Royal Farms

Normally coming to a place like this would start me up on my infamously famous default three star gas station check list but in this instance this was meant to be a on the go food run.
But, you know that the best laid schemes of mice and men often get screwed and such is what happened to me at this Royal Farms. Now, I guess I should preface everything by saying that while I had been to a RF before, it was only outside for gas and never inside so I had no idea what to expect.
There is indeed a MTO food area the same as a Wawa or a Sheetz with touch screens to order except that’s where the similarities stop. Compared to the other two that I mentioned the menu at RF is at best half of the others in terms of options and for the most part if you’re not down on fried stuff plus white bread you’re kind of SOL here.
Speaking briefly of the fried angle, if you’re someone who is sweet on fried chicken (obviously I am not) then this will be heaven for you not only in terms of the menu but in terms of you smelling like fryer grease in the car for the next hour or more due to the odor in the store (Yick!).
Back to the menu.
No home style salads as I don’t dig mass amounts of mayo, they were out of hot dogs and the only burgers available were sliders, six different sandwiches which bizarrely could only be ordered on white or on croissants and fried chicken. I’m sure I’m missing something or two but the gist is let’s take a very small menu and make it even smaller by knocking out several options plus let’s only have one young kid working by himself while four people were already waiting. #Nope
In the end I bought some drinks and left to go across the bridge to the Subway in Columbia with no wait disappointed that while RF may look like a Wawa/​Sheetz clone it by no means is in their league and in the future except for gas I will avoid them whenever possible.