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@Smurfette: nice!!! The only one in reasonable driving distance for us (45 mins) is inside a mall

Taco Bell. And Neato Burrito, a local Chipotle-like chain (way better than Chipotle).

@lawbee11: Their 1st location opened up when I was a freshman at LSU. I remember getting a 5 piece box for less than $5! There were only two options - sandwich or 5 piece box. It's so nice to see a local company get so much success!

My favorite is probably chick FIL a - good food and good service.

Chick-fil-a! Their food is great and I love when I say thank you they always respond with "my pleasure"

@mrs. wagon: I've never been but there's a drive-thru one in Westboro

@Greentea: Oh, Panera! That's a good one, too.

Chick-Fil-A, Raising Canes, and a southern chain called Braum's. Braum's has burgers and an ice cream area too for banana splits and hot fudge sundaes, so convenient!

@mrs. wagon: Agree about your no drive-through rule, that's why I didn't mention chipotle even though I love them!! But CFA has a drive-thru... too bad yours doesn't!!

@Mrs. Bee: WHAT. All these trips to CA, and you never tried a CFA?! Your kids would love it too!

@whenoceansrise: Yes, CFA has the BEST customer service. Every time we go, they always happily hand out balloons to our kids, and they pretty much serve us like they would at a restaurant too - bringing us extras of things, refilling our drinks, etc. So nice!

@Mrs. Bee: I don't know when they first started franchising here, but it's been around for at least the last 5 years!

Wendy's chicken sandwich, a&w, mucho burrito, pad Thai express, shanghai 360, manchu wok.

Chipotle or Popeyes. Nom.

@Mrs. Bee: there's one at the NYU Manhattan campus!

I miss In N Out. Stupid Midwest! Burger King has amazing frozen lemonades, though. But I like CFA chicken and their lemonade, too. McDonald's for smoothies.

I think jimmy johns is probably my most frequented fast food stop, though!

@youboots: this was my exact thought: in n out because duh. I'm shocked there weren't more replies like ours!

@Mrs. Bee: I grew up with CFA in SoCal but I only knew of one location.

I like CFA, El Pollo Loco, and Chipotle.

I could go on and on about CFA! If ours didn't have a drive thru it would be tragedy! My kids love to go inside as a special treat. Extra special treat and they get a cookie!

@Mrs. Jacks: I kind of think of CFA as local. Although they are franchised, they're independently owned and operated by a local typically.

The owner of the one in our town goes to my church...I've always been surprised how much time/money/service CFA gives to the community!

@matador84: I used to work for CFA and I know a bunch of friends who own CFA stores. CFA doesn't really do franchises. They are owned and operated by usually someone local. I was disappointed when the CEO or whoever that was that voiced his opinion on gay marriage. I can say that my friends who owns a CFA don't support the CEO's point of view. They all donate money back to the community and local churches based on their own religion. So some of them may very well support gay rights. So the views of the CEO was just his alone and not necessarily one of store owners.

Seattle just got 3 stores to open up here in WA state. Before the stores opened there were a lot of FB posts about people boycotting CFA. We were concerned if that would affect the stores grand opening. I spoke to my friends who a own CFA and apparently, there were numerous records broken at the stores here in WA.
I went there a few weeks ago and this is what the lines looked like. It was a month after the store opened and the 2 other stores in the area were already open. Just crazy. I was lucky to be in the drive thru lane and took about 20 minutes to place my order.

Great. Now I'm craving CFA.

Chipotle, Jimmy John's, and Bojangles'! I had Chipotle for lunch yesterday.