Whataburger

I am noticing a bit of a trend in quirky entrance/​exit to several establishments in the area. This one tops the charts, where oh where has the drive through entrance gone? Missed it on first pass, ended up in the designated parking area. So with that said it has segregated entry for drive-​thru and parking, and you can only gain entrance to the drive-​thru on Farhnam St, its the first left, read that a few times to have it engrained or you will be making a loop to get back and start over again.
Still my go to for a quick fast food burger with no needed extra instructions, but this specific location, methinksnot.

Whataburger???
InNOut, The Habit Burger, FiveGuys, even Shula Burger.
But Whataburger is a simple plain, nothing to hype about burger.
Good service though

It’s a What-​a-​burger. There’s not a whole lot to say, it’s usually clean and the staff are certainly friendly. I don’t usually go this route, but when I feel like eating greasy burgers and putting some calories down it’s a great way to do it.
This location is most always entertaining after about 10pm too.

Good fast food. The employees are nice but clearly over worked, and sort of apathetic. But still a higher grade than most fast food burger joints. The drive thru here is tiny however, and it sucks getting into and out of…
Are their burgers getting smaller?

My new number was called, I showed it and they turned their head. Poor customer service. I could’ve got the same service at McDonald’s

Foods always good, so im not stressing it… But come on! Did me dirty on this gravy man

i live half a mile from this place so i come here to eat very regularly, The Manager Marouf is always friendly and helpful and whenever he is there i feel like I am taking car of.
Whataburger keep up the Fantastic work!!!

This location sucks. Burned chicken, cold fries, the line always takes forever. It’s just so damn convenient, but still sucks. They always forget something on my order. Yes I want to pay $ 8 for a burned honey BBQ chicken strip sandwich, said no one ever!

This review is about this location only. The food is always fresh and they almost always get my order right. The customer service is a hit-​or-​miss. Drive thru during lunch hour is a mess! It’s very small and poorly thought out. Everyone orders at the same speaker and then it splits off into lane A & B, but B is difficult to get into if you are driving anything other than a small car. The drive thru lot only holds a few cars and everyone else is left on the street waiting to turn in. Drive thru generally takes forever! Overall ok– but avoid drive thru during lunch if you can.

Hands down Best Fast food burger! So good I had a number #1 for breakfast.

Ive gone to this restaurant often on for about 10 years. Never been the best food but it’s always been ok service just don’t plan on drinking tea because their Tea is always sour. And don’t go in unless you’re making sure you’re wearing slip resistant shoes. How to slip and fall myself and I’ve been excruciating pain since then and they told me it wasn’t their fault that i fell. Although it was their guy who was mopping the floor with a saturated mop. I messed up my back my hip my shoulders my purse strap broke my sons tablet broke and my glasses were bent to hell. What a loving restaurants all I wanted was for them to send me to the doctor and replace my stuff not a big deal. But remember their insurance adjuster said its not their fault its my fault that I fell on their wet floor. So be careful any time you go in there cuz it might just be your fault you slip and fall too…

Whataburger has the best breakfast taquitos. I had not encountered such a friendly, happy & attentive staff at a restaurant in a very long time. Glenda makes anyone’s day!

I LOVE Whataburger. I’m a native Houstonian and Whataburger is a staple in my diet, fulfilling every fast food craving. Known for being open late, the «11 to 11» breakfast menu, and of course, the burgers. Stop at Whataburger if you want some good ol’ Texas fast food.
However, if you’re looking for the perfect Whataburger location, this is not it. This is the closest location to me, and while service is usually pretty friendly, there are often mistakes with my order. Maybe every 1 in 3 times I come here, something is missing from my order. They are usually quick to fix a problem… if you catch it before you leave. When coming to this location, just remember to check all your food before driving away!

Service has dropped a little maybe because its a few new people but its 3 lines now which is rare at fast food places… the foods still delicious though

Wann man überlegt wie viele besoffene Leute hierhin kommen, bin ich (ein bisschen) entäuscht, daß einige Unilocalers über diese Whataburger schimpfen. Hier sammeln viele breiten Kunden von den vielen Kneipen in der Umgebung.
Whataburger ist ein Hamburgerbude und kein feines Restaurant.
Ich empfehlen den Biscuits und Kaffee.
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Considering how many people pass through this mainstay of Inner Loop late night munchies, I am (mildly) shocked that people are hating on the particular franchise as it has to bear the brunt of the worst drunks in our fair metropolis.
I suggest for late night eats that you try the biscuits and have some coffee. More than anything else, this Whataburger is a great place to people watch once the many nearby bars shut down.
Whataburger is a franchise and not fine dining, especially after every other spot has shut down. When patrons are drunk & surly, the employees should be thanked, not reviled.
Fast food is invariably inconsistent and depends on minimum wage staff who do not receive tips or benefits. You get what you pay for at each and every Whataburger location. To write a snarky review based on a bad experience won’t dent this beloved franchise.
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Love Whataburger! This location is slow sometimes, but always friendly!

Slow service, probably because the employees are arguing about who’s job it is to prepare what items. Seven employees in the kitchen and it takes about twenty minutes to make one sandwich.

Good food, quite speedy, considering the late nite quantity of people. The window servers do leave a lot to be desired. Having to repeat ones self many times and again when ya get to the window. Tho patience is a virtue and for better drive thru food it’s worth it.

Been coming here since Soundwaves was across the street. Its kinda cool cause of its funky location and is near some good bars.

What-​A-​Burger. Real Texans pronounce it wrong: wott-​uh-​burger. No matter how often the commercials try gently to explain to us that it’s supposed to be a simple exclamatory phrase, «what a burger!» we still hold fast to our tradition. And that’s OK, because they do too.
This is the Lone Star State’s home-​grown burger franchise, and it’s awesome. Garish orange and white striped roofs, burgers cooked fresh and wrapped in orange paper with all kinds of kitchy stickers on the outside to designate whatever kind of customization you have ordered on your burger, NO ketchup on a burger EVER unless you ask for it (this is Texas – defiling a hamburger with ketchup is a yankee thing). Fries. Tea. Please won’t you please try a fried pie oh please? No. Just a giant juicy fresh-​cooked burger, thanks.
Setting aside some differences between service (and in particular difficulties with people at some franchise locations who can’t really be understood over the intercom when they take your order, and vice versa), the quality and consisistency of the food at all of the (MANY) Whataburgers I’ve visited over the past few decades has been exceptional, and this particular one is the same. And they’re open 24 hours. Sometimes you just NEED a burger, man.
They try a few gimicky specialty burgers periodically (Angus this, name-​brand barbecue sauce that) but for my money, you just can’t beat the classic double meat Whataburger with cheese, grilled onions and jalapenos. Jalapenos. Yeah. This burger place is from Texas.
I tried asking for grilled onions at other fast food burger places a few times. «We don’t do that,» was usually what I heard. What, did you lose the recipe? The F’in’ name is the F’in’ recipe. Never mind – y’all aren’t from Texas. I’m going to Whataburger, where they do burgers right even though I can’t say their name right.
And that’s alright.
El Rauncho Grande

In my mind fast food is supposed to be a relaxing, caressing experience. You are clearly sick, tired, or otherwise overwhelmed to cook for yourself or arrange for a better meal for yourself. My experience at this freakshow was not relaxing or caressing, it was more analogous to walking through dark Brooklyn alleys on a stormy night while clutching a Hello Kitty lunchbox.
I am sure the design of this place was super clever and artistic but it’s a freaking nightmare to get in and out of the parking lot — even if you know what you are doing — because the odds are there are a few morons who don’t understand how the surrounding streets work. Honk honk middle finger honk honk. Welcome to Houston. Get used to it.
Based on my first paragraph you can assume that I do not expect much out of a fast food experience. Somehow this Whataburger franchise managed to set the bar so low within twenty seconds of me walking in I probably should have just walked out, instead of ordering and waiting around for twenty minutes. But my new philosophy on life is «I’m doing it for the story» and I have Unilocal to broadcast my stories these days.
The inside is dirty. Not dirty like a stray ketchup packet that had just fallen on the floor. Dirty like WTFdirty. More dirty than prison mess halls should be. Even at a prison mess hall there would no excuse for this kind of claptrap since someones’ face would have been used as a moist towelette on the floor by a larger, more threatening inmate. Good thing I wasn’t eating my burger off of the floor, so I just shuddered and shuffled forward in line.
I then looked around the filth and saw who was in line and waiting for their food. It looked like a carnival show of horrors. Ugly ugly ugly. Piercings here, there, and everywhere. Sleeve tattoos and monstrosities on legs. Skin condition this, skin condition that on the few people without tattoos. A bald woman. Extremely overweight dude that looked like his heart was going to explode before I placed my order.
And to my eternal rage only one girl working the register, with a tenuous grasp on the English language, while the manager and some younger cashiers just standing around doing nothing, not lifting a finger or trying to get the people in and out of the restaurant. There was a large line that had formed! Unacceptable.
And there was one guy making all the food. He was going as fast as he could. I don’t blame him, I blame the bonehead manager for having one dude on food patrol and he didn’t even look like he had chugged a few Red Bulls to amp up to do a lot of work really quickly.
I waited a really long time for a simple simple order. When I lived in San Antonio they had my burgers down to a science — you were in and out fast. And they knew what a mop was. Not only what a mop was, they knew how to use it and they actually did use it. And there were not all sorts of carnival freakshow sights around me. If I was the manager of this place I would hang my head in shame.
For $ 7 you get a #5 with jalapenos (40ish cents extra) and drink and fries. Overpriced. I drank my weight in soda while I waited. So joke is on you clowns. When the bag was handed to me there were more fries outside the fry container milling around inside the bag than there were in my fry container. I am clumsy enough that probably would have happened on my own after I walked out of the restaurant — so I guess they did me a favor by raising my self-​esteem. I just wonder who in the chain of custody de-​fried my fry container. Oh the humanity.
I was sick and lazy and hungry so I came for a caressing, uplifting awesome lunch to make me feel better. I came away with a disgust for this franchise and would never ever come back here.
I hate this place with the fury of one hundred red dwarf suns.