Rally's — Restaurant in Gardena

If you love FRIED CHICKEN and you have a weak stomach, don’t read this article. But, if you love “FRIED CHICKEN” and you buy it from…. “RALLY’S” on the corner of Crenshaw and Rosecrans in Gardena California…READ ON. Yes, RALLY’S you know the one with the great fries with the crunchy coating that you just can’t stop eating? Well you may change your mind about eating anything from there after you hear my experience. My family and I went to RALLY’S last week, my son loves the burgers and fries and I love the FRIED CHICKEN, only I love just the CHICKEN, not their new dish, “CHICKEN FRIED with ROACHES!... I’m all for giving the benefit of the doubt when it comes to maybe a server had an off night or that my soda was flat or maybe my food wasn’t hot enough but not this. Thank goodness I looked down BEFORE I picked up my favorite piece or, thank goodness I didn’t just drive thru at night and dig into the box and start eating on the way home because attached to my most favorite part of the CHICKEN, the WING, there she was fried crispy MAMA ROACH!!!!... just like my CHICKEN “I FREAKED OUT”!!!! Because, this is a BIG FAT ROACH, not that a baby ROACH would have been more DIGESTIBLE but, this one wanted to be seen and it was attached to my food!!!! Okay, yes, they should want to capture and get rid of ROACHES, but this new way of killing them by frying them with the CHICKEN! No! Pest control companies do this professionally, “PLEASE CALL THEM”!! I almost vomited in my CHICKEN BOX, but I kept my composure enough so my son wouldn’t think I’d completely lost my mind and when I showed everybody what kind of extra was added to my order, everybody responded with DROPPING whatever they were eating and a unanimous “I’M GOOD”, rang out at the table. When I brought it the restaurant personnel’s attention, they had the audacity to offer me a replacement meal. Really, “RALLY’S!!Without using any profanity or even raising my voice, I said, “I’m showing you that you FRIED A BIG, FAT ROACH, with my meal and you think I want another one”?

Duhhh, what was I thinking, my response should have been, “Yes please, I’ll have 6 more wings and “DON’T HOLD THE ROACHES”!!!!

This is disgusting and unacceptable and since I frequent the “RALLY’S” on Crenshaw and Rosecrans, I can’t stop thinking that of course I’ve gone thru the drive thru and eaten food on the way home and given my son his burger and fries in the back seat of the car so “HOW MANY DOG GONE ROACHES HAVE ME AND MY FAMILY EATEN ALREADY”!!!!

Of course, I could just let this go, I mean what food establishment doesn’t have something crawling? But that doesn’t mean I want to see them or more importantly “I SURE AS HECK DON’T WANT TO SHARE THE SAME PLATE WITH THEM”!

I don’t want another person to experience what I have because I’ve probably lost at least 5 lbs. as I have been able to eat very little since last week and I ABSOLUTELY have a really hard time eating one of my favorite things “FRIED CHICKEN”!!!

Not only can pests carry disease, but it’s documented that if there is one pest of certain species, like a mouse or ROACH, it usually means there are more living back in the walls and coming out at night crawling ALL over the food that we EAT!

Research shows that the laws pretty much say that law suits for finding sickening things like ROACHES in your food don’t prove to be advantages. In fact “unless you have become severely ill from ingesting the ROACH or whatever kind of diseases they can spread, and you can prove your illness came from that, you won’t gain much monetarily”.

But, there is a more important truth and that is this, RALLY’S and many other “FAST FOOD” establishments use advertisement that attracts our CHILDREN’S attention! So, our kids are walking home from school or from a soccer game, they pass in this case, “RALLY’S, they get that burger, fries or FRIED CHICKEN, an ice-cold soda from the soda machine that the ROACHES crawled all over during the night or even more sickening the baby ROACHES are inside the machine and they get a fizzy soda mixed with...

I've had a problem with service every time I've been here. This time was the final straw. I get to the speaker and tell the lady I have a coupon for two big Buford meals and she asks what kind of drink I would like and I ask her if its possible to upgrade to a large drink to which she replies "what kind of drink do you want? So I say is that a yes and she tells me yes you can upgrade to a larger drink but there will be an additional charge and I tell her that's fine. So that was the first thing. I tellthe lady I wanted my drink with no ice and the burgers with no pickles and pull up to the window. She hands my wife our drinks and there is ice in both my wife is fine with ice but I didn't want any and specifically asked for there to be none. So my wife tells the lady there is ice in the drink and asks for her to fix it. The lady took the drink dumped out some of the ice put the top back on and handed it back with ice still in the cup and about 2 inches of the drink gone. I dont like to complain too much because I dont want to eat someone else's spit. So I took the drink and kept my mouth shut. 5 minutes later the lady hands us our food and we drive away. We park at the big lots next door in some shade to find out we werent given straws so we had to go back. This time I park the car and walk up to the window and stand there for a few minutes for the lady to open the window and tell me she will be with me in a few minutes. At this point I'm already irritated and tell her I just need some straws that she forgot to give us and she comes back with two straws, which tells me she recognized me. You'd think the employees would want to help customers who had been there first. I left once more and found another shady spot for my wife and I to eat, only to find both burgers also had pickles and it was there that I ate my burger in anger and wrote this review. I will not be returning to this rallys location anytime soon. Which is too bad because I live just around...

So, let me take you on a whimsical journey to Rally's in Gardena, right off Crenshaw Blvd. I roll up to the drive-thru, ready to indulge in some fast food delights, when suddenly, I’m greeted by an AI voice that sounds like it just stepped out of a sci-fi movie. At first, I was a bit creeped out—like, is this the future of fast food or did I accidentally enter a tech convention?

"Welcome to Rally's! How may I assist you today?" she chirped with all the warmth of a robotic barista. I half expected her to ask if I wanted to pair my fries with a side of existential crisis. But as I navigated my order through this futuristic chatbot, I couldn’t help but be charmed. I mean, who wouldn’t want to order a Baconzilla from a virtual assistant? It felt like I was participating in some bizarre culinary episode of "Black Mirror."

After deciding on my meal—because who can resist that crispy goodness?—I drove up to the window, still chuckling at the thought of a digital being taking my order. The staff, who were just as delightful as the AI, handed me my food with a smile that said, “We know it’s weird too, but hey, at least you’re getting fries!”

Now, onto the food! The fries were golden and crispy, making me wonder if they were fried in the laughter of angels. The burgers? Absolute flavor explosions! Each bite was like a mini party in my mouth, complete with confetti (okay, maybe not real confetti, but you get the idea).

In a nutshell, my experience at Rally's was a rollercoaster of emotions—slightly creepy yet delightfully entertaining, with a side of mouthwatering food. If you're ever in Gardena and want to spice up your fast food routine with a dash of the future, this is the place to be. Just be prepared for some AI banter and a whole lot of deliciousness.

So, Rally's, keep that quirky AI voice! It’s a fun twist to the drive-thru experience. And who knows, maybe next time I’ll ask her for a recommendation on what...