Why aren't there any fast food Italian places?

[Rakehellion]

Or French? I want some rotisserie duck confit on the go. Or deep fried salmon roe. They should make alfredo sauce in those little ketchup packets.

 

[Hacp]

Pizza Hut?

 

[Printer Bandit]

it takes too long to cook anything decent?

 

[DougK62]

Fazoli's

 

[Markbnj]

It's a good question. What Italian foods, other than pizzas and strombolis and the like, would work well in fast food settings? I would think pastas and sauces, for sure. Lasagnas. Manicotti. Really anything you can prepare fresh a few times a day and serve multiple portions of. In fact that might even be a more attractive model than sandwiches if people went for it. It might also be that most American-ized Italian foods are too heavy for people to eat for lunch.

I've often wondered the same thing about Chinese, Japanese, and Thai cuisines.

 

[momeNt]

You can't have duck confit on rotisserie.

 

[evident]

theres too many italian restaurants in my area already.. why not just call ahead and ask for take out?

 

[Fingolfin269]

Fazoli's?

 

[WelshBloke]

Italian: go buy a slice of pizza
French: go buy a croque monsieur

 

[Captante]

Now if you were to ask why there are no GOOD Italian fast food places ....

French on the other hand I've never seen.

 

[JM Aggie08]

You can go to Fazoli's if you want to spend you evening shitting through a screen.

 

[BoomerD]

Spaghetti on a stick?

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

 

[lsd]

You've never heard of Sbarro?

 

[Rakehellion]

Pizza Hut?

Nice try. They don't have a drive-thru.

 

[AznAnarchy99]

You've never heard of Sbarro?

Bleh. Everything is so greasy and heart attack inducing there.

 

[Red Storm]

Bleh. Everything is so greasy and heart attack inducing there.

Yes but I would say it qualifies as Italian fast food.

 

[thanes1]

love me some fazoli's

 

[SamQuint]

In So Cal we have Tutto Fresco. However they only have 3 locations.

http://www.tuttofrescorestaurant.com/


I think the problem is that food that needs a fork and a knife to eat don't lend themselves well to fast food. Also pasta gets too mushy too fast so consistent quality would be a major concern.

 

[lsd]

Bleh. Everything is so greasy and heart attack inducing there.

True but no different than most FF Chinese. I'd put it one step above pizza hut and Domino's taste wise.

 

[Newell Steamer]

 

[Markbnj]

You've never heard of Sbarro?

Sbarro''s brand image to me is "airport concourse crap," but maybe that is because it's the only place I've encountered one. But yeah, that is probably the canonical example of Italian fast food.

 

[rsbennett00]

You can go to Fazoli's if you want to spend you evening shitting through a screen.

Because you swallowed something valuable? I don't get it.

Nice try. They don't have a drive-thru.

Your pizza sluts don't have drive-thru's? Odd.

 

[ctbaars]

You can get Pizza Hut at Taco Bell. :::Bong:::
You can get French Fries at almost any drive thru.

 

[manimal]

You've never heard of Sbarro?

lol I miss the mall experience in the 80s.





My mom used to call them sbaglio which means failure