Linda F.
Yelp
I guess it's really my fault for not learning my lesson the last couple of times. I went into this fat burger with the resolve to make sure to order the burger with no salt as the few times I've been here it has been the saltiest hamburger I've ever had in my life. I decided to get the kids meal, as the regular burger is a bit larger than I can usually finish. So I ordered the kids meal. This is where it all went so wrong. As someone else mentioned in another review, the Hispanic man on the register/speaker has zero people skills. My main problem with him was that he doesn't seem to really understand English at all. The first thing I asked was if onion rings can be substituted in the kids meal for the french fries. I asked that twice, he said yes. Never once did he say that would be an additional charge. Secondly, I asked him can you get the chili separately in a cup? He said "chili cheese fries? I said no, the chili by itself, not on anything. And he said yes and it sounded like he asked me what size. So I said a small cup of chili. He said OK fine. When I drive up to the front I have this feeling that something was going to get screwed up. Sure enough, I got the receipt and prepared for the long wait that there always is at this Fatburger. I looked at the price for the chili which was the add-on price of $1.35. So at that point I knew that they either didn't understand or just disregarded my request for the chili to be a cup of chili by itself. I was trying to figure out if they were going to slather my onion rings with chili or put it all over my burger - *neither* one of which did I want.
Sure enough, when the kids meal came out the burger was a chili burger, which is something I have never wanted and would never order. The onion rings were the huge large order, they were not part of the kids meal. I got charged for the full side order of onion rings instead of it being part of the kids meal as a substitute for the french fries. Additionally, I didn't even get the fries which I obviously paid for since they charged me for the onion rings completely separately.
I realized once I took the bag of food that there was no point in asking them to change what was wrong with the order as the guy didn't understand me the first two or three times I tried to explain it and he certainly would not understand what I was trying to say about how to fix the problem.
I have to realize that unless I want something exactly as it appears on the menu with no changes whatsoever, I just won't go to this fat burger again. Employers out there, please employ people that speak at least a minimum level of English. Maybe this guy was the franchise owner I don't know, but he truly didn't understand much of anything that I said - which in my opinion is a bad look for a business.