Frannie's Restaurant — Restaurant in Hayward

A reasonable entry-level Chinese restaurant as of late 2023.

They re-opened in-person dining early in 2023. At $12, lunch prices are up 50% from a couple years ago. Cheaper holes-in-the-wall are becoming rarer these days.

Servings are generous, and food quality seems reasonable but unremarkable for this price tier. They did give me the wrong dish. The sauce was quite watery - which I fixed by stir-frying again with additional ingredients.

Menus include Chinese, English, and Spanish.

Edit: After they wouldn't let me order from the lunch menu when I arrived 4 minutes past their 2pm deadline, I discovered a significantly better deal 5 blocks west: Tin Fu (doesn't show up on google map except at very high...

OMG you guys are not going to believe it. But it's so true, we came to this place for the first time ever, and as we walked in and ask the lady for a sample of the orange chicken, the Old Lady who serves there was Rude as Hell. Yup, she doesn't smile and if you ask for hot sauce or forks or just a simple question she will give you a very rude short answer that's why there is not that many people coming to eat at this place, plus the old Chinese Lady wears some gloves to serve your food then she goes to mop floors and clean tables, then as some new customers come in she serves them food without changing gloves, if you like to be treated disrespectful by this Chinese Witch the this is your place. But to...

Stopped here to pick up some lunch while visiting my mom at the cemetery up the street. We wanted to try something different, well that was a mistake. The 2 women at the register didn't say anything when we walked in, not even a, "how can I help you". After staring at each other for almost 2 minutes we ordered the bbq plate and shrimp chow mein. The food was very sub par, the bbq tasted like sweet soy sauce, and the rice was very wet, almost mushy. The noodles were decent but that's about it. The uninviting service and terrible food will keep us from coming...