Did the Simpsons permanently damage Arby's brand image?

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Arby's, IMO, effectively priced itself out of being a fast food option for me. Whereas most fast food places have focused a lot in recent years on $1 menus and cheaper prices, Arby's has tried to do the opposite by offering supposedly higher quality menu items. I'm sorry, but there's no way in hell I'm guying to buy a fast food meal for more than $5. There's shit on their menu that is approaching $10. If I have $10 to spend on a meal, it's not going to be fast food.
 
Valnen said:
Arby's was god tier...in the 90's or maybe early 2000's. Not so much now =/. I don't know if it's my memory playing tricks on me but I think it used to be so much tastier.
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They definitely were in the 80's. Nothing came close. Now it's all overpriced grease patties. How the fuck does a ham sandwich have grease? I don't know either.
 
It definitely seems like they've pulled a Subway and put less meat on sandwhiches now. Do they even sell the big Montana anymore? Their Jr. Roast beef sandwhiches have like one slice of roast beef on them now.
 
I don't think I've ever not used that Simpsons quote when someone refers to Arby's. I've never even been there despite one being close to my house for years.
 
Arby's has some good menu items that aren't too common. The curly fries (with horseradish sauce), the mozzarella sticks, and the French Onion dip one are good.

The regular roast beef stuff though are greasy... I'd never eat those without coupons.
 
akira28 said:
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Hire people who are at least capable of feeling shame at not doing a good job. Hire people who can at least fully cook a batch of curly fries so they aren't greasy and soggy. High school kids don't give a fuck.
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No, it's not the being in high school part - it's the paying minimum wage for part time, repetitive work feeding food to a never-ending stream of largely ungrateful people (who think that the fact they don't work in fast food somehow makes them superior to the people serving them) that causes people not to give a fuck.

Pay your employees more and treat them with respect, and they'll work harder. I've never had an issue at an In 'N Out, and eating there doesn't even really cost much more than somewhere like Arby's.
 
I liked the Chicken Cordon Bleu when we still had an Arby's around here. Arby's popped up in the malls and elsewhere but repeatedly failed. Last one was actually an attractive looking standalone but it too couldn't compete and Nathan's took over that location.
 
Angry Grimace said:
And seriously, its dumb. Arby's is awesome, particularly if you load up on horseradish. Why is it that Taco Bell, which is far worse, gets to be the winner of the Franchise Wars, but good 'ol Arby's gets dragged through the mud?
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What? Everybody is always shitting on taco bell. You can't mention taco bell without everone saying it gave them diarrhea.
 
JimmyRickard said:
Is this from shitty nu-Simpsons or something because I've never heard anything about Arby's on the show.
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It's from an episode that first aired over 15 1/2 years ago.
So right around the end of the classic era.

Shitty nu-Simpsons wouldn't make fun of Arby's.
And if they did, they'd call it Marby's and think they were being hilarious and clever.
 
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Angry Grimace said:
Yeah but how can you beat these prices?!
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I used to work at Arby's a decade ago, and this meat used to be sent in from a distribution center in the form of a powder. Me and some other employees would add water and mix them, then cook it and slice it to get what you see in this image. I dont know if they still do this or not =/.
 
It wasn't mentioned just once:

I'm so hungry, I could eat at Arby's!
~ Terri, stranded on a desert island in Das Bus

Just throw it over the fence and let Arby's worry about it!
~ Kirk Van Houten, referring to a dead possum in A Milhouse divided

People do crazy things in commercials. Like eat at Arby's.
~ Marge Simpson, to Lisa in Old Yeller Belly

If I can keep down Arby's, I can keep down you.
~ Homer Simpson, after eating a green alien blob that tries to escape hsi mouth in Treehouse of Terror XVII

(from another website, chef success, post #1 of a favorite quotes thread in 2007)

I remember the Terri and the Marge quotes vividly whenever anyone mentions Arby's.
 
Not really a fan of Arby's aside from the Chicken Bacon' Swiss and to a lesser extent the bacon cheddar roast burger. I was always under the impression that they were actually really profitable though.
 
I didn't have an Arby's anywhere near me growing up so I only knew about it from the Simpsons. I tried it for the first time when I went away to college. I was pleasantly surprised.
 
I didn't even know of that clip until I saw it a few years ago on GAF. But I laughed myself unconscious when I did. Arbys has decent fries, but not much else on their menu is appealing to me. Besides I don't do fast food much anymore anyhow, and when I do, I don't want some awful roast beef and cheese sandwich.
 
Even if you don't like Arby's, you should try their kettle chips sometime. They're fucking delicious.

Edit: If they even still make them, that is. I'm not seeing them on the Arby's site and haven't been there recently.
 
Possibly similar thing to public outlook at nuclear power, i.e. seeing an idiot (Homer) running controls at a power plant. Simpsons has a hand in a lot of mainstream topics and thinking.
 
I've never gone to Arby's to eat their roast beef sandwiches.

I do, however, enjoy their turkey sandwiches:

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I only eat them when I'm on the road, but they're decent enough.
 
I think the fact that Arbys roast beef sandwiches, for most, aren't as good as similarly price burgers and other sandwiches. And Arbys is more expensive in general. Those Curly Fries are everything though.
 
Dishwalla said:
Okay? The NSYNC episode in season 12 is well known, that doesn't make it good.
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I don't think you're going to get wide agreement that Season 9 was beyond the point of the Simpsons being relevant.
 
I had no idea people loathed Arby's so much. A beef n' cheddar, curly fries and a jamocha shake was one of my favorite meals as a kid. Liked the sauces too.
 
I remember that quote, but I still go to Arby's. Never get sandwiches there though...their deep fried unhealthy snacks are delicious.

I don't think it has anything to do with bad brand image though. They also made fun of Domino's in an episode.

Wiggum: That sounds like a motorcycle gang. And we don't have backup. We'd better lay low. *covers up sirens with pizza display*
Lou: But Chief, what if they like pizza?
Wiggum: Way ahead of you, Lou.
*puts dominoe's logo on car*
 
I looooove Arby's, but that Simpsons quote always stuck in my head and was like the first time I could recall that people didn't like Arby's. I was like, "really? Arby's isn't considered a legit fast food place?" I go there once a month after I get the coupons in the mail for a buy one get one free or a 3 for 5. Can't believe they used to be 5 for 5, then 4 for 5, and now finally 3 for 5. I love the chicken cordon bleu as well. I think they have the best curly fries, just edging out Jack in the Box. Sometimes I'll get the potatoe cakes instead... God now I want some Arby's.
 
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