Ed B.
Yelp
Preface: I only go to these kinda joints for breakfast, when I've driven my wife to work at Oh-Sweet-Jesus-it's-too-early-in-the-morning o' clock.
The food here is consistent with every other Jack in the Box I've been to. It's ok for what it is, and slightly better than the competition in terms of flavor and, well... "realness." There's a real fried egg on the sandwich, not some pre-scrambled bullshit that got poured out of a carton into a round mold on a flat grill. There's an honest-to-goodness egg on these sandwiches. Truly. The bacon is crisp and the sausage is tasty, but not dripping with grease (but you had better chew slowly and carefully because every goddamn sandwich I've gotten at a JITB has bones or cartilege in the sausage).
The coffee. Seattle's Best. Dark Roast does not begin to cover it because the shit is always burnt. I've stopped by twice only for coffee and gotten the shits both times. Yep, went ahead and went there. Sorry, but it had to be told.
Now, all that, I could deal with. I mean, fast food is what it is and is that which it ever will be. We're not talking high quality fine dining with a joint like this, which means they should focus instead on consistency and good service. This location is consistent. What they lack is consistently good service. They lack consistent service of any kind.
I drop my wife off at work nearby just before 6AM. By the time I get to this location, it's usually somewhere between ten to a quarter after. In the approximate hundred times or so I've driven my wife to work in the past three months, I've stopped by this place maybe thirty times. At least half of the time I've stopped here, well after their posted opening hour, I sit in the drive-through talking to the menu not only like I don't have a friend in the world, but feeling more like I don't have a hope in the world of getting served some goddamn breakfast, which is about all I can think about at this hour. Food. Coffee. No response? Well, fuck you, I'm leaving.
I've sat. And waited. And waited some more. Then shouted
"GOOD MORNING" into the microphone built into the second menu to no avail more times than I want to admit should happen with a fast food location.
I hope the GM reads this after he (Jesus, I hope) hears about the epic complaint I'm going to level on this location. Hear me now: The middle-aged white woman who opens? Yeah, she's great when she's around and not "upstairs" doing who-knows-what. Gotten that bullshit three times now. The Indian girl? She's phenomenal. Give that girl a raise because she's not only on top of things and pleasant to deal with, but she's pleasant all-around and always smiling and THAT is the right way to start a customer's day. The young Hispanic woman I've seen walk into work 15 minutes late not once, not twice, but three goddamn times needs to go. She mumbles into the MICROPHONE DIRECTLY MOUNTED IN FRONT OF HER FACE and when asked to speak up, instead talks only faster. She has a shitty attitude with the customers and makes it clear she doesn't want to be there, so can we make her disappear? Please? I have zero doubt that you can find a much more enthusiastic replacement given today's economy.
Really, all I would like is for your employees to be open, up and running at six in the morning, when you're advertised as being open, because I have to tell you, I'm tired of running to McDonald's down the street to get a breakfast sandwich and a cup of coffee. It's a disgrace. If I stop by maybe once a week or so and get denied half the time, your business is suffering in many more ways that you need to look at because your employees are screwing you. "Open at six" means everyone's ass is punched in and working *at least* forty-five minutes before that, prepping for breakfast and the rest of the day. I've worked in too many kitchens for this shit to fly with me.
You've lost about a dozen orders to the competitor literally a mile down the street that you wouldn't have had a human being said "Good morning" to me on the goddamn drive-through headset ten minutes after open. And yeah, the woman at McDonald's ever and always greets me immediately with a cheery "good morning," quickly takes my order and I have my food and am on my way in less than a minute, tops. And I hate handing her my cash for all her smiling and fantastic service because the food sucks. You read that right, their food sucks compared to yours but they get my cash.
The performance of this location is inexcusable. And yes, there have been a few occasions where I've driven into the drive-through to get some coffee and the fucking lights weren't even on at ten past six. Are you kidding me? What kind of bullshit establishment is this? I know this is the internet and all, but I refuse to lie or embellish on Yelp here because I figure every other consumer out there has a right to know. Want an early breakfast with a smile at this place? It's a maybe at best.
GET YOUR SHIT TOGETHER!