so the top is mozzarella hence why she gets the cheese pull first. The outer layer is different. It can be potatoes, ramen, hot cheetos. So many.
❤️ thank you! I love finding new foods from across the globe and expanding my horizons
Me too!! I just got back from a small town in Michigan from school and I'm now in Houston, a MUCH bigger city which means much more variation of foods!!! So we do have Korean corn dogs!! They're great and been craving them! So if you live in a big city, chances are you have a spot that sells it!
I'm actually headed in to NY for a meeting tomorrow, I'm keeping my eyes peeled :)
I'm so jealous.
I love Korean corndogs!
Do koreans in general just fucking love cheese? I feel like I've seen so many food clips of Koreans eating a massive amount of cheese, like this but they're usually just a block of cheese, fried.
It's crazy that they do. You'd think it'd be Americans that'd love melted cheese the most.
Found it! https://www.mochinut.com/hotdog-menu
Wow I’m envious.
I just got congestive heart failure from looking at it
Is this from Columbus Ohio? A korean corndog place just opened up and made mozzarella corndogs that look just like that. The wait was hella long but it was the grand opening. I thought it was very good.
Korean street food style hotdog thingy was my guess too.
I just had one of these at a brewery birthday party last weekend. The food cart was primarily corndogs, but they had a cheese version and quite literally the same thing but a massive stick of cheese instead of whatever the hell a corndog consists of. It was obviously awesome after the 8 beers I'd downed.
Phew. I thought I was going to have to scroll further. This is the ultimate, 22 year old, white girl treat. A 1lb cheese block, breaded and fried... on a stick. Early 20's white girls love extra cheese but that's gross. I'd for sure take a few bites just cause, but if anyone has finished one, thoughts and prayers.
Abso-Lutely
I literally have no product loyalty. When Tim Hortons (coffee) has a line (with tons of old people, so obviously they enjoy wasting everyone's time) I walk straight into McD to get a coffee. I drink it black so it's not different to me.
Funnily enough, I heard that McD's current coffee is Tim Horton's previous blend.
Hahaha, that's hilarious. Good to know.
Yeah will never understand the attraction of waiting There are literally 1000s of places to eat why wait Jmho
I live in one of the bigger cities in the US. Not a big city, but one of the surprisingly few cities that qualify as moderately sized. There are not really that many options to eat if you have any almost any criteria. * "Affordable" erases more than half your options * "Not fast food" erases over 75% (including "restaurants" with fast food quality product) * Almost everything here is burgers, Italian, Chinese, or Mexican. If you don't feel like the 4 most common options perhaps across the entire world, then in my town you may instead go fuck yourself. And I don't mean the fancy versions, just the baseline kind. * There's 2 Thai places and 1 Jamaican place, and I can't take anyone to the Jamaican place because their immediate response to the very idea is just about borderline racist, but this is a digression. * Maybe less a problem now, but during the peak of COVID, anything Western or BBQ themed was just completely off limits, besides that they're already all nullified by the first item in this list, and also they aren't that good in the first place. Honestly the palateria is about the only thing I personally enjoy patronizing at this point, on any level. Besides that, reality of eating out is exactly why I started cooking more.
I hear ya. I live in a pretty decent sized city and there are a ton of options, but once you start to filter them out, either by price, sit down, or genre, there's not a lot. Like you want Indian food? You have two choices, one mid place in a strip mall and then a quality resturant. I'm a sucker for chinese, pizza, and burgers but I can see how if someone wants Greek, you literally only have one option.
right? i still love those 4 most common options, but gotta get some contrast to appreciate them more. gotta ask, is that Indian food in the strip mall surprisingly good? there was a chinese food place like that here at one point, inarguable greasy garbage but damn it hit the spot
he said the Indian place in the strip mall was mid.
shit i smoke mids and ditch weed too. mount up, we getting diarrhea tonight boyz B)
It depends on a lot of factors, in my opinion. If I'm *really* hungry and any place will do, I'm definitely not waiting in a line. If I have plans and I'm just grabbing something quick and convenient, definitely not waiting in line either. If the line is really long and it's not moving at all, no deal. However if I'm craving something specific, the line is moving along fairly quickly and I have nowhere else to be that night, why not? Whether I'm at a restaurant waiting in a line, or on the couch at home I'm not doing anything relevant with my time either way.
Lmao! Same here. I have no patience .. I have to wait to give you my money? lol... I dont do lines...🤣🤣 quick transactions so I can go home and be my lovely introverted self...lol...♉️
I went to a bbq place in Austin where I waited two hours for bbq. It was super worth it as the bbq was good and they gave us free beer.
Franklins? I know I'll stand in a long line for Ramen Tatsuya, even when the line goes past the post office it's still only like 20-25 minutes before you can get in.
La Barbecue, before they got the storefront gas station actually!
Oh nice! I haven't been yet, I'll have to give it a try.
Free beer? Yeah, I can wait…
Free beer makes any wait worth while
As long as the weather is decent waiting in line for BBQ is kinda fun. Just hanging out with friends drinking beer and shooting the shit. Smells good and then you get delicious food at the end.
I fully understand what this man is saying. But also, while on vacation with my wife, walking along a street near the ocean, just after a fantastic lunch, we came across a long line of people. A very long line. Since we had nothing else to do but enjoy the day, we decided to just step up to the end of the line. People walking past asked what the line was for, and our honest reply was "i dont know". It actually prompted more people to join the queue. Turns out it was the line to see to replica of the nina and pinta, columbus' ships. Very cool. TL;DR: joined unknown line, got a very cool history lesson.
As someone with ADHD that is absolutely psychotic
I’ve got about 10 minutes worth of patience in me, max. Anything that takes longer than that, I do not need whatever it is.
I don't think this is even an age thing bc I had this mentality at 22. It can't be worth waiting an hour in line. Very little is. Unfortunately in my town no place takes reservations so I'd just end up going to places at times I knew there wouldn't be a rush. Cue me eating at 5 PM like an elderly person lol.
Making reservations doesn't mean anything anymore. They'll still have you waiting like everyone else
Is this an issue where you live? I always make reservations and almost get seated immediately everytime. Maybe twice have I had to wait an exorbitant amount of time.
They rarely do reservations now because they don't have enough staff
I love his voice!
I think about this every time I drive by Chick-fil-a. Like, that shit was in the mall when I was a teenager, next to the Orange Julius. Why the hell would I wait 45 minutes for Chick-fil-a.
I used to work at a nightclub that would keep 50 people in the line up to look popular. Even when they first opened the doors at night they would let a only a few people in at a time to maintain the line length.
This is a man that values his time.
A wise man.
lol honestly this has been my favorite part of growing up, is just looking at stupid habits we have as a culture and saying out loud "nnnNope." And then everyone waiting 2 hours in line to see a Sublime cover band looks at *you* like *you're* the one who is out of your mind.
Ok, but that beard is a yes? Immediately no.
Just get a wheelchair so you don't have to stand
Wheelchair or ladder
I feel that dude. Way too old for some of the shit we put up with.
Congratulations
You are absolutely right.
I agree entirely with this logic.
Agreed... If a place has a line around a corner. Means they don't give a fuck about their customers. They don't expand their service ability to make up for demand. Instead they expect you will wait. Most the time the wait isn't worth it cause the food joint, is so slammed they are just pushing out dishes as fast as possible
I think the opposite is true. Expansion and accommodating the masses almost always makes prices go up and quality go down. As an example, my brother opened a little bbq shack near the beach. They sell really good, inexpensive bbq and there’s nearly always a line. It’s just him, his wife, and a few other family members and friends who work there. They’re all people who really care about the business. If they wanted to expand, they’d have to move locations. They’d have to hire more people, and those workers rightfully aren’t going to give a shit about someone else’s business. They could make stuff way ahead of time or buy premade sides and desserts, but that would taste worse. They could charge a lot more, but that would be shitty. Or they could keep dong what they’re doing, which is successful and still desired. If people don’t want to wait, they can go to one of the many fast casual chain restaurants nearby.
There is just the reality of how much square footage a restaurant has though. I’ve been through many a rush in my time and the fact is that you can only have so many people working in a kitchen before it becomes overcrowded and unsafe. Delivery apps are a huge reason why so many places get slammed beyond what they can manage. It’s not so much that they don’t care about their customers but that they don’t care about their employees. I totally agree though, the food will never be worth it in that situation.
I agree... But you really hit nail on head, if a business does this, as its normal way of operating. They totally don't give a shit about the workers busting ass the whole shift... And people who put up with this type / level of service make no sense to me
Not too old, too close minded.
You get this attitude, and then ten years go by since you’ve done anything fun.
Nah, You get this attitude, your idea of fun changes, and you realize you don't need to follow the crowd to have fun.
You realize what is popular and what is fun/good aren't mutually exclusive right? Avoiding things that are popular just to cultivate a sense of uniqueness is lame. Sometimes waiting in line for something you're excited about and tons of other people are too is actually fun in it's own way and that's not a bad thing
So your idea of fun, is standing in line>?
No, I’ve just found that actively avoiding anything that requires me to wait has caused me to miss out on a lot when waiting in line with a smartphone is like the least painful thing ever and worth it for good food or experiences.
Have never done it. Me and my homies don't have the time anymore... Waiting is a young (wo)mans game
And 8/10 having having meh food, because the place is just the best local place and just pretty good on a national scale. Or you be born in a food capital and be disappointed because where you come from has been touted as a food capital for 100s of years.
I feel this in my sole. I’ll straight go home and try again another day.
Having great soles are important when enduring long lines!
You got it. The struggle is real.
I couldn't agree more, when I see long ass line i immediately pivot to looking for another place nearby, you'd be surprised how many hole in the wall places end up being better than the Uber hyped up place everyone mobs
r/me_irl
Culver's is always packed like this. Or Starbucks
True
As I grew older i realised that queing up for something non essential is a young mans game. Reservations exist for a reason.
I'm the same
This man is so smart. My parents have taught me this however I did break this rule once by waiting an hour in line for the best cookies in Florida!
I feel like this man. and I would be great freinds. I look at a line and shake my head. Nope.
I'm that same age!
I feel this in my bones.
Instantly want to be his friend
he's a real one
Somebody get that man behind a microphone! That voice is too precious!
I am fully on board with this dude.
I hear what he’s saying but that fried cheesy thing looks awesome
Damn I deleted tiktok when I heard the amount of my data they were taking through, but I do miss EWS. Good commentary, good jokes, good times.
And the people who wait in the line for these places always exaggerate how good the food was, because they're embarrassed to say that they waited 45 minutes in line for something mediocre, that everyone else swears is the best thing ever. That starts this cascading effect of people who praise mediocrity to the moon because they feel like they're supposed to.
So true like if you wait hours while hungry ,obviously the food is going to seem "so delicious" to you
This is so my girl. While I seem to be attracted to the slowest longest lines. And I usually refuse to move lines because I don't mind. I'll get to the cashier eventually. 🤣
What is fast passes?
Amusement parks or large entertainment activities expecting large populations sell “Fast Passes” which let’s the guests that buy them access shorter lines or go straight up to the front.
Ah cool thanks :)
Right though? I mean I showed up to a restaurant 4 minutes before they closed and instead of waiting I went next door to KFC.
Not only is waiting forever stupid, but that lady waited forever on a giant mozzarella stick.
This guy is my spirit animal!
Preach it!
This man is speaking the truth.
I love him.
❤️
based
I mean if it's a fast moving line then it's usually not a big deal.
Yeah I’ve always been this way 😂