Carl’s Jr

Best place to go when your hungry, teriyaki and cheese burgers are so awesome tasty… the 24-​hours service is a plus, you don’t have to worry where to go if its late at night this place will serve you the best.

I have been to Carl’s Jr. on 2 separate occasions. 2 different locations, one in Mid-​Wilshire and one in Tarzana. My most recent trip to the Tarzana location on Ventura Blvd & Lindley landed me in the hospital for an overnight stay for food poisoning. I know it was Carl’s because I had not eaten anything at all prior to my visit. Please do NOT eat at any Carl’s Jr., unless you’re looking for an overnight stay in the hospital.

Lady at the register is so rude if you ask her to repeat herself. Management please take not.

I have been to this location a few times and it’s always hit or miss. This time, especially, it was a miss! I ordered the All-​Natural burger, which I have ordered before. When I arrived home, literally 4 minutes later, the pattie was like hard cardboard. It was obvious they hadn’t made it fresh. It was also cold, with the cheese not even melted a little on top of the pattie. The QC of this particular Carl’s Jr. is not good.

One of the nicest Carls’s Jr locations I have ever been too in LA. Clean and efficient. This review revolves less around the food and more as a nod towards the awesome staff that work hard here every day!
The employees here are so polite. The service is more typical of a nice sit down restaurant than a franchise fast food location.
For example I was about to purchase my meal with a debit card and the cashier told me there is a hidden one dollar fee for that form of payment so I paid in cash instead.
When another employee brought our orders over to the table on the other side of the restaurant he was gung ho about making sure we were satisfied and also brought us some different sauces to go with our burgers and fries. Hats off to the staff here they do a job a lot of other people might consider to be beneath them, and they do not act bitter or rudely towards anyone.
The food is good, I find Carl’s Jr has pretty decent consistency whether it’s an urban location or one out in the middle of nowhere next to a truck stop.
I finally got around to trying the new all natural burger. The burger itself tasted very good and the home baked buns are actually great and not just hype. Very fluffy and buttery with almost a croissant like shell but not nearly as flaky. Lettuce and tomato were lacking in assembly and didn’t really cover more than a small portion of the burger.
Fries were crispy and had perfect amount of salt on them, not overpowering.
I know I will still end up sticking to my favorite items here like the western star burger, famous star, pineapple burger and criss cut fries. Also the shakes here are reason enough to stop in on a hot day.
Location also has a green burrito menu section.

grass-​fed beef burger tastes great. I think it’s the bun. Also, I asked for extra tomatoes. No extra charge. Very nice folks here, too.
Two funny things: first, this Car’s Jr. has four stars shaped on outside the wall of its building facing the parking lot, and one of those stars is yellow while the others are brown like the rest of the wall; it looks as though Carl’s were giving itself a one-​star review, ha ha.
Second, today the paper placemat in each tray advertises the Natural Burger, this grass-​fed thing that I enjoyed. But the placemat says that this is the only natural burger with no antibiotics, no steroids, no hormones added to the beef; I felt like this kind of implied that Carl’s other beef patties are not «natural», although in fact those other patties probably also do not contain those additives either. Ha. Funny advertising gaff.

Been here a few times and the place is clean but requested the Mile High Bacon burger and there was no bacon. Where’s the bacon

I was going to break in my Carl’s jr gift card I got for Father’s Day but no go because this location was noting but a wood frame when I got there.
Maybe tomorrow I can find another location.

They are closed shut down

I became incredible close with my best friend at this Carls Jr. so due to that highly sentimental reason I will now be giving this restaurant the full 5 stars.
However, that would be a really silly reason to give a restaurant a good review, so I will also shout out their delicious food and very friendly customer service as well. This is my favorite Carls Jr. and one of my favorite fast food places to stop at, and it’s really large and located perfectly in the mid-​city area.
Come here for good food and good friendships I guess who knows???

Would not give me ranch even though I ordered fries and a spicy chicken. She proceeded to charges 80¢ even though it says condiments available upon request.

The service here is pretty good however they have some terrible French fries it’s the worst I’ve had.

BOYCOTT THIS LOCATION!!! STAFF IS HORRIBLE!!!
I don’t eat fast food but when I do, it’s Carl’s Jr. But don’t go to this location. At 9pm on a Sunday night especially. They forgot half my order, I had to remind them as I was sitting there and they were trying to push me along. I pulled away and realized they still hadn’t given me the drink or the fried for my order but I was so feed up with the rudeness of the cashier who made it seem like it was my fault that she forgot my order, that I decided that it was someone somewhere telling me that I did not need the fries or drink I had paid for.
I have never had someone treat me so rudely as the cashier at this location did, she should no longer work for this establishment. This is not the type of person I would ever employee. I do not know her name since the line after cashier was blank on my receipt but I would fire her. The time I was there at 9pm on Sunday, My 19^th.
I will NEVER go back to this Carl’s Jr. Anyone who likes Carl’s Jr can contact me and I will give you a better location. I would rather drive miles away than have this service ever again. The people working at this particular location are horrible employees and should not have the Carls Jr. name associated with them.

Well it’s no surprise that I got severe food poisoning after reading the review below me. I went here last night and got a Bourbon burger. I ate it in my car, drove home and 45 minutes later felt like I was going to die. I actually lost consciousness because the pain was so bad, I had a friend rush me to the ER. Spent the night hooked up to IV’s, shitting the bed and vomiting. This place needs to be inspected.

i said i wanted buttermilk sauce but he gave me bbq sauce. and i felt like it was slower than most drive thrus.
and i got suckered into trying their grilled cheese bacon burger. they said i get a free oreo ice cream sandwich. don’t fall for it.
it was way too cheesy and salty for me. i should’ve stuck with my usual famous star.

There’s a free unlocked bathroom so this Carl’s attracts the homeless. The turkey burger is gross.

For fast food, quite a surprising delight. Options that don’t quite seem to dull and specials with such regularity that it makes you crave the next month’s ‘offering’ without a clue as to what it could possibly be. Sure… as with most fast food chains one may question the integrity behind the host of ingredients going into each bite — but does one go for high-​class? It’s convenient, it fills the craving, and for that very moment, it’s usually pretty darn tasty. Who could say no to that?
The particular Carl’s Jr. is considerably clean — more so than a number of others seen. Staff are incredibly polite and patient for those who may take a bit longer to order their fast food fix. But be warned — milkshakes are not 100% accurate at this location — although unless it’s the annual captain promo, it really doesn’t matter ;-)

I was so surprised by the food AND the staff at this fast food chain. Jerry and Mario were super friendly and great service! Would go back again and again!

Sometimes, when you’re sittin’ around at home on a Saturday night watching America’s Most Wanted, you find yourself with a nearly insatiable urge to have a burger. And if you’re a good consumer, (like, for example, moi), even if you’re craving a Big Mac at the Mac D’s that’s nowhere near home, you skidaddle over to the closest burger joint that comes to mind, even if that happens to be Carl’s Jr.
I can’t say I particularly fancy Carl’s, or their entirely suspect smoke flavored meat, but they’re the only fast food that happens to be walking distance to me, (a critical point when the hot weekend night of thrilling network television also includes a cheap bottle of wine), so now and again when the hankering strikes, they get my biz. I can’t quite figure if this Carl’s on the edge of Little Ethiopia happens to be a little ghetto or all Carl’s happen to be a little ghetto, but suffice to say, I prefer to partake of my burger dalliances in the privacy of my own living room. Parked on my sofa. To-​go.
On this particular occasion I was, per usual, in the mood for a crappy Big Mac, so I decided to give the Big Carl a spin. It was nothing like the Big Mac aside from the starchy bun that was a bit thicker than usual and the fact that that bun was wrapped around two artificially flavored, over processed mystery beef patties. (Well, that and their use of Thousand Island and mayo as «special sauce».)
Suffice to say I’m hardly one to split hairs when it comes to indulging a junk food craving and when you factor Carl’s fries and one of their milkshakes in to the mix while you’re peering out your windows checking to see if your Orthodox neighbors may actually be fugitives hiding from the long arm of the law, it definitely hits the spot.

After our boozy night at Zanzibar, I was sitting around waiting for some people to come back with my friend’s apartment keys. Eons passed. Conversation is as follows:
Friend– «I wish there was something to do. Too bad I’m not hungry.»
Shauna– «Yeah, I’m not hungry.»
5 minutes go by.
Friend– «I’m getting hungry.»
Shauna– «Yeah, I’m actually hungry. Where’s the In & Out around here?»
Friend– «It’s closed by now. Let’s go to Carl’s Jr.»
Shauna– «You mean there’s not even a Jack In Box?»
Friend– «Carl’s is closer.»
Shauna– «Okay, fine.»
We proceeded to go through the drive-​thru and I racked my brain for what I used to order in college (yes, because it’s been that long since I ate at Carl’s Jr.).
Friend– «So what do you want.»
Shauna– «Um, I want Santa Fe chicken sandwich… on sourdough. Oh, and make it a combo»
According to the Carl’s Jr. website I ingested over 600 calories for that sandwich.
Sadly, the fries weren’t that good. And I could have used some more lettuce in my sandwich. Maybe I should have not gotten the sauce which is probably the source of most of the calories and fat.
But at least it was open late at night.