Jack In The Box?!?
February 17, 2006
Jack In The Box?!? WTF?!?
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When heading to lunch at Qdoba today, there was a Jack In The Box truck driving up the off-ramp from M-59 Eastbound on to Rochester Road. Then it turned left, to head north towards Rochester.
I find this rather odd, because the nearest Jack In The Box location is in Illinois.
Perhaps such resturants are being built in this area? Hmm… I wonder…
http://www.jackinthebox.com/aboutourco/index.php?section=1
Jack in the Box Inc., founded in 1951, is a restaurant company that operates and franchises Jack in the Box® restaurants and, through a wholly owned subsidiary, Qdoba Mexican Grill® in a combined 41 states. The company also operates more than 40 proprietary convenience stores called Quick Stuff®, which include a major-branded fuel station and are developed adjacent to a full-size Jack in the Box restaurant.
Ah, thanks… Probably just delivering then.
There go my grandiose ideas of truck-based-terrorism, a huge box full of illegal immegrants, or other such nifty things.
Thanks. I’ll go back to work now.
;)
sorry to run all your fun!
I find it especially ironic that YOU were going to Qdoba, too. ;)
(I was going to point out the fifth link on the About Us page, but I’ve been beaten to the punch.)
I hadn’t gone to the About Us, I just looked up locations to see if any were coming soon. I’ve heard it’s a tasty fast food place and there is some old shell of an A&W on Rochester Road being redone, so I thought maybe the company was opening some new places.
Alas…
I have a friend in Texas who says it’s wretched, even for fast food. There used to be some in Michigan, but they pulled out when there was a serious food poisoning case back in the early 70s and the company receded considerably.
I had JitB a few times when I was a wee lad, but my father resented it. We kids insisted on going because it was the first place with drive-thru, and you talked to a clown head. Which, for a kid, was way serious cool da bomb (except kids didn’t say things were “da bomb” in the early 70s). One used to be where the Top Hat used to be, just north of where the Big Boy used to be, on Woodward in Royal Oak. :D
Oh, interesting. I remember the food poisoning places, but I just don’t remember the resturants in MI…
I think what this country needs more of is Carl’s Jr. A family-owned fast food chain where the managers and employees make good wages. If I remember right, the managers usually make in the $60k – $80k range, and have typically been employed there for over ten years.
And I’d read something about their food being of an especially high quality for fast food…
Hardee’s and Carl’s Jr. are obviously related, but I don’t know how. There are two Hardee’s restaurants in Michigan, and I do find their food superlative (although BIG — I usually forego the fries when I get a burger).
Hi, I’m from Metro Detroit, which means that Metro Detroit = Michigan.
Correction: There are two Hardee’s restaurants in Metro Detroit. There are others elsewhere in Michigan (I know there’s an “elsewhere in Michigan,” I’ve been there, honest!).
there was a JitB on Greenfield, just south of 11 Mile, too, just south of where the gas station is on the west side (across from Hebrew Memorial Chapel if you know the area).
my sister lives in Mesa, AZ, and her closest 24hour fast food place is a JitB. it’s not as horrible as it used to be… not somewhere i’d choose to go *all* the time, but when it’s late and you don’t feel like cooking, it’s tolerable. i’d take JitB over White Castle ANY day!
Yeah, so around where the Chinese buffet is now?
That’s a decent buffet, as Chinese buffets go.
yes, exactly that area! when i was growing up in that area (Berkley), the Chinese buffet was a Mountain Jack’s.
I got food poisoning at that Mountain Jack’s. Which brings us back to Jack-in-the-Box. Obviously, the land is cursed, like in some Stephen King novel.
Story, though: A few years after I got food poisoning at MJ’s, I was working for Domino’s (the one at Coolidge and 11, natch). We got an order for a pizza delivery to MJ’s, for the cooks in the back, and I was supposed to go to the service entrance. Which I did, knocked for several minutes, then gave up and went in the front entrance. I remember standing there, proudly holding my pizza, in full Domino’s get-up, while these people chowed down their steaks and stared at me, and the host told me to sit in a corner and try not to look conspicuous. “HI! YOUR WORKERS WON’T EAT THE FOOD HERE!” is hard to make inconspicuous. :D
accually they didn’t leave michigan until the 80’s. the company closed all the location east of the mississippi. this was due to the tax write offs of depreiciation. when ralston bought the company they spent so much that they could not afford to do the growth needed in the small markets that they were in. the food posioning that you talk about happened after the closing of the stores in the east. there was also a kangaroo meat scare at that time. also after the pull out. i used to manage a number of the stores in michigan. remember jacks was the first drive thru. and the others copied it because it worked. if i could i would gladly run one of the stores as a owner.
Jack n the box is evil. It’s not that good. Not really any better than Hardee’s/Carl’s (depending on where you live).
Now Whitecastle.. that’s something I miss I can’t get out here in CA.
Man… White Castle’s meat is GRAY. < shudder >
Haha, it was rated the top fast food chain in the midwest for its meat Grade!
While most chains tend to use lower Grade meat (like Taco Bell, grade E). White Castle used Grade A.
I don’t know. I rarely if ever eat fast food anymore anyway. But WC at 2am was always yummy.
Out here we have In N Out. Which is loved by man, since none of their stuff is frozen. Which is why it’s only in like 3 or 4 Southwestern states.
They’re all bad though. Fast Food Nation is great book to turn you off to fast food. It’ll make you not want fastfood for sure.
I’ve heard WC has more liver in it than most fast food, which explains both the richer flavor and the color. I have to be in the mood for it, but when I am, yeah, nothing else will do.
Actually, I’ve read Fast Food Nation and it didn’t turn me off to fast food, per say. I found it to just be a nice, informative summary of the business, although I already knew the majority of things covered in there.
I think that the gist of the book is more that one should simply be aware of what they are consuming, not that all fast food is evil.
Somehow I read ‘shakes’ as ‘snakes’ and because my only experience with Jack In the Box is the scene in Pulp Fiction with Samuel L Jackson eating that guy’s burger, I thought it was a promotional sign for ‘Snakes on a Plane.’
I think that tops my list of ‘Most creative extrapolation of the day.’
Hehehe…
I actually heard an interview with Mr. Jackson on NPR on the way home. Not great, but it was kinda interesting.
He’s a neat guy. I don’t know as much about him as I’d like to, but he seems like he has a good handle on celebrity and how to hang on to it.