Whataburger

Omg, where do I begin? April 24, 2015, my family & I were driving up to north Texas to visit our daughter in college. Never realizing we were driving straight into a tornado. We turned around looking to seek shelter at Whataburger. We hesitated going in because of the hail storm but once we made it in, the manager on duty had all the customers taking cover in the restrooms, away from the windows and the employees were taking cover in the back. She quickly helped us in told us where to take cover. The manager kept watch for the storm. Thankfully the storm passed & never hit us directly at full force. My family & I had never been through anything like this before and were pretty shaken up as many of the other customers were as well. The mgr never hesitated & seemed to be calm through it all. After it was over she offered coffee to help calm everyone’s nerves. We ended up staying a bit to get ourselves together & ended up having dinner there. The employees went right back to work once the storm seemed to have passed. Our food came out quick, hot & delish. Great manager and great courteous employees. After all they had been through the same scare we had & were working hard to make us feel at ease.

Good Whataburger food and friendly service. Good location between Waxahachie and Midlothian.

Always go late at night, and our orders always come out correct and hot! Probably the best whataburger we’ve been to.

It was a dark and stormy night (no seriously it was!). We were driving from Southeast Texas to Dallas to see U2 the next day and it had been raining so hard while we drove for hours, hydroplaning more than once, and driven by cafiene and music alone. This Whataburger appeared as a line on our Horizon, a neon blue oasis. The neon blue of this Whataburger lit up the entire sky with the fog and rain, like a glimpse of life out of the dreary darkness and rain soak windshield.
If you’ve noted in my previous (nearly 1000) reviews, I have a natural aversion in regards to chains. But I am setting that attitude aside for whataburger at least, cause this store right here reminded me that this is a Texas company which is part of Texan history.
So why am I giving this location 5 stars? I don’t think anyone could give less in this situation.
To begin with the store is the coolest looking What-​A-​Burger I have ever seen, and I have visited them in Texas for about 20 years now. This is on a hill on Hiway 287 just less than halfway from Midlothian to Waxahachie lit up insanely visible with stellar neon lights. Inside it’s state of the art with LCD TV screens, an artistic lighting design that causes all of the dome lights inside to mirror into infinity, cool staff that like Whataburger history, EXCELLENT burgers, a high tech digital CD Juke Box with a touch screen and perhaps the closest thing I have ever seen as to the entire history of American rock & roll, and you can even watch CNN live while taking a leak in the restroom as men’s stalls have live TV in your face. Wife says the womens’ restroom had a TV in it also, showing the Dallas Cowboys game, but no CNN.
This store impressed us so much that we asked a simple question that caused quite an adventure. We asked «Where is the original Whataburger?»
While this is not the original Whataburger, it is nearing their corporate HQ area. Our attempt to fully infiltrate the whataburger empire, since we seemed so close to the core here, now began. Watch my other reviews for whataburger soon, for an ongoing story.
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The customers and staff here were so nice that we felt totally at home. In fact we stopped by again the next night. Ina minor brain fade, I went to use the restroom the second night (to see what was on CNN, Hahah!) and a customer in a large family that knew the staff, pointed out to me quietly that I was leaving my wife’s purse unattended. I didn’t realize that, but those are the type of people we found here in general. Nice folks.
Enjoy the photos, and if you are in the area most certainly do stop here as I suspect you won’t soon forget this store. Like I said, this store made both my wife and I think of Whataburger with a profound new respect. And with left through the cool fully automated doors.
Anyone happen to know why this is named «Presidential Parkway»?