Anyone ever eat at Johnny's Lunch?

Fritzo

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They sell hot dogs with a "special" sauce on them. Their hot dogs are about the size and thickness of a pencil, and their sauce consists of a bean based, meatless, flavorless "sludge" mixed with pepper.

And what's worse is they put that crappy sauce on everything---hamburgers, fries....ugh. Their milkshakes are good enough, but everything else just sucks. Stay away!
 

Fritzo

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Originally posted by: Nitemare
they got you to eat there didn't they?

I ate there when I opened it, it was terrible. I ate there three months later, ever worse. They actually gave out free cups and coupons to try them out again after 6 months, and I regretted it again.

Nasty. Here's their website. They show that pasty stuff they put on their food in the pictures :)
 

kranky

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They use Sugardale hotdogs. Doesn't sound like anything special.

Probably what happened is the founder was trying to think of a name, and after serving a hotdog to someone the guy said "What is this crap, Johnny? Sludge?"

The founder said, "Hey, that's a great name! I'll call it Johnny's Lunch!"
 

alkemyst

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Originally posted by: Fritzo
Originally posted by: Nitemare
they got you to eat there didn't they?

I ate there when I opened it, it was terrible. I ate there three months later, ever worse. They actually gave out free cups and coupons to try them out again after 6 months, and I regretted it again.

Nasty. Here's their website. They show that pasty stuff they put on their food in the pictures :)

So you are just pissed they won't let you be the fry guy and have you cleaning the toilets?
 

Fritzo

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Originally posted by: alkemyst
Originally posted by: Fritzo
Originally posted by: Nitemare
they got you to eat there didn't they?

I ate there when I opened it, it was terrible. I ate there three months later, ever worse. They actually gave out free cups and coupons to try them out again after 6 months, and I regretted it again.

Nasty. Here's their website. They show that pasty stuff they put on their food in the pictures :)

So you are just pissed they won't let you be the fry guy and have you cleaning the toilets?

Nooo...their food tastes like the stuff they cleaned off the toilets. That's all.
 

Injury

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Originally posted by: Fritzo
Originally posted by: Injury
I'd give it a try. Doesn't look THAT bad. How are the prices?

Super cheap. .89 hot dogs, burgers under $2, but that's just it. They LOOK good, until you try it.

EDIT: LOL- I'm not the only one that doesn't like it. I wonder if they hung this review in their window:

They called it "sludge" in the review! :D

One thing to be said about the food is that it's reasonably priced. The hot dog that sold for 10 cents in Johnny Colera's Depression-era storefront now costs just 97 cents - $2.94 if you buy them as "threebees," which the restaurant promotes.

So one of them costs 97 cents... but if you buy 3 of them they cost 98 cents each? confused dot gif.