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Cook-Out is fantastic and cheap. I especially love their spicy crispy chicken sandwich with cheese, and I get it with fries and a chicken quesadilla.
Biscuitville has great Southern breakfast food. I especially like their spicy honey chicken biscuit and their cheese grits. To my delight, they once had a shirt that read “The North has bagels. We have biscuits. The South wins.” I found that hilarious, accurate, and it appealed to my sense of Southern pride. On the breakfast topic, Waffle House hashbrowns are fantastic, especially when ordered with cheese and onions.
There’s a fantastic South American chain called Viva Chicken. I think it’s regional. I really really love their arroz chaufa, Peruvian fried rice with rotisserie chicken. They also have an incredible augas freaschas (the delightful beverages that you sometimes refer to) in the form of a fantastic and refreshing drink called Chica Morada; it’s made from purple corn and has lots of great spices and it’s awesome.
Chick-Fil-A is quite good, but I’m also a big fan of Bojangles! I love their seasoned fries and cajun chicken and their biscuits are also quite good. Popeyes has excellent “blackened” grilled chicken tenders, but I don’t care for their “cajun” fries or biscuits. Zaxby’s has good fluffy crinkle fries with seasoning and pretty good chicken.
The Charlotte region also has a great series of French cafes, Amelie’s French Bakery. I adore their macaroons and the simple but delicious croque monsieur with ham, cheese, bechamel sauce, and Dijon on a crossiant. Sadly, the Uptown Charlotte location closed and because I don’t have my car on campus, I have no way to get to the other locations.
And finally, Showmars has good chicken. The fries leave something to be desired though.
Oh, and Cast Iron Waffles has AMAZING Belgian waffles with caramel mixed into the batter to sweeten them. I like to get the cinnamon bun waffle; the basic waffle dusted with cinnamon and brown sugar, and drizzle of icing. I believe they’re a local chain.

As Timmy pointed out, Publix is a regional grocery chain. I’ve never got actual prepared food from there; but when we go to the beach, we get sandwich making supplies from the local Publix and they have excellent deli counter meats; I’m especially fond of their sliced buffalo chicken, and honey turkey.

Sorry, rambling.

Oh! Since we are on the topic:
There was a coffee shop in uptown Charlotte I adored. Subsecreto, right by the light rail, which meant I had easy access from campus. An enigmatic, mysterious, rather odd little coffeeshop that was magic themed, had such strange objects for decor (such as a phrenology head, an authentic Turkish fez, huge comfy leather chairs, a book to anonymously write secrets in, a painting of a witches sabbath, and more) and (I kid you not!) a bookshelf door that slid open to the bathroom and a workshop which held a fashion company where the company founder helped designed a new armored backpack for the military (which he showed to me, along with various prototypes of it, and there were several veterans who came in at times to try it on). The owner claimed to be a former Blackwater operative. The barista made an utterly amazing variety of coffee and teas; such as “The Crucible” (a chai latte), “A Cold Day In Hell” (iced coffee, but flavored with something that I think involved chili peppers? It was fantastic!), among others. Their secret was a huge, fancy, brass-covered espresso machine. When I first started school at UNCC the barista and I became pals, and he recommended restaurants and patiently listened to my rambling about the things I learned or books I read.
Fittingly, and true to its theme, the place mysteriously vanished in the summer of 2019 and the owner vanished from all social media. It was utterly bizzare; there was absolutely zero indication they were closing, they were there one day and then, literally the next day, there was no trace they had ever been there! I miss it so much! I yearn for their amazing coffees and the eccentric owner and the friendly barista.

I've never been much of a coffeeshop regular myself (though I do enjoy coffee), but it sounds like it would be hard to stay away from Subsecreto. Here in the UK, a popular coffeeshop drink is London Fog, or earl grey tea with steamed milk and vanilla syrup, though I'm pretty sure it was invented in Canada. Either way, that drink alone is certainly worth a visit.

I actually went to my first Cook-Out when I was last at the beach in North Carolina, and thought it was superb. I was more excited about the watermelon milkshake than anything, and it did not disappoint.

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