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Arby's | Triple Stack

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I just had an Arby's 'Triple Stack' and was pleasantly surprised at how good it was. While most fast food restaurants are shrinking everything and cutting quality this was a step up.

I won't eat at the big 3 big Burger joints, because of how bad their quality and portion size have gotten.



'Roast beef. Roast turkey. Thick-cut pepper bacon. Topped with lettuce and tomato on honey wheat bread.' Nice and simple sandwich, without a bunch of peppers, avocado and honey sauce, yuk.



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Arby's and Chic Fil A, despite the growing incompetency of their fellow fast food joints, have maintained decent quality food and service.

If I have to eat at a fast food joint, which I rarely do, it's either those two or Chipotles. Mickey Ds, BK, and Wendy's....just awful.
 
I absolutely abhor all fast food. Arby's I can't say much for, I just think it's all disgusting and I hope they get eradicated because what they're doing to humanity is an outright crime (meh FAT chance XD)
 
looks pretty damned good. and for 910 calories, it had better be. ;)
 
looks pretty damned good. and for 910 calories, it had better be. ;)


Yea, along with a medium order of seasoned curly fries, followed up with a piece of icebox cheesecake. :mrgreen:


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I just had an Arby's 'Triple Stack' and was pleasantly surprised at how good it was. While most fast food restaurants are shrinking everything and cutting quality this was a step up.

I won't eat at the big 3 big Burger joints, because of how bad their quality and portion size have gotten.

'Roast beef. Roast turkey. Thick-cut pepper bacon. Topped with lettuce and tomato on honey wheat bread.' Nice and simple sandwich, without a bunch of peppers, avocado and honey sauce, yuk.

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I can't do poultry mixed with beef. Sorry, just can't do it.

Poultry & pork, sure. Turkey & ham is great together. Beef & pork (especially bacon), you bet.

Then again, I'm not sure Arby's beef actually is beef. :mrgreen:
 
looks pretty damned good. and for 910 calories, it had better be. ;)

910 calories?? Damn helix why you gotta be a downer and bring nutrtitional facts into this? :2razz:


I do like their Rueben and don't you dare bring up the calories on that one!
 
I can't do poultry mixed with beef. Sorry, just can't do it.

Poultry & pork, sure. Turkey & ham is great together. Beef & pork (especially bacon), you bet.

Then again, I'm not sure Arby's beef actually is beef. :mrgreen:

I can eat any combo of meats. And club type sandwiches are my favorite, except for Pastrami.

:rofl I've often wondered what they do to make their beef taste so different?
 
I can eat any combo of meats. And club type sandwiches are my favorite, except for Pastrami.

:rofl I've often wondered what they do to make their beef taste so different?

Oh... a good pastrami is to die for.
 
There are no Arby's where I am. :(

Im stuck with choosing either Wendy's, McDonalds or BK for fastfood burgers. I rarely eat fastfood but I do get a craving every once in awhile.
 
Oh... a good pastrami is to die for.

There was this little N.Y. Kosher deli in a small strip mall, where I worked 25 yrs ago, that made a Pastrami piled high on rye, with swiss, mayo and mustard that was incomparable. Even the pickle that came with it, was unbelievable.

Even longer ago, I used to get a sandwich called a "Steak-n the Sack" that was thin sliced sauteed beef with onions, provolone, lettuce, tomato and mayo in a pita bread half. If you put some on your forehead, it'd make your tongue slap your brains out trying to get to it.

Back then the Gyro with sour cream and lamb was popular, that one I never liked.
 
There are no Arby's where I am. :(

Im stuck with choosing either Wendy's, McDonalds or BK for fastfood burgers. I rarely eat fastfood but I do get a craving every once in awhile.

I buy a pound of chuck, season it with some black pepper, salt and garlic and cook 1/3lb patties. Get some large hamburger rolls from the bakery, cheese, bacon and other fixings to make your own Whopper. :)
 
I buy a pound of chuck, season it with some black pepper, salt and garlic and cook 1/3lb patties. Get some large hamburger rolls from the bakery, cheese, bacon and other fixings to make your own Whopper. :)

I'm naturally endowed with a Whopper. :cool:

Oops, sorry, wrong forum. :mrgreen:
 
I'm naturally endowed with a Whopper. :cool:

Oops, sorry, wrong forum. :mrgreen:


Alas, now we know where MC Hammer came up with the title "Can't Touch This".
 
Arby's and Chic Fil A, despite the growing incompetency of their fellow fast food joints, have maintained decent quality food and service.

If I have to eat at a fast food joint, which I rarely do, it's either those two or Chipotles. Mickey Ds, BK, and Wendy's....just awful.

The Arby's near my work recently closed, was torn down, and a Chick Fil a opened in it's spot. The Chic Fil A seems to have a LOT more business than the Arby's did.
 
The Arby's near my work recently closed, was torn down, and a Chick Fil a opened in it's spot. The Chic Fil A seems to have a LOT more business than the Arby's did.
I don't get the fascination with Chick-fil-A. Seriously. But many people... especially women, it seems... act like it's practically orgasmic. I think it's ok, but just ok. IMO, Wendy's does a much better chicken sandwich.
 
I don't get the fascination with Chick-fil-A. Seriously. But many people... especially women, it seems... act like it's practically orgasmic. I think it's ok, but just ok. IMO, Wendy's does a much better chicken sandwich.

I don't think that it is the food nearly as much as it it the service. At least in my area, the Chick-fil-As have amazing service and the workers are almost too nice.

It's a lot about perception though. Like all workers are trained to say "it's my pleasure", instead of "thank you". It very quaint, and it sound sincere even when it isn't. Every single response and phrase that the workers say is trained and pre-programmed to come across positively. If you ask for a second condiment, the answer isn't "that's against our policy", it's "of course, we are happy to serve you!"

They also tend to hire more attractive workers who look clean and well groomed, and thus appear like they come from "better" families (than typical fast food workers). There is nothing that gives a more positive experience that having a smiling attractive young face waiting on you. Most of the time, fast food joints don't really match up to their advertising as far as the appearance of their employees, and the faces are often not smiling at all.

And of course they emphasize that they are a "Christian" business, so that adds to the positive feelings that a lot of customers have towards the business.

What most businesses don't "get" is that the perception of quality has a lot more to do with service than the products themselves. And front line managers are often encouraged to concentrate so much on enforcing rules and reducing waste, that they loose sight of the concept of pleasing their customers to increase sales. They don't seem to understand the concept that the customers are their partners in profitability, not their enemies. Businesses increase profits by increasing sales, not by cutting cost at the expense of customer satisfaction.
 
I don't think that it is the food nearly as much as it it the service. At least in my area, the Chick-fil-As have amazing service and the workers are almost too nice.

It's a lot about perception though. Like all workers are trained to say "it's my pleasure", instead of "thank you". It very quaint, and it sound sincere even when it isn't. Every single response and phrase that the workers say is trained and pre-programmed to come across positively. If you ask for a second condiment, the answer isn't "that's against our policy", it's "of course, we are happy to serve you!"

They also tend to hire more attractive workers who look clean and well groomed, and thus appear like they come from "better" families (than typical fast food workers). There is nothing that gives a more positive experience that having a smiling attractive young face waiting on you. Most of the time, fast food joints don't really match up to their advertising as far as the appearance of their employees, and the faces are often not smiling at all.

And of course they emphasize that they are a "Christian" business, so that adds to the positive feelings that a lot of customers have towards the business.

What most businesses don't "get" is that the perception of quality has a lot more to do with service than the products themselves. And front line managers are often encouraged to concentrate so much on enforcing rules and reducing waste, that they loose sight of the concept of pleasing their customers to increase sales. They don't seem to understand the concept that the customers are their partners in profitability, not their enemies. Businesses increase profits by increasing sales, not by cutting cost at the expense of customer satisfaction.
Completely agree regarding service and image.

In-n-Out Burger does a great job with a "clean" image, as well.

We were making fun of Outback Steakhouse recently because the server would always come to check in and ask if everything was "perfect". :lol: Nothing is "perfect", so we got a chuckle out of that lofty expectation. But, like you say, their trained to use that word.
 
Completely agree regarding service and image.

In-n-Out Burger does a great job with a "clean" image, as well.

We were making fun of Outback Steakhouse recently because the server would always come to check in and ask if everything was "perfect". :lol: Nothing is "perfect", so we got a chuckle out of that lofty expectation. But, like you say, their trained to use that word.

I use the word "perfect" a lot also. Sometimes we have customers who object to our rule that they must proof our artwork before we print. I dunno if they just don't want to waste the time, or if they are looking for a way to dump the blame of mistakes onto us instead of taking responsibility themselves to insure that they get the proper results. So when I start to recognize that they are objecting to proofing, I explain that we do that to make sure that they are 100% satisfied with the artwork because we want to make sure that their work is as "perfect" as it can be. Most of the time they will then agree to proofing it.

Sometimes they just glance at the general design and say "yea, that's good". If there is anything critical in the design, like phone numbers or names, I will then ask them if they double checked the phone numbers and the spellings of the names, more often than not they will take a second look, and really proof it. It's amazing how many times small but important details are incorrect, like phone numbers. What's even more amazing is that about half the time they gave us an incorrect name or number to begin with. And there has been times, especially with new businesses, that we just put Xes in to fill the spot where the (not yet known) phone number will be, and the customer glances at it and approves it, and then I have to ask if they have the phone number yet, and they say "no it's not been installed yet" and I have to ask them if they wish to wait until they get a phone number so that we don't print (xxx) xxx-xxxx on their items.

The number one reason that we loose sales is because we frustrate the customer by asking a lot of details, but if we don't have the details, we can't prepare their jobs or provide quotes. Just this morning I had a guy to call and tell me that he needed a sign, but he didn't know how big it was going to be, and he didn't know if it was going to be lighted, or how it was going to be attached, or even exactly where he needed to put it. He then asked me for the price. All I knew to tell him was that if he could tell us where he wanted it, I could take some measurements and look at the location to determine what type of materials we needed for it.

He then pressed me for a price range, if I had told him that it would be anywhere between $20.00 and $100,000, he would have been even more frustrated as I would have sounded like a smart arse, even though I was being honest and straight forward.
 
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I use the word "perfect" a lot also. Sometimes we have customers who object to our rule that they must proof our artwork before we print. I dunno if they just don't want to waste the time, or if they are looking for a way to dump the blame of mistakes onto us instead of taking responsibility themselves to insure that they get the proper results. So when I start to recognize that they are objecting to proofing, I explain that we do that to make sure that they are 100% satisfied with the artwork because we want to make sure that their work is as "perfect" as it can be. Most of the time they will then agree to proofing it.

Sometimes they just glance at the general design and say "yea, that's good". If there is anything critical in the design, like phone numbers or names, I will then ask them if they double checked the phone numbers and the spellings of the names, more often than not they will take a second look, and really proof it. It's amazing how many times small but important details are incorrect, like phone numbers. What's even more amazing is that about half the time they gave us an incorrect name or number to begin with. And there has been times, especially with new businesses, that we just put Xes in to fill the spot where the (not yet known) phone number will be, and the customer glances at it and approves it, and then I have to ask if they have the phone number yet, and they say "no it's not been installed yet" and I have to ask them if they wish to wait until they get a phone number so that we don't print (xxx) xxx-xxxx on their items.

The number one reason that we loose sales is because we frustrate the customer by asking a lot of details, but if we don't have the details, we can't prepare their jobs or provide quotes. Just this morning I had a guy to call and tell me that he needed a sign, but he didn't know how big it was going to be, and he didn't know if it was going to be lighted, or how it was going to be attached, or even exactly where he needed to put it. He then asked me for the price. All I knew to tell him was that if he could tell us where he wanted it, I could take some measurements and look at the location to determine what type of materials we needed for it.

He then pressed me for a price range, if I had told him that it would be anywhere between $20.00 and $100,000, he would have been even more frustrated as I would have sounded like a smart arse, even though I was being honest and straight forward.

I have been that stupid myself on occasion when I know I need something but not quite what. I usually get much better service when I explain myself. Its a combination of me getting distracted by shiny objects and mind thinking faster than the mouth can keep up. Its confusing combination for most folks who end up thinking I am bat **** crazy. That's only partially true.;)
 
Alas, now we know where MC Hammer came up with the title "Can't Touch This".

Damn, damn, damn, out of my head catchy yet annoying song. Out damn song, out!!!. You bastard. That song is stuck in my head now, and now I have a compulsion to the stupid dance that goes with it. You are evil!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Aggggggggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :crazy3::nukeum:

Ok I am much better now. Really.;)
 
Arby's and Chic Fil A, despite the growing incompetency of their fellow fast food joints, have maintained decent quality food and service.

If I have to eat at a fast food joint, which I rarely do, it's either those two or Chipotles. Mickey Ds, BK, and Wendy's....just awful.


for all of you that complain about money

i eat at wendy's at least once a week

plain baked potato, and a small chili

i think $2.35 includes tax

cheap good food....
 
Damn, damn, damn, out of my head catchy yet annoying song. Out damn song, out!!!. You bastard. That song is stuck in my head now, and now I have a compulsion to the stupid dance that goes with it. You are evil!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Aggggggggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :crazy3::nukeum:

Ok I am much better now. Really.;)

Can't touch this...de na nana.

:lol:
 
for all of you that complain about money

i eat at wendy's at least once a week

plain baked potato, and a small chili

i think $2.35 includes tax

cheap good food....

I used to have the exact same meal...until I discovered that I am diabetic and can't eat the baked potato. But regardless, it is a fairly decent meal for most folks at an affordable price.
 
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