Checkers

I love their milkshakes, and I think their food is a good price. I always get their value burgers, and sometimes I’ll get their fries.

If this chain spent as much on food preparation as they do on self-​promotion — on average, their annoying TV ads pop up about eight per hour — they might manage to make an edible meal instead of the sorry excuse for one they served us here. I’m not a big fast food fan, but my mother had a yen for a burger and fries, so we stopped to pick up a quick bite. The badly-​constructed burger special — how difficult is it to center the components on the bun so they don’t all spill out with the first bite? — consisted of a dry, nearly burnt patty, a tasteless cheese purported to be Swiss, and overcooked mushrooms swimming in a vile sauce. The curly fries were flavored with a mystery seasoning that probably lent them their peculiar shade of orange. I doubt that any of the ingredients in my mother’s chocolate shake were natural. To their credit, my Diet Coke was the perfect blend of syrup and seltzer. Hey. .. I had to find something nice to say to justify the star!