This review feels like a mean-spirited kicking of a child off his new bike before he can even enjoy training wheels. I hate giving restaurants a hard time when they are just getting opened-up, but Princeton has a habit of slow "fast food" lingering long after the grand opening. The McDonalds that has been open for about a year, just up the street, seems to be run by the sloths from the movie "Zootopia". You'll wait all day to get your drive-thru, and then it's wrong.
I digress...
Back to the new Whataburger. It's only been open for a couple weeks, at most, so there's still a bunch of trainers and extra staff hanging about. That was the impression when we first arrived. About 40 people in Whatburger uniforms just sitting all over the restaurant, behind the line, in the booths...just hanging out. You could run ten Whatburgers on the payroll just sitting down at the dining room tables...chatting. Maybe the trainers were all simultaneously on a massive break? Who knows... Not a great first impression, however.
Kudos to the gal with the short hair who noticed I was carrying a toddler and trying to drag two high chairs while wading through the Whataburger convention they were having. She pulled a couple tables together, helped get my high chairs parked around it and seemed genuinely hopeful I would have a good dining experience.
Then the fun began: Out of all the soft drink selections on the soda machine I might want, the first three I opted for were out of syrup...just carbonated water.
The food is delivered. Two of the orders are missing onion rings. My wife asks for mustard and gets honey mustard. It would have been funny, if it weren't so tragic.
The people at the register were polite and efficient. The gentleman delivering the food (and bringing back the missing and incorrect items) was incredibly polite and good natured. The building is new and clean. The food (that was right) was actually pretty good. My advice is to give the team there a few more weeks of practice and to let the army of Whataburger trainers clear out. Then...hopefully... this restaurant will at least be faster and more accurate than their McDonalds neighbor. Good luck! read more