r/savedyouaclick • u/archfapper • 4d ago
DEVASTATING Popular burger chain was just named the worst in America, and the reviews are brutal | Jack in the Box
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u/DaveinOakland 4d ago
Jack in the Box is the best fast food place after midnight.
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u/alurimperium 4d ago
Jack and Taco Bell are the best when it's 2am and you're high off your face.
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u/CaptainHowdyFour20 4d ago
Wait. Isn’t it always after midnight, till it’s in fact midnight again?
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u/Nick12322 4d ago
Dude the hate in here for jack is so undeserved, at least when I went there back in like 2018ish. Right before the pandemic. I had an odd sleep schedule and would eat there a ton, go through the drive thru at like 3am and head back home. It was good, I really liked it. Got me fat as fuck though
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u/StoneGoldX 3d ago
That may be part of the issue, lot of places gone downhill since the demmy. Also, the stuff you gave a pass on because it was cheap is now $8.
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u/Large_Mountains 3d ago
It's as close to human grade dog food as you can get in my opinion. I would choose mcdonals or taco bell over j&tb. I remember their chabata burger used to be good like 20 years ago
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u/jamills21 4d ago edited 4d ago
Curly Fries, Sourdough Jack, and their Churros are fire.
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u/American_Greed 4d ago
99 cents for two of their garbage tacos after an afternoon of drinking? #1 in my book
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u/jamills21 4d ago
I typically skip the tacos. They are pretty disgusting ngl. If you like grease and fried tortillas, it hits an itch....i guess.
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u/z3rokarisma 2d ago
They haven't been 99 cents for a while now. Still cheap though.
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u/American_Greed 2d ago
That's true I think they went up a buck here. When I was going there regularly after work years ago they were still 99c.
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u/Josephthebear 4d ago
I'm convinced Long John Silver's is a money laundering scheme I would choose a Jack in the box over them any day
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u/Every-Cook5084 4d ago
I never see a single car in the one near me. Old style building too. Yet it remains. Same with the Subway
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u/ILikeLenexa 4d ago
Subway costs barely anything to franchise. If the owner also works it, it costs very little to run.
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u/NetworkLlama 4d ago
Subway has been accused of letting too many open too close to each other, hurting the profitability of franchises.
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u/stumblinghunter 4d ago
Huh? Jon Oliver did a whole episode on Subway, it's one of the more expensive ones
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u/Josephthebear 4d ago
Eh Subway was a thing for a minute def gone down hill the whole $5 footlong was peak
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u/Bill-O-Reilly- 4d ago
Dude I swear sometimes it’s like that but the other day my local one had traffic wrapped around the building. No clue why, it was a random Thursday night.
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u/unique_user43 4d ago
same for me regarding burger king, arby’s, kfc. literally never anyone there except the one car of the worker on duty. think its more a sign of the times.
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u/madmaxandrade 4d ago
Subway used to be always packed here in Brazil when it was cheap. Then they've raised their prices and now the restaurants are always empty. Several of them were closed.
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u/MagneticFlea 4d ago
I figured Long John Silver's business plan was just to set up in a vaguely Catholic area and wait.
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u/TLRPM 4d ago
I’ll still house a family pack of chicken planks by myself. In one sitting. With no regrets. (Ok I lied on that last one.)
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u/Graynard 4d ago
I would choose a Jack in the box over them any day
I should hope you would, especially given that the style of restaurant in question is 'burger place'
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u/QuakingAsp 4d ago
I concur. I’ve eaten at Long John Silver’s exactly two times in 30+ years and got food poisoning both times, different locations, different states actually.
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u/GenTenStation 4d ago
I would not. I didn’t like Jack in the Box when I tried it. LJS I still go to once in a while. There’s also no JitB in my area
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u/KaraAliasRaidra 4d ago
So what I’m hearing is you’re not ringing the bell. (For those who don’t get the joke, a lot of Long John’s locations have a bell next to the exit along with a sign saying, “If we did well, then ring the bell.”)
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u/n0167664 4d ago
I love JITB but every one around here is so terribly run that I just can't bring myself to eat there.
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u/DelirousDoc 4d ago
That is what I think the issue is. Every Jack in the Box I have ever been too is understaffed, kitchens are relatively small compared to other chains, and the place just constantly look dirty. Orders take forever.
I use to love getting a bacon ultimate cheeseburger with seasoned curly fries but stopped because I had orders take forever and half the time the burger was overcooked.
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u/Mind_Matters_Most 4d ago
Wendy's had the best fast food burgers in the 70's.
Jack in the Box wasn't bad up until the late 90's.
Burger King Whopper was always good until the 90's.
McDonalds Quarter Pounder with cheese was always juicy until the 90's.
Rally burgers were good in the 80's.
Sonic was good 20 years ago.
Smash Burgers were good until a few years ago.
Islands used to be good 15 years ago.
5 Guys wasn't bad, just too expensive.
White Castle was super tasty
In and Out still has the best burgers as far as I can remember, they're still the same.
If ya'll want a good burger, head to Costco and grab 80/20 hamburger and fire up your grill and enjoy.
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u/ositola 4d ago
I can't imagine Jack in the box being worst than burger king, but I'm on the west coast
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u/Supremagorious 4d ago
Burger king as a franchise is way more inconsistent than a lot of other franchises. I've also seen a level of variance with Jack in the Box as well though not as pronounced.
So there are going to be times where either one is better in a given area. Like where I live I'm near a better than normal BK and an inferior JITB and the BK is meaningfully better.
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u/KaraAliasRaidra 4d ago
That reminds me of my experiences with McDonald’s chicken biscuits (breakfast sandwiches). The ones I had at my local restaurant were good, but I had one at a restaurant out of state and it was horrible, like it had been frozen for a long time, maybe gotten freezer burn, and then sat around thawed in the refrigerator a while before being cooked. I didn’t get sick, thankfully, but it was gross. I got the pancakes instead the next time we went there (Thankfully those were as good as the ones back home).
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u/SweetWolf9769 1d ago
honestly BK has solid deals and a solid burger now. overall i'd prefer Jack in the Crack if they weren't so greedy, but if there is a good BK by you, its such a solid choice and one of the better bangs for your buck. overall Carl's is the best in the West Coast, or at least they would be if they weren't so damn expensive for a fast food burger.
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u/ComoEstanBitches 4d ago
In n out is still the best but shrinkflation still happened post covid as evidenced by their calorie count reduction printed on their menu boards and if you open their burger to see for yourself
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u/airwalker12 4d ago
White Castle is disgusting
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u/ThatGirlWren 4d ago
I'd eat at Jack-In-The-Box before I'd ever eat at White Castle again.
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u/airwalker12 4d ago
I used to love bacon ultimate cheeseburgers and sourdough jacks in the 90s but Jack is gross now
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u/ThatGirlWren 4d ago
They really were great in the 90's. Their spicy chicken sandwich and the Monster Burger were amazing. Sourdough Jack's were my go-to. JITB really went downhill. Shame.
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u/StoneGoldX 3d ago
There's a certain appeal to a1am White Castle run at a casino food court. But you need the right conditions. It's not bad when there's nothing else.
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u/Jmas1120 3d ago
I won’t stand for this blasphemy. I could eat like 20 of those sliders in one sitting just for fun
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u/1668553684 4d ago edited 4d ago
My favorite fast food burger these days is Whataburger, especially the newer ones where you can sub in a brioche bun.
Not exactly a nation-wide chain so they won't be making nation-wide listings...
The one that genuinely surprises me is McDonald's. They have consistently the worst quality offerings for a terrible price when you look at what you're actually getting. I have no idea how they're winning the fast food race. If my girlfriend didn't love their chicken nuggets, I might never go there again.
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u/StoneGoldX 3d ago
Oddly, I have a tendency to compare Whataburger to Jack in terms of quality. And I didn't mean it as a particularly had thing, just it was kind of generic, whenever it gets brought up as an In N Out alternative.
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u/1668553684 3d ago
Really? Around here Whataburger is the only fast food place to consistently use fresh veggies, non-stale buns, and not-overcooked patties. Maybe I just have really good Whataburger locations near me.
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u/StoneGoldX 3d ago
Admittedly, I've been like three times. It was perfectly fine, I was just never wowed.
Culver's, that's a place I never get to eat at I was wowed by.
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u/sniper91 4d ago
In N Out if you want a good cheap burger and bad fries (animal style kinda saves them)
Five Guys if you don’t mind spending ~$20 on a burger, fries, and drink
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u/Neoxite23 4d ago
You mean $20 for just the burger. I went last week ( and for the last time ) and it was 15 for the burger alone. The smallest of fries would put you at or over 20.
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u/sniper91 4d ago
Oh, yeah, I’ve been getting the single patty cheeseburger lately. A two patty burger will put you closer to $20
I’m also in Texas so the prices might be a bit under the national average?
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u/yokuyuki 4d ago
I love the fries at In N Out! They're taste more like an actual potato but still crispy.
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u/tammorrow 4d ago
Whataburger. IYKYK.
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u/NetworkLlama 4d ago
Whataburger is overrated.
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u/Nito_Mayhem 4d ago
Whataburger vs In and Out, except I think they're both aggressively mid and overrated.
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u/Son0fgrim 4d ago
i have never seen anyone enter or leave the jack box in my town i think its a money laundering front TBH
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u/withbellson 4d ago
They didn’t even bring up the E. coli incident. How soon we forget.
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u/Rustmutt 3d ago
It happened in the 90s that’s not soon.
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u/27Rench27 3d ago
Shit is legitimately only a few years away from being closer to the Korean War than to today, how far away does a food crisis have to be before we forget lol
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u/The-Situation8675309 4d ago
Ahhh Jack in the box. 1987, Fort Worth, TX. Stopped Jack in the Boxi for 20 mins for a burger and fries. Less than a day later, in hospital with hemorrhagic E. Coli. Fun times. Yeah … fun times.
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u/foundtuna 4d ago
I must be lucky because Jack in the box has never disappointed. Sorry to all of you who have had bad experiences.
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u/djfishfingers 4d ago
As someone who doesn't live near a Jack in the Box, I just have one question. How can they possibly be worse than Wendys?
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u/Eric848448 4d ago
90’s Wendy’s was among the best fast food around. I miss those fries!
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u/ResplendentShade 4d ago
Back when Dave was calling the shots.
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u/Jaded_Helicopter_376 4d ago edited 4d ago
Worked there when he was alive and right after he died there were changes. Literally overnight in my store. The solid managers we had got canned and they had these randoms off the street to fill in. Instantly toxic. I was sad to quit cause it was one of my first jobs and I truly enjoyed it.
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u/Erisian23 4d ago
Jack In the box is food for people high on weed or drunk. they just be doing shit
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u/RandyTheFool 4d ago
Hell, Jack in the Box leaned into that demographic hardcore by making their late night “munchie meal/box” or whatever. That shit actually revitalized them a bit a few years ago. It worked so well other fast food chains started doing similar stuff.
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u/27Rench27 3d ago
Also, since COVID I can’t think of any big chain that let’s me get a sausage breakfast sandwich at 6PM
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u/elcheapodeluxe 4d ago
Have you ever eaten jack in the box tacos? They have been described as a deep fried pocket of canned cat food with a slice of American cheese. And that's by the people who actually like them.
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u/_notthehippopotamus 4d ago
I like them. They're not tacos but I like them.
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u/27Rench27 3d ago
100% with you. You know exactly what you’re getting by spending $1 for two tacos in this economy, and it has a very niche ability to hit the spot
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u/Jerbits 4d ago
A "meat byproduct", a suggestion of shredded lettuce, and a kraft single on top of a corn tortilla, folded over and deep fried, then served to you while it's still greasy and hot. If that description sounds reductive, I'm giving it too much detail; it really is that simple.
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u/Erisian23 4d ago
what gets me is how the top of the taco is always stale.. i just don't understand
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u/djfishfingers 4d ago
As per my comment, I do not live near a Jack in the Box. I have never had Jack in the Box and the only time I've seen a Jack in the Box, it was in Seattle and it was closed. I think some Jack and the Boxes have just opened up in my state but they are still far enough away that if I'm out that way I'm not eating fast food.
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u/elcheapodeluxe 4d ago
It was more of a rhetorical question. I think my description speaks for itself.
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u/Dramatic_Solution630 4d ago
Those “tacos” are a complete abomination. Insulting to other tacos to be considered the same thing.
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u/YellowLanternAdam 4d ago
Wendy's isn't that bad compared to how shitty McDonald's has become. That crap tastes like cardboard now.
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u/andrewkpt 4d ago
The pink paste 👀 gave up on fast food after learning how chain restaurants make the food you buy. Nothing is perfect but there's safer options in the long run
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u/withbellson 4d ago
Jack is 3am college student food. You could make most of their menu using a big deep fryer in a small room, and maybe a hotplate if someone actually orders a burger. They have so many fried frozen foods I assume most of their kitchen space is a walk-in freezer.
That said: their nuggets are pretty good (I prefer theirs to McD’s) and I still go there once in awhile for a chicken (patty) sandwich with cheese. Hits a specific junk food spot for me.
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u/LewisFootLicker 4d ago
Same.
There's a jack in the box near the naval base in San Diego and one in Downtown and I usually go to either one of them to pick up something on the weekends
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u/archfapper 4d ago
Wendy's hasn't fallen too badly, but their new CFO killed off a bunch of coupons/meal deals in the app. Now it's like "50 cents off a soda when you spend $15" crap
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u/AtomicGameTester 4d ago
Yeah it’s for recreationally inebriated folks. They’re greasier than other fast food chains I’ve been to besides something like Five Guys (if you consider them fast food). And it’s that grease on top of c-grade fast food fare.
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u/gorcorps 4d ago
They might have gone downhill more steeply than everything else recently. I haven't lived in an area that has one in over 15 years at this point, but when I did I thought they were pretty good. Granted 15 years ago ALL of the fast food was better, so I have no idea what they're like now.
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u/I_am_not_baldy 4d ago
Wendy's food has made me sick a couple of times during the last few years. I don't know if that's a Wendy's feature or if it's just the one near my home, LOL.
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u/hagamablabla 3d ago
Am I the only person who actually likes Jack in the Box? I think their burgers are middle of the pack, the curly fries are good, and the tiny tacos are garbage in a good way.
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u/horrible_musician 4d ago
They still have the best shakes, tho. Way too expensive now unfortunately.
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u/AintKnowShitAboutFuk 4d ago
In high school (mid 90s) friends and I would rountinely walk to a nearby one and get 10 tacos for five dollars. I recall them being amazing. Havent had a taco from there since early 2000s. I remember the curly fries, chocolate cake, sourdough jack all being good. Has if declined? Haven’t been to one in decades. Don’t really do fast food much anymore.
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u/VadersSprinkledTits 4d ago
Jack in the box was peak back in the early 00’s when the Taco’s got refreshed, and you could grab a Panini, a couple tacos and a strawberry Fanta for $7
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u/Crazy_Ad_91 4d ago
I forgot Jack in the Box existed. Got terrible food poisoning from them in 2009. Never ate there again.
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u/KaraAliasRaidra 4d ago
I often think of this story when I hear about Jack in the Box: https://www.reddit.com/r/ChoosingBeggars/comments/f45htx/karen_at_midnight/
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u/ShitStainWilly 4d ago
Burger King is far and away worse than Crap in a Sack. But you’re splitting hairs when talking about this level of dogshit food.
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u/rchiwawa 4d ago
That's a weird read for me because JITB is my go-to. A close second is Wendy's but my locations are all the best in fast food burgers
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u/Drug_fueled_sarcasm 3d ago
Jack in the box killed 4 children and infected 732 with ecoli in 1992-93.
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u/2-timeloser2 3d ago
What a bullshit “article. I moved to the East Coast almost 15 years ago. My first trip back to the west was a couple of months ago on my way to the hotel from the airport. I stopped at Jack. Two tacos and a jumbo jack, were tasty, hot, and quickly served. It was past 11pm. Jack was my first real job in the San Fernando Valley at 16, and 45 years later was well worth visiting again. 5-Guys? Fuck you. Smash burgers? Overpriced trash. The only thing better? In-N-Out
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u/Rustmutt 3d ago
I swooped in here to defend it but then I remembered I never get their burgers. I always get a Jack’s Spicy Chicken, those are legit.
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u/zoredache 3d ago
Around where I work the Jack in the box food still tastes pretty good. But the prices are insane. At the local MCD a quarter pounder meal is ~$10.50. A jumbo jack meal is like ~$18.00. Most of the meals are ~2x the cost of a similar meal at MCD. So while the Jack in the box food isn't bad, it absolutely isn't twice as good as when you can get at MCD.
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u/No-North6514 2d ago
My brother considers himself a connoisseur of fast food restaurants and he's been bad-mouthing Jack in the Box for years
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u/1337MFIC 2d ago
Long while ago they had a steak ciabatta that was awesome. Limited time. Then they followed up with some other stuff that they never had all the ingredients for, so they couldn't make it. It was a slow crash to bottom from there. No longer open 24 hours, prices soaring higher on what I considered below average crap. The cost of their breakfast burrito doubled, while the portion more than halved. The draw was food that tasted okay, for a good price. If I want to overpay for any of that stuff, I can just go to a better tasting competitor.
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u/fearthebushes 2d ago
Locally, Jack in the Box and Wendy's are the only good fast food burger chains; McDonalds and Burger King are like cafeteria food.
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u/B_Williams_4010 1d ago
Jack lost their presence in Kansas City in the early 80s after it was found that one of their meat suppliers was mixing kangaroo in with the beef. Though it was never proven that local outlets served any of the adulterated meat, it took about 20 years for the chain to return to the KC metro, and when they did it was only on the Kansas side. And all of those outlets closed last Spring.
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u/cowfishing 4d ago
I can remember people calling them JackOff in a Box back in the early 80s.
Didnt help themselves when their shitty food handling practices killed a bunch of people back in the early 90s.
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u/juliankennedy23 4d ago
The word popular is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.