Whataburger

Good service and clean tables, what else can you ask for in fast food? The cashier I had looks to be one of the managers and it’s obvious that he cares his store and team. I went here at 11:30 on a Thursday so I can’t say if you’ll have the same good experience eating here and 3:00 AM after drinking in the Stock Yards.

After a day of snacking and honky tonking at Billy Bob’s Texas, pumaposse found themselves STARVING around midnight. Ever since landing in Texas, we had been discussing Whataburger… the sweet siren call of a fast food joint unavailable to us in California was just too hard to resist… and OH GREAT JOY, Whataburger is open ²⁴⁄₇. Halle-​freaking-​lujah!
AMBIANCE: Um… its a fast food place. What do you expect? At 12:30am the place was deserted, with the exception of two cops on their (extended) break.
SERVICE: Again, typical fast food place… although the guy working the registered seemed real flustered when he was confronted by 7 hangry little Asian girls all gussied up in over the top (interpretations of) cowboy outfits (hey, give us a break, we were just at Billy Bob’s!). This flusteredness translated over into completing our orders incorrectly– we didn’t have to wait too long for our food, but there were several errors in what was brought out to us (and even a thick curly hair in JF’s vanilla shake… EW!). The staff were very apologetic and quick to replace our orders with the correct items, but it just turned into a standing joke within our group.
FOOD: We ordered a variety of items off the menu (sense a theme here for our Texas trip? haha), including an all meat burger (no veggies whatsoever), the Whataburger Jr (tasted like a hamburger from McD), and Whatachik’n bites.
— Whatachik’n Strips: I was initially brought out an order of three strips (I had ordered bites). These were NOT good. Stale and lukewarm, they were dry and tasteless. No amount of sauce could rescue them.
— Whatachik’n Bites: These came fresh out of the fryer and were delicious. Extremely juicy all white meat, they were crispy/​crunchy, finger licking, tongue burning delicious. I imagine the strips would’ve been just as good if they were also fresh.
The fries were so so; KS also ordered onion rings, and seemed very happy with them. FYI for those of you unfamiliar with Whataburger meal orders, the standard size drink included is a whopping 32oz (everything is bigger in TX!). Quite shocking when we realized a «small» was 24oz (a medium/​large in most other states).
OVERALL: A perfectly fine choice for fast food… even better that they’re open for whenever the urge to indulge in unhealthy munchies strike.