Note that Buffalo is not really fast food (like Quick or McDonalds), more of a meat based restaurant chain (and they went famous for selling "mad cow" beef a while a ago...).
BTW Rennes has a fully automatic subway:
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A9tro_de_Rennes
Job statistics here:
http://www.insee.fr/fr/ffc/fichesect/service_pairA.htm
Most french meat restaurant chains use USA and cowboy images for their marketing.
From what I recall back when I could afford them (which was before I went to Oz, so more than a decade back), the first tier of sit down and get waited on with a turn-around as close to Mickey D's as possible is, like, Denny's, HoJo's, and IHOP. I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.
(I note my experience of US-origin fast food restaurants is from when I returned late from evening astronomy courses and nothing cheaper and non-smoker was open, and I gladly switched to Chinese and Turkish/Greek/Arab fast food restaurants once they arrived.) *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
Wendy's always had the chili, but I guess they added some other healthier food choices after I left for Oz, in response to the pressure from Subway, and now Mickey D's trying to follow suit.
But I can't really afford to eat at most fast food places, so once I started boycotting Taco Bell because they would not serve me in the ride in window, the closest I get to fast food is canned soup or canned chili and frozen veggies added to the rice in the rice cooker. I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.
From the description you give of the street vender hamburgers, the traditional Ozzie burger from a traditional fish and chip shop is closer to that than to Mickey D's ... or, as they say in Oz, Macca's. I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.
