Arby's — Restaurant in Carson City

August 8, 2025: French dips are still great! Both the meat and au jus have flavor! This time I took a picture! Adding extra meat makws one sandwich very filling!

2 years later as of Sat, August 9th 2025: I took a chance on French dips here again, knowing what I'd get. I just had a craving for something different. Anyway, I took some measures to make the best of one of their French Dips. The au jus is usually the weak link (not enough flavor). So I put together a little container with 2 tablespoons of light soy sauce, a couple of dashes of worcestershire and five pinches of beef bullion and mixed them well this time. When I got my sandwich, I sipped the au jus experimentally. Interestingly it still had flavor! I was surprised! The beef actually had flavor too! I noticed it instantly. I went ahead and added my mixture to improve the au jus anyways and the French Dip I ate stunned me. I might actually eat here again sometime soon! The curly fries were a nice change of pace too.

When they first opened: I ordered a French Dip, a Regular (for the sake of nostalgia) and the new Prime Rib Sandwich.

Starting with the Prime Rib Sandwich, while mine was a modified sandwich (minus the cheese and aioli), I can evaluate the sandwich based on the meat itself. The meat was more cooked than the pictures would lead you to believe you'd get, but the flavor of the meat was more beefy than the traditional 'roast beef' that Arbys serves. Since it tasted like beef, I give the sandwich a good rating.

The French Dip surprised me on two counts: I went expecting to receive insufficient beef as I have more than once. Instead, there was a fair amount included. While the au jus wasn't filled to the brim, I learned that the recipe has been tweaked to make it flavorful, whereas it was kind of a bland but adequate mixture for a long while. I brought some Lipton Beefy Onion mix to punch up the flavor, but after trying a light sip of it, I decided that it needed no doctoring. Not bad.

Onto the final sandwich I ordered, the original roast beef, was standard for any Arbys restaurant. There were no deficiencies or issues with it that would allow me to give the sandwich more than 5 stars. Instead of comparing the sandwich against what I could get at say the Nugget or a smaller local joint that would serve fresh beef, I would in that case give it 3 stars, but that would be an unfair comparison, since this is Arbys.

Finally, I give a full five star rating on the basis of the food not disappointing for Arbys fare, but beyond that, the cashier was excellent. He was nothing but helpful. I've seldom encountered such good service in Carson City. That alone settled my mind on the matter.

He accommodated my hearing disability and treated me with great dignity. I would say that at least on the basis of this single visit, my experience there sets this restaurant apart from many nearby competitors.

Please be sure to support this location. If the management trains all its employees so well, they deserve...

New Arby's so we checked it out for a late dinner. Facility was clean, as expected. The outside parking grounds and drive-thru were quite tiddy, no trash to speak of. Promptly acknowledged and politely greeted by the young lady attending the drive-thru (impressive). Several other menu options added since I last visited an Arby's facility. Took a minute to decide. The young lady was patient and professional and answered a half dozen questions regarding the new menu options. Took a minute for our order, but she informed us that it would so there was no surprise there. The tab was a bit spendy,and the food was just a bit better then "O. K.". Don't get me wrong, the food wasn't bad, it was Allright. Just expected a bit more wow...

There are two order lines as you pull up that merge into one pay and grab your stuff line. Unfortunately, I got stuck behind somebody ordering a huge meal, when all I wanted was a shake. The staff was very friendly, I didn't express any frustration, I'm sure they would have dealt with it. Well. They got the line through quickly despite the person in front of me ordering dinner for a huge amount of people... I will definitely go back. Their menu is quite varied and generally their service is fast and friendly. It's probably a better idea to run in if you have one item at rush hour rather than wait in...