I remember many years ago, it was against health department code to have artificial nails
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The last time I went to the TB on Whittier, they were out of 'meat' and chicken :p
From GPP, it was always definitely worth the drive to 8 Mile/Harper if you found yourself craving some Toxic Hell
I just talked to a friend of mine who manages a Mc Donalds.
Apparently there is a clause in the franchise agreement that says that every 10 years the store must be remodeled, or torn down and rebuilt.
As far as food quality, the Mc Donalds at 7 and Van Dyke does a pretty good job, and I think is run better than some of the stores in the suburbs.
What is going up on Gratiot and French rd? Tim Hortons?
I detest germ/ grit harboring artificial nails around food. Impossible to keep clean, even with very good hand washing. I was with a friend at a nail salon while she was getting them and I was making small talk with the nail tech about having some added to my nails [[something I've never done) and he was like 'No, you keep your natural nails - it's better!'.
What? Even the nail place knows those fake nail things are not good. Problems with the nail bed always happen over time and yes there was a time when you could not have them in food service or in hospitals... They are nasty.
Anyone remember the Jack in the Box on Mack Ave. in Grosse Pointe Woods? It became a bank building and is now vacant.
Not much point in sending a nastygram -- although I'm sure its fun.
These joints are almost universally 'franchise' operations -- so these are really small businesses. In the Detroit, franchises have often been granted to favored owners based on pressure. Franchises live or die on the strength of their owners. I also frequented the Mack/Chrysler McD for years. Their management team was top notch.
Nothing quite like a Breakfast Jack at 2:30 a.m.
I don't eat fast food at all [[other than pizza if that counts), but at least in recent years I know of plenty of fast food places in the city that people I know prefer to eat at. I don't think it is necessarily a city/suburbs thing.
In fact that Taco Bell was a favorite with my neighbors. The only thing any of us can say for certain is that it disappeared in a hurry, not whether it was due to quality or renovation or anything. Other than that McDonalds, which is supposed to be putrid, all the fast food places on Harper between Whittier and Cadieux are supposed to be pretty good.
The same can be said for suburban Detroit because I used the drive-thru of a McDonald's near the soon-to-dissapear Lincoln Park Shopping Center that was rebuilt into that design while returning from the Henry Ford Museum on Tuesday. Here's what it looked like before and here it is now:
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Well, speaking of that, the Dunkin Donuts here in Wyandotte on Eureka has gotten both an exterior and interior facelift sometime last year even though the building wasn't torn down because it's in a strip mall. Here's what it looked like before. The newspaper boxes were also moved.
It looks like that the Harper and Whittier Taco Bell is of a design that was used back in the 1970's when the chain really took off. There is a former Taco Bell on Eureka and James Street in Southgate that is also of this design [[it's now a Middle Eastern restaurant).