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| - I've had this place on my list for a while. I'm not a fan of coming to this decaying mall area of town or anything around it so I waited to come until I had a reason. Now that I've been to The Habit I'm neither impressed nor disappointed, just meh.
I'm not sure what they're trying to be. Certainly not take-out fast food. Certainly not cheap eats. The closest I can guess is that they see a niche to compete with places like Five Guys or Fatburger.
We paid an average of about 10 bucks each for a relatively basic combo, which includes an average size order of fries and an average size medium drink. The counter person was about average, coming across a little befuddled. Exactly as another reviewer reported 2 months earlier. I ordered a #1 Combo and she asked me if I wanted fries and a drink with it. I mean how hard is it to train a cashier what the meaning of a combo is?
The restaurant size is about average, with sit-down tables only, no counter seating. The décor and ambience are average bland chain restaurant colors and design.
The burger itself has an average-size meat patty that looks and tastes pretty average. There is a lot of shredded lettuce on it to give the appearance of being larger than it is. They prepare it an average way with lettuce, pickle and grilled onions unless you specify otherwise. Cheese is extra and it must be well hidden on the menu board because I could not easily find what the upcharge is to add it (and they don't itemize the extra charge on your receipt).
About that shredded lettuce, though, for me it sort of ruined my first experience eating a Habit burger. Not only was there way too much of it but it was wilted and soggy and gave my sandwich an off taste. In fact I could hardly taste anything else. That single factor is responsible for reducing what would have been a more favorable review down to 3-stars.
Two other things worked against my first visit to this place. One, while the staff was generally pleasant there were just too many of them wandering around, I counted six of them clustered around the service counter with no customers in sight. It looked to me like two or more managers were training other staffers on the floor while customers tried to dine. It was weird and awkward and obviously ineffective since they still ask if you would like fries and a drink with your combo. Makes me wonder if the managers know what a combo is.
Second, I couldn't help but notice that several ceiling tiles looked like they were ready to fall on customers' heads. I mean they were just dangling in place. The restaurant hasn't been there that long to be in such bad shape and the negative impression it made on me as a customer was if they were that careless and sloppy with something so obvious how careful were they being with such things as keeping their food prep equipment sanitary? I was actually glad to leave for fear of the entire ceiling falling on my head.
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