the local non-chain burger joint near one's place of residence. Usually the restaurant has a "neighborhood feel" and reasonable prices, while serving a variety of artery clogging delights. Often named after the owner, such as "Mike's Fast Foods" or "Big Franks Hot Dogs".
lets go down to the localgrease pit and grab a burger and some fries
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)