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Jasbo1653 02-11-2021 10:53 AM

Burger King 466A
 
Is it just me or is this Burger King on 466A, slow service, lack of proper employee staffing, miss managed and a lack of compatent managemant. If I was corparate management at Burger King, I would either get qualified management and trained employess or close this location down.

PugMom 02-11-2021 11:19 AM

all of the above AND the food is consistently served cold, without a smile or greeting of some kind:popcorn:

Two Bills 02-11-2021 11:44 AM

I took my grandson to that one for lunch a few years ago, and they had run out of burgers.
Staff thought it was hilarious.
Never been back.

sdeikenberry 02-11-2021 01:22 PM

Not just that one, but the Burger King on 441 in Spanish Springs is just as bad. I was there in December and the Whopper had almost no taste, and zero char flavor...the only reason I ever go there. Workers are isolated inside and customers on the outside...no interaction, no incentive to put out a good product.

I'm Popeye! 02-11-2021 02:59 PM

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Originally Posted by PugMom (Post 1900519)
all of the above AND the food is consistently served cold, without a smile or greeting of some kind:popcorn:

Denny's in that area was or still is horrible, could be the air. I stopped going there been over a year now.

CWGUY 02-11-2021 03:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Greg Laslowe (Post 1900617)
Denny's in that area was or still is horrible, could be the air. I stopped going there been over a year now.

:confused: Is there a Denny's on 466A? I don't get down there much.

JSR22 02-11-2021 04:26 PM

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Originally Posted by CWGUY (Post 1900640)
:confused: Is there a Denny's on 466A? I don't get down there much.

No Denny's on 466A.

Stu from NYC 02-11-2021 04:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Two Bills (Post 1900536)
I took my grandson to that one for lunch a few years ago, and they had run out of burgers.
Staff thought it was hilarious.
Never been back.

Bet the owner would not have the same opinion

karostay 02-11-2021 04:33 PM

All that's going on in world...Hamburger joint is major concern Really Folks

B-flat 02-11-2021 04:39 PM

I don't think the bad service is unique to the Villages or Burger King. IN our travels to and from Florida to New England we often stop in Edgewood, Md for the night. Burger King, McDonalds and Taco Bell are terrible in the Edgewood/BelAir area of MD. Good thing there are other choices but during our first couple of trips we didn't travel beyond the hotel we stayed in.

Stu from NYC 02-11-2021 04:47 PM

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Originally Posted by karostay (Post 1900657)
All that's going on in world...Hamburger joint is major concern Really Folks

We seem to have talked the other major world problems to death so starting to working on a few slightly less major

Jima64 02-11-2021 05:00 PM

The above postings are why we gave up fast food hamburger places years ago. No amount of management correcting can change brain dead workers waiting for gov. Pay raises.

CWGUY 02-11-2021 05:09 PM

Wow! That's a broad brush you got there.......:icon_wink:

John_W 02-11-2021 05:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Two Bills (Post 1900536)
I took my grandson to that one for lunch a few years ago, and they had run out of burgers.
Staff thought it was hilarious.
Never been back.

That was probably the BK on 466, the BK on 466A is in Trailwinds Villages a commercial development and only opened 2 years ago this coming spring.

The BK at Trailwinds when it first opened was very busy, and was fairly proficient, but since Wendys opened about 6 months later, which is about a year ago, I've only been back to BK once. They didn't seem to be that busy at that time. I like Wendys Chili and their Classic Chicken Sandwich and the only item that BK has of interest for me is their meatless burger, but it only comes in the Whopper size, which is very big.

It's on the right front of this photo

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John_W 02-11-2021 05:37 PM

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Originally Posted by B-flat (Post 1900664)
...we often stop in Edgewood, Md for the night. Burger King, McDonalds and Taco Bell are terrible in the Edgewood/BelAir area of MD. Good thing there are other choices but during our first couple of trips we didn't travel beyond the hotel we stayed in.

I lived about two miles from those Edgewood Maryland locations for 20 years before moving here. Even though they were that close, I never ate at any of them. I-95 is like a dividing line in Harford County Maryland, crime and everything that goes with crime (drugs) happens on the east of I-95 and west of I-95 it's a totally different world. It's like going from TV to Wildwood. I wouldn't even stay in those motels. Next time go about three more miles to Exit 80 exit east Belcamp and go right at the light, there is a Spring Hill Suites, very nice motel and a nice Pizza Hut in the shopping right next door.

If you stop at Exit 77 again, next time bypass Edgewood exit East, take the exit in the opposite direction. Exit Route 24 West (Bel Air) and go to the first light about a 1/4 mile and turn right, it's Route 924 Tollgate Rd. On the right side of the road about 100 yards is a WaWa, it's very nice and big, at the second light about another 100 yards is a Wegman's Grocery Store, it's the best grocery store you'll ever go inside. I use to live across the street. If you continue on 924 Tollgate go about a 1/2 mile and you'll pass a Walgreens and then a 7/11, the shopping behind the 7/11 has a restaurant that's called Box Hill Pizza, it has the best steak subs in the world, best crabs cake in Maryland, and they have great pizza and spaghetti dinners. That's all within 2 miles of I-95.

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B-flat 02-11-2021 05:57 PM

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Originally Posted by John_W (Post 1900687)
I lived about two miles from those Edgewood Maryland locations for 20 years before moving here. Even though they were that close, I never ate at any of them. I-95 is like a dividing line in Harford County Maryland, crime and everything that goes with crime (drugs) happens on the east of I-95 and west of I-95 it's a totally different world. It's like going from TV to Wildwood. I wouldn't even stay in those motels. Next time go about three more miles to Exit 80 exit east Belcamp and go right at the light, there is a Spring Hill Suites, very nice motel and a nice Pizza Hut in the shopping right next door.

If you stop at Exit 77 again, next time bypass Edgewood exit East, take the exit in the opposite direction. Exit Route 24 West (Bel Air) and go to the first light about a 1/4 mile and turn right, it's Route 924 Tollgate Rd. On the right side of the road about 100 yards is a WaWa, it's very nice and big, at the second light about another 100 yards is a Wegman's Grocery Store, it's the best grocery store you'll ever go inside. I use to live across the street. If you continue on 924 Tollgate go about a 1/2 mile and you'll pass a Walgreens and then a 7/11, the shopping behind the 7/11 has a restaurant that's called Box Hill Pizza, it has the best steak subs in the world, best crabs cake in Maryland, and they have great pizza and spaghetti dinners. That's all within 2 miles of I-95.

https://www.baltimoresun.com/resizer...K6RZ7RPDTA.jpg

JohnW, Thanks for the education!! I usually head east, but if we stop there our next trip I will go west of I-95. I do know where the Wegman's is, on one of our trips we ordered some take out from the nearby Panera. I think we have stayed at exit 80 in 2014 when we were in MD to visit some friends in Forest Hill. Thanks again for the tips! P.S. I just did some looking around next trip Exit 80 will be the one we stay at. Spring Hill Suites looks great.

HIgolfers 02-11-2021 06:14 PM

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Originally Posted by John_W (Post 1900687)
I lived about two miles from those Edgewood Maryland locations for 20 years before moving here. Even though they were that close, I never ate at any of them. I-95 is like a dividing line in Harford County Maryland, crime and everything that goes with crime (drugs) happens on the east of I-95 and west of I-95 it's a totally different world. It's like going from TV to Wildwood. I wouldn't even stay in those motels. Next time go about three more miles to Exit 80 exit east Belcamp and go right at the light, there is a Spring Hill Suites, very nice motel and a nice Pizza Hut in the shopping right next door.

If you stop at Exit 77 again, next time bypass Edgewood exit East, take the exit in the opposite direction. Exit Route 24 West (Bel Air) and go to the first light about a 1/4 mile and turn right, it's Route 924 Tollgate Rd. On the right side of the road about 100 yards is a WaWa, it's very nice and big, at the second light about another 100 yards is a Wegman's Grocery Store, it's the best grocery store you'll ever go inside. I use to live across the street. If you continue on 924 Tollgate go about a 1/2 mile and you'll pass a Walgreens and then a 7/11, the shopping behind the 7/11 has a restaurant that's called Box Hill Pizza, it has the best steak subs in the world, best crabs cake in Maryland, and they have great pizza and spaghetti dinners. That's all within 2 miles of I-95.

https://www.baltimoresun.com/resizer...K6RZ7RPDTA.jpg

Now this is a helpful post!!

Number 10 GI 02-11-2021 06:52 PM

Complaining about bad service and product here won't change anything. Get the name and phone number of the franchise owner and call that person and let them know of your displeasure. When the owner gets direct complaints from customers it won't be long before a new manager will be in charge of the restaurant. I have called or wrote to corporation headquarters a few times and got quick results.

Pairadocs 02-11-2021 08:47 PM

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Originally Posted by CWGUY (Post 1900677)
Wow! That's a broad brush you got there.......:icon_wink:

A broad brush for sure ! WOW ! Our children all worked at fast food at one time or another, learned a great deal, some good, some bad. But also provided a place for many who have no fancy educations, special skills, or union protected wages for in demand trades. Fast food workers can be the "care less" kind of course, we've all had that experience, but also many are the ONLY places who will give an older worker (like a cousin of mine) who can't make it any more on all she has, SS, and has found several fast food places to work. Just saying, it's unfair to paint all folks who want to have some kind of job, as greedy or lazy or "dumb", walk in the shoes of another and say a prayer that you are in a better place than some (due to your own hard work and caring, just like many in fast food are too).

wisbad1 02-11-2021 10:07 PM

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Originally Posted by PugMom (Post 1900519)
all of the above AND the food is consistently served cold, without a smile or greeting of some kind:popcorn:

Still can’t beat flamed broiled!

John_W 02-11-2021 10:17 PM

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Talking about our kids working in fast-food, when I was 19 I worked in a place you probably never seen or heard of, it was called "Wagon Ho". Here's a photo of the one on Pasadena Ave going from St. Petersburg to St. Pete Beach. I worked there twice, the spring of '69 and the fall of '69 and they went out of business. That was real yachting type sail stretched over steel rafters to create the look of an old west wagon, with a 15' tall fiberglass cowboy.

We had what I thought was the most wanted items. Arby's had just started up and was doing great, so we had the sliced roast beef and sliced ham sandwichs on a sesame seed bun, flame broiled hamburgers on a conveyor belt just BK and string type french fries like McDonalds. We wore white cowboy hats, cowboy shirts and string ties with jeans. A middle aged couple had the franchise in St. Pete and invested their life savings. After about 3 months I left to go work in my cousin's sub shop on the boardwalk in Ocean City Maryland for the summer. When I returned I got my job back. Unfortunately business took a turn for the worse and the company took the franchise back.

Originally they had planned to build 200 locations in a couple of years. The chain started in Birmingham, Alabama, and was another in Bradenton, Florida and I believe another in St. Pete and one in Canada. Only five total were built and opened. They closed down the five locations and cowboys statues were sold off for about $3,000 apiece. Soon after they closed, I headed off to the Army and a career in aviation.

One of the cowboys sat in front of a used car dealer in Pinellas Park (just north of St. Pete) for many years. The cowboy in Birmingham went to a Mexican Restaurant. The cowboy in the Pasadena location went to a mini-golf on Treasure Island.

https://www.roadarch.com/20/8/wagon.jpg

pvetrano1 02-12-2021 05:50 AM

Sounds like every Burger King

Sensei 02-12-2021 05:59 AM

Burger King is consistent
 
This spot does not seem to show any concern for improvement

Only Customer
Didn't seem too enthusiastic to have a customer. Marilu, at first said only breakfast items were available. The somewhat sour manager said burgers were available. Bunless burgers were requested. They were presented bunless...but they were also without mayo or ketchup. Rest rooms were grimy and messy despite the early hour. With no other guests, one would expect workers to attend to cleanliness. On-going style of this new venue, it appears.

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tsmall22204 02-12-2021 05:59 AM

That happens all the time on the one on 441 past Spanish Springs.

chuckk281 02-12-2021 06:13 AM

I've had good service and food at that Burger King.

Cobullymom 02-12-2021 06:19 AM

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Originally Posted by Jima64 (Post 1900672)
The above postings are why we gave up fast food hamburger places years ago. No amount of management correcting can change brain dead workers waiting for gov. Pay raises.

Bingo, because then those over paid brain dead workers would just make their crappy food more expensive...

mlmarr1 02-12-2021 06:24 AM

Sign of the times.. get use to it.. or go elsewhere..

billyb1950 02-12-2021 06:25 AM

Why don't you just admit the fact you have never been to Burger King (or maybe not even out of your basement) instead of your condescending remarks. All Burger Kings - all of them - are poorly managed. Since BKs problems are not isolated, then it is an issue with upper management from their headquarters in Miami.

mlmarr1 02-12-2021 06:25 AM

Choice of food wagon's..not healthy.. gave these places up.. many many yrs ago

billyb1950 02-12-2021 06:27 AM

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Originally Posted by karostay (Post 1900657)
All that's going on in world...Hamburger joint is major concern Really Folks

Why don't you just admit the fact you have never been to Burger King (or maybe not even out of your basement) instead of your condescending remarks. All Burger Kings - all of them - are poorly managed. Since BKs problems are not isolated, then it is an issue with upper management from their headquarters in Miami.

Kathy Plato 02-12-2021 07:26 AM

Burger King
 
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Originally Posted by Jasbo1653 (Post 1900499)
Is it just me or is this Burger King on 466A, slow service, lack of proper employee staffing, miss managed and a lack of compatent managemant. If I was corparate management at Burger King, I would either get qualified management and trained employess or close this location down.

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We have not been back since the milk we ordered and received was outdated. Told them about it and they made no comment.

spofford 02-12-2021 07:35 AM

Burger King must be having issues. Leesburg location after total remodel last year looks closed down. At 466A location last week, roll was not fresh. Service was good, restaurant was clean. They had good spacing at tables. Without coupons wouldn’t go back.

GaryKoca 02-12-2021 07:51 AM

Burger King on 466a
 
I suggest Culvers on 466. By far the best of the franchise burger places. And they have a walleye sandwich during Lent that is absolutely delicious.

cwnavy1 02-12-2021 07:54 AM

No one has mentioned Chik Fil A, they generally are efficient and friendly
 
CFA always is respectful and efficient. Just check out the cars in line and how fast they get through to get their correctly filled orders. We often wonder why others don’t follow their lead.

rmd2 02-12-2021 07:59 AM

Burger King and Wendy's on 466A are both very slow. I don't know if it's because they just have more customers or what. I don't find them slow on 441.

fastboat 02-12-2021 08:00 AM

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Originally Posted by Jasbo1653 (Post 1900499)
Is it just me or is this Burger King on 466A, slow service, lack of proper employee staffing, miss managed and a lack of compatent managemant. If I was corparate management at Burger King, I would either get qualified management and trained employess or close this location down.

You're writing to the wrong people. Try their corporate HQ.

CFrance 02-12-2021 08:02 AM

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Originally Posted by Stu from NYC (Post 1900668)
We seem to have talked the other major world problems to death so starting to working on a few slightly less major

I agree. Also, maybe you could include a well-run, friendly Burger King in the Village of Stu.

rmd2 02-12-2021 08:10 AM

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Originally Posted by karostay (Post 1900657)
All that's going on in world...Hamburger joint is major concern Really Folks

I honestly think people need an escape from the problems we all have been facing. It's nice to talk about things that are not important or deadly. Reminds me of lighter and happier times.

richs631 02-12-2021 08:11 AM

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Originally Posted by Jasbo1653 (Post 1900499)
Is it just me or is this Burger King on 466A, slow service, lack of proper employee staffing, miss managed and a lack of compatent managemant. If I was corparate management at Burger King, I would either get qualified management and trained employess or close this location down.

We stopped going to fast food places and discovered that most area restaurants have lunch specials that cost little or no more than fast food. Service is great and with a smile. And they want 15 bucks an hour in fast food joints and most can’t of those employees can’t tie their own shoes

richs631 02-12-2021 08:12 AM

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Originally Posted by Jima64 (Post 1900672)
The above postings are why we gave up fast food hamburger places years ago. No amount of management correcting can change brain dead workers waiting for gov. Pay raises.

One thousand percent correct


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