r/fastfood

Fast food news, reviews, and discussion

Founded June 2008 · Public — anyone can post

Updated Oct 19

The /r/FastFood subreddit is for news, reviews, and discussions of fast food (aka quick-service), fast casual, and casual restaurants -- covering everything fast food from multinational chains, regional and local chains, independent and chain cafeterias and all-you-can-eat restaurants, independent and chain diners, independent hole-in-the-wall restaurants, convenience store and gas station prepared food, food trucks and food carts, the neighborhood taqueria, street vendors, etc.

Members

312,732

313K

Online now

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not captured in the last snapshot

Posts per day

13.7

from the last 100 posts, spanning 7.2 days

Comments per post

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no sample yet

Growth · 7d

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not enough history yet

Growth · 30d

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not enough history yet

Promo tolerance

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not assessed yet

Last post

Oct 19

sampled Oct 19

Distinct posters

82%

of the last 100 posts

Tracking since Oct 19 · growth spans are the real distance between snapshots, not rounded windows. Posts/day is measured from the community’s own newest posts on Reddit, not from what Prowlo happens to crawl.

Member growth

Tracking since Oct 19 — growth charts appear after a week of history.

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r/fastfood — frequently asked

How many members does r/fastfood have?

r/fastfood has 312,732 members as of our most recent crawl on Oct 19. Prowlo re-checks tracked communities on a rolling schedule, so this figure moves rather than sitting frozen at whatever it was when a scraper last ran.

Is r/fastfood growing?

We don't have 30 days of snapshot history for r/fastfood yet, so we're not going to invent a growth number. We've been tracking it since Oct 19; the chart fills in as history accumulates.

How active is r/fastfood?

Around 13.7 posts per day, measured from the newest 100 posts on Reddit, which span 7.2 days. Posting rate matters more than subscriber count when you're deciding where to spend your time — it determines how long your comment stays visible.

When was r/fastfood created?

r/fastfood was founded in June 2008 and is a public — anyone can post community. Age matters: an older community with steady growth has survived Reddit's moderation churn; a young one with a spike may not.

Who posts in r/fastfood?

Of the last 100 posts we sampled, 82% came from distinct accounts; the newest was published Oct 19. A low share means a feed dominated by a handful of accounts (bots, mods, or one prolific poster) rather than a community.

Can I promote my product in r/fastfood?

We don't have a promo-tolerance read for r/fastfood yet. Default to the safe approach: read the sidebar rules, contribute in threads where you gain nothing, and mention your product only when it is the honest answer to someone's question.

How do I monitor r/fastfood for mentions?

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Can my AI agent read r/fastfood's stats?

Yes. Everything on this page is one MCP tool call away: catalog_get_subreddit returns r/fastfood's members, growth, promo tolerance and similar communities as typed JSON — free, no credits. Connect your agent to api.prowlo.com/mcp and it can vet the community and start watching it in the same conversation.

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