McDonald’s recently announced they were giving up on their AI drive-thrus because of the order chaos they created. But I’m confident Taco Bell is going to succeed where McDonald’s and their billions could not. Great choice, Taco Bell CEO. Next step, AI CEO.
It doesn’t help that the same law that allows you to build a small back house (which would be a good short term rental but is no longer allowed to be one) also turns your main house into a rent controlled building.
I’m creating housing, and the city is punishing me. I can’t use the new building I put in my backyard as a short term rental due to the law, and now my main house is also converted into a rent controlled building if I want to rent it out when I retire and move out of California. I get wanting to stop the loss of housing that happens when landlords turn existing rentals into short term rentals, but I’m creating something new specifically for the purpose. I don’t have a big yard and don’t have the space to build a nice apartment for someone to rent long term, but I would like to be able to make some money with something I built (literally with my own hands) and that wouldn’t exist if I didn’t sacrifice my own backyard for it. But I can’t without allowing someone to have long-term access to my property and with very strong legal protections from being evicted. And to top it off, now my main house will be controlled by the city because I added this building.
And they don’t advertise that little rule anywhere.
I ain’t gonna let it get that far. My wife worked in a nursing home with a lot of dementia patients. I’d rather be dead. I’m gonna shuffle off this mortal coil before it gets too late.
Does in America exist small fast food restaurants? In my country those are affordable and most of times better than McDonald’s I prefer to spend money there.
I think you kind of need to define a bit what fast food means and what you consider small.
Following the McDonald’s model with a drive through, self-seating dining area, no table service, etc. those are mostly going to be chains, although some chains are pretty small, only operating in certain areas with a handful of locations.
And there are exceptions of course, some independent restaurants do have a drive through (often I see this setup when they move into a location that was formerly a corporate fast food place) and there’s chains or locations that don’t have a drive through, or do have table service, etc. but those tend to be exceptions rather than the rule.
If you expand it a bit to include other small, no-frills restaurants with a heavy emphasis on fast service and take-out, there’s a lot of places that could fit the bill. Pretty much every town has some little hole in the wall burger joint, deli, sandwich shop, taqueria, Chinese takeout, pizzeria, bodega, snack bar, etc. that you could potentially argue fits the fast food category.
Most of those places probably don’t exactly advertise themselves as fast food and would probably want to avoid that label (although to be fair, the same can probably be said for most fast food restaurants, I’ve never heard a McDonald’s commercial call themselves “fast food”)
There’s also going to be some overlap with other categories, fast-casual, convenience stores, etc. where the lines get blurred about what can be considered “fast food.”
In general though, in America, the term “fast food” is usually going to refer to the larger chains, and the smaller independent restaurants with otherwise similar service will be called something else.
Moments later, though, there is a loud commotion, followed by Strassburg’s voice saying, “What are you going to do? Shoot me?” followed by a racial slur.
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