Eric's Tummy Points
Sunday, 17 January 2010
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Quick - Quality Burger Restaurant
Quick - Quality Burger
Restaurant
Rue Masséna & Avenue du
Suede
06000 Nice, France
http://www.quick.be
Price: $
Ambiance: Casual
Food: 1/5
Service: 2/5
Tummy Points: 1.5/5
Notes: It's American fast food
done poorly.Although McDonald's is slowly taking over the world with a restaurant in nearly every city. It hasn't stopped other fast food restaurant chains from sprouting out all over the place. Quick is a Belgian fast food restaurant chain serving burgers and fries that started in 1971 and opened their first restaurant in France in 1980.
The interior is decorated like any fast food restaurant - lots of plastic covered seats and colorful. The ordering area is tight. It gets very crowded during lunch times on weekends - sort of like ordering at the Sbarro in Times Square New York during the same time.
I had Quick's version of a BigMac just to find out how it compares to what everyone is familiar with. The bun is dry and old. The burger meat is thin and looks like something from McDonald's but more dry and spongy tasting.
Fries tasted like McDonald's but cold and hard. They're unsalted to you have to salt them yourself.
Over fried waffle fries were the best part of the entire meal. Crunchy and the few things that came out warm.
It's a junior burger and you can definitely tell it's small. This bun was also dry and old. The meat was thinner and less tasty. You could barely taste anything under all the bun. It only had some ketchup inside.
Visiting Quick was my way of getting some comfort food. I was also curious how another chain did their burgers and fries. Well I tried it and I was totally mislead by the "Quality Burger Restaurant" sign. Our meal came out to about 13 EUROs which is probably 1.5 times what a similar meal would have cost in the US. The quality was bad and I wouldn't come back again.
Now, the ultimate question, was it really quick? It's as fast as McDonald's which is sometimes fast and sometimes slow. Just depends if you've ordered something pre-made. Since their menu is so small, you're likely to get something pre-made a few hours ago.
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Comments (7)
"Now, the ultimate question, was it really quick? "
Haha. Well, was it really quality food???
that's right.
damn.. don't we all love a good burger.
Belgian burgers? Do they really need to do that? Hmmm...
I wonder if the Europeans prefer the dry and old buns. Kind of odd isn't it? You don't think that with the sheer volume of customers at a fast food joint that they would have dry and old buns still laying around...
Wow, this is fail.
I have to say one thing: If there's one thing that Americans are better at than the rest of the world, it's making this kind of food. That burger looks very very unappetizing.
@falconfraudless - it was total false signage! I got taken like that too in NYC when one place said they had the best chicken sandwich in all of NYC.. it wasn't great. I haven't had too much chicken sandwiches in NYC but I'm sure they could do better. Hmm... I wonder if I have pics of it and just didn't get time to blog it....
@jerkitoff - totally! it's steaks and burgers. Those are the first thing I had once I got back from an India trip.
@christao408 - i haven't been to belgium but I'm sure this isn't their idea of good food. Maybe they figure that most Europeans don't even know what a burger tastes like and this is the European's idea of a joke to sway people away from American food.
@yang1815 - good point about the volume. Maybe they ship the bread from belgium over slow trains or something.
@arenadi - totally! I've been having the Five Guys urge for a whole month. But being mindful of my health has been keeping me away
@rice_eric - Well just kind of like French baguettes if you know what I mean. Perhaps Europeans prefer the harder and drier bread.