If you demand food from chains, you need to get down to the Dedham/Boston line

Boston Restaurant Talk reports an outlet of the Jersey Mike's sub chain has opened in a (gasp!) closed Dunkin' Donuts in that sort of rotary where Washington Street and Providence Highway (no longer confused with Rte. 1!) meet in Dedham.

That only solidifies that stretch of Providence Highway-into-VFW Parkway as one of the fast-food chainiest stretches of road in the immediate Boston area.

Starting at Washington Street in Dedham and going to Spring Street in West Roxbury, this 1.5-mile stretch of road now has, in order: Jersey Mike's, Uno, IHOP, Starbucks, Chipotle, Five Guys, Panda Express, Chick-fil-A, McDonald's, Popeyes, Burger King, a doubled up Taco Bell/Long John Silver's and, of course, a Dunkin' Donuts (there used to be three, in addition to the Jersey Mike's one, there was the one just past the McDonald's that closed and is now Popeyes; for that matter, there used to be a second McDonald's across the highway from the first, next to the Chuck E. Cheese).