Watch your mouth, I grew up with Ronald...lol. Speaking of BK, there's one not too far from me that closed for about two months. It just reopened, and by surprise, the food tasted nastier then when it closed. Plus they hired an all new staff who are worst than the ones who were there when it closed. Since they reopened, I forgot how much their soda's smelled like roach spray with a slight sweet scent. And they always tasted borderline flat, with two small bubbles that disappeared before you took your first sip. It's been that way ever since they installed those newer touch-screen fountains several years ago. Zaxby's have those kind of touch-screen fountains too, and they taste just as nasty, followed by Wendy's. However Wendy's touch-screen fountains taste ok at least half the time. The only place down here in the ATL metro that installed those same kind of touch-screen fountains, and where the sodas stayed fresh, was the AMC Theater in Morrow. where I only been once since the pandemic.
Tbh, when McDonald's is on a good streak, they taste better than BK, especially since BK haven't been able to get it together for over a decade.