Chik-Fil-A trips me out because they're closed on Sundays due to their owner being really religious...
Roy Roger's = Greatest Fast Food of All Time They didn't specialize in chicken or burgers or anything else yet... They had better fried chicken than KFC or Popeye's or Chick-Fil-A. They had better fries than McD's or any other fast food place. They had better roast beef sandwiches than Arby's or any other fast food place.
You say "had" as if they don't exist anymore. On trips from DC to NY (if you took those), the bus still stops at that big rest stop in the middle with the Roy Rogers there. I had their fried chicken sandwich. It's alright, but 'fake meat' in the sense that it's not definitely a chicken breast like ChickFilA or anything.
I used to eat at this one every week when i worked over there. you know what's good, the little chinese play in the corner where they cook the food in front of you.
The owner is also the reason why they say "how may I serve you" and "my pleasure". It threw me for a loop the first few times I went in, but I got used to it after a while.
To my knowledge, Roy Roger's shut down about 15 years ago. They were bought out by Hardee's or Arby's or something. Either it was just in my area (Potomac, MD at the time) or they started up again sometime later. I am almost positive they went out of business at one point.
If you ever still come around Potomac, MD again, then you'll be able to get to a Roy Rogers. There's one 15 minutes north in Gaithersburg and a couple in Germantown. There's also a couple around Baltimore Washington International airport.
Here's the story about Roy Roger's being bought out by Hardee's and later McD's in the 90s. http://www.geocities.com/roy_rogers_wb/news_20.html I haven't eaten there in over 15 years so I have no idea if the food they serve today is as good as what they served back then. Regardless, the OG Roy Roger's went through multiple changes in ownership and reduced the number of stores significantly. They changed the name of many locations at one point to Hardee's and lost business with people demanding Roy Roger's. I have no idea if they changed their recipes but just looking at the pictures on the Roy Roger's website, the food doesn't look the same. If I'm ever in the area again, I'll try to eat there and see if it's as good as it used to be. Here is the Wiki entry on Roy Roger's with an excerpt: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Rogers_Family_Restaurants In 1982, Marriott Corporation bought the Gino's restaurant chain for $48.6 million. The company converted 180 of the 313 restaurants to Roy Rogers[2] to expand in the Baltimore/Washington area. In 1990, Marriott sold the chain for $365 million to Hardee's, a Southern chain seeking to expand into the Mid-Atlantic market. Hardee's converted the remaining non-franchised locations into Hardee's restaurants; many of the new Hardee's continued to feature Roy Rogers' popular fried chicken. The conversion of the Roy Rogers chain ended in a customer revolt so serious that they actually aborted the whole idea and returned the Roy Rogers brand to stores initially converted.[3] The restaurants promoted new flame broiled hamburgers, but it was not the same as the original Roy Rogers products and they later failed. Hardee's finally sold the remaining Roy Rogers locations to McDonald's, Wendy's and Boston Market leaving just 13 Roy Rogers franchisees in existence, with approximately two dozen free-standing locations, in addition to locations owned by HMSHost that were located inside travel plazas along highways in the Northeast.
I don't see anything wrong with it, it just makes me want it more on Mondays. I eat there also, but I haven't been there in a while. I also like the hamburger grill place. They have all those mid 90s Rockets Memorabilia on their wall.
I used to hate white meat until I ate one of their sandwiches. CFA rox. Screw the haters. And to the guy that said McD's sandwich is better, you must be have tongue cancer
I can't BELIEVE everyone disagrees with me. The McD's Southern Style Sandwich is MUCH BETTER than the Chick-Fil-A sandwich. MUCH BETTER I used to think that Chickfila's sandwich was good...until mcdonalds came out with their own. Every time I want a chicken sandwich, I go to mcdonalds, never chickfila. The southern style has tender all white meat chicken, a buttered bun that is delicious, and a pickle that is just perfect. The MAIN difference I have seen is that the southern style chicken is twice as crispy as the chickfila chicken. Just talking about it makes me hungry for one. yum
I ate those when Amazon.com was including coupons for free southern style sandwiches in orders. I'd eat them for free, but they're no Chik-fil-a.
You're right on one count--it is more crispy at McD's. It's also more greasy in a bad way, tastes worse, and generally tastes a lot more like "fast food" than at Chick Fil A. The bread is also crappier. But that's secondary to the infinitely worse meat. Here's a good test--I tried to eat 2 of them from McD's, and about halfway through the 2nd, I felt gross and sick from all the grease and disgustingness. (I hadn't eaten anything all day, so I got 2..) That didn't happen the one time I tried it at chick fil a
