People Explain Which Fast Food Restaurants They Refuse To Eat At

Health Code Violation?

"Sonic. Got served rotten dairy, then got called a lying f**king b*tch by the manager. I wasn't even asking for money back since I was already out of town. Just called to warn them that it was rotten."

– Apprehensive-Air8917

"Welp might as well add the time I got a chili dog from Sonic and noticed a strange color on the side while looking at, only to pick it up and reveal that the entire underside of the bun was covered in blue mold. How the f**k does a person not notice that before it gets out the window?"

– GDMFusername

"Me eating my chicken tenders from Sonic while reading this"

"oh."

– burnt_seawing_the2nd

Employee Horrors

"Sonic- I worked there, the hotdogs/chilly have a chance of being 2+ days old, same with the gravy. You also better hope someone taught an employee how to clean the ice cream/ slushy machines. If not, you might have a similar story to mine. When I was new, they were training us at an old sonic, so we would go work at a new one. The manager was also 'new' to that area and was heading to the new one."

"So one day, he decided it was time to clean the ice cream machine and asked one of the employees from there to teach us. They didn't know how, so he went around asking, and no one who worked there knew how to clean it. So he gathered us around to teach us, he shut down the machine and opened it up. A cascade of ice cream mix and maggots came pouring down. The machine was apparently crushing the maggots as it mixed the ice cream. He cleaned the slushy machine the next day, but I wasn't there to see it, I just heard it wasn't pretty."

– petty_witch

"I have a similar story about the Dairy Queen I worked at."

"There was a little drainage channel built into the machine, so melted soft serve could go to the floor grate. This was predictably never cleaned, and soon enough - maggots."

"Owner was informed, and he just said "use bug spray" (which would, of course, have gotten into the ice cream...). Manager rushed over from their other restaurant and desperately tried to clean it with a pipe cleaner, then threatened to fire anyone who spoke a word about it."

"Fun times."

– joefred111

"when you pay like sh*t and cut corners at every opportunity then yeah youre gonna have employees who barely keep it together, if at all."

"I used to run a DQ. Busiest one in the entire region. I was routinely by myself, 7am to well into the night. Towards the end I was getting 130 hours a week in a salaried position. I was *sleeping at the restaurant* it was so bad. The moment I left "oh we'll give you whatever you want!!!" like no dude it's two years too late"

– verdenvidia

"I'm never getting fast food ice cream ever again what the F**K"

– 4ps22

Ew. Just...Ew.

"Jack in the Box restaurant I used to go to almost weekly while working overnights was closed down due to spider infestation of the breading for fried chicken..."

– Tzokal

"In the early 1990s an e-coli outbreak was traced to Jack in the Box. It killed four children, and something like 700 or 800 people got sick. Never eaten there since then."

– Schmliza

What It Turned Into

"Panera is over priced cardboard portrayed as food, blech."

– criket2016

"I would like to apologize for the greed of a once great company called St. Louis Bread Co., nationally known now as Panera Bread. When they started in St. Louis, it truly was different and very good. Mass production does this to most great food. As a St. Louisan who used to love St. Louis Bread Co and even worked there for a short time, I apologize for what they have become."

– Roach55

"I had the weirdest, dumbest experience at a Panera in Portland, Oregon, about ten years ago. I went there under the impression it was going to be good. It was bland and overpriced, but didn't stand out as anything other than kind of mediocre. But the customer service was AWFUL. Legitimately, just the worst. The gal that took my order was needless rude, even though we were polite and tipped generously, and then when I tried to use their restroom and found it was locked, the manager stormed out of her office and yelled at me, saying that I had to be escorted in and out of the bathroom and couldn't just do my business in peace. She marched me to the restroom, stood guard outside and then walked me back to me table after like we were in a prison yard. It was so bizarre and humiliating. I never went back and left them some rock bottom reviews."

"They were near a MAX station, so that's probably why they were so edgy about the bathroom use, but if I actually were a homeless person I think I just would have peed on their floor rather than putting up with kthat kind of treatment."

– Bonbonnibles

Rue The Day

"Every year or two I give Burger King another chance and I always regret it. Can't imagine ever going back."

"Can't remember the last time I've been to a KFC... maybe 5-6 years?"

– ButtholeQuiver

"Burger King used to at least have really good fries but something changed in the last decade or so. I've been there maybe twice in the last five years and regretted each time lol."

– WritingTheDream

Decades Without

"Kentucky Fried Chicken. Food poisoning at 2 different locations during college. I've made it 3 decades not going back."

– bmtri

"Agree. Those mashed potatoes gotta come from a box. Bleh."

– Who-took-my-abs

"I worked there for a month in 1998. Haven't eaten it since."

– g_pelly

"i’ve heard so many stories in my life of people getting food poisoning after eating kfc, that i’ve just never tried it"

– daylightcoke

"I loved KFC as a kid. I took my kids once about 2 yrs ago. It was inedible."

– mykittenfarts

Inflation Is Real

"Subway."

"It's all just awful and I have a proper sandwich shop the same distance in the other direction."

– Jonny2284

"I went last week after about a 6-7 year absense. The $5 foot longs were $12 and $13!?!"

– High_Jumper81

A Complete Mess

"I'm done with mcdonalds. Sh*ts not cheap anymore and the food is always trash. That's if you even get the right order"

– Deceiver999

"The one near me has forgotten items EVERY time I order on the app. I honestly think they’re trying to scam people and they just hope you don’t walk inside and ask them to fix it"

– taco3donkey

An Interesting Cure

"First time I ever went to White Castle/Crystal it ended with me sh*tting my brains out for an hour. Never again"

– blackmobius

"I mean, they call 'em sliders for a reason. :V"

– Funkette

"My grandfather literally gets White Castle when he’s constipated for this reason."

– helloxcthulhu

Remember The Good Old Days?

" Pizza Hut pizza is atrocious now."

– Carmaca77

"Pizza Hut was done the minute they switched to those god awful frozen dough disks and not fresh made like it used to be."

– thedeadbeatclubsc

"It started going downhill 25 years ago. As a kid in the 70's it was great, and not because I was a kid at a pizza place, but because you would sit down at a red-checkered table cloth, a server would greet you nicely. And the place was clean. Now it feels like you're going into a money laundering front with angry servers and everything is sticky and smells like dirty socks."

– BaconReceptacle

Food Isn't The Only Thing That Matters

"Popeyes."

"The food is great. The service is just absolute garbage. There are always missing items from my order. Coke machine always broken. I refuse to go there anymore. I've been to several locations in San Antonio and they all the same."

– starshame2

"A Popeye's opened up in the town I used to live in and I went there for lunch one day. Pretty much got yelled at for coming and they basically threw my food at me. It was fire, though."

– coombuyah26

"Pretty sure it’s a company policy to have sh*tty service. I don’t think I’ve ever seen something as consistent country wide as bad service at Popeyes."

– BustyUncle

I'm starting to think maybe fast food shouldn't be a staple.