Buffalo grill

[nickliv]

Seen these places by the roadside in France, ever since I was a kid.

Bon or Mal?

[Steve Pyro]

I do believe they go round the outside!

[Brian(Liverpool boys)]

Bon, good value food, our fav is the "Le Trapper" you get ostrich, bison and steak, very good themed fast food. the waitress's wear very short cow girl skirts as an added bonus.

[Bas]

Well it beats McDonalds but that's about it imo

Don't park in the area behind the Le Mans Buffalo Grill btw, we made the mistake to park there in 2001 on Sundayevening after the race just to find our cars with windows smashed and clothes, tents and valuables stolen from the boot.

The locals -from the North African persuasian- who were sitting outside on their balconies ofcourse didn't see anything.
Didn't stop us from coming back to Le Mans the next year though.

Funny thing, just this summer, 6 years after the fact, one of my mates had his stolen drivers license returned to him by the French police.
Them gendermes might not work fast but at least they solve the crime. 

[Andy Zarse]

Well it beats McDonalds but that's about it imo

There was a food safety scandal a while ago involving their meat. I can't remember the details but I think it might have been in frozen storage in Ireland or somewhere, for a considerable period of time. Years, as I recall. And it wasn't fit for human consumption.

Don't have the chicken, it's gone off.

[Bas]

From their wiki page:

British beef scandal
In December 2002 it was the subject of a major scandal when allegations emerged that the chain had sold British beef, banned in France due to fears of BSE contamination, between 1996 and 2000. In October 2003, manslaughter charges against the firm's executives were dismissed in respect of two vCJD sufferers, who claimed to have caught the disease from the firm's beef. Two of the firm's employees spent three months in prison prior to being acquitted. The firm's sales suffered considerably due to the scandal, but by 2004 were on the rise again.

Illegal employees scandal
On the 4th of June of 2007, it was reported that approximately 15% of Buffalo Grill's employees were foreign. A significant number of them, mostly from Africa, had illegal immigrant status in France. The chain's management has been accused of slave-like work, unfair conditions,threats and disobeying state labour laws by some of its former employees, who are now occupying a restaurant in Viry-Châtillon (Essonne in the outskirts of Paris) daily from 9am to 11pm as a sign of protest.