Wow. I haven't been to a Burger King in years and outta no where I get a whopper jr. attack! Most Burger Kings in the cities are closed for good and we kinda had a hard time finding one.
I noticed how small the burgers had gotten over the years. I also noticed how big their "small" meals were. Man! Small drink and fries are not small at all! But it did do its job of fulfilling my BK attack. Bye bye now, I'll see ya in a few years.
Fast food, my 'tocks.
Despite having a horrible time working at a Burger King near my college campus for a single semester, I still crave a nice, juicy Whopper every now and then. This is the location I've gone to in the past, because it's within hollerin' distance of my Uptown abode. I'm reluctant to return, for a number of reasons. Let me explain, in a sort of open letter to their employees.
First of all, I'm sorry that I'm stealing your time by having the audacity to actually try and order food from you. Judging by the alternately bored/indiferrent/perturbed tone of your voice when I've approached, I must be putting a huge-ass kink in your busy nail-filing and boyfriend-texting schedule.
Now, to your drive-up personnel: I'm sorry that I'm throwing such difficult requests as "No. 1 meal with a diet" at you. I'm not sure how much easier I could make my request, but I'll try to speak more loudly and more slowly than I already do, so that you don't have to repeat my order in your pissed-off voice 92 times (each time with a different and wrong variation of what I asked for). Again, I'm sorry.
Third, I know how much you love each and every one of your ketchup packets--you probably name them and give them presents on holidays, based on how loathe you are to let them go--but if I ask for "a lot of ketchup," that doesn't mean two packets. Please give me more--you have my word that I will take good care of them and give them a loving home outside your restaurant.
Finally, I know you care deeply about ALL your foodstuffs and hate to see them depart, paper-wrapped, from your loving hands. However, do you think you could please make your goodbyes shorter? As a customer at a food-factory establishment, I don't really expect to wait 30 minutes from shouting "Whopper, heavy pickle" into the little box, to the time you place the bag (inevitably containing Whopper, NO pickle) into my mitts.
Thanks.
Remember. 3 stars says "A-OK". And that's the first thing that pops up when I think of Burger King on Lawrence near Western.
It's a fast food joint. People who are employed here probably didn't have Burger King on the top of their career of choice list, so give 'em a little break eh? An individual's ability to perform is largely dictated by their motivation. Enough said.
Despite inconsistencies in service, they abide to your every wishes whether it be a certain sauce you'd like to go with your chicken fries, or perhaps just ketchup on that juicy whopper of yours. No attitude either unless you're one of those dicks who expect a friggin silver platter to go with your burger.
On Fridays and Saturdays, their late night hours extend to 2 a.m., although the closer to 2 you get - the less likely they'll have everything on the menu available. I've come in late a few times to find they're out of something. I can't really complain. Perhaps I'm just too forgiving.
They have a large seating area, so munching in is rarely a problem. You might find some nuisance with your typical flock of high school and middle school kids fuckin' around. You learn to ignore them like you do anywhere else.
I just want a goddamn whopper. And it always comes and tastes the way I expect it. Hail to the King.
Burger King is always a last-ditch attempt at getting something quick and hot in the neighborhood. I almost never review a fast-food joint on here, but I gotta say something!!
This is probably the worst Burger King I've been to in Chicago. This place is almost always empty and for good reason.
It ALWAYS takes forever to get any food if you order more than just fries. Drive thru or dine in, it will always take at least 5 minutes. It once took 15 minutes for a friend and I to get food at the drive-thru, not including the 5 minutes we waited after they said, "Can you hold one minute?"
It's NEVER clean. Trays piled on top of recepticles. Crumbs on tables. Napkins all over the floor. ALWAYS. Like it's a policy not to clean until they close at the end of the day.
So, unless you like to walk around blind and have a good book to read while you're waiting, or unless you're REALLY desperate for some BK, avoid this at all costs.
They used to be good like 20 years ago - remember the one on 4700 Kimball by Roosevelt? Â TORN DOWN!!! Â Finally torn down!!!
I go in there one day and order a fish for my mom. Â Plain only ketchup. Â I get home Lettuce, sauce and ketchup!!! Â The worst thing is that I was inside with no people waiting and it still took them 5 minutes to acknowledge that there is a customer and to take an order. Â I was there for 15 minutes for 3 frickin items. Â The fries were cold and too much ice in the drink. Â All BK's should go out of business just to save our sanity.
oh my goodness, ghetto king, said I wasn't going to do it but here it goes, I have lived in the area FOREVER and just recently moved in very close proximity to this place, for a second please imagine the smell of charred burgers ... o.k. now imagine the smell of charred burgers at 7 am when you're leaving for work and then the smell of charred burgers at 6 pm when you're coming home from work and then the smell of charred burgers while you take out the trash, go for a jog, walk to your car...come home late from a bar...ITS ALWAYS THERE! Â I hate you Burger King, thank god for over extending your smell into my home because I have zero desire to go here ever again.
Review Source:Once, when I was about 9 or 10, I was out playing by a pond behind my house. Â The embankment was muddy and I slipped and fell in. Â The viscous, noxious, flithy slime that I accidentally swallowed tasted better than the coffee from this joint. Â I cant believe I spent $1.09 on that. Â What a waste. Â
People from BK: Â Just because coffee and old meat are both brown does not make it OK for both to have the same taste and consistency. Â Foul. Â Truly.
I write this only to hype the best/worst thing BK has done since it's inception. They have been on the menu for a while , yet have received absolutely no pub. What is this delicacy I speak of you ask? TACOS!!!!!!!!!!!! They have completely stolen Jack in the Box's old recipe and I am in heaven. They are perhaps one of the ,if not the worst thing for humans to consume , what are essentially deep fried Taco Bell tacos. I am brought back to my childhood at the old Jack in the Box near Senn high school with every bite. The only other menu item worth note is the Italian chicken sandwich , which I think is very good. Everything else is what it is, everybody has eaten at Burger King.
Review Source:Finally, finally a fast food burger restaurant that understands that sometimes vegetarians don't have time to grill tofu (Taco Bell does have a 7-layer vegetarian burrito, but I like having options!). The only reason I even ventured back into one of these meat traps is that BK started advertising its Morningstar burger. I had one and it was pretty delicious, and cost the same as any other meal. One thing to note--it doesn't come as a meal, so while I was glad to not be tempted into fries and a soda, it made me feel a bit like this is just a sop to "healthy eaters" rather than a permanent menu item.
All I can say to other fast food places is pick up the vegetarian pace!
I think that the horrible post office across the street has spread it's bad vibes to this establishment.
Yes, I know that fast food sucks and is unhealthy for you, but i really quite like fast food breakfast. Since this Burger King is 3 blocks away I'll go here once or twice a month and get a biscuit with egg and cheese and their breakfast potatoes. I prefer Burger King's breakfast potatoes to McDonald's anyday.
Today I had a crappy experience here. I went through the drive through and made my order. "One biscuit with just egg and cheese meal, large size with decaf. coffee." Unfortunately their little electronic order confirmation screen is broken or something. I get up to the window and get my coffee (the cup is leaking....which I don't notice until I get home). Then I get my food. I immediately notice that I have a small order of potatoes, so I repeat that I asked for a large order. The drive thru person (who I notice is the shift leader) says that she heard something different, but she did go and get me a large order.
So, I go home and am all ready to eat my food and I open my sandwich and there is sausage on it....ewww...I look for my receipt...and I wasn't given one. So, I go back to the restaurant cause I am hungry and ask for it to be remade. The shift leader lady again says that she heard me say that I wanted a Number 2....um, no, I said I wanted a biscuit with just egg and cheese. They remake it for me, but the biscuit is hard and stale and it's just all together kind of messy. I ask if they have any kind of consideration for the inconvenience of going home and finding that my order is wrong and they just stare at me blankly.
Another complaint I have about this location is when I went here to get their 2 for $3 whopper special. I asked to get it without the meat...oh, but that will cost $5. Does that make any sense? Why should I pay more for something when I'll get less? I asked about it and they said it's because of the button on the machine...so I asked about the special and they say they can't do it because of the button on the machine, even though you're supposed to be able to take anything off of a whopper. Yeah, these people suck.
ALSO!!! I went to look at the burger king restaurant website to see if I could complain and their website SUCKS MONKEY ASS! It's confusing and hard to navigate and it slows my computer down. In addition their complaint number only works Monday through Friday 9-5.
So, I guess Burger King kind of deserves to go out of business...maybe McDonalds can start making breakfast potatoes like them, then the world would be a better place.
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