Same. The vendors are all pretty similar because they are government contract sites. The one thing I like about how Quebec does it, at least on some of their ARs, is they have simple 'rest areas' every so often. Not wide open, hot, paved commercial sites, just parking, grass and trees, where you can actually, you know, rest. Some might have a coffee or snack truck, likely under contract, but I found them quite re-charging. Ontario does have some decent rest areas but none of them are along 400-series routes, and the few service centres that have an actual picnic area are kinda grim.
The "knowing where you want to go" always surprised me. I did a post-retirement, part-time gig driving for the airport shuttle out of Barrie and on weekends, and never went near Hwy 400, and often wondered why the people who do the drive every weekend would sit in stop-and-go traffic year after year.
Quite frankly, I've never understood the attraction of Weber's, at least not in the past 20-odd years. In the beginning, their burgers were good but now they are little different that most other fast food joints (particularly the buns). They do move people through like an assembly line, but I certainly wouldn't be sanding outside in the rain waiting for one. The one thing in their favour is most ma-and-pa, not-chain options either north or south of their, have gone.
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