Carl's Jr. reviews and complaints 1
View all 533 complaintsCarl's Jr. - bad service, refused company discount coupon.
Very bad service. 03-14-2009 5:45pm pst.
Receipt # 0664 server #00066
Store #7366.
Ordered 2 kentucky burgers, 1 zucchini, 1 3 pc crisp burrito.
Presented clip internet promo 1 "dollar off coupon" at carport window to order taker. They checked with a manager refused to honor the coupon. The print out clearly shows it from carl's website and says clearly "present at store." I paid for the food and requested a few ranch dressing received. The entire order was crammed in the bag. The burgers were on the bottom of the paper bag and one of them leaked fluid onto my leather seat in my car. The crisp burritos had no guacamole sauce, which is supposed to be included as stated on the window posters at the restaurant. The burritos put in the bag vertically fell out into the bag. Zucchini was placed in sideways to upside down and also emptied into the crammed bag.
The burger I got also seemed flattened the bottom part and soaked with a liquid other than the bourbon sauce. This was a horrible experience that I received at this carl's and I wanted to let you know that because of this, 1.) I will blog it so others can know and 2.) will try to stay clear of being treated like this. I let the order taker know I would post a message complaining about the refusal to honor your company's coupon and suspect this is why the rest of my order came out the way it did. I really hope you folks do something about treating customer's like this especially when you are trying to promote your restaurant business and especially service as is. The refusal of the coupon goes on the manager's shoulders because he flat out refused it even though the print out showed the web url from carl's as well as stating on it "bring this coupon to the nearest carl's jr. Location to get your discount." that is false advertising too!
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Appears Carl's might be going belly up. Could it be lousy third world service, mishandling customers, false advertising, and creating food that makes people sick?
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By the way. Carl's junior ignores you the customer like they ignored me the customer. They do not care a crap about your experience. So here is what you need to do. Forget about them, save yourself from getting sick from their bad or poorly cooked food, hassles with managers, employees sweeping dirt and dust next to your table and booth while you are eating ( a clear health violation in most cities and even criminal ) and spend your money at Johnny Rockets or In N' Out Burger or if decent employees maybe a BK or JITB. Stay far clear of Carl's because even though they have gr8 looking food, their employees don't care and may well poison you to death with undercooked food or a heart attack arguing with a poorly trained manager. Just say no to Carl's, spread the word nationwide and save a life, heartburn, stress and money too.
The problem is with mostr carl's they have such bad quality trained people, they do not care especially since arby's roast beef took over them. Carls a long time ago was fair to decent. Today while their menu is great, their employees make the worst most unsafe health habits and dangerous food as well. The best bet seems to be In N' Out Burger. They are great quality and while their menu sucks on selections, their burgers are clean and their service top notch. Most Carl's hire people that bring very bad or criminally close health habits thus putting you in jeopardy.
Carl's has serious employee relation problems with their customers. In addition I have found I get stomach upset after eating a lot of their stuff. Their burgers are supposed to be char broiled and it seems as of late the meat is not only not hot, but looks at times cooked medium rare. Often after I eat a burger I feel almost nauseated. In addition I have noticed mainly low quality workers working in many of their places and often they make food after mopping a floor or wiping a counter with a dirty rag, but when they switch to making up burgers right in front of the customers, they do not use gloves. Watch how many hands are making your food without gloves. I try and avoid Carl's like the plague. By the way they are Arby's owned now. Arby's people are for the most part almost as bad. Generally before ordering their stuff, I try to see if the sandwich handlers and slicers are wearing gloves. If they aren't then in their native language "Hasta La Vista Baby!"
Ever since Karl Karcher died, the chain now owned by Arby's corporation, the nice Roast Beef folks, has gone down hill. I am wondering if they are doing this to kill Carl's in a subtle slow train to hell type of way. But yeah, unless the Carl's is in a real high quality living area they have changed to very bad in service since the old man died. They by the way never responded to my direct emails about what happened nor did they return my phone calls in all this time, so spread the word, get the word out and let's help bury a very bad corporate that hates its customers, once and for all.
Carl's is a mega burger selling machine. It is hit or miss with their stores. If I could recommend that I have had issues to date with In N Out Burger. There food never leaves me sick and their service is top notch, like burger joints used to be in the 1950's. Also though expensive I have found Johnny Rockets to be good as well, great service and some unique vintage style burgers and food.
Carl's never returned an email or call on this. This is because they do not care about customer complaints and this is a very legitimate complaint, and the filthy conditions I found at the other one off of Sherman way and Wilbur should have gotten a response. Nothing, nada, zip...mum's the word. In addition go to a Carl's and watch their people making your food with no gloves. Watch what their hands touch including the side of their hair backwiping their nose, broom handles, cash register and even money itself. Every one of these are a health hazard and nobody at Carl's has yet responded and look when I first posted the complaint here. That says it all about this organization.
Ooops, meant off Sherman Way near Wilbur in Reseda, not Reseda Blvd. Need to clarify that!
Another bad Carl's. Off Reseda Blvd. near Wilbur ave. I walked in to order a dinner. There was a Latino gentleman at the register and a Latino guy wiping the counter with a rag. He took the rag and set it across next to where they make up the burgers. No gloves, he immediately took his hands off the rags, grabbed two halves of a burger bun and began making someone's food, from the rag he was cleaning counters with. I saw that, and turned around and left. No wonder why people get sick and this guy was doing this in the wide open without any concern anyone would see him. Carl's is becoming a third world entity in the quality of health for its services. Too bad they make such tasty burgers and great advertising only to let their hired help stick people in medical centers.
Hey Jason, ever hear of bad service? I guess not. Maybe you need the car so you can go get crappy service at a Carl's.
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i ordered chicken tenders and had a cupon. after that i made some changes to my ordered. the tenders were burned< but that was not the the complaint. It was when i called, to complain ABOUT NO RECIEPT. I asked for a manager and was told there was none that i would have to call back tomaro so i told the guy who working the drive through that i was calling district office. then he hung up on me. this is the worst treatment i have ever had. never got to the burned tenders and i was calling about my reciept. cuz i felt that i was over charged. plez get back to me at chazwire@gmail.com. Charlie las vegas the JR was at 8051 6949 N Durango DR
This past thursday on 9/15/11 around 10 to 10:30 i made a order of chili cheese fries and a hamburger, and when it was time to go me and my younger sister wanted to wash our hands and like the door was still open we went inside and the lady who was working there at the time said hey you cant be in here and we said can we wash our hands in here we bought foof a few seconds ago and she responded i dont care and no you cant wash your hands because its close, so we let and didnt like the service.
also, if i drop, lets say 5 raw meat patties, i have to cook them through the same place ur burgers come out so if a homeless guy eats it he doesn't get sick, and that all restaurants who have to throw away raw meats
and that's the law! oh and we have it posted on all doors and drive-thru that their is a tiny amount of chemicals known to the state of California to cause birth defects, and by tiny i mean someone tried to sue us over it and the courts said it was so tiny you'd have to eat 20 6$ burgers in one order for it to show up as a health hazard, but we have to put it up
famous coffee lawsuit was actually serous, we keep our coffee at 180 degrees, burn u if u spill it on Ur lap, people still complain its to hot
COUPON PROBLEM: as a security measure when u delete an item (aka u order then drive up to the window) to make room for a coupon sometimes (hence some coupons are from different locations and don't work, witch we accept) we need to delete the burgers to make ring it up properly which shows up as possible theft on end of day receipt for register
= why its bigger deal then you think: people will delete items when cash is received, pocket money (like we had some guy take at least 100-150 a day who worked for a year)
=write-up:me, as a worker for two years and current shift-leader, got written up when i had to delete 60-70 dollars worth of food when a young girl tried to pay with her cleavage, when i said no i had to delete everything and explain to my boss
RAG NEXT TO GUY: that rag (if proper procedures where fallowed) is covered in hand sanitizer, a chemical that does do a little harm, i wont deny that, but yet again, every restaurant, in ca at least, has hand sanitizer, if the guy washed his hand it got hand sanitizer on it so does every single dish, table, counter and everything else we wipe down per hour (literally, theirs an hourly checklist and we use pH slips on the bucket to make sure it just right)
NO GLOVES ON:http://www.health.state.ny.us/environmental/indoors/food_safety/washing.htm
-atm we have a new kind of chicken tenders that use real raw chicken, meaning we have a bucket just for the area, utensil with "chicken only"
-tongs for raw beef patty, separate ones for raw chicken, and another for chicken tenders, one for cooked meats (and if chair-broiler breaks down, and meat comes out raw u need to stop everything and clean it all with sanitizer)
-separate sanitizer buckets for different areas of the place
POOR COSTUMER SERVICE: Ive been working understaffed for about a month, not because upper management wants to save money, but the fact is in last two months we had 4 apps, and only that with hiring signs up, i had to fire one because of bad service and have to fire one today for calling a costumer the n-word (charming)
-so when u say bad service, give us some slack, were trying but no one cares about a low end job like this so when u come up to them, and complain, they have dealt with costumers worse then you, their pissed already
December 1st: guy tries to climb in window when i tell them were closed (it was 10:05pm)
what happened?: spent an hour talking to cops after filling report, then finished work by myself since my cooks had left
what happened afterwords?: after we close i no longer tell people were sorry were closed, ever
last year: closing shift, long day been pretty busy so i was tired, skipped a few safety procedures
what happened?: since all excess lights were off, like the bathrooms, for thirty minutes, all doors were locked. thirty minutes later guy came running out complaining that the lights were out in the bathroom
what happened afterword?: i make sure i do every single day
forgot when it was: i was on drive thru during lunch, busy, meaning i was rushed taking orders, making drinks and getting money all at once (all within three minutes)
what happened?: guy in a red truck handed me money, i rang it up handed change, said he was short changed he gave me a twenty not a ten, gave guy change back
what happened afterwords?: register was ten bucks short at end of day, another write-up
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http://www.jrrobertssecurity.com/fast-food-crime-prevention.htm
ANSWER: were not all the same, and who knows when that next costumer will be the guy who makes u flip out and start going crazy? but most of us do i try, i deal with ### situation weekly, i try my best but sometimes were just like f-it we don't want you to come back anymore, so don't honestly come back if u are fed-up but don't think were all the same because u had one bad day
p.s. i had every single one of these complaints and more, the guacamole one was hilarious because i had just giving her about ten bucks of free food so shed just leave me alone, she came back and demanded for it, i just said no, also lobby closed please leave know (to be fair when she demanded it she said some racist things whitch i never let them get away with)
I ordered a Low Carb Six Dollar Burger this morning. It was wrapped in about 1/2 of a head of lettuce. I took one bite of the burger and wanted to vomit. It tasted like salty sponge. They claim it's 100% angus beef but after just one bite I know for a fact there is something more than beef in it. There is some kind of spongy filler in their burgers. Real meat does NOT have that texture. So I went to the Carl's Jr. web site to loook up the ingredients. There it claims there is nothing but beef, salt, sodium phosphates and spices. Well, I'm no doctor or chemist but I do know that oral phosphates, such as sodium phosphate, destroy your kidneys. WTF? Why in hell would you put a toxic substance if a hamburger? I returned the hamburger and got my money back. I will NEVER eat that [censor] again!
P.S. stop being racist against latinos who the hell do you think you are. your race isn't any better.
biggerslick needs to get a life that he has nothing going on but to [censor]ing about a restaurant. just leave carl's jr and go to another and forget about going there so you don't have any more thing to say. find another to talk about. and about the guacamole not being included with your crisp burritos, it clearly states "add 50 cent" even on the commercial it states it, if you didn't see that you need glasses.
I'm a costumer at the carl's jr in virgil and 6th st. Los angeles ca. but this is my 3rd time that I have order fast food and takes them over 15 minutes to serve my food, but my complain is about bad food, it is about bad service and time consuming. I noticed that the manager at this place(DINORA) try to do as much work as 3 employees and thats why my food is being late this times, I whish the corporation could do something about it and use more employees to to be efficient enough to please all the costumers (THAT WILL MAKE ME VERY HAPPY)
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