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| - After a couple of visits, I am totally a fan of this place. Whoever is the mastermind of this concept has got to be doing well. Where else can you have your shake cost just as much as your burger? Genius!
The first visit, our family went with:
Salted Nutella Crunch shake ($6) - delicious - enough for our table of 4 to split
Grand-dad shake ($8) - lots of caramel and bourbon - would be good as a dessert if you have room to spare
Morty's Steakhouse ($10.50) - lots of flavors going on here - everything sort of got muddled by the end.
Standard Deluxe ($8.50) - my wife loved her choice of burger. Simple, to the point, delicious.
The kids got chicken tenders and the hot dog ($6 each) and you get a choice between a Cherry Coke Float or a Coke Float as a dessert.
On the second visit, my wife and I each got the Standard Deluxe and we skipped the shakes. The burgers were perfectly cooked and dressed - simplicity was key here! I opted for the $1.50 upcharge for fries instead of the homemade chips. This was a great choice - there were rosemary sprigs in the fries which really added some great flavor to them.
On both visits, there was a substantial wait of 1 hour+. When you check in, you give them your cell number and the hostess will text you when your table is ready. If you have a smartphone, even better. Click the link on the confirmation text you receive and you can actually track your wait on your phone's web browser. When I checked in, there was a tracker showing me there were 22 parties ahead of me. Each time I refreshed, I was given a real time view of how we were moving up in the queue. This allowed our family to run some errands and accurately track how much time we had before being seated. This is a great feature.
My only criticism has got to be the service. The food is worth coming back - don't get me wrong. However, both visits were a bit uneven in the service department. Drinks went unrefilled for long stretches of time and a bit of a lag waiting for our check. Our servers were courteous on both visits - just a little hard to find when I needed something.
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