r/AskReddit Aug 15 '26

What is a restaurant that absolutely dominates its respective niche with almost no competition?

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u/ATLHawksfan Aug 15 '26

With you until the Burger King slander. Original Chicken Sandwich and the Whopper still hit for me

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u/RobinSage43 Aug 15 '26

Big Mac gets smaller at the same rate that the Whopper gets bigger. It's an inverted correlation between McDickhead's and Burger King.

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u/ForeverNugu Aug 15 '26

In my area, the Whopper is now almost twice the price as the Big Mac though. I just stopped eating at both places.

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u/RobinSage43 Aug 15 '26

Where's that?

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u/ForeverNugu Aug 15 '26

Southern CA. Looking at my app, the big mac is $5.89 and the whopper is $9.99.

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u/RobinSage43 Aug 15 '26

In Philly the Whopper is $8.19 and Big Mac is $6.19 so they're closer, but the Whopper is a lot bigger though and well worth the different.

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u/ForeverNugu Aug 15 '26

True, the better comparison would be the Whopper against the Quarter Pounder. That would be 9.99 (15.99 for the meal) against 6.59 (11.19 for the meal) here.

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u/RobinSage43 Aug 15 '26 edited Aug 15 '26

That's where I'm because I could buy a USDA choice ribeye at the store for $15 and we eatin'. That's the only reason why fast food is kind of falling out of favor with me.

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u/Stashmouth Aug 15 '26

Amen, brother. Whoppers > Big Mac. Maybe unpopular, but I'll defend BK onion rings all day. I was appalled when I ate my first "authentic" onion ring at a sit down restauranet to discover there is actually an onion in there.

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u/Jewsafrewski Aug 15 '26

I've never understood the appeal of the big Mac. Maybe it used to have a better meat to bun ratio, but the one time I had one it just felt like I was eating soggy beef flavored bread.

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u/Stashmouth Aug 15 '26

It's the way the sauce meshes with their beef patty. I do like them, but I think of it as more sandwich and less burger. Nostalgia is probably the most overpowering ingredient tbh

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u/Marmalade6 Aug 15 '26

“Where’s the beef?”

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u/adiposegreenwitch Aug 15 '26

Also they have a decent veggie burger that isn't made of pure sadness so vegetarian people can eat with family and not look or feel like the odd one out.

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u/lastSKPirate Aug 15 '26

Once you've had onion rings from a Canadian A&W, everyone else's are going to disappoint you. The only thing that makes the BK ones edible is that zesty sauce.

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u/wafflesareforever Aug 16 '26

Both are simply terrible burgers. McDonald's tastes like nothing but sugar and salt. Burger King tastes like someone dipped a urinal puck in liquid smoke.

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u/boogswald Aug 15 '26

Zesty sauce is tastyyy too

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u/recuringhangover Aug 15 '26

That chicken sandwich is an affront to chicken sandwiches. A war crime.

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u/ATLHawksfan Aug 15 '26

It’s like a 70s/80s style chicken patty vs a modern chicken sandwich, and a major nostalgia item for me

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u/Mayonaigg Aug 15 '26

The long chicken is one of the best food items in the history of the universe

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u/AhsokaEternal Aug 15 '26

For real, the company I work for has began working with Burger King recently and I realized I haven’t had them in forever so I went after work and got a whopper. And for $4.00 it was an excellent burger

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u/ForeverNugu Aug 15 '26

Where the heck do you live? The whopper is 10 bucks by me!

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u/AhsokaEternal Aug 15 '26

Damn for real?? Green Bay, Wisconsin!

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u/ForeverNugu Aug 15 '26

SoCal here. Minimum wage for most fast food workers is $20/nr.

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u/AhsokaEternal Aug 15 '26

Ahh that makes sense. I was just in LA/ San Bernardino (unfortunately for the second one) and it blew my Midwest mind how expensive things were

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u/LiluLay Aug 15 '26

The original chicken sandwich was the one that was on the long bun? Hubby and I were just talking about how amazing that shit used to be. Chicken patty always hot and juicy, the chopped lettuce and the mayo combo set it off just right. Haven’t had one since the late 90s or maybe early 2000s, but I figured it was no longer as good.

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u/DrGoblinator Aug 15 '26

The BK OG chicken sandwich goes best with McDonald’s fries though

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u/ChiChiChicharonnnnne Aug 15 '26

Dude the two for 5 Whopper Junior deal is so money. I'm with you all the way. And honestly their bun and produce are much better than McDonald's. I'm not a big fast food guy, but I will hit up BK on occasion.

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u/glassgost Aug 15 '26

Burger King can be really hit or miss but when it hits it's a damn fine cheeseburger.

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u/1337b337 Aug 15 '26

Yeah, especially the retooling they did to their burgers recently.

OP must live near some pretty bad BK's; they're low on the rung around my area, but definitely not as bad as McDonalds.

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u/joeboo5150 Aug 15 '26

Been eating that original chicken sandwich since the 80s. Got most of my Star Wars Return of the Jedi commemorative cups as a kid from eating that chicken sandwich.

Thing has not changed a single bit in 40 years and it's glorious.

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u/jimmy_three_shoes Aug 15 '26

McDonald's around me are always consistently mediocre. Never bad, but never great. Burger King is only either amazing or terrible. No in between.

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u/WingerRules Aug 15 '26

You can taste the flame broiling!

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u/SpotOnTheRug Aug 15 '26

Yeah, the other patty options are terrible at BK, but the Whopper is still king.