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Fastlane Grills

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Fastlane Grills
Trading name Fastlane Grills
Type Restaurant
Industry
  • Fast Food
  • Pub
  • Diner
Founded 1613 AN
Headquarters Stonewall, Wrighthaven, Ciric Confederacy
Key people Karthon Pardjur

Fastlane Grills is a prolific restaurant chain in the Ciric Confederacy owned and operated by the Andromeda Tech Corporation. It is the largest restaurant chain in the country, with over two hundred locations in the country and having expanded to Caradia in 1680 AN. The restaurant, founded in 1613 AN by Jared Parker and Anna Rohm, offers dine-in, takeaway, and drive-thru meals to customers. The restaurant is known for its "all-encompassing menu" that it advertises for itself, as it aims to encompass all kinds of low-cost dining. Cuisine, both local and foreign, are represented in the restaurant, alongside their drive-thru fast food menu. The fast food menu and drive-thru tends to be operated by older adolescents and young twenty-year olds, while the dine-in portion of the restaurant is operated by professional cooks.

History

Fastlane Grills was founded in 1613 AN by Jared Parker and Anna Rohm, and was a follow-up to the pair's first attempt at creating a restaurant; they had previously started a small diner on a city corner in Haven called "Sidewalk Drive", which was aimed at what they considered to be a "classic diner experience". The restaurant ultimately failed, as they were unable to gain enough employees, and they closed down and moved to Stonewall. They then established an employee base and founded the first Fastlane Grills near the city centre. The restaurant was an immediate success, with consumers lauding the restaurant's variety menu. While expensive to operate, the restaurant drew enough customers to continue its growth and began opening new locations across the confederacy. In 1649 AN, the company was wholly bought by the Andromeda Corporation, and its expansion was further facilitated by the corporation's vast resources. The corporation continued to grow, opening its first foreign location in Caradia in 1680 AN.

Menu

The selection of food offered by Fastlane is varied and inspired from cuisine from all over the world, though most menu items are sandwiches or hamburgers, with many foreign food types being served in a generic form. Fastlane serves sandwiches that consist of ham, cheese, roast beef, fried eggs, fries, pickles, bacon, lettuce, tomatoes, onion, and vinaigrette, and serves these sandwiches in a variety of different forms, such as subs, hoagies, and even flatbread. They also serve hamburgers, cheese burgers, bacon burgers, and specialty burgers, such as the popular jalapeño bacon burger served in 1677 AN that was returned as a permanent item to the menu in 1680 AN. Fastlane's signature item is a sub sandwich called the Fast Pass, which is made with deep-fried bacon, lettuce, onion rings, pepper cheese, jalapeños, and beef patties. Critics have raised concerns about the health effects of the caloric value of Fastlane's sandwich type items, as these tend to be on the higher side of calorie count as well as saturated fat. Fastlane countered these concerns by beginning a healthy-eating campaign, which began with the launch of lettuce burgers, which are Fastlane's regular hamburger except the bun is replaced by folded iceberg lettuce, and the patties are cooked with a far lower degree of oil. Fastlane has also began offering grilled versions of its chicken sandwiches as opposed to fried. Despite popular misconceptions, Fastlane has been able to confirm that all of its burgers and sandwiches are made with 100% real beef.

Other menu items include:

  • Pasta
  • Tacos
  • Empanadas
  • Pancakes
  • Fried Chicken
  • Falafel
  • Sushi
  • Soup
  • Salad

Most Fastlane menu items are served with sides that include fries, onion rings, tortilla chips, and various fruit and vegetable sides, and with a drink, which includes water, sweetened and unsweetened black tea, and carbonated sodas.