I normally wouldn't give a review for a fast food restaurant, but I felt like there were a few things that needed said. We popped into this location because we were on our way to a wedding way out in the 'burbs and knew that given the time we were leaving and the time of the wedding, etc, it'd be hours before dinner, and we didn't want to be uncomfortably hungry for hours.
First: the menu didn't list that they had a veggie burger--I had to ask. Glad they have it. It'd be nice if it were actually listed, so people who don't eat meat and don't know that they actually have a menu option (like if they're kinda stuck going with friends/family members) besides French fries. That said...the burger itself is pretty good. FYI it's a "garden burger" kind of thing--bits and pieces of things like mushrooms and shredded carrot are noticeable. Just for info, in case anyone thought it was maybe a bean burger or brown rice thing.
Second: the condiments. OMG. SERIOUSLY?!?! So we ordered our food, which included fries. We saw bins with various packets on the counter and grabbed some ketchup. I noticed there was something sticky on one of the ones I picked up and sat it on the counter and grabbed another. It was sticky. Then I saw there was something on pretty much *all* the packets. I said something to the girl behind the counter and she said "yeah. They're all like that". And I said--ok...but they're sticky. Her response was "they came like that. Something must have gotten on them. They came like that". HELLO!?!?!?! You're putting out packets of foodstuffs with crap all over them that people are going to touch with their hands before eating their food. Can we say NOT HYGENIC? You know what you can do? RINSE THEM OFF. If it's just ketchup or some other condiment, it should rinse off easily in hot/warm water, and then dry them off and put them out, having weeded out whichever of them had busted open on the others. This isn't rocket science! I know that she was young, and I know that minimum wage means you're generally not paid enough to care, but this is crappy food handling, afaic, even if it's on the customer-facing side. We needed to eat and get on the road, so I didn't continue with her (but checked in so I would remember to go back and make a note of it!) and instead carefully opened some packets, squeezed them on my food wrapper for the fries, and then went to the bathroom to wash my hands before coming back to eat.
THAT BATHROOM!!!!! Someone apparently ripped the mirror down at some point, because no mirror. (Which is oddly disorienting in a public bathroom, to not have one over the sink. I don't know why, but it was weird) and it smelled *awful*. Not in a way like someone a time or two before you walked in did some business, but like that and then some, and that it hadn't been cleaned, ventilated, or sanitized in a while. It wasn't visually horribly dirty, but it was awful. When I had to use the bathroom again before we hit the road, I realized there was nowhere I could even set my purse down and feel like it was not going to get dirty (I don't think there was a hook on the door or anything to hang it from) and walked back out--handed it to my date to hold, grabbed napkins, and then went back in-- holding my breath, and using the napkins to open the door, because I didn't want to touch it with clean hands.
It's been a little over a week since I was there, and I hope that things have improved, but as far as I'm concerned, problems like this are as much a management problem as staff and facilities...and they really need to clean up their act. There's a very good chance I will never re-visit this location to find out, though. It was *that bad* read more