Those of us from outside the States and Canada are gonna struggle with this quiz. Of the 50 answers i have never even heard of at least 35 of them. They must have no presence in Britain. A few i got or recognised from watching TV/films but the rest are new to me.
Who says it was a complaint? Pointing out that at least half the answers have no presence in Britain does mean it is harder for those of us from over here to get them. Some we will know from various TV shows or holidays, but quite a few we won’t.
The quiz is US fast food restaurants, so that is to be expected. It’s one of a few quizzes where I would love to see a split in answers from those takers who are North American based and those from the ROW.
Culver's is freaking amazing and the food is literally always fresh (at least the one by me). They have frozen custard and it's unparalleled in my opinion!
Top 50!! Not a top 5. Not a top 10. Not even a top thirty 30. But a top 50. Talk about an unhealthy obsession with junk food. I only got 10. The ones that are here in Australia which I never eat at any way. White Castle I only got because of Harold and Kumar. Unfortunately, Los Pollos Hermanos was not here.
I believe that "Krispy Creme" doughnuts were originally located in the Southern United States (though I've recently discovered one on 23rd Street in Manhattan). I prefer "Krispy Creme" over "Dunkin Donuts", as they are fresher and less doughy than Dunkin's. Again, I have to thank a movie for my discovery; "Krispy Creme" doughnuts were featured in "Primary Colors", a movie starring John Travolta as a Clintonesque presidential candidate. And, BTW: What happened to IHOP [the International House of Pancakes], and Carvel's (Ice Cream)?
I'm from Canada and I got 25. I'm not sure how to feel about scoring above average in a quiz about fast food in a country that I don't even live in. But we do have a lot of these places in Canada too, and I live pretty close to the border so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Lol found the same problem too as a Brit (12/50 too). Had to look down the comments for answers. I'd rather know fewer fast food outlets than be rather large haha
I don't see Steak 'n Shake as a fast food restaurant. Waiters serve you there, and it is certainly NOT fast! While it is cheap, price alone does not identify a restaurant as fast food.
There are Wendy's in Canada and they do sell burgers here. I can't speak for other countries, but is there a chance the Wendy's in Australia are a different company with the same name?
um... are you sure that's the same Wendy's? I've had Wendy's hamburgers in the Philippines, Georgia (the country), and... I think Japan? Aside from the location in the Philippines serving miniature portions of everything with much lower quality than you'd find in the USA... they were approximately the same restaurant. No donuts.
late reply but wendy's does very much sell burgers outside the us, i'm from the uk and they very much do... i don't think it's the same as what you're thinking of
In no way or form is Steak and Shake a fast food restaurant. It's a diner since your entire order is handled by waitstaff and you are seated by a hostess in most cases. I know they are classified as fast food by the source, but that doesn't make it right. If they are fast food then Denny's and IHOP should be as well.
Minor update required: Dunkin' Donuts officially rebranded themselves as simply Dunkin' this past January 2019. The idea is to focus on coffee and other beverages.
^ Quite understandable, for while I love their coffee (especially the French Vanilla), their donuts do not taste fresh at all. For donuts I go to Krispy Creme.
I'm still surprised that Quiznos doesn't make the cut. I think Noodles & Company is new with the last update; not sure I'd think of them as fast food. One of my girlfriends in Bahrain used to work for them. Never heard of Marco's Pizza, either. Or McAlister's Deli.
It depends on where you live. McAlister's is mostly in the south. Of course, #1 is plainly #1: there's a McDonald's on both the Bahraini and Saudi sides of the causeway island border post.
Bahraini side is superior because they don't close for prayer times and the interior isn't segregated by gender. Two of the dumbest and most omnipresent things about life in Saudi Arabia. Though the Saudi side has a drive-through and a couple of additional menu items.
8 of these restaurants are within about 400 feet of my apartment. McDonald's, Jersey Mike's, Moe's, and Subway are so close I can see them from my balcony. Somewhat unusual considering I don't live in a downtown city center type area. Yet, I still somehow managed to lose about 5 pounds over the last year, LOL.
Well, I'm proud to say that I've not only heard of every one of these but I've also seen at least one of each with my own eyes. Not because I eat at these places but because I travel. Not having heard of fast food chains doesn't make you healthy, just uninformed. Get out of your own backyard once in a while and you'll learn a few things.
While I agree, having heard of these doesnt make you unhealthy, aswell as not having heard of them doesnt make you healthy.
But to get out of your backyard to learn about fast food chains? Nah. Away from your screens and into your backyard, yes. There is a ton of information just in your backyard. I think most people can only name a hand full of flowers and insects that are there (if they havent all tiled it over, like what seems to be all the rage the last few years..) let alone know stuff about it. The life of an ant, you can spend hours just watching the ant and learning from it.
Like 0,00000001% know where/what ladybug/bird come from. ( I've asked many people, shown their immature state) No one seem to know, the whole other life they lived before. While weirdly, butterflies and caterpillars are common knowledge.
The point is that it gets super annoying that the non-Americans constantly feel the need to point these things out while they're on an American website, along with constant whining...
Like, of COURSE it's gonna be harder for you if you're not American. What is the point of commenting that? It always seems like the non-Americans on here want a cookie for...not being American??
7 here, but that is only in the handfull biggest cities (and likely to be in the big trainstations). Medium sized ones might have a mcdonalds and dominos.
Though I have noticed an increase over the last few years, I remember seeing starbucks for the first time I think it was amsterdam station (during the build of north south line, when stores were outside the station). I just looked it up interestingly first store was 8 years ago (conceptstore), but since 2002 the distribution centre for all of Europe has been in amsterdam. Took a while to join in I guess.
but the point I was going to was, since a month or 2 you can buy dunkin donuts donuts in our supermarket.
I've never had a Chick-Fil-A, but have heard of it from listening to Ben Folds Five. Is it good? It doesn't look it, but if I had to choose, I'd have a deluxe spicy sandwich with pepper jack and Sriracha sauce.
The selection here in Australia is rather small. We have a few homegrown offerings, but nothing like this. The local fast food scene is dominated by a few American chains: McDonalds, Burger King (rebranded locally as Hungry Jacks), KFC, Dominos and Subway. Apart from that a few others are present but not widespread - Starbucks closed most its Australian stores years ago, because Australians as a nation of coffee snobs looked down their noses at it and they didn't do well. Pizza Hut used to be big, but has shrunk to just a few isolated stores now. A few others have just arrived recently - Taco Bell opened last year for the first time and Carls Jr about the same time, though neither have many locations.
Here in Ohio, there is an extreme amount of Tim Horton's here (not like one in every town, but still quite present), and also anyone that hasn't heard of White Castle is weird. One of my favorite fast-food restaurants.
The McAlister's near me closed recently. Such good Mac n' Cheese... Jason's Deli and Marco's Pizza were also ones I got, both I have near me. Marco's Pizza is right down the block.
Of these, the only ones I've not eaten at are Panera, Jimmy John's, Culver's, Qdoba, and Del Taco. A majority of the ones I have eaten at, I've only eaten there once.
I love trying this quiz even when I do very poorly! Some of the highest restaurants on the list have little to no presence in Canada.
Meanwhile the Tim Hortons invasion continues, with major cities in America, Britain and China falling to inferior coffee, lukewarm tea and creative interpretations of what a sandwich is.
I'm so happy that In-N-Out made the 33'rd most sales of all fast food restaraunts in the world considering theres only 286 of them in only 5 states in the US. One day, the best fast food restaraunt of all time will be #1 and will be everywhere!
The style is a lot like McDonald's from the 60s, the ingredients are fairly flavorful and it's a basic griddled burger executed well. They're not the best fast food burger (even Wendy's has better actual meat, Five Guy's is the best) but I admit I get a hankering from time to time for their particular combination of ingredients. They have an appealing esthetic, limited menu and I think that influences people, too.
As a Kiwi I'm astonished KFC is so low down, here it would be 2nd at least, just behind McDonalds. Pizza Hut, Dominos and Subway are the only others on this list we have many of.
The passion for the Chick-Fil-A sandwich mystifies me. The chicken's okay. The bun is crap. Popeyes got it right using a brioche bun. And Shake Shack (which isn't on this list but is about as good as American fast food gets) got it even righter with a potato roll.
McDonads, Starbucks (uncommon), Wendy's (very uncommon), Burger King , Dunkin' Donuts , Subway , Dominos, Pizza Hut , KFC and Baskin-Robbins (rare). Some of them serve purely vegetarian food. Paneer variants of many burgers are present.
As someone who lives in the U.K I found the quiz very hard, I haven't heard of the majority of those fast food places we only have about 10 of those at most
Mcdonalds, Burger King (Hungary Jacks), KFC, Wendys, Starbucks, Dominos, PIzza Hut, KFC, Subway and Krispy Kreme. 9 things... that's all I got - and I'm proud of that score!
Ouch I got 8/50, although in the UK we don't have the other 42 fast food places, or Taco Bell. I can't believe in the USA you guys don't like/don't have Nando's, Gregg's, Costa Coffee, Frankie and Bennie's, Café Nero, Coffee No. 1, Any Fish and Chip shop that floats your boat really or Spartacus.
I'm not sure fish and chips is that sustainable in the U.S. Long John Silver's is the only fast food fish and chip chain that I know of and it's kind of expensive and pretty rare (rarer than it used to be). Skipper's has all but disappeared entirely. I think H. Salt is out of business. Seafood seems to need an actual restaurant to make money out of it, outside of novelty (or Lent-only) menu items on a burger place's menu.
Popeye's is a bit of an exception and has pollock and I think (sometimes? seasonally?) catfish, popcorn shrimp and that's a lot for a fast food menu (it's pretty good).
The last month I've mostly been in Spain and am pretty surprised at the very large number of American fast food chains you see around here. Including Taco Bell, which I don't recall ever seeing before outside of the USA or Middle East, but I think I've seen more Taco Bells in Madrid than I've ever seen in any US city.
Also McDonalds, Burger King, Starbucks, Subway, Dominos, Pizza Hut, Papa Johns, Jollibee (Filipino; still, was surprised to see them), Dunkin Donuts, Five Guys... several other places...
Here in Brazil (or at least in my city; I live in Fortaleza) we only have the following: McDonald's, Burger King, Subway, Pizza Hut, Domino's and KFC. The last one of which only opened its first store somewhat recently back in 2019, surprisingly.
I still got 25/50, mainly thanks to my prior trips to the USA.
14/50 - basically the ones that expanded to Europe plus a few that I remembered from a visit to the US and from movies. (Thanks to Harold and Kumar!) :-)
Would be interesting to have another quiz based on worldwide statistics. Although most of the top ten would be similar, I guess.
Same with Dutch Bros! It’s currently the the least guessed answer, which is honestly quite surprising imo. Guess we have too many east coasters taking this quiz. :)
My speculation is that Crumbl is basically built around a scheme to make money on franchisers paying franchise fees (and then taking all the risk and going bankrupt when demand flags).
It's an appealing franchise startup because they're literally taking the cookie baking oven from Subway and making a business out of it. So the "build out" doesn't involve anything but installing a very spare countertop, a few tablets and a couple of pieces of kitchen furniture. No actual kitchen required, staff doesn't need any special skills, etc. So they can flood the market at this time with a lot of growth on the back of franchisers.
Crumbl cookies is like any trend, like the cupcake stores were ten years ago and Peace/Love/Donuts were five years ago. People get excited about these big sloppy cookies and they pop up in like an office park or disused strip mall. When the trend fades, they'll go under, but that's on the franchisers; Crumbl's made its money.
ChickFilA and Whataburger are pretty good as well.
I like Jimmy John's, but the last time I went, a group of five literal clowns ordered sandwiches with too much sauce. The whole experience was very uncanny.
Cane's is absolutely delicious when it's hot and fresh! Doesn't keep well once it cools down, though. The staff is always fantastic, too, which is a rarity for fast food. I remember going to it outside of LSU's campus when there was just one location. Multi-national now in a relatively short period of time.
12/50. If I weren't watching too much YouTube lately, I'd been only aware of McDonald's, Burger King, Starbucks, KFC and Pizza Hut (I also thought that one was the German thing).
The quiz is US fast food restaurants, so that is to be expected. It’s one of a few quizzes where I would love to see a split in answers from those takers who are North American based and those from the ROW.
cheese curds for the win
Plus, in all countries BUT the USA, Wendy's does NOT sell burgers. It's a doughnut place here in Australia.
I'm not sure I feel sorry about it...
They are terrible but they are in every busy tourist/shopping location in America.
But to get out of your backyard to learn about fast food chains? Nah. Away from your screens and into your backyard, yes. There is a ton of information just in your backyard. I think most people can only name a hand full of flowers and insects that are there (if they havent all tiled it over, like what seems to be all the rage the last few years..) let alone know stuff about it. The life of an ant, you can spend hours just watching the ant and learning from it.
Like 0,00000001% know where/what ladybug/bird come from. ( I've asked many people, shown their immature state) No one seem to know, the whole other life they lived before. While weirdly, butterflies and caterpillars are common knowledge.
Like, of COURSE it's gonna be harder for you if you're not American. What is the point of commenting that? It always seems like the non-Americans on here want a cookie for...not being American??
Though I have noticed an increase over the last few years, I remember seeing starbucks for the first time I think it was amsterdam station (during the build of north south line, when stores were outside the station). I just looked it up interestingly first store was 8 years ago (conceptstore), but since 2002 the distribution centre for all of Europe has been in amsterdam. Took a while to join in I guess.
but the point I was going to was, since a month or 2 you can buy dunkin donuts donuts in our supermarket.
Scoring
You scored 22/50 = 44%
This beats or equals 73.5% of test takers
The average score is 17
Your high score is 22
only 36 percent of ppl got it right :p
Meanwhile the Tim Hortons invasion continues, with major cities in America, Britain and China falling to inferior coffee, lukewarm tea and creative interpretations of what a sandwich is.
McDonads, Starbucks (uncommon), Wendy's (very uncommon), Burger King , Dunkin' Donuts , Subway , Dominos, Pizza Hut , KFC and Baskin-Robbins (rare). Some of them serve purely vegetarian food. Paneer variants of many burgers are present.
Popeye's is a bit of an exception and has pollock and I think (sometimes? seasonally?) catfish, popcorn shrimp and that's a lot for a fast food menu (it's pretty good).
I still got 25/50, mainly thanks to my prior trips to the USA.
Would be interesting to have another quiz based on worldwide statistics. Although most of the top ten would be similar, I guess.
they have pretty good burgers tho ngl
My speculation is that Crumbl is basically built around a scheme to make money on franchisers paying franchise fees (and then taking all the risk and going bankrupt when demand flags).
It's an appealing franchise startup because they're literally taking the cookie baking oven from Subway and making a business out of it. So the "build out" doesn't involve anything but installing a very spare countertop, a few tablets and a couple of pieces of kitchen furniture. No actual kitchen required, staff doesn't need any special skills, etc. So they can flood the market at this time with a lot of growth on the back of franchisers.
Crumbl cookies is like any trend, like the cupcake stores were ten years ago and Peace/Love/Donuts were five years ago. People get excited about these big sloppy cookies and they pop up in like an office park or disused strip mall. When the trend fades, they'll go under, but that's on the franchisers; Crumbl's made its money.
I like Jimmy John's, but the last time I went, a group of five literal clowns ordered sandwiches with too much sauce. The whole experience was very uncanny.
It's okay. It's "better" Burger King like In-N-Out is "better" McDonald's.
I got the top 9 + 2 more and thats about all I know. From the results there are about 5 I have heared of.
fast food chains are not common in Germany apart from the very big ones
(Yes, I know that the desription says
"Try to name the 50 most popular fast food restaurants in the United States"
but you wouldn't even need any description at all if the title was extended to include those three little words.)