It was 10:55am and the front door was clearly unlocked so instead of waiting until 11:00am, I poked my head inside to see if they were open already. A lady told me that they open at 11:00. No problem... I waited. When I was younger, I worked in a fast food joint so I know that sometimes those few precious minutes right before opening can be critical. When we went inside at 11:00, the register was not ready to go so we had to wait for the manager on shift to do her thing. A seemingly nice young lady took our order but when she repeated it back, it was very wrong. I chalk that up to being masked, and having to hear over the usual restaurant noise. I was correcting her but she was getting confused... perhaps I was going too fast. After a while the manager on shift came over and seemed to ask (i couldn't hear her) what was taking so long. This is when the cashier blamed me for changing the order. I get it... probably didn't want to get in trouble by her manager. Think about this though. I'm there ordering take out. People like their burgers a certain way. It is not very likely that someone picking up 5 burgers is changing their order on the fly. So that was the start of me being thoroughly annoyed. You could tell they were having a difficult time putting the order together so I thought it would be a good idea to watch. That's when I saw the manager on shift put a burger with no cheese inside what was supposed to be a plain little bacon cheeseburger. When I brought this to her attention, she said will a little irritation in her voice... "Do you even remember what you ordered?". This was obviously a jab at what happened during the ordering process since the cashier clearly blamed me for the length of time it took her to get it right. I clearly told her that I did, and that it's been the same since I entered the restaurant. She told me the order was correct. Then I saw her reopen the burger. There was no cheese in it so she took it back to the griddle to put cheese on it. There was no acknowledgment to the customer that they had made a mistake, even after the customer pointed it out and was disregarded. I can only think, based on what I experienced, that the culture of this particular workplace is toxic. People unable to be accountable for their mistakes, blaming others, talking bad about customers. I wasn't surprised to find out that this place only had a 3 star review. So why 2 stars instead of one? Well, after I got over my irritation and tasted the food, the food was actually pretty good. Not good enough for me to go there again (because I don't go places that have horrible customer service), but it was the best burger I've had in a while. The burger tasted fresh and had good flavor, the fries were okay, and the peanut butter shake was great. It's expensive for what you get though, at almost 10 bucks a burger. If you have kids and they like plain burgers, it's not really worth it. They give a lot of fries. I ordered 1 large cajun and 1 large regular and we had about half the order left after everyone was full.
On our way out they tried to be friendly, but its probably more likely that we became the topic of the day shift crew banter even though at every step of the way, they were certainly wrong. It's okay though. Whatever you need to make it through a bad day in a bad work environment. They didn't see that I noticed that most of my pickles fell out of my burger when they were wrapping it up. As a result, I had only 1 pickle slice in my burger. At that point, I was too irritated to say something. It would have come out very mean and unpleasant. We just said thank you and left. I'd say that the food was 4 out of 5. Service was 0 our of 5. If you go, I hope you have a better experience and that someone else is paying for it. read more