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| - Another reviewer wrote this about Fudds:
"This is a good restaurant if you have children from toddler through middle school age. If you don't have children in tow you might want to visit another restaurant."
I have a ten month old daughter, so I'm writing from that perspective.
My family and I visited a few weeks ago after not having been in a Fudds location for geographical and menu reasons for quite a number of years. My wife is a vegetarian and I haven't eaten beef for quite a while. She got a veggie burger and I got a turkey burger. They came out quickly and were as ordered, and for the price, they were quite good. Sides (sweet potato fries and wedge fries) were similarly good. Minor ding because they were a bit stingy with the fries. I also love restaurants that have Freestyle Coke machines, because you can never get Cherry Coke Zero in a restaurant otherwise.
The topping bar is a Fudds trademark and I like that it puts the responsibility on the customer. One source of constant and often unjustified customer criticism of restaurants is that order customizations, regardless of where the customizations fall on the reasonableness scale, result in service errors. I like topping my own burger. It's a feeling of power and self-satisfaction that you don't get at other places.
I like the balance of this place. Sometimes Red Robin or a similar restaurant isn't feasible with a tiny kiddo. They tend to have a long wait there and it's a fully sit-down place, but Fudds does fast casual burgers well. You're getting a bump in quality from McDonald's or BK without a huge bump in price. As long as you have managed expectations with Fudds, then you should be good to go. You can get a freshly cooked burger that's actually pretty good and is topped the way you want, a good side item, and one of a gazillion varieties of a Freestyled Coke product for like ten bucks.
And they have a kids' play area. Boom.
In the end, I'm a fan, but I really wish their rewards program wasn't so beef-centric. Would it kill you to give me a turkey burger instead of a beef burger? Just sayin', Fudds. Just sayin'.
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