This is a good place that shoots itself in the foot with klutzy self-representation..
They call themselves a virtual kitchen located within Urban Chicken.
They are NOT a virtual kitchen - and it is just as well that they are not a virtual kitchen.
They make it sound like Chronic Fries is borrowing space from Urban Chicken.
Chronic Fries is not "borrowing space" from Urban Chicken.
The two institutions are one and the same.
The menu for one is printed on the back of the menu for other.
They may have a complicated ownership structure -
But that does not get around the fact that this is simply a fast food restaurant where you can order both chicken and fries.
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I don't see why Chronic Fries would want to be a virtual kitchen.
Virtual kitchens are awful antiseptic places where there is no place to sit down.
In a virtual kitchen, you get your food from a numbered box.
In a virtual kitchen, there is screen against a wall from which you order.
Otherwise, you use your phone.
It takes effort to make contact with a human being.
Virtual Kitchens are total THX 1138.
Virtual kitchens s**k.
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Chronic Fries/Urban Chicken is a nifty place for a fast food restaurant.
They have tons of seating both indoors and outdoors.
The crowd is heavily college-age which may or may not be collegiate.
The crowd is diverse the way Round Rock is diverse.
The crowd has a lot of church kids the way Round Rock has a lot of church kids.
My male companion and I were the oldest people in the place.
Virtual kitchens don't have crowds - let alone young ones.
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The fries are super-duper.
(Okay, for a college aged place, I probably should have used a term less dated than "super-duper".)
For the maximum french fry bliss experience,
get any version with chicken on top.
Some versions give you chicken automatically.
All versions let you order chicken on top as an add-on.
Urban Chicken does a good chicken
And what goes on your French Fries will be top notch.
We got three kinds of fries.
The standout was the BBQ Mac and Cheese Fries.
Hot Cheetos Fries were just what they sound like.
The sides that don't have much Hot Cheetos on them are not all that interesting.
You get to the part with industrial quantities of ground up Hot Cheetos on top and,
Suddenly things start to go live action.
Plain macaroni and cheese fries are not that exciting by themselves.
But they sell about half a dozen sauces to put on top of your macaroni and cheese fries.
Some of those look like they could make a real compelling argument
That they belong on your fries
If your toppings are not exotic enough already.
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Just for the record, they also run a soft-serve operation.
That soft-serve operation offers milk shakes as a possible beverage.
Thumbs up on the soft serve milk shakes.
Their version of an Oreo Milkshake has about a truckload of Oreo crumbs dumped on top.
On a milkshake that means that the crumbs end up all on the bottom with your maraschino cherry.
Why oh why, in the 21st century, do we still have to put up with maraschino cherries?
Why oh why, in the 20th century, the 19th century, the 18th century or any century that you can possibly think of, do we still have to put up with maraschino cherries?
The church kids eating at the various tables around you can probably explain to you that because Eve ate the Apple in the Garden of Eden - and Adam ate the apple too - that they were thrown out of the Garden of Eden - and forced to have maraschino cherries on top of their desserts.
God's love and the Forgiveness of Jesus Christ gives you the really good Oreo Milkshake that surrounds that maraschino cherry.
I have no idea if that theology is sound ...
But the Oreo milkshake is objectively good
And the difficulty of sucking up those Oreo crumbs with your straw
Is the exact equivalent of attaining heaven merely by the force of good works.
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First rate fries.
First rate toppings.
First rate drinks.
A corporate office with an identity problem.
And religious people to talk to in the seats
If the fries inspire you to seek a higher way.
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What's not to like?
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