Jack In The Box

One star is generous for the experience that we had here… it was unlike anything I had ever seen before.
I came to this location not too long ago with a couple of friends late at night; about 2am. There was a line for the drive-​thru, but we figured it was simply busy. After a while though, none of the other cars had moved (the guy in the car ahead of us actually had time to get out to go pee behind a nearby dumpster).
Over the next half hour or so we watched as each car sat at the speakers for a long time, then proceeded to sit at the window for an equally long time, and when it was finally our turn to order (and, mind you, we waited this long despite only having a few cars ahead of us) we realized why.
The person working the drive-​thru was an older African-​American woman who spoke very slowly. When we started our order, we told her that we would be splitting the order into two, and when I started reading her the first order, she cut me off to ask «now, is this the first ticket, or the second ticket?» which wasn’t even a question that made any sense to ask… over the course of the next 5 minutes or so we went back and forth repeating and correcting orders, and when we finally finished, instead of a total or a «please pull forward,» we got a long pause followed simply by «…okay.»
So we took that as our cue to pull forward. The guy in front of us was just getting to the window, and we watched as he handed her his credit card and then sat there for (not exaggerating) about five minutes before she handed him his card back, and at least another five before she finally got his (very small) order to him.
As we finally pulled up to the window, we passed by a screen window where we could see into the kitchen… where there was an open box of Popeye’s chicken. Just sitting there in the middle of the kitchen, half eaten, with trash and used napkins all around it. They were eating IN the kitchen in front of God and everybody… we just couldn’t believe that.
At the window, the same woman took our payment in an unnecessarily long process as we had anticipated at this point. We noticed right off the bat that she stunk strongly of weed, which was interesting to see considering how old she was, but also explained a lot of things about our service…
Finally we got the food, and miraculously the order was correct. But FAST FOOD this was not; it took us a total of about 45 minutes to get it.
I passed by this location not too long ago and, lo and behold, the woman was still working there, now alongside a young fellow who had his hair dyed and styled to look like a pot leaf… a charming establishment, this Jack in the Box.

It’s Jack in the Box. I’m sure you know all about it. Order your jumbo jack on sourdough bread and it makes all the difference. Small up charge for the sourdough but worth it

It’s Jack in the Box. In my eyes, they’re as good as In-​n-​Out (don’t hit me please).
But on this particular visit, all we had were four fountain drinks ($ 1 each, can’t beat that), 10 piece fried churros, and a donut.
I suppose because when we visited, the place wasn’t busy and it was already past meal time, we got everything really fresh – including their iced tea. The fried churros were crispy on the outside, gooey on the inside with cinnamon filling, the donut was still hot to the lips.
Best of all? Because no one else was there at the time, we were able to just take our time and sit there leisurely for about an hour to chat and hang out. So yeah, four stars.
As a side note, I love their breakfast sandwiches like breakfast jack, but not their burgers so much because they’re way too greasy.