The loyal people on this site love burgers. We see lots of new burger joints opening up with lots of cool new menu items. One thing we don’t ever see on the menu are sloppy joes. Sloppy joes (or Manwichs as they’re sometimes called) are the ultimate sloppy food that you’ll need to wear an apron with when eating these delicious things. We’ll show you a great traditional way of making these things along with our own little extra ingredient at the end. This food should always be eaten with a pickle or some coleslaw. No exceptions. We don’t really know why but a pickle goes well with any damn sandwich so just eat the pickle and like it!

Ingredients for the sauce: 1 large onion, diced 5 cloves of garlic, mashed and minced 2 roasted red peppers, chopped fine (You can also use a green pepper if you wish but we’re sticking with a red theme here) ¼ cup of brown sugar Salt and ground black pepper 2 cups of marinara sauce (or some smoky bbq sauce if you want a more smokehouse flavored taste to the manwich) 1 tablespoon of Worchester sauce 1/2 teaspoon of apple cider vinegar 1/2 teaspoon of ground cumin 1/4 teaspoon of cinnamon

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We said that we would be bringing back our fast food trend series and we weren’t lying. Here are some more fast food trends that we hope you enjoy reading.

Playgrounds

-The McDonald’s Playland opened its doors in 1971. Fast food giants like McDonald’s , Chuck E. Cheese and other restaurants are always trying to create the next great playground to convince kids to come and play there and hopefully eat some food as well. It gives parents a chance to relax for a few seconds while their kids run around and have some fun. It seems that these playgrounds are also full of germs as one mother spent money to test 10 local fast food playgrounds and discovered fecal matter in 9 out of the 10 restaurants that were tested. McDonald’s is now moving away from PlayLands and are beginning to create new McDonald’s R Gyms that include interactive fun zones and stationary bikes attached to video games to try and get kids more active and to lose some weight after eating those 20 chicken mcnuggets. Personally, I used to like the old McDonald’s PlayLands that were outside and featured cool playground equipment that you didn’t see at any other playground in the area. Some of the equipment looked as dangerous as hell but it was part of the experience. Now, all the playgrounds are these coconut plastic tubes that look like they’re designed to get kids trapped inside them and never leave the restaurant again.
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Here we are once again for another edition of fast food failures. Since fast food is a competitive business, there’s always going to be marketing people trying to come up with the newest genius idea that’s going to increase quarterly profits by 0.2%. This list is more Mcdonalds heavy compared to the last list and that’s not a surprise seeing how old Mcdonalds is compared to some of their competitors.

McPizza

-Pizza chains such as Dominos and Pizza Hut were becoming very popular with American families looking for a quick meal for supper. Mcdonalds began research and development on pizza back in the 1970s but only began to roll their version of pizza out in the early 90s. Even though we call it the McPizza, the official name for the pizzas was simply ‘Pizza’. You could order a pizza pie (which resembled an apple pie), a personal sized pizza or a family pizza that was brought to your table by a server and put on a raised rack. Mcdonalds spent a lot of money on trying to make these pizzas a success. They had to install all new pizza ovens in any restaurant that was serving the pizzas and also needed to modify the size of their drive thru windows in order to accommodate the large size of the pizza boxes. The pizzas were simply too time consuming to make and cost too much money to produce and people who really wanted to eat pizza went to a pizza place and went to Mcdonalds for burgers and not pizza. The pizzas were discontinued but vegetarian pizzas are still sold in certain markets such as Dubai and India.
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Fast food is a billion dollar business. It can be easy to become complacent and not try to keep up with today’s fast pace lifestyle where new trends come out on a weekly basis. Some fast food places are trying new weird trends to try and entice people to eat out at their establishments. We decided to take a look at some fast food gimmicks both past and present and see what kind of quirky ideas fast food joints have delivered or intend to deliver very soon.

Wendy’s SuperBar

During the 1980s, Wendys created a super buffet that they called the ‘SuperBar’. The buffet had three sections: Salad (Duh!), Mexican (Tacos and Burritos) and Italian (Pizza,Garlic Bread). The SuperBar was an expensive upkeep for Wendys. The idea was decent but it never seemed to catch on with consumers as much as Wendy’s executives hoped it would. Also, The food was not replaced as often compared to a more conventional buffet restaurant which left the food to be less than fresh. After 10 years, Wendy’s ditched the SuperBar and replaced it with simple side salad meals that could be switched into a combo free of charge if the customer didn’t want to order a french fry, baked potato or chili on the side.

Burger King Dining-In Service

In the mid 90s, Burker King decided to classy up their establishment and created a dine-in service where customers didn’t have to walk up to the cash to place their order and had a burger king employee come to their table to serve them. Customers had the option of chowing down on some free popcorn while they waited for their food to be ready. Customers weren’t sure whether they should tip their servers after each meal and ultimately realized that it was cheaper for them to just walk 5 feet to the cash and pay for their meal then it was to sit down and wait for it like at a restaurant.
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Fast food joints have been around since the early 1960s. The increase in the number of fast food franchises has caused the market to become saturated. The same tried and true mainstays at most fast food places simply aren’t bringing in the revenue that they once did. This is causing quite a panic for fast food executives who are always creating new meal ideas and testing them out in test markets to see whether they will succeed or fail in the bigger markets of North America. One such example is the recent success of KFC’s Double Down sandwich which got as much media hype for its sodium content and number of calories as it did for its successful marketing campaign. Customers were impressed enough that it helped to increase KFC’s quarterly profits and became one of the top ten new menu items for fast food joints in 2010. Unfortunately, not every new food item becomes a massive success as you will see in some of the examples that we provide below.

Burger King Enormous Omelet Sandwich

-Breakfast is supposed to be the most important meal of the day but I don’t think that’s what Burger King executives had in mind when they created this sandwich. It’s not a good start when the breakfast sandwich has more calories over Burger King’s Whopper. The problem with this sandwich was that it simply wasn’t tasty at all. The sandwich had bacon, cheese, sausage and yet nothing came together and tasted as if you just took all of these foods and piled them together on a bun. The only thing that this sandwich had going for it was that it was bigger than any other breakfast sausage which wasn’t necessarily a good thing. The sandwich was discontinued in the USA but is still sold in select international markets.

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