Fastfood (World) – Review
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By: Kristian Kraljic
Version #: 1.1.0
Date Released: 2011-04-13
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Price: 1.99
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What do we do whenever we’re hungry but also either tired or in a strange part of town? Get fast food of course! With the app Fastfood, finding local restaurants has never been easier.
The app is currently $1.99 for the world edition or 99¢ for the restaurants of a specific country, like the UK, Italy, France, or the US. If you buy a specific country’s app, there is always the ability to update to the world edition for 99¢ more by in-app purchase.
When the app is opened, you can select the place at which you would like to eat at (or you can simply select ‘Any’). The app includes many popular places including McDonald’s, Burger King, Subway, Pizza Hut, Domino’s, and Taco Bell. The app also features places which you may not consider fast food like Starbucks and Dunkin’ Donuts, but it is definitely great to have these places included in the app too.
So what’s different than using the Maps app? Well, in this app you can select to view all local restaurants and the ones nearest will show up all around the map or also in an easy-to-read list, rather than just a blind search in the Maps app. Also, the app has the ability to open up your selected restaurant in either Navigon or Tom Tom and take you directly there. Another difference from the Maps app is the incredible ability to view restaurant locations while offline, because you never know when you’ll be without data.
This app does have a lot of useful information behind it, but not everything is perfect. Obviously not every restaurant chain is covered and not every single location is known to this app. There is the ability to either remove inaccurate locations or edit current locations though. and it’s great to know that this system of user contributions is monitored for accuracy. Because fast food franchises are always popping up, hopefully this system along with future updates will provide the most current info available.
All these are very minor flaws and can be worked out. The biggest problem I see? The lack of a phone number in a restaurant’s information page. Currently it is not possible to call the restaurants from within the app. So without further research, it would be impossible to, let’s say, order a pizza from Pizza Hut or Domino’s and have it delivered to your hotel room. Although this feature is not currently present, there will be an update including phone numbers very soon!
Quick Take
Value:High
Would I Buy Again:Definitely
Learning Curve:Low
Who Is It For:A must for any (traveling) fast food eater
What I Like:The app?s no-fuss nature and offline capabilities
What I Don't Like:No phone numbers yet or random selection from near restaurants
Final Statement:Just like fast food, Fastfood is cheap, simple, and a great timesaver
» Find your location using location services (e.g. GPS)¹ or search for address, city, or point of interest (search radius of 30 miles [50 kilometers])
» New modernized user interface, beautiful new graphics and app icon
» Now more than 100,000 stores from all over the world
» McDonald's, Burger King, Subway, Pizza Hut, KFC, etc. all in one App
» Display all restaurants at once or select only one type of restaurant to display
» Offline mode possible, data is downloaded to device so you can use it without an internet connection²
» Dramatically increased performance, ergonomics and accuracy in some areas
» Check the opening hours and other details for the most stores in the new detail and list views³
» Adapt the position of restaurants or remove it completely
» To add a restaurant, go to the support-homepage and file a request
» Share any restaurants via e-mail or sms, add it to your contacts and store it as a favorite
» Improved integrated navigation, use of Maps-Application, Navigon or TomTom (if available)
» Localization for English, Germany, Portuguese, Dutch, Italian, Spanish and French (Found a mistake? https://ksquared.de/support)
» Select distance unit - miles or kilometers
» Enjoy the retina display graphics and the full iPad support
Currently supported countries/regions: (of the 'World'-App or when the worldwide access has been unlocked)
» United States, Germany, France, Netherlands, United Kingdom, Brazil, Canada, Spain, Mexico and Italy
If you like this app please rate it positively or write a review.
Are you hungry and do not know where to find the next fast food restaurant? This app helps you for sure! It tries to locate the position of your device¹ and makes an easy proposal of all fast food restaurants around.
The simple map interface displays all found restaurants all at once! Simply tap on one of the restaurant markers and get more information about the restaurant (like the address and driving directions).
If you are just interested in one type of restaurant, you can simply choose one of them and hide others. Adjust or remove single restaurants to update our database and make it more accurate to all people using this App.
Do you want to help somebody out? Use the integrated search and jump to any location to get the nearby restaurants and send a notification directly via SMS or E-Mail. Use the integrated directions option, to get a guided tour directly to the fast food restaurant of your choice.
Once bought you may use the app on your iPod and iPhone, but it does also support your iPad natively!
Even though we have tried to fetch all the restaurant locations with the highest possible accuracy, it is still possible that there are some mismatches between our database and the actual position of the restaurant. Therefore the new version offers the possibility to adjust restaurant positions and submit them, so everybody can benefit.
-¹ Please note, no App does not have any influence on how accurate the locational services can determine the position of any device. This strongly depends on your local connectivity and the availability of GPS.
-² The app requires an internet connection at first run for downloading restaurant data. After that, offline mode (without searching/maps) is possible.
-³ Which data are available for a restaurant depends on the country and the restaurant itself.
- Neither the seller nor the app itself is connected to McDonald's Corp., Burger King Corp., Subway, Pizza Hut, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Starbucks, Domino's Pizza, Dunkin Donuts, Taco Bell, Tim Horton’s and/or Nordsee
