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Life is hectic. Families are busy, so hitting the drive-thru in the morning before work or after school is a convenient time saver.

Fast-food chains can bust your budget if you're not careful, but you can plan ahead to take advantage of deals and promotions. Before you pile in the car or call your favorite pizza place, check out these money saving menu items. You can get a cheap meal for two people right now at Popeyes. And if you get there before Feb.

Wendy's has all kinds of freebies and coupons in the Offers section of its mobile app this month, including a free Dave's Single burger with any purchase. Check out more Wendy's deals for this month , including Rewards and delivery specials.

Choose a specialty like a Crunchwrap, plus a taco or Beefy 5-Layer Burrito, a side, and a drink. Related: Live Más and Stretch Your Dollar With These Taco Bell Value Menu Items. McDonald's has brought back its best deal for Free Fries Friday.

Related: How To Get Free Fast Food. Burger King is continuing its free fries promotion in You can get one free any size fry each week with purchase when you use the mobile app. For more great fast-food tips, please sign up for our free newsletters. Buckets of KFC chicken make for an easy meal on busy weeknights or a stress-free Super Bowl party.

Little Caesars does cheap pizza well, but the prices have recently increased — the second time since the pandemic started. We still recommend paying a dollar more to get Extra Most Bestest pies for more cheese and more pepperoni, making the chain noticeably better than cheaper pizza chains.

The upgrade is worth the extra change. Family meals at Panda Express are a crowd pleaser. Who doesn't like orange chicken and fried rice? If that code doesn't work, give FLBOGO for buy-one-get-one-free-footlongs a try, because Subway tends to cycle between those two codes.

For once, Pizza Hut's deals recently got better. Options include medium one-topping pizzas, Melts, boneless wings, cheese sticks, breadsticks, pastas, and desserts. The Boneless Meal Deal comes with 20 boneless wings tossed in up to four sauce or rub flavors, plus a large fries and two dips.

Plus, you can get boneless wings for 70 cents each on Mondays and Tuesdays. Trying to decide which flavors to order? We ranked the best Wingstop flavors to help you make the call. Domino's has a unique, free "emergency" pizza deal going on right now to promote its new rewards program launch.

Plus, you can get bread, chicken, sandwiches, pasta, salads, and dessert for the same price. The best Arby's deal in years decades? has ended, but another has appeared.

You can mix and match from Classic Roast Beef, Crispy Fish, and Fish 'n Cheddar sandwiches. Like Domino's and Pizza Hut, Papa Johns has a buy-two-or-more deal. That's a lot of variety to satisfy everyone. The lure is a humongous rotating trompo of pineapple-marinated pork al pastor, sliced and deposited on a rustic corn tortilla.

Cactus, chicken, and carne asada fillings are also available. This small storefront in the wilds of Glendale specializes in Balkan bar food, an apparent branch of a place in Subotica, Serbia.

It concentrates on grilled meats and pastries, the former including the skinless sausages cevapi and the burger-like pljeskavica, which comes on a round bun that may be dressed with kaymak thick sour cream and ajvar a red pepper paste — plus the usual onions, tomatoes, and lettuce.

This relative newcomer to the Fresh Pond scene offers a revival of the Cuban cuisine that was common in the city 50 years ago, but now less so.

The list of roti is expansive, but I still prefer the bone-in goat, chicken, and conch. Mama Kitchen is a kosher Israeli restaurant that far exceeds expectations everything except the composed salads are cooked to order at a lower price than you might expect. Entrees include a full plate of food plus another plate from a salad bar with over a dozen selections.

The pizzas come out hot and fast and oozing cheese, and lines form to buy slices the line inside moves faster.

Often identified as the national dish, the cou cou and flying fish consists of a cornmeal porridge shot with okra and said fish. Jerk specialties and pastries are also available. Sandwiches available in three sizes, which is an economic and probably health-wise boon. Specializing in Chicago-style hot dogs, Dog Day Afternoon is named after an Al Pacino movie about a bank robbery that was partly shot on the same block of Windsor Terrace.

The hot dog boasts a couple of small innovations New York style pickles, for example, and sweet miniature plum tomatoes , but otherwise the genre remains intact.

Located a short bus ride straight uphill from the Staten Island Ferry, New Asha, founded in , is a funky sort of place with excellent Sri Lankan food. A glass case displays heavy tubular fritters that are good for snacks, but why not sit and chow down on halal meats like mutton or jackfruit curries, poured over rice and served with yellow dal and a chopped vegetable salad.

At lower prices and with more of a lunch counter atmosphere, Al Aqsa specializes in pita or laffa sandwiches, tucked or rolled, respectively, and filled with chicken shawarma, falafel, or lamb shish kebab, slathered with a strong toum, a garlicky white sauce. Kufta, bread dips, lahmacun in several variations, and even schnitzels round out the menu.

This hour West Midwood Pakistani cafe with a chile-pepper logo has it all, from snacks like samosas and stuffed breads that are great for rapid snacking to full meals that include meat and vegetarian dishes served with rice, bread, or both.

Go for the ground meat kebabs, which absorb lots of smoke in the clay oven, or haleem, a delicious porridge of lamb, wheat, and lentils. The steam table offers many vegan dishes.

The pizzas remain on the menu, and they are quite good in themselves. It specializes in roast beef sandwiches on kaiser rolls, the meat rich, moist, and deliciously rimmed with fat. Dip it in meat juices small extra charge , or eat it plain. It can get pretty crowded on weekends as patrons line up for multiple forms of khachapuri — often hot out of the oven — along with roast chicken, stout smoky sausages, and other beach-friendly tidbits.

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You can opt out at any time. The steam table at Papaye. The magnificent falafel platter at Tamam. Bigoi with puttanesca sauce. Typical plates of steam table selections.

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A combination plate at Asian Taste The egg salad may be regarded as a hamburger alternative. Basil chicken at Terra Thai. The pork schnitzel is served with two scoops of mashed potatoes and your choice of two salads.

Goat curry comes with a bowl of lentil soup at Little Myanmar. A lamb doner sandwich on Turkish bread. Sichuan classics from a northern Chinese perspective. Bakhtar Afghan Wali Baba Grill.

Goat curry and grilled lamb chops. Platter 33 at Halal Diner. The al pastor spit twirls at Taqueria Al Pastor. Pera Ždera Peter Eater.