This. Fast food takeaways are unbearable now and the only way you’ll get hot fresh food is to order via an app that will be delivered by a teenager on an L plate scooter who will cause a crash or two every week by driving like an enormous James.
It's even worse at places where they have delivery service AND drive-through. You soon realise you're bottom of the priority list when you are one of the only customers at the in-person counter, but you wait 15 minutes for your food and see a long line of SUVs and pickup trucks roll through the drive-through lane.
Shoreham McDonalds.
Absolutely ANYTHING is glorious, after bein cooped up in an economy seat on an overnight flight!
I was once forced to use a Nando's outlet prior to departing Gatwick on a very early morning flight, as there was absolutely nowhere else open at 4am.
Good to see Uncle Sams expanding their number of branches again. Always seemed a bit of a mystery to me why they suddenly seemed to lose momentum in (the 90s?) and were reduced to maybe half a dozen outlets. Uncle Sams brand loyalty must be second to none, as this thread confirms. I've got friends down under, in Sydney, who went to Sussex Uni in the 90s and who still start visibly drooling at any mention of Uncle SamsUncle Sams is an independent take away burger shop. The first one, which I believe is still there is a small shop in Montpelier Road Brighton, this opened way before we had McDonalds and Burger King in Brighton.
In the 80s there was also one near St Peter’s Church in Brighton and also Burgess Hill. Edit- And West Street Brighton
I see they have a few more shops now
Uncle Sams Hamburger Express Takeaway - Restuarants - Search
www.unclesams.co.uk
Are they really that good? There's one near me that I've never been to and always dismissed as looking a bit sad. Didn't realise they were part of a chain that's revered across Australia.Good to see Uncle Sams expanding their number of branches again. Always seemed a bit of a mystery to me why they suddenly seemed to lose momentum in (the 90s?) and were reduced to maybe half a dozen outlets. Uncle Sams brand loyalty must be second to none, as this thread confirms. I've got friends down under, in Sydney, who went to Sussex Uni in the 90s and who still start visibly drooling at any mention of Uncle Sams
Back in the 80s Grubbs was also very popular, York Place had a Grubbs and Uncle Sams, I remember being with groups of friends and we would split up to buy burgers, Uncle Sams was definitely my choice.Good to see Uncle Sams expanding their number of branches again. Always seemed a bit of a mystery to me why they suddenly seemed to lose momentum in (the 90s?) and were reduced to maybe half a dozen outlets. Uncle Sams brand loyalty must be second to none, as this thread confirms. I've got friends down under, in Sydney, who went to Sussex Uni in the 90s and who still start visibly drooling at any mention of Uncle Sams
Well, to be fair, only revered across Australia by folks that used to love them in those blessed parts of Sussex lucky enough to be served by a branch
Always associate that York Place Grubbs with a dazzling array of very decent burgers that came with an absurdly large mountain of chips
What happened to Grubbs? l know they had several outlets in Brighton not so long ago, l know l used to pass one on the Lewes Road en-route to the Amex.
I don’t know, I haven’t lived in Brighton for 25 years and don’t go there very often.
The owner used to be very hands on - he’s quite old now and just wants to wind down, selling off his shops and just keeping one or two open. I think the mothership is still there on West Street and he oversees it part time now. The guy used to do 100+ hour weeks for decades.
No there was defo one further along the Lewes Road, on the left hand side Amex bound, just before the big Sainsbury's if memory serves me correctly.
I must admit I haven’t been along there for many years and never seen it, I don’t remember one being in Lewes Road in the 80s or 90s
