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Page 8F/The Battalion/Monday, August 27, 1984 Fast food restaurants provide food for students By Staff Writer The college life is such a fast paced life...who can keep up? If you’re not running to class, you’re running to a meeting. If you’re not running to a meeting, you’re run ning to the library. If you’re not run ning to the library, you’re usually out of energy. When is there ever enough time to eat? If you’re like us, you’ll find yourself relying on the fast food es tablishments in the Bryan-College Station area to keep you running. We’ve taken a look at some of the fast food establishments around town. Just for the record, we’ve de fined a fast food restaurant as: hav ing a drive through window (usually), serving self-service food (you order, pay and pick-up at a counter), having somewhat of a stan dardized menu with a few house specialties included, and having a recognizable logo (with the excep tion of the local fast food restaurants that aren’t part of a big chain. Arby’s...Known for roast beef sandwiches, it also has turkey, ham, submarine and club sandwiches. Prices range from $1.59 to $1.99 for sandwiches and extras such as potato cakes or french fries cost between 59 and 75 cents. The menu has been expanded to include a Bac’n Ched dar Deluxe and a chicken sandwich. The horsey sauce really adds flavor to a roist beef sandwich. Located on Southwest Parkway, it’s convenient for those who live in that part of Col lege Station or for those with trans portation of some sort. Church’s Chicken... This is really like any other chicken establishment. It has the usual entrees for chicken dishes. Two locations: 507 N. Texas Avenue and 3207 Texas Avenue. Cow Hop...For a full meal at a great price, the Cow Hop is the an swer. You can eat a meal for $2 and the management takes checks. This resturant is down to earth and personable, from the homey decor to the friendly method of call ing for ready orders. And you listen to rock ’n roll while you eat. The hamburger (a.k.a cow pies) are a specialty; decorate them with cheese, sour cream, jalepno peppers, mushrooms, bacon or alfalfa sprouts. And the extras don’t stop there. Build a salad on your burger with unlimited amounts of lettuce, onions, tomatoes dnd toppings. Bur gers made with chicken fried steak and barbeque, nachos, chicken breast, chef salad and 8 oz. t-bone are other choices. The Northgate location makes it popular and convenient for Univer sity employees and dorm residents. Be prepared to rub shoulders with your colleagues as you order quickly and move through the line as if in a cattle chute. Dairy Queen...This old family restaurant just isn’t what it used to be. It now costs a fortune just to en joy the food here. The burgers are still served in refreshingly good taste, but these days you’re defin- ately charged for what you get. A double beef burger, order of fries and large drink is around $5. Danver’s...This establishment of fers a little bit of everything for ev erybody, and it all tastes good. Danv- er’s specialty is its soup and salad bar with two kinds of soup and a variety of salad fixin’s. So how can you miss? Order a baked potato and fix it up at the salad bar; sour cream, butter, ba con bits, mushrooms...The bacon cheeseburger is also a treat, and the hot ham and cheese sandwich shouldn’t be missed. Danver’s is lo cated at 201 Dominik. Der Wienerschnitzel...Located al most in downtown Bryan (501 Texas Avenue), this fast-food restaurant — specializing in all sorts of hot dogs — is somewhat out of the average col lege student’s usual daily travels. Farmer’s Market...With a menu and decor more like a delicatessen than a fast-food restaurant. Farmer’s Market offers a welcome change from hamburgers. Sandwiches range from Poor Boys ($1.65) to Reubens and Salami and can be or dered in submarine sizes (for a little more money). Lasagna is the most expensive item on the menu at $2.99. Bakery items are this restaurants special attraction. Kolaches, cookies, brownies. Farmer’s Market Sand wich Shop is at Northgate, Farmer’s Market Bar-B-Que is at 810 S. Main and Farmer’s Market Bakery and Delicatessen is at 8700 Texas Ave- You’ll like it for good.” seems to be most appropriate. We “liked it good.” At Emilio’s Sandwich City the menu not only includes sandwiches, but spaghetti ($1.89), lasagna ($2.99) and stuffed grape leaves. Desert in cludes baklava and cheese cake. Emi lio’s also has a limited selection of imported beers. Sesame Hut provides a taste of the Orient by serving egg rolls for 80 cents and dinners such as seafood combo and chicken teriyaki for $3.25. The Great Hot Dog Experience is just that. The menu lists almost ev ery hot dog imaginable. The price range is from 55 cents for a hot dog jr. to $1.45 for polish sausage com plete with sauerkraut. The menu also has chili cheese dogs. Pepe’s Mexican Food has the usual selection of burritos, tacos and mexican food. About $3 can fill you up. Pepe’s are located throughout the Bryan-College Station area and are known as the place to be after the bars close. The Gourmet Court...The food section at Post Oak Mall provides a taste of just about everything from pizza to Chinese food to chicken fried steak. Ken Martin’s Chicken Fried Steak adds a touch of class by serving side orders of fried mushrooms to compliment the chicken fried steak dinner ($3.29). Chimichangas hlso are sold for $3.29. Giovanni’s specializes in pizza sold by the slice, although whole piz zas are sold. A slice of chesse pizza costs $1.09, while slices of pepperoni or other types cost $1.24. Whole piz zas range from $4.60 to $11.10. Orange Julius, famous for its orange drink, has expanded to strawberry, pina colada and a flavor- of-the-montn. Food items include old fashioned hamburgers for 99 cents. Potaoes Etc. serves stuffed baked potatoes. You can get a pototo filled with sirloin tips or seafood newberg for $2.99 or a more traditional spud with butter and seasame seeds for a mere $1.99. Swenson’s for ice cream or shakes. One dip cones are 85 cents and shakes are $2.25 or half shakes are $1.65. The Wagon Wheel serves Texas style barbecjue sandwiches or Sau- sage-on-a-stick for $2.25 and barbe que plates for $4.95. Com Dog 7 has a limited menu with corn dogs ranging in cost from 89 cents for a regular to $1.19 for a jumbo and french fries for 79 cents. Grandy’s...Located near Post Oak Mall, this restaurant lives up to its slogan “Fast food that doesn’t taste fast.” The rib, chicken or chicken fried steak dinners are great and the fresh butter-yeast rolls are fantastic. The two-piece chicken dinner in cludes mashed potatoes or french fries, cole slaw or baked beans and a roll and costs $2.79. The dinner is well worth the money. The aroma of freshly baked cinnamon rolls is enough to drive you crazy. Chick-Fil-A isn’t “just another E lace to get chicken,” it’s one of the est places to get chicken. The Chick-fil-A sandwich (01.69) is yummy and the chicken nuggets (one aozen for $1.89) are just as good. The french fries are hot and crispy. Chick-fil-A’s slogan, “Taste it. The Grapevine...This resaurant really isn’t fast food. You do order and pay at the counter but your food is delivered to your table. Located at 201 Live Oak, behind La Quinta Mo tel, this restaurant also has a drive- thru and service that is quick. SAVE 20-60% on Furniture! Ditcount Furniture Outlet oilers EVERY DAY LOW PRICES that are below many ol the so-called "sale prices" ol other stores. And our low prices apply to everything in stock. Belore you buy trom anyone, stop by and you'll discover quality, name-brand lurniture at true discount prices tt}at you can trust! 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Jack-in-the-Box...When they blew up the clown, you knew “the box” was never going to be the same. That Friday-nigh t-high-school-hangout f ilace were you munched on greasy rench fries and kangaroo meat hamburgers has been transformed. Jack-in-me-Box is not quite a restau rant, but it’s no longer just a fast food joint. Yes, the food still comes fast, but the surroundings and the food are dressed up. The days of talking through the mouth of a plastic clown when or dering at the drive through window are over, and the hard, orange plas tic seats have been replaced by some thing a bit more subdued and softer. The Dinnner-in-the-Box, costing about $4 for chicken strips and a drink, comes with artificial home fries, garlic bread and a dinner salad. Of course the dressing comes in a plastic pouch — like ketchup — and the garlic bread does not possess the crispness of fine french loaf, but it all is suprisingly good. Although the clown is gone, the old standbys remain unchanged. The tacos still possess their magic charm. Their tantalyizing, just spicy enough sauce and combination bean-meat filling never fails to warm the heart. Their crisp, yet soft-in spots, shell is unequalled in the fast food world. McDonald’s...For convenience and speed, McDonald’s usally wins the race. With three locations — across the street from Zachary (on University Drive), Southwest Park way and at Manor East Mall — this locally owned fast-food franchise reaches a large market. For some of the best french fries around, go to McDonald’s. The hamburgers are average and limited as to what trimmings are on them but the Chicken McNuggets are great. For a change of the usual fare offered along Northgate and Uni versity Drive, the Filet o’ Fish is a good choice — if you like fish, tarter sauce and cheese. Depending on how hungry you are, its possible you’re a pig. one tbco and all the bean burnt; your stomach can handle. Thii also a favorite late night stopontli way home from the dubs. It’s oju until 2:30 a.m. on weeknightsmi 3:30 a.m. on weekends. One of better fast food Mexican places. A new feature is the taco light.If riations of burritos, enchiritos mi tacos range from 74 cents to jl| for individual items. You watch they build your meal as fast as can. Two locations: Harvey Roj and 3901 S. Texas Avenue. STRfl INDE) IRYA Taco Villa...Located on V Maria Road across fromManorlj Mall, this restaurant senesatyj Mexican fast food meal:burritos;, cos and the other usual assortna of pseudo-Hispanic fast-food fart. Schlotzsky’s...This establishment serves its own special sandwich made of sourdough bread, cold cuts, two cheses, olives and a few other su- prises. The sandwiches are served not or cold with your choice of chips. The best thing about Schlotzsky’s is all the artwork (?) by customers that adorn the walls. It is amazing how many ideas people have come up with to tell you exactly what a Schlotzsky’s sandwich is. Probably one of the best buys you can make for the money; a Schlotzsky’s sand wich will really fill you up. One loca tion at Culpepper Plaza and another on Texas Avenue. Tinsley’s Chicken and M s.. .Tinsley’s is consistently one ofa best fast food places in town, bl sically l>ecaiise tne food is good the servers are quite a bit friend than usual. Tinsley's decor is n® more understated and modemd other establishments with laquert I wood tables and several large plan Their chicken is hot and cut * large pieces, and it’s served ti wonderf ul baked rolls. Itisaln pleasure to eat at Tinsley's. Sevtt locations, with the closest to camp I on South Texas Avenue. Kentucky Fried Chicken...Home of Col. Sander’s original recipe, this is an average fried chicken restau rant with moderate prices. You can choose between original recipe and extra-crispy. The cole slaw, potato salad ana corn entrees are really quite good. Two locations: 3320 S. Texas Avenue and 110 Dominick Drive. Long John Silver’s...Fast fish as chicken of the sea. Predicatably fishy from the wharf-like entryway to the harpoon and fish net decor with little variance from one Long John Silver’s to another. Fish dishes in clude breaded oysters, fish filet dnd shrimp. Another favorite is breaded chicken. Long John Silver’s now garnishes their meals, a practice usually seen only in traditional restaurants. En trees include cole slaw, corn on the cob and french fries. Prices range for, $1.99 to $9.29 for family deals. Special features include 25 cent re fills on drinks. Two location: 1808 S. Texas Avenue and 3224 Tekas Ave- Sonic Drive-In Restaurant...This drive-in brings back memories of Fonzie and the “happy days” of the ‘50s. Drive on in with your date and a ‘57 chevy or your pick-up, or you Trans-Am, or... A choice of 25 parking booths un der the red, yellow ind blue neon lights that make Sonic readily identi fiable from your average hamburger joint, makes service lightning-fast. Before you order, take time to drool over the yummily illustrated menu, then place your order...be faithful to mom and try not to let your eyes be come bigger than your stomach (like ours did). Prices range from an 85 cent “mini burger” to a $1.40 “regular burger” to a $1.95 steak sandwich. The most expensive thing on the menu, and well worth the dinero, is the $2.25 double meat “super bur ger.” Fish and chicken sandwiches as well as the famous Sonic Coney Is land hotdogs (plain or with chili- .cheese or onions offer an appeal other than the burger route. A $ 1.60 burrito thoughtfully has been added to the menu for all you die-hard Mexican food addicts. Sonic backs the Idaho spud by pushing their potato specialties...o- nion rings and taler tots smothered with cheese. Try them, and you’ll be hooked. Wendy’s...Home of the Frost desert in a cup that’s more thaw shake, but costs about th< more of a choclate ice cream d« and well worth the trip. Foreetahi using a straw. Wendy’s probabhk the only square hamburger pi around. Service is quick, the burp are good and the salad bar is unit veable for a fast food place. Wendy’s has a new item on menu — baked potatoes. Rangini price from $1.29 to $1.99, thepa toes are available with a varieir toppings. Taco salads and bu /cheese burgers are other choices. Four people AmJCRff* 0 MBORO" amtokaavi *5*0*0 HALS *TTU LA** wmi WACO LA* MAROAKSOI I. MAR0ATI W MARGATE MAAWOOOa . . P‘ggmg 0 stuff themselves for $11. out can If you don’t have transporM Kill f/Y yoi Wendy’s isn’t practical, but fti change of pace when you hr | wheels, Wendy’s is great. Whataburger...Thisestablishii« i features large burgers that are wot waiting for (no precooking heit The prices at Whataburger navet mained moderate. A decentmealli a hungry guy can lie purchased! less than $3.50. Good fries u shakes can be had when themadfl is working. Taco BellOne of Taco Bell’s best deals is its Wednesday night all-you- can-eat burritos. 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