NoWaiter
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| Privately owned | |
| Industry | Fast food restaurant |
| Founded | 1950 |
| Headquarters | , |
Number of locations | 40,101 restaurants |
Area served | Worldwide |
Number of employees | Approximately 3 million, including franchised employees |
NoWaiter is a Urcean multinational fast food corporation, founded in 1950 as "Roll Through No Wait" stand in Coria. The company was later turned into a franchise, becoming regionally successful in the province of the Cape by 1960 and pioneering modern drive-through fast food techniques. Throughout the 1960s, the chain grew nationally and supplanting other emergent fast food chains which did not have drive-through capability, and by 1970 the company - now renamed "No Wait No Waiter" - was the largest fast food chain in Urcea. The company adopted its current name in 1981. Centered in Coria during the first three decades of existence, the company relocated its headquarters to Urceopolis in 1983.
NoWaiter is one of the world's largest restaurant chains by revenue, serving 100 million customers per day worldwide, and is one of Urcea's largest companies by revenue. The menu, which originally included variations of hamburgers, includes a wide array of foods, including and especially hot dogs and corned beef melts for which the company has become well known. NoWaiter is also well known for its variety of root beer, which entered common retail sale in 1990.
NoWaiter is often symbolized by its golden arrows, developed to be an abstraction of road markings and speed in order to emphasize its credentials as a drive-through establishment. Like most other Urcean establishments, it is closed on Sunday in Levantia and Sarpedon but has varying rules abroad.
History
Products
NoWaiter's menu revolves primarily around what it calls the "three beefs" - hamburgers, corned beef, and hot dog products, though the hot dogs used by the company are actually mostly pork. Breakfast was introduced to most restaurants around 1985, and varies significantly from the three beef formula while retaining some thematic concepts from its lunch menu.
Introduced in 1985, the breakfast menu includes a variety of options which are derivative of the all day lunch and dinner fare. The two most popular items on the breakfast menu are the "MornDog", a breakfast sausage presented in the same manner as a hot dog wherein the bun is a griddled pancake with maple flavor, and "Daddy Hashy", which are corned beef hash shaped length-wise and held together as a solid, surrounded on its lower half by a biscuit casing. Several breakfast-specific beverages are also Offred, primarily coffee and three kinds of tea.
The most popular item on NoWaiter's menu, and among it's oldest, is the Corned'N'Cheddar (occasionally marketed as a "CNC"), which is a sandwich comprised of sliced, baked corned beef with cheddar cheese and a mix of ketchup and mayonaise on a pressed, panini-like bun and grilled. Historically, the CNC was served in a round styrofoam container with a hinge in the middle. As styrofoam containers were phased out in Urcea, the iconic CNC container was replaced with a wax paper wrap. The second most popular item is the corn dog, a hot dog on a stick covered in cornmeal batter and deep fried. Several other types of food are on offer as well, especially hamburgers and many variations of hot dogs and corned beef.
NoWaiters have some regional variation within Urcea on menu items, as certain franchises are offered experimental menu items. NoWaiters have significant menu diversity in locations outside Levantia. The well-known Beef Ribber (also pork) sandwich, which imitates barbeque pork ribs, is occasionally offered nationwide but is offered on a regional and seasonal basis.
Seasonal specialties
During the season of Lent, fish and plant based options are introduced to the menu, including the popular "green hash", a plant-based substitute of corned beef hash served at breakfast.