Royal Farms can be a pain even if all you're ordering is a few pieces of chicken. Fortunately, most of the stores have fairly good service, and it helps that most of them also have automated ordering systems (except when you get a techno-illiterate customer who can't figure out the menu screens with pictures of the food right on them).

When it's fresh, Royal Farms chicken is the best tasting fast food chicken I've had, and it is extremely popular in my part of the country (central Maryland). Most people I know prefer it to KFC or Popeyes.

Dang, I think I just decided what I'm going to have for lunch today...

Back to the original topic, though - I liked the Angus burgers, but they're just too doggone BIG. Replacing them with quarter-pounder versions, but with the same options, is a good move for McDonalds. Since they are reducing the number of different size burgers and buns they need, they will simplify supply ordering, prep time, amount of grill space needed, and overall cost.

Personally, I just wish McDonalds would go back to the make-in-advance model they used in the 1980s when I worked there. Having a stack of ready-made burgers waiting in the heat bin made service so much quicker than the current made-to-order model.