Hardee’s — Restaurant in Emporia

What does it say about a place when your primary impression is about the bathroom? It’s not that the men’s room was necessarily dirty, but you walk in and immediately wonder, “Who thought this was a good idea?” The first thing you see is a very long, extremely-narrow hallway leading toward the facilities. How a wheelchair is supposed to fit in there, I don’t know. If it does, there’s no way anyone is going to be able to get in or out unless they crawl over the wheelchair. It’s hard enough for two adults to pass each other in this narrow corridor. Halfway along the passageway the floor slopes upward, giving the impression that you are walking through a funhouse at a carnival. The single urinal is crammed into a tiny alcove, and the sink is wedged between it and the single toilet stall. Once you wash your hands, you have to walk all the way down that long hallway to throw the towels away. I could understand this kind of design if they had just renovated an 18-century house, but since this is a modern building, that meant that someone thought it was actually a...

Went in two weeks ago on my way to Emporia for my kid’s college orientation and campus visit. It’s a five hour drive for us so by the time we arrived at 9:30 we were tired and hungry. Restaurant doesn’t close until 10, if it’s fast food that’s plenty of time to prepare my order and still close up on time. We walk in, they’re changing the order boards around to breakfast. They ask do we need to see the menu, yes because we intend on ordering. They turn a few back around and I say, stop, we are just ordering chicken strips. He stops and informs me we will have to take it to go because the lobby is about to close. Your lobby closes at 9:35, odd. Then he talks to the kitchen, they’re changing only have two chicken strips. At that I said thanks but no thanks, because at 30 minutes to close I am not accustomed to being told what to eat based on the old food hanging out in the kitchen. So we left and won’t ever be back. We have plenty of choices for crappy...

I will no longer go here. I complained over the phone to manager about a $2.29 small burger and a $1.99 small fry being over $7. Now I could pay this but I won’t since it should have been $4.64. I’ve never been one to get talk to manager but I did this time. She kept referring to what a combo was which is $5 something. Which is still cheaper than what they had me at. The screen did say 1 small cheese burger and 1 small fry and said their prices that I said up above and then jumped to $7. She just kept going back to the combo theory. I asked for corporate and she said her boss was there. Some man answered asking how he could help me. No no you can’t. Because your manager had no clue what the hell I was talking about so I doubt you do either. So here is your bad review on here and Facebook....