I'm not sure why anyone would even compare Taco Bell and Rubios - other than that they are both Mexican-ish fast food chains. OF COURSE Rubios has better food than Taco Bell. No one goes to Taco Bell for *good* food. They go because it is greasy and terrible and cheap.

"Mexican-ish" food is the best description I've ever heard of Taco Bell :D

Taco Bell is cheap, and as Janet pointed out, great hangover food, making it a stable in most college students' diets. :D

The Church's fried chicken is good but ours is in the hood and we were always afraid to go get food there.

I wish we had an edit button. That sounds a bit racial and didn't mean it to be that way. We have areas of our city that aren't safe because of drugs and that is where the church's chicken is located.

You go to Church's when you need a new bottle of oil for deep frying.

I like McDonalds, BK, KFC and Pizza Hut (only the pan pizza). Sbarro is okay in a pinch (I've only had it at airports) and way better than Dominoes. Okay. This is making me hungry. It's lunch time now.

"I have never been to Potbelly but am not a fan of Firehouse or Jason's. I think Jersey Mike's is much better than either of them."

Yes, Janet, I have to agree about Jersey Mikes, they have the best subs. Do not care for Firehouse at all. Jason's is just OK in a pinch.

Jersey Mike's! I covet thee...

flpab, I've often wondered if sub-prime locations with cheaper land costs are part of Church's model. I have never seen one on a prime corner, but they are often located near military posts/bases, which I have reason to have noted many times over the years are rarely located in the best parts of town.

<i>I've often wondered if sub-prime locations with cheaper land costs are part of Church's model.</i>

I would think that it isn't the cheaper land, but a demographic play. Affluent Southern California beach communities don't seem like big consumers of fast food fried chicken.

I suppose, but KFC is always prominently located. Of course none of the places under discussion are upscale!

<I>I suppose, but KFC is always prominently located. Of course none of the places under discussion are upscale!</I>

Not in Boston they aren't. We have a tragic shortage of fried chicken.

We were in Paris about a week after the first McDonald's opened and you would have thought Hitlter came down the Champs again. Now there are several and the Parisian kids frequent them often because they considerably cheaper than other restaurants.

One time my wife got sick in Guatemala City, so we ate at a McDonald's because he were hopeful their sanitary standards would be high.

<i>Now there are several </i>

That is an understatement. There are well over 1,000 McDs in France.

It seems that kids all over the world like McD's. We were in a medium-sized town in Japan - and the McD's was full of local teenagers. There was a home-grown burger chain in that town also, but McD seemed to be THE place to be.

At last I looked Paris was not France and there are about 15, 16 in Paris. And they have only added about 4 in the last 12 years or so.

There is a restaurant called Rolf's which could be the worst restaurant in Manhattan. Here is my take on the last time I ate there which was at least 7 years ago.

There is a German restaurant in NYC called Rolf's. Although I do not always agree with Zagat's, but I do in this instance where it regularly gets a 14 or so rating for food. This is probably too generous. Probably the lowest score for a non-chain restaurant in the book.

It is well-known for its epileptic fit inducing Christmas lights. They are everywhere, because they had to cover the interior design which had not changed since Eva Braun visited. We had a friend who wanted to go there for Christmas, so we agreed since we only heard rumors of its slop.

I had the duck, which died the previous Christmas and was cooked at Easter and served on the anniversary of its demise. At the time I had all my teeth and I put them good use. It could have a cherry sauce or maybe it was orange. It any event I had seen the sauce before in that movie Alien where the creature pops out of someone's stomach and it is covered in either cherry or range slime.

Mrs. Adu had the pork, or at least that was intention. It was of things you got in Bulgaria before the fall of the Soviet Empire, no matter what you ordered. It could have been pork or maybe it was sock puppet dressed in a white sauce of unknown origin.

Now there are two Indian restaurants in the neighborhood which have millions of little red lights all year round. Unlike Rolf's the ones at the Indian restaurants hang low, which is fortunate since hanging oneself in lights and little tinsel would have an attractive alternative at Rolf's.

Having just returned from a circle trip from California via Mesquite, Southern Utah, Arizona and the California Desert we came to view McDs as a shining beacon of clean restrooms, free wi-fi and a choice of Egg McMuffin or Jalapeno topped burgers. Jalapeno cures a lot of food ills.

The Popeye's chicken in Barstow on the way back from the Grand Canyon was also a blessing.

I do not get the Chick Fil A love either. Went to the one nearby and was unimpressed. Habit Burger is okay, very similar to In N Out but with a wider menu. And love the tempura green bean side.

Although they can be uneven, I like the two Baja Fresh locations near Long Beach.

IAmDonehere, I googled and found one list of over 60 MacDonalds with wifi in Paris. That site was dated 6 years ago.

<i>IAmDonehere, I googled and found one list of over 60 MacDonalds with wifi in Paris. That site was dated 6 years ago.</i>

My assumption is that IMDonehere simply used the location finder on the website and typed in "Paris", which limits the results. This is why McDonalds.fr asks you to enter a postal code in larger cities. Doing so and entering, for example, the postal code 75001 would yield 10 results. Using 75008 will give you a different 10. With 21 postal codes (IIRC), and knowing that there is some overlap in the results, I would think 60 would be a conservative number.

France is an incredibly good market for McDonald's and, as much as it pains some Francophiles to acknowledge, it is hard to imagine France became such a great market without some penetration in Paris.