Five Guys — Restaurant in Virginia Beach

Good news! Five guys is big enough to start throwing attitude. Went to the VB red mill location today. Just so you aren't caught unaware, they have started "cracking down" on their fry sizes. According to one source (who was the manager) people had come to expect too many fries for the low low price of 6$. I have gotten more fries from a regular at other locations. Since two thirds of the order was jacked up, I thought "well maybe since I am at the counter to get he bacon that I paid for and didn't get, I might ask if they didn't have the right size fries". Seemed logical to me. That must have been the dumbest question ever if you use the response to judge the intelligence of the question. This kid, she couldn't have been much over 25, immediately starts the eye rolling and huffing about people expecting too much out of the fry cook. Before I tip over the ketchup out of the white hot rage of being berated by a customer service technician who had obviously no made much of an impression at the local colleges based on her location and profession, I return to me seat and eat the I grilled onions that had somehow found their way into my burger...un-grilled... out of spite. As I go to leave, and since I am not the type of person to go behind someone's back and write a crap review, and I was planning on writing this crap review after I had left, I asked if this young lady is the manager and I tell her as much. As I try to get out that the 6$ I paid is the reason I expected 6$ worth of fries, she stops me because that is what good listeners do, they wade in after two seconds. The eye rolling and attitude kick back in and I tell her that I am not as mad about the fries as the attitude. She gives me more attitude. All I can do at this point it to hope that This review will cost that franchise at least the same in dollars as that manager cost me in time and and screwed up chi that I incurred from not tipping a napkin dispenser over, or stuffing the toilet with napkins and flushing until it is a problem only a trained plumber can fix. That manager is going to go places in life, probably not college and most likely not into middle Management but I can hope that she goes somewhere else so I can get a burger at what used to be my favorite joint. Maybe it is my fault for being the kind of ding dong who would pay 50$ for lunch, maybe I am the idiot for expecting to be treated with the same respect I have given by using a civil tone and inflection in my voice. Maybe if I had thrown some attitude we could have solved our differences in our opinions about what 6$ worth of fries looks like. Maybe I just won't eat there anymore. Regardless I am left with an empty feeling inside because I didn't throw the raw onions I didn't order back into the kitchen and write mean things about people's mothers on the...

Five Guys makes the best burger in town. I don't care where you go, dolla' dolla' bill or fast food, I have yet to find a burger that can compete. Even better, their fries are fresh cut, steak fries (you'll notice the sacks of potatoes stacked up in their restaurant with a sign telling you where they're from) and they are just as good as their burgers! Traditionally, they give you a huge order of fries! I noticed last time I went, they weren't as generous as they've been for the past few years...not sure if they're cutting back on their over-the-top servings. To be honest, by the time I drive home, snacking on their super hot fries, then setting them up with salt, ketchup or vinegar when I get home, I'm often too full to eat my burger and have to come back and eat some of it later (I have a pretty small appetite). You can basically customize your burger by size, add-ons, and condiments.

While you wait for your burger and fries, you can munch on shelled peanuts (unlimited). A couple of years ago, they also added milkshakes to their menu. Their banana shakes are the bomb!

You will pay more than you typically do for a burger at a fast food joint, but trust...

I paid $16.02, for a small hamburger, small fry, and a small soda. The burger was not even half the size of the small hamburger bun. My burger was all ready, sitting at the fry station, before the crew member, even dropped the fry basket...why was that not done, while they were preparing my burger. And the soda machine just sprayed extra soda all over the place, while dispensing the soda. Go to Red Robin, just down the street, for a better burger/meal, for the same price !!!

JUST ANOTHER TIP... just down from Panera Bread (in the same shopping center) is a hidden gem...

SEASIDE DOGS AND GRILL

I got a TRIPLE CHEESEBURGER on a toasted bun, with provolone cheese (something you cannot get at FIVE GUYS), with grilled onions, lettuce, tomatoes, pickles and mayonnaise, hot crinkle cut fries and a large Pepsi, for a total of $11.40, plus tip. A much better meal, and much cheaper than FIVE GUYS...

Or you can wait until Fuddruckers opens in mid December on General Booth Blvd, Virginia Beach, VA...

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