this is the worst thing i've ever seen when it comes to fast food in america there are some
real winners and some real stinkers nobody expects gourmet food when they walk into one
of these places but people do have standards so to help you choose more wisely here are 10 fast
food chains that are by far the worst in the country i'm sorry you're just not good enough
hearties carl's jr this is impossible how can this be hearties was always a straggler forever coming
up behind competing burger chains and customer satisfaction surveys their burgers have been
described as dry and flavorless spongy and without recognizable beef flavor which are not exactly
qualities anyone is looking for when seeking out a fast food burger what a disappointment you've
turned out to be depending on where you are in the country you might recognize this chain as carl's
jr seen as the two companies joined forces in the 90s but the food is the same mediocre quality no
matter which coast you reside on despite several attempts at rebranding which seem to always flare
out before liftoff please stop it now you're embarrassing yourself it can't be because of
the company's racy advertising but oddly enough it seems to be a popular destination for senior
citizens then again maybe it is the advertising or they are just looking for somewhere to hang out on
a tuesday afternoon papa john's do you know i know papa john the papa john papa john's is yet another
pizza chain in the running for serving the worst fast food in america mainly because they have
failed the cardinal test in pizza making actually making good pizza for some reason or another papa
john's is still around so clearly something is working they have over 5 000 stores all over
the country and have enjoyed decades of success as an alternative to pizza hut and dominoes which is
more a testament to how badly people need their pizza fix rather than the quality of their food
time is money money is power power is pizza pizza's knowledge let's go but for the rest
of us we're just hoping the madness ends sooner than later papa john's was never and will never
be that good and it regularly turns up on lists of the worst pizza chains in america losing points
among customers for lack of freshness and general lack of taste as well as poor customer service
and the drab in personal interiors of their restaurants sorry papa jones maybe you can boast
about quantity but sometimes it's quality that counts listen you gotta shape up panda express
chinese food is usually delicious and renowned for its variety of taste sensations but you would
never know it by eating at panda express at a time when u.s china relations have sunk to a new low
some suspect that panda express might have had something to do with it seeing
as the food this chain offers is the culinary equivalent of a diplomatic slap in the face
it's devastating you're devastated right now it's a one-stop shop for factory line overly sweet and
msg doused stateside chinese food featuring all the generic favorites general sews stir fries lo
mein and egg rolls i got panda express did you get sugar chicken that's kind of the only thing they
have but even these classics have been reduced to such a low standard of quality that it's probably
a disservice to call it chinese food famous as a food court staple panda express has diminished in
popularity over the years as customers seek out healthier fresher food to chow on and there have
been a litany of complaints of poor food quality and high prices but it's fair to say that this
panda has never had far to climb down from in the first place as usual our expectations are
disappointed sonic drive-in sonic is a cult favorite throughout the us for their retro
50s throwback look drive-in eating concept and wait staff who at many establishments cheerfully
deliver your food to you on roller skates so for the sheer audacity of an immersive junk
food experience sonic has always scored points i'm healthy enough to admit that but then when you go
ahead and take a bite into the food sonic leaves a lot to the imagination more like a nightmare of
previously frozen deep fried proportion sonic excels at serving up some of the unhealthiest
tasteless fast food available because if this is the best you can do it's pathetic with customers
complaining about their foods lack of freshness and the unappetizing way everything ends up as
a sore lump in the pit of their stomachs i'm never gonna eat or do anything ever again and
of course it's likely you will start to experience a diminishing sense of self-respect after eating a
week's worth of calories fat and carbohydrates in one sitting quiznos do honey mustard chicken and
quiznos not now quizzos admittedly quiznos had a promising start as an alternative to sandwich
chain subway only with healthier fresher options early on in their reign quiznos offered customers
a choice of fresh herbs and toppings along with fresher ingredients in an attempt to outshine
their competition but they gradually started scaling back this nonsense when they realized that
people weren't terribly adventurous when it came to their sandwich choices uh krabby patty and with
extra onions daring today aren't we now quiznos is more known as a mediocre rest stop plan b
serving basic and overpriced sandwiches which has sent the company down a financial black
hole they have yet to recover from in recent years they have been forced to close thousands
of their restaurants across the country which if you know your mass is a lot of restaurants maybe
the trick is to adapt or to be able to offer your customers something they can't easily make at home
but putting some cold cuts on bread with cheese and mayo and toasting it is as easy as it gets it
might be time for quiznos to start reevaluating their reason for existing at all i mean really
what's the point red robin how come you're not dead yet red robin this burger chain known for
offering customers a pit of bottomless fries as a bribe just to eat there ended up last place in the
full-service restaurant category on the american customer satisfaction index this colorado-based
chain's overall score has diminished precipitously over the years with complaints of noise and
dirtiness aplenty and notoriously long wait times and that's not to mention the general
mediocre quality of their food made all the more infuriating since they advertised their burgers
as gourmet this my friends is false advertising or is it gor meh by now americans know a good
burger it's a classic item that can often be put together superbly but red robin struggles at the
basic level and their financial struggle tells the tale operating at a massive loss in part due to
their prominence in fading american shopping malls red robin has tried to keep optimistic but the
numbers aren't on their side blurring the lines between full service and fast food is not what
customers necessarily are after these days since who wants to wait 20 minutes for a table and then
even longer for the food to come out when we are talking about a burger what is going on in there
why what is taking so long so red robin attempted to fix this by dispensing with their busboys and
utilizing flashy high-tech kitchen displays in a bid to save time but people weren't having it
the technology was iffy and supremely confusing to customers who've just wanted their burger
like now add to this some egregious marketing stumbles like a commercial in which a character
blasted vegetarianism liking it to a teenage girl phase and you have the kind of nose dive you can
only sit back and watch in horror or amazement jack-in-the-box jack-in-the-box lives up to its
name by offering food that at first glance scares you then makes you laugh at the randomness of it
all take into consideration that this chain sells burgers pitas teriyaki bowls and tacos all in one
big culturally appropriated mashup with enough trans fat and sodium content to last you days on
end after sitting for a single meal and that would be the healthy choice healthy for hope
actually if you eat here you're better off fasting the next three days case in point the
stacked grilled cheese munchie meal which comes with not one but two tacos a massive stacked
grilled cheeseburger concoction and curly fries almost hits the 2000 calorie mark but that's okay
since potatoes are vegetables right you're always trying to give me potatoes what is it with you
i just think they're neat the good stewards at the american heart association have probably
suffered major heart palpitations just by glancing at the menu as they've previously
called out jack in the box as one of the worst trans fat offenders amongst all fast food chains
and the munchie meal in question is something that basically no american should ever be feasting on
ever not even in your greasiest dreams please mouth queen no stop stop it stop everything
that you're doing stop it jack in the box is also notorious for a lethal food poisoning scandal that
sickened 700 people around the country which is not usually the kind of thing one can climb back
from but jack has proven to be as resilient as the scariest halloween monsters they just keep
coming back from the grave which isn't really something any company should be proud of sabaro
sabaro has been referred to as the least essential restaurant chain in america and that's probably
not far from the truth if your company has to file for bankruptcy once you know there might
be some problems afoot but if you have to declare bankruptcy twice in three years it might be a sign
from above that it's time to just stop just give up morty it's game over sabaro however just keeps
chugging despite a reputation for peddling some of the greasiest at least fresh pizza in the u.s and
stands as an insult to even the simplest new york slice which it claims to be styling itself after
ubiquitous and rest stops around the country dingy corners of airport terminals and many
hundreds of random food courts sabaro is very well known and her time was quite popular among people
who needed to fill up while on the run but these days with so many better pizza options available
sabaro comes across as a mess cardboard pizza crust assembly lime processed cheese toppings
and tomato sauce that tastes like imitation baby food sabaro just doesn't cut it anymore in a world
already saturated with decent pizza and pasta you had options yeah you had lots of options better
options it also doesn't help that this chain sells incredibly unhealthy fare a single slice
of sabaro's pepperoni pizza will dose you with double the amount of recommended daily sodium so
you should eat only half a slice and call it quits but who does that my favorite new york pizza joint
and i'm gonna go get me a new york slice long john silvers my god you're greasy industrially
farmed deep fried from frozen seafood was something that regular americans tolerated
as a dinner option in the past but these days with so many people's tastes shifting and so
much healthier grub available long john silver's comes up lagging this old kentucky pirate still
counts as a fairly ubiquitous restaurant chain with strong holds throughout the u.s
but one taste of their menu items and you might understand why so many people have abandoned ship
this chain has won some accolades but not in the way they might have wanted
say right now the center for science and public interest has recently declared that long john
silvers belongs in a watery grave singling out their big catch menu item a giant hunk of deep
fried haddock fried hush puppies and fried onion rings for containing a ton of calories and even
more sodium and further investigation into their culinary practices uncovered far more unhealthy
fat and calorie content attached to the meals than the company's listed nutritional information has
indicated which led the franchise to formally ban trans fat in 2014. this is surely a bright spot
but it hasn't exactly made the food any healthier longjohn silver still proudly serves cracklings
as a secret menu item their term for excess fried batter which you can eat as a completely
nutritionist meal in itself right there i want some of that stuff like the garbage on
the bottom i want some like put some of that into my treasure chest crystal beloved by late night
revelers college students and anybody else who is wandering the streets at 2 a.m crystal absolutely
fills a much needed niche among late-night junk food eateries and to be fair they do manage to
offer something comfortingly consistent tiny burger sliders which on first glance are so
small they trick your mind into thinking you can eat a dozen and still walk afterwards belly button
moving from any tony crystal is a grease addict's pit of despair and their burgers tend to lean more
on the side of reused frying oil and white bread than any meat product you might be familiar with
if there ever was a need for rehab from fast food crystal just might be the reason it's that bad
there is one tidbit of crystal burger lore which is worth noting and might be this chain's crowning
achievement no one was more of a fan than the king himself elvis presley who reportedly would
order hundreds of crystal sliders at a time to feast on after shows or in the studio we're not
blaming crystal but we all know how that ended up it went down badly stick around tap on that screen
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