After being tempted inside by the reasonable prices and fancy decor, we decided to order. You have to order at the checkout, like at McDonalds. The guy at the checkout starts barking questions at us about our meals. WITHFRIESORPOTATO? YOUWANTALARGEDRINK? KETCHUPMAYO? I'm not sure if the guy was just bad at service or if they were trained to act like that in order to confuse the customer.
Y'see, the price of a menu (burger, fries and drink) is quite reasonable, but when you're being interrogated at the checkout, you notice the guy is hitting extra buttons whenever you say yes and the price of your meal is going up. So after you've ordered a bunch of extra crap you didn't really want, the price isn't that impressive after all.
Ketchup cost 40 cents btw. I mean, you get enough ketchup for 5 or 6 meals, but unless you take it with you afterwards, the vast majority ends up in the trash. Your burger also comes with a little bowl of chopped up cucumber in a weird sauce. Maybe they think that's what Americans eat. I don't really get it.
So we get our burgers from the Mcdonalds counter. The burger comes on a plate and you get a knife and fork. Fancy! My wife notices that there's some stuff floating in her cola, presumably that's one of the extras she ordered unknowingly.
Her burger had a weird sweet vinaigrette taste. We eventually figure out that there is salad dressing on the bottom of the bun. How did it get there? The only possible reason we could think of is that they put her burger on a plate that previously had a salad on it, and wasn't washed.
Serving food on dirty plates is a new low that I have never encountered, and I've eaten at a lot of terrible restaurants in my time.
Leaving aside the terrible service and total disregard for hygiene, the burgers themselves were bland as hell. I got the mushroom burger, which came with a heap of slimy mushrooms in a tasteless cream sauce. My wife got the blue cheese burger, which once we had removed the tainted burger bun, also failed to taste of anything. Even the bun was a let-down, it was thin and crunchy and weird.
The one highlight of our visit was the toilets, which are excellently designed, and feature the newest model of the Dyson airblade hand-dryer, which is truly the top of the line in the hand-dryer market. If you are in the area and you need to use the toilet, you will not be disappointed, and they are free.
Bad, bad, bad. Avoid. read more