Don & Jo's Drive-In — Restaurant in Washington

Great little hamburger shack with wonderful service! You aren't going here for the ambiance, you are stopping by for a burger and fries or maybe a basket of chicken strips. The chicken strips were very tasty and the girls behind the counter were very friendly. We definitely recommend this spot!!!

Update: Sorry Don & Jo, not so good this time!

I wanted to call it an off day but it had nothing to do with the service or the atmosphere. We stopped by on a warm Friday afternoon for convenience sake and also a good experience we had on a previous outing. Our purchase of two Crispy chicken burgers, one medium frie, one small chocolate shake and two medium drinks was almost $40 😳 Now, we aren't opposed to paying that kind of money for quality food but this was far from it! We were so so so sooooooo disappointed! The Crispy Chicken was that processed, reconstructed meat that looked like low grade Banquet boxes frozen chicken you get on discount at the Grocery Outlet. And the breading was hardly anything you could call breading. It was really not good! The fries were pretty basic. Not unacceptable. The "chocolate" shake was not chocolate flavored at all! If anything, it tasted like a basic Vanilla shake that you sprinkled some brown coloring into. The two soft drinks were the best part of an expensive meal that extremely disappointed us. We feel like we paid $38 and some change for a diet and regular medium Pepsi's. The amount of money spent for this sub par meal was in line with some of the more quality restaurants we've ordered burgers and fries from. If you are going to charge that much money, at least purchase better quality meats for your customers. We have decided to try it one more time to see if they do better with the burgers but if we find the same lack of quality, we won't be back. I'm kinda guessing that the patties are gonna be akin to the cheap patties you buy that start out big but grill/fry down to half the size....

Well, don't know what all the hubbub is about. The tables were all dirty, the outside table had bird droppings. Noticed one lady went inside and asked them to wipe off the tables and a manager can out and wiped off her one table but none of the other ones. Milkshake seemed like a mix but nothing special. Lots of flavors. I got a malt and paid an extra $1 for the malt and you could barely taste any malt. I always order chili at these mom and pop's hoping to stumble across the holy Grail of chili. This was not it. Took one bite of the chili. It was cold, cold, cold and flavorless, but had chunks of hamburger and real tomatoes. Was worried to eat it because that cold may not be following safe food handling practices, I should have taken it back but didn't want to wade through the line again. Don't cooks ever taste what they make? You need to taste your chili before serving it. A ton of chili powder but no other flavors. You would think being here for 55 years they would have perfected a chili by now. Ordered a combo with tots instead of fries. Got fries. Burger was supposed to be a quarter pounder but seemed a bit lacking in "pounderness". Was not hot, but luke warm. There was a whisper of lettuce, like an after thought. Bun was toasted nicely. Honestly I think some of the fast food chains make better burgers. The drive through lane blocks all the parking spaces making it impossible to get out if the drive through backs up at all. Drive through was taking forever to get people through it, really slow. Look out the window, if there are 10 cars in line, slap a dozen burgers on the grill. Not worth driving out of your way for. They just have a location that gives them a captive audience for someone that needs a quick bite after being at the lakes...

This place is always crowded and with good reason. The burgers, onion rings, and milk shakes are made of straight lard and dopamine. It's pricey, pushing over the top even now. People are not joking about that. To illustrate, here are some of the things you can buy for what one meal here currently costs.

6 egg McMuffins A whole case of Killians Irish Red 9 hours of parking in downtown Vancouver Downstream O2 sensor for a 1992 Taurus Nascar Heat for Nintendo switch Sequin pillow from big lots Walmart TacoBoutIt camping chair (on sale) 4 gallons of dino juice 4 bags of Halloween candy from Fred Meyer 6 bags of post-Halloween candy 1 sheet of toilet paper from your Dr's Office 2 months membership at planet fitness AKA 60 cold showers Rawlings baseball 2 pack 3 pairs of Fubu men's sandals 5 sticks of blistex medicated chap stick

to quote the great Cheap Pete, "Good LAWD that's a lotta money!"

I will admit the portions also seem disappointing at first, and they are for the money but give it about 20min and you won't be able to move without help. Kinda like pot brownies but slightly cheaper! The food here is immensely calorie dense with next to no nutritional value anywhere to be found on the whole menu. Supposedly they have vegetable soup but nobody can confirm and do we really care? This food is so stinking American that you can practically feel it turning your blood into debt and police brutality. The doctors told me that feeling is actually type 2 diabetes and that there's even a special subclassification of it for Battle Ground residents thanks entirely to Don and Jo's. Neat! Still, I'd rather lose my toes than quit eating here. What does anyone use toes for anyway? Judging by the lines at the drive thru, I'm far from alone. Five stars all dang day...