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Do people really expect anything beyond that from a franchise/chain restaurant? If you have a total of 5-10 items on the full menu, your food is likely fresh m
by shadowtree 8y ago
Do people really expect anything beyond that from a franchise/chain restaurant?
If you have a total of 5-10 items on the full menu, your food is likely fresh made.
If its a giant menu with all kinds of styles, laminated, well, it's not a kitchen back there but a conveyor belt.
- jakecopp 8y agoI would have thought it would be the opposite?! If there are less items I thought that it would make it easier to standardize and ship them in, while a larger menu might require more actual cooking.
- Retric 8y agoMore items means larger learning curve for actual cooking. If you make 5 things then you can quickly and cheaply teach someone to do that well, make 500 things and that's not going to happen. With a large menu each step must be simple and easy to follow based on step by step instructions.
- shadowtree 8y agoRestaurants that focus on quality frequently change the menu, very often following the seasonality of their ingredients (asparagus season, etc). Same can be seen in high-quality fashion. A new collection every season, comprised of a few well crafted items. And don't get me wrong, I have no qualms with fast food. I find it just interesting how few have bothered to look behind the curtain given all the cooking shows, books, etc. Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential came out ages ago.
- scott_s 8y agoThe New York area is full of diners with enormous menus that are not chains. Quality varies highly (and often not correlated with price), but I believe it's mostly made in-house.
- cm2012 8y agoIt definitely varies, but diners bulk buy most of their stuff from national distributors for sure. Nuggets, fries, burgers, meatloaf, gyro meat, etc.
- morogop 8y agoThe items are made mostly by Sysco.
- xapata 8y agoMade in-house in the sense of thawed and microwaved in-house. I learned quickly to stick with the handful of items that are eaten frequently. Everything else tastes like it came off the assembly line a few months ago.
- magic_beans 8y agoJust because it's made in-house doesn't mean it's good.
- draw_down 8y agoMany/most of those places are just a facade for Sysco, which is the actual "chain", if you will.