Checkers — Restaurant in Virginia

Look, but don't look. Well, don't look if you want to keep your appetite.

Where is Daym Drops when you need him? I know he is brave, but I think even that man would nope it right out of this joint if he came to this location.

I'm reasonably certain I have tempted the grim reaper every time I've given this place a try over the past few years. Amazingly, I'm still here, despite consuming the food, but I really have to chalk that up to some heavenly intervention.

Somehow, I've been blessed with bravery or complete stupidity to give this place yet another chance to kill a customer. Yet here I am telling the tale!

For years now, every time I've dared to enter their drive thru, I've been reminded why I really should just drive on thru without stopping.

Don't look. Don't look! Okay, I warned you. Peeking in the drive thru window will grant you delights such as equipment with grease stains running down it. Cooked food all over the floor. Random things that look like a high schooler jumped on a ketchup pack that sprayed the ceiling much like a Jason vs Freddy scene. Well, I hope it was ketchup. It's the kind of vibe that makes you think gas station sushi assembled in the bathroom might be safer. And you won't just be wishing you had some gas station sushi for a few minutes, this is going to, uhh, "drive-thru" you to remind you why it was exactly that I said to skip this place. This visual experience, dear friends, represents the finest from-a-window dining experience this location has to offer.

After gathering my senses, or losing them, I bit into my fries - but I couldn't tell if I was tasting last week's fish, or yesterday's funnel cake, as the finer notes of both delicacies were present. There was also this odor that makes me wonder exactly how jiffy lube recycles the used motor oil. Was it 10w40? Or 0w20 fully synthetic? Shrug.

As I gathered my remaining strength to unwrap my burger, I was surprised to see so much cheese sauce....applied to the wrapper instead of the sandwich. This was definitely not the sandwich to eat in the vehicle. The burger wasn't bad tasting, overall, but that could have just been due to the diesel truck in front of me that was rolling coal.

I decided to try to wash this hodgepodge of unknown scents and flavors down with the soda, hoping the drink machine is better taken care of than a pizza box in the landfill. The straw was sealed, so I felt my hopes rise. It was cold, and carbonated, both pluses. It didn't kill me, yet. Another plus. As I cautiously swallowed, I ponder the meaning of life while simultaneously celebrating these first world problems. I'm deep in thought, hoping just to be allowed to make it home before Checkers becomes chili.

You might be sensing a theme here, being afraid of a Checkers induced death, and if so, well, you would be right. Don't say I didn't warn you.

Due to corporate greed, I paid $749.32 for this exclusive experience. Okay, I made up that price, just like corporate clearly made up the goggles they must be wearing to avoid seeing these glaring issues that have existed for years.

I really have no idea what happened to this place. When this location first opened it was great, extra clean, extra fries overflowing the cup, drinks filled up. Fresh! Now you go and see none of those things, instead receiving for your efforts a bag full of worry that leaves you concerned you might not survive the encounter.

Really checkers, couldn't you be bothered to clean up the ketchup and old food off the floor? And maybe get the equipment free of the cooked on dripping grease stains? Preferably before you kill someone?

Final verdict: Highly Recommended if you are seeking assisted self termination, or if you have an upcoming colonoscopy and a desire to cleanse more vigorously than the prescribed medication might otherwise allow.

While there's no guarantee of tomorrow, skipping this place might seriously increase your odds of being able to hold out until Armageddon. Or at least survive until the next sunrise.

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This was a terrible experience! I am a delivery driver so not only am I upset with this establishment’s service but the manner in which the service was conducted caused me to lose out on money for a job I’m on for not only 1 but 2 stops. Do you all know how important that is??? With all that is going on, this establishment (quite frankly any really) needs these orders for delivery services to be top notch because that’s your revenue. Now on to my experience, I’m waiting in line for an order that should already be prepared, while I wait a nice young gentleman identified later on to be one of the managers on duty closes the line as I’m about to be next while also I’m the last car in said line and he tells me to wait in the other line. 🧐 I don’t understand why you wouldn’t take the last car’s order then close the line. All I had to do was pick it up. So I wait a lil longer in the 2nd line. When I get to the window, they give me the drinks and tell me to wait on the food and they will bring it out to me. Surprise! Wouldn’t you know they forgot so I have to go back to the window. I can’t make this up it takes legit 2 minutes for me to even be noticed at the window. By now I have another order come in and confusion ensued shortly after. Long story short this quick 5 minute process was made difficult and I lost out on my work. Now, I’m not a monster, I get it, you close late and want to be able to close and get out at a decent time, that’s fair reasoning, but trust this perspective as well, your sign says OPEN for a reason. This place has systems of failure implicated in this delivery pick up and that needs to change or else this business will lose out on a lot of money. Postmates, doordash, Uber eats, drive the most of your revenue. I don’t know just some food for thought for the owners of this establishment to take...

Absolutely frustrated. I love Checkers but this was just a hot mess. I place my order online (two meals) 10/15 mins prior to getting there and when I get there the lady asks me nicely to go back around because she said my order didn't pop up, I said absolutely and did just that, waiting another 5 mins. I go and she says she still can't find my order, This time I tell her maybe I should go to the window and show her the receipt (it might help) and she agrees. I get to the window and she says she has to get her manager because she still doesn't see it (she was super sweet and kind about it). Then the manager comes up and I tell her the time I placed the order and she DOESNT EVEN LOOK AT MY RECEIPT AND IMMEDIATELY SAYS "Oh you have to wait 20-25 mins for the order to pop up" at which point I tell her "that's odd because it said my order would be ready 10 mins ago" and she keeps saying no. Clearly she saw my face because she was so quick to dispute me and slightly rude. Then she asks my name and I tell her, she goes to the area and says "the only order I see here is for Raquel (THE NAME I JUST GAVE HER)" I'm like "yes that's me....." And she hands it to me all frustrated and when I ask her for sauce she gives me one of each (which isn't sufficient but it's fine) and as I'm saying "have a great day" she slams the window shut and cuts me off and doesn't say anything. HOW RUDE! First of all, how long was my food sitting there? Now it's not even warm, second, your lying to me saying I have to wait 20-25 minutes but yet the food was already made and ready for me, thirdly, RUDE. JUST PLAIN RUDE. WORST MANAGER I HAVE EVER ENCOUNTERED!!!! (AND...