Plant Power Fast Food — Restaurant in Long Beach

Holy Canoli where do I begin, I have been eating here at this location for roughly 2-3 years now and I don’t know why I’ve waited until now to write a review.

To begin, the food here is exactly what I want and what I expect it to be. Its fast food, I’m not expecting metal silverware nor a complimentary bread basket here. When I am starving and want to stuff my face with junk food, this is the place I go. Bacon Cheeseburger? great, no idea how they can make bacon out of plants but they did it folks. Nashville Hot Chicken Sandwich? I cry and salivate from the spices, yet it is by far my favorite with those beautiful pickles and perfect amount of vegan mayo. The plethora of Milkshakes? I have contacted corporate multiples time to try to figure out what machinery and ingredients they use because it is the best within a 18.3 mile radius.

Now onto the service, these people, and I will incline those who eat here to remember that these are actual people with feelings and lives and dreams and goals, are the friendliest and kindest you will meet in a such an environment. Thank you to the people who make my food or my milkshake. None of you make nearly enough I’m quite sure of that. If I was president or CEO of plant power perhaps I would reach into the bottom of my most likely shallow and disingenuous soul and pay these people a fair wage.

How could you write a poor review of a fast food restaurant? I have never gone once to a fast food restaurant and expected michelin quality. What I do expect and receive every time I come here is a smile from the beautiful soul that is working that drive thru window, and some absolute junk food that I’m gonna stuff into my face faster than you can plant power 5 times in a row.

God Bless Plant Power, God Bless the performative neo-liberal “save the world one burger at a time” ideology that radiates from this restaurant, and God Bless the absolute bangers that an AI generated Spotify playlist most likely blasts through those speakers.

I’d recommend the cookie butter milkshake,...

Dear, dreadful Plant Power,

I try so hard to love this place, I really do. But this has been the last straw for me, and my hungry family. I had to wait a few days before writing this message solely to collect myself and recover from the horrendous experience I had.

Being the husband of a busy wife, she doesn't have time to cook. So often times I order takeout. The food always arrives cold, fries scattered. This makes me really upset and wish for a better method for securing the fries. But due to the excessive costs for courier applications I was forced to drive down here myself with the kids.

I attempted to order my usual. But the employee couldn't hear me over the sound of my truck. It's a beauty. She instructed me to come to the window, not too bad. However everything fell flat at the wait time. LONG! I told my kids to sit tight to hide my unimaginably painful urge to poo. After a grueling 10 minutes of idling in the drive thru I was told that my burrito would take a while longer because they made a mistake regrading the "sour cream". They can't get it right the first time? It's ridiculous, really. They get paid $20 an hour to ruin peoples day. That's commiefornia for you. My burrito was eventually given to me but the rest of my food was cold now.

I double timed it to the restroom and found out I needed a code. Once inside I waited in front of the screen to be serviced. For some reason no one took note of me. I'll spare you the details, but I had to toss out my favorite pair of underwear.

Though I will say, the restroom WAS very clean, and smelled real nice. I have to hand it to the staff because they're top-tier toilet cleaners at a minimum. The music was filled with classics too,...

Finally got to try this place after finding out about it years ago. Everything in this review is gf and vegan. The menu is completely vegan and the gluten free options are labeled.

The best way I could describe this place is like a vegan version of in N out and McDonald's mixed together.

I ordered the "Big Zac," a vegan equivalent to a big mac, and subbed the regular buns for gluten free ones, the "Iconic Fries" which are like a vegan equivalent of the animal fries from in N out, a pumpkin pie shake, and a root beer float. Note: I went with another person so we split multiple items so we could try multiple things. Even so though I'd say this place is pretty expensive. I reviewed everything I ordered individually below.

The Big Zac (with gf buns) - 2.5/5 : I thought i would like this more, but I think the gf buns made it less enjoyable than it would have been. The Iconic Fries - 5/5: My favorite besides the pumpkin pie shake. Delicious and tasted exactly like in N out's animal fries! was so worth it. Pumpkin Pie Shake - 5/5 Arguably one of the best shakes I've ever had period!! I assume this was a seasonal item, but it was amazing and I usually am not a huge fan of pumpkin things. Root Beer Float - 4/5 Pretty good! Hard to give it a 5 after trying the pumpkin shake but it's definitely still worth getting if you like root beer floats.

PROS: Huge variety, great flavor, gf options, great packaging, good atmosphere, nice staff

CONS: Expensive, not a big fan of their gf buns, buns tasted slightly...