45 years of fast food chains in Ireland

Yeah, I think you're right about the LOI. He definitely owned or financed Limerick City back in the '80s. I think he was from down there. His PGFFC joints weren't exactly up to the same quality as the old KFC if I remember correctly. We'd only ever get it after the pub, or on a Tuesday when they'd have two snackboxes for the price of one. Chicken was a bit skanky though, but the chicken gravy was as addictive as Oxy. 🤪

Yeah, they were made part of the PressUp Group several years back. I've eaten there a few times and they were excellent. Now, I haven't been there in well over a decade. A visit from yours truly is way over due! :D

1 poster is on about wanting chippers to batter the fish “on demand”

most chippers here just throw frozen fish into the fryer and hope for the best

I remember them in the mid eighties. They'd be at the beach in the Summer aswell. I dread to think if they were around today how many health laws they would violate. Great chips though.

When fast food burgers were cheaper than a bag of carrots we saw the big social change. It was slow but solid. Poor people became overweight and wealthy people started slimming up. A direct reverse of what happened in the 70's. The rapid affordability of personal vehicles for all with the "drive thru" culture augmented that quick decline of health and nutrition that partly sees our hospitals full of overweigh relatively young people with chronic problems due to bad nutritional education.

I had a stint in hospital recently due to a sports injury and was shocked at my bedfellows that weren't being released because of obesity. Most had problems supporting their weight on crutches, but two that had a similar injury to me because of their weight were unable to clean themselves after defecating because of their sheer size and inability to reach.

** I partake in fast food every now and then like you all, but these people live on it along with the ready made stuff in supermarkets.

I have fast food maybe 3-4 times a year but I do like McDonalds Double cheese burgers. As mentioned earlier chip vans after a night at a festival or when younger after the "Merries" was the business. Crispy and dowsed in salt. Job. Vinegar on chips is an outrage.

I think Burgerland Limerick was where the Lifestyle sports on William Street is now, I seem to remember the arch shaped windows on the first floor. There was one in Waterford as well, can't remember exactly where but in and around where Dealz is now.

Overrated I think you mean. Underrrated means better than people think.

A boggo burger and pint there can be over 30 quid. Lives off American tourists.

More people live alone , going to mcDs or any fast food outlet is a nice break from cooking if you go to burger King mcDs on a bank holiday, st Patrick's day its full of customers.

Forgot about supermacs , unfortunately none nearby, fûckin 2am and you shower have me craving a Super Eddie MacRockets…

Had he relations cork as there are graces involved in fast food to this day.

Burgerland O'Connell St was a regular post-pub haunt, before dashing for the last 77 home with all the other drunks and pissheads. It opened later that McDs, so drunks weren't too fussy about the fine detail.

There's still a Grace's chicken outlet in Cork, afaik.

I don't know.

I know this is sooooo vague but in the late 80s there was a burger place on the side of O'Connell Street opposite the GPO. I think the family might have had a few locations in the city as I deffo remember being in a place of the same name but in a different location. It was a sit down restaurant is all I can recall about it. I recall the burgers as being absolutely delicious. Does anyone know a few names they might be able to throw out as I'm sure I'd remember it if I heard it.

It wasn't that. I think it may have been a family name.

Oh one thing I remember about it is you actually could go downstairs to eat. I remember the stairs down being really narrow.

Are one-off Maccas outlets a thing now?

Maybe they should be located in towns and villages...