These months are all about watching games and eating on the go. On the brink of football season, fast food and football handicapping are the top priorities each day. It seems a majority of sports bettors tend to fail in the kitchen and trend toward fast food, making stops as we move from one sportsbook to another. I’m a big fan of Denny’s, but there are no diners and no pizza places on my list.Īs always, there will be a few crusty critics who say, why is this topic relevant and what makes you the expert? It’s OK to occasionally bend the rules a little and lean on common sense. However, in life there are exceptions to every rule and gray areas exist, so some franchises on my list might offer drive-thru service at only a small percentage of locations. The definition of fast food can get tricky, but a drive-thru window should be a necessity. Restaurants are judged on the quality of food, menu variety, service efficiency, availability (any spot that stays open 24 hours earns bonus points) and intangibles. There are five categories with each worth a maximum of 10 points. I create power ratings for fast-food franchises using a formula similar to the one that produces my numbers on college football and basketball teams. Still, in my fourth annual “Fast Food Top 50 Power Rankings” for VSiN, Portillo’s is the new top dog, rising from No. and Phoenix areas, but is suspiciously absent in Las Vegas, and that needs to change. Portillo’s has expanded to locations all over the country, including the L.A. He eventually sold Portillo’s to Berkshire Partners in 2014 and made millions. “The Dog House” was Dick Portillo’s first hot dog stand in Villa Park, Ill., in 1963. The restaurant was packed and the drive-thru was jammed, but the service was efficient and the food quality outstanding. The five of us posed for a photo outside and I looked like a boa constrictor that just swallowed a deer. I went with the Italian beef with sport peppers, Chicago dog, Maxwell Street Polish, half a burger, fries and onion rings. “I’m stuffed,” he said, and that was saying a lot because he’s no small man. Swedelson was asked if he wanted to go for seconds. Moss wiped out several items on the menu and said, “Matt, you nailed this one.” I always say the fat guys are often overrated and the skinny guys are the sleeper picks in eating contests. Ten minutes into lunch, as Howard devoured an Italian beef and sausage sandwich, onion rings and a chocolate cake shake, he was asked to rate Portillo’s on a scale of 1 to 10 and said, “9.5.”
When living in Chicago in the 1990s, I went there about five times a week, so McLaughlin and I knew what Howard, Moss and Swedelson were about to discover. The tour guide who picked us up at the airport, Patrick McLaughlin, said he once ate at Portillo’s 42 days in a row. The trio had never experienced Portillo’s and wanted answers. I joined VSiN’s “Follow The Money” crew of Paul Howard, Mitch Moss and Dustin Swedelson on the fact-finding venture. It’s near Disneyland, but Portillo’s is much more enjoyable for a group of guys who love to eat.
Our journey to the Los Angeles area was a fast-food field trip to Portillo’s, a Chicago street food chain with a location in Buena Park. The FedEx plane carrying Hanks plummeted into the South Pacific during a violent storm and he washed up on the island of Monuriki, surviving for four years by spearing fish and drinking coconut milk, among other things. How long would I be able to survive if stranded on an uninhabited island?
#JACK STACK MENU CARRYOUT MOVIE#
It’s an intriguing movie I have watched a few times, and it always makes me ponder - or have nightmares about - a life without the availability of fast food. I had no trouble with the microphones, which support AI noise cancellation, and the webcam has a physical shutter switch on the side for some peace of mind.On the morning of July 9, as our flight headed to Long Beach, Calif., for an unusual mission, thoughts of Tom Hanks’ character in “Cast Away” came to mind. There are a whopping six speakers inside, and while they don’t deliver the best audio on the 17-inch market, my games still sounded pretty good. (The SD reader is weirdly slower than it was last year, however, as other reviewers have noted.) The QHD display does make games look great. There’s a good range of ports including two USB-C, two USB-A, a headphone jack, HDMI, ethernet, and an SD card reader. It’s a nice-looking computer, and it didn’t pick up any scratches or dents after being battered around in a suitcase for a few days.
The trackpad collected some fingerprints fairly easily, but the rest of the chassis wasn’t too much of a magnet for them. I’ve had gripes about MSI’s chassis in the past, but the GS77’s base and lid are both sturdy and unyielding. First, the aspect of the GS77 that’s an unquestionable improvement over last year: build quality.
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