Burger King

Filthy ass shit hole place. If you enjoy being accosted in the parking lot by hood rats pan handling for cash and dirty places this is your spot! Filthy is all I can say! Fruit flys swarming the drink station. Trash overflowing at 0630 a.m. That means it never got taken out the day before! Ate there a few times in the mornings and stopped going here after I got a huge bright red weave hair in my hash rounds.

I think its interesting the rise and fall of a chain like Burger King mirrors that of middle class America. From humble postwar origins to its zenith in the 90s with the politically correct BK Kids Club and dollar tacos, and finally a precipitous decline, no other fast food establishment embodies America the way Burger King does. I recently went and visited the chain’s Delmar and Kingshighway location for the first time in over a year because McDonalds is far away and I didn’t feel like Five Guys.
The first thing you’ll notice about Burger King is how much business Burger King doesn’t get. It’s been said that the restaurant trade is about as close as it gets to free market competition due to the embarrassment of choices one has when they are hungry. Given that it was empty and I was running errands, I opted for the drive-​thru, which brings up another problem with Burger King: it’s fucking slow.
McDonalds has industrial food production down to a T. Orders of common things like the #1 (Big Mac, drink, and fries) can be prepared and ready for deployment to your vehicle before you even pull up to the first window to pay. After ordering a whopper meal here they literally ask you to pull over and put your car in park and someone will bring it out to you. That’s unforgivable for a fast food institution, and not the first time a Burger King in the St. Louis area has done me like that. At least the fries seem to be an upgrade from what they used to be.