Ricky’s

Was told kitchen closed at 830? Girls took a while to get to counter heard them yelling and swearing

Service is wicked slow! honestly 10 minutes for a hot dog? It took them less time for fries and mozzerella sticks. But the food is ok. Need to hire more people in the summer.

Ricky’s should be a three star joint: beachside walk-​up with sticky counters and a ball park menu with individually shifted letters that haven’t been moved in years. Dogs, burgs, nuts, snacks, creams and candies. It’s beach food, fair fare and for being so close to the shore, it’s surprisingly inexpensive.
Knowing it ain’t gourmet (let alone great), there are two reason Ricky’s gets the bump up:
1) The fried dough. Sure it’s factory issued. Matter of fact, it almost started a war between myself and Kara G, as I only thought fried dough to be the freshly cone-​pooped funnel cake variety. This one’s flat, crispy and approximately the size of a human torso. It’s effing mammoth, ringing in at a mere $ 3. Evidence:
2) The Monster Mash ice cream. Vanilla with the remnants of a long night spilling toppings arm-​swept into the cream, and a ribbon of caramel just for kicks. Toffee, malt, M&Ms and I think even a little bubble gum got in there. A $ 3 small is two large scoops on a sugar cone, and (again) while it ain’t superpremium, it does a cavity good.
Bonus points for the sarcastic gal behind the counter who went blow-​for-​blow in a pre-​summer sarcastic diatribe that I’m sure will die as soon as the the summer crowd flocks to Paragon Park. In the meantime, thanks for being so dry, mysterious ice cream scooper/​dough fryer.