Back as a teenager, I worked at several fast food joints. Out of them all, BK was the least bullshitty behind the scenes. Everything cooked right, strict keep times, and reliable cleaning schedules. Some of that is franchise dependent, but corporate BK at the time pushed hard on that stuff.

Never worked McDonald’s, I had beef (pun intended) with the manager of the only one close enough to have worked at.

Wendy’s, I didn’t stay long because I had my certification as a nurse’s assistant and bailed immediately for the first job offer doing that.

Hardee’s was decent in the back. Not as intensely pushed for cleaning schedules for damn sure, and the hold times for food were longer, but the food quality compared to most places was high in terms of making sure things were the way they are supposed to be. The fried chicken was timed right, the biscuits very precisely timed for the right doneness, that kind of thing.

With Hardee’s more than any of the others, when you came in determined how good the food would be. You want good biscuits, you damn well better be there within an hour of opening. Chicken was reliable until an hour before closing, after that you were rolling dice. But the more typical fast food was usually fine all day.

All of which is tangential, but I figured you might get a kick out of it, Don.