So, this place was terrible. First, Cheeburger Cheeburger promoted childhood obesity. Honestly, it is not healthy for a kid under 12 to be plowing down a half pound burger. Notice the section that reads, “Repeat offenders?” What a joke. According to the CDC, 17% of children between ages 2-19 are obese. Cheeburger Cheeburger would clearly like to see that rate get to 50% as it would help their bottom line.
It’s one thing to have this wall for kids recognizing their “accomplishment.” (Nothing about eating that much food at that age is an accomplishment to begin with) But to have a repeat offenders section? Parents are teaching their kids to be proud of slamming a half pound burger multiple times throughout their childhood. This sucks.
Now to the food. Rumor has it that they have a pretty good veggie burger. So naturally, I ordered the veggie burger. I’m not quite over the promotion of childhood obesity at this point — but Matt, our waiter, is about to thoroughly disappoint me. Actually, not disappointing, just embarrassing. They don’t have the veggie burger in stock. Not only did he initially take my order down and have me verbally spew out what I wanted on my burger before he took it to the kitchen – but he didn’t KNOW that there was no veggie burger today. That is a perfect example of piss poor customer service. If you don’t have an item in stock and you are a waiter, that’s fine, tell me before I order. But if I go through the arduous process of thinking, collaborating, and finally ordering what I want, you better be damn sure I get what I want. Needless to say, Matt’s tip corresponded to his poor service.
So what did I eat? Fried jalapeños. For 6 bucks. They sucked. The paper and the basket had more grease than Rick Perry’s hair and it was truly terrible. The jalapeños tasted like they had been in a freezer for a couple of months (it’s quite possible they were) and the dressing they had given me, garden vegetable, was about as good as eating concrete.
Finally, people are going to inquire what my final thoughts of Cheeburger Cheeburger are. I don’t really know how to quantify it. It really, really sucks. Or it really, really, really, sucks. 0/10, for those that like numbers. But hey, some people are into eating out at some awful chains and even enjoy a little concrete dressing every once in a while. I’d recommend this place to no one.
By the way, my picture is not with my camera. It’s with my mobile device. Cheeburger Cheeburger didn’t deserve a high resolution image.
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I’m pretty sure those japs you ate are the ones one may find at many places all over courtesy of Sysco. After working in a kitchen and seeing how many appetizers/snacks come from the freezer and take a dip in the frier in route to one’s table, I resolved to take a permanent pass on anything even resembling fried jalapenos, fried potato skins, fried cheese sticks and whatever else I’ve seen come from Sysco. The quality sucks and they are probably full of low quality ingredients and preservatives. Combine that with possible poor cooking effort and you have an item that isn’t worth 1 dollar, much less the 5.95 most places charge.
To be honest I think you’re being naive blaming the restaurant for this. I saw that wall, and yes it’s mostly young kids but I have some questions for you;
A) How did they get to the restaurant?
B) Who paid for their meal?
The answer to both is ‘their parents’. The restaurant provides a service you can choose to use, they didn’t force these kids to go to their restaurant nor choose the largest burger while they are there.
Thanks for your comments –
MCMC, I agree with you BUT the restaurant shouldn’t condone eating challenges at such a young age, either. I think it’s just tempting and sending the wrong message to our youth.
Joshua – Yes. It was AWFUL.