Carl’s Jr.

In Nipomo there are not many chioces to chose from when it comes to fast food. I’ve been to this location a few times in the past 2 years, and every time I have been disappointed. If I want a decent burger from Carl’s Jr, I have to drive all of the way to Santa Maria. How can one Carl’s Jr. be so much worse than all of the others? Stale bread, dry meat, wilted lettuce. The food tastes like garbage. Something needs to change. Thanks.

Worst Carl’s Jr. I ever eaten at. I have over waited 15 minutes for a cold burger. Service is always slow. I have been here many times, I stop going for awhile but when I return it’s always a disappointment. The owner doesn’t seem capable of running this store.

Um, Carl would turn over in his grave if he saw the way the food comes out of this place!
Carl started with a hotdog stand in the beginning, he married Margaret and instead of wedding gifts he asked for money to start his business.
He was an amazing man, humble, strong and ready to make every order perfect.
The food that was served to me tonight was not edible! It was cold, and looked like it had been sitting for the last few hours before it was served.
The hamburger was cold, the veggies on the burger were wilted and the fries were cold and disgusting. Who runs this place anyhow?
I had to ask the man taking my order to read it back because he got it wrong twice. I’m really sad. Carl would fire everyone there and start over with good cooks and courteous order takers.
What a joke.
Yuck! Yuck! Yuck! Even though I live in Nipomo, I’m never going back there again. Gross food and service.

Right off the free way hard to miss the 24 Hours Open sign but FALSE ADVERTISMENT because I went there at 6 am and no one was there! Another time went there at midnight and same situation! Never again will I waste my time.

This has to be the worst Carls Jr that I have ever been too! The staff are rude and orders are always wrong!

RUDE RUDE RUDE manager and employees! And food poisoning galore.

OK for what it is, the one and only late night food in Nipomo. Not a lot of choices at that hour, so you make do.
Nothing is ever better than OK, and sometimes a lot worse, with stale chips, soggy burgers, and limp fries the norm. Sometimes it’s decent and you breathe a sigh of relief, because there are just no other options.
The manager/​owner is hilarious to watch, though. I feel bad, but she cannot manage even everyday stress without blowing up and snapping at her employees endlessly, and probably has the highest turnover business in the area. It’s almost worth coming just for the spectacle.
Dropped a star because the green burrito closes at 11 while the Carl’s jr closes at 2 am (or not at all on weekends). In what world does that make sense when the same people cook the same food in the same kitchen? I know it’s a national policy, but it’s just as stupid when CKE does it as Yum (Taco Bell/​Long John Silvers).

I move to Nipomo 2 ½ yrs ago –and have eaten at this location 4 times over that time span. when I went for Breakfast everything was fresh and fine –but the 3 times I visited in the afternoon or evening I was severely disappointed each time — and don, t plan ever going back. each time the Burger patty was obviously cooked hrs ahead of time and just nuked for 10 sec to warm-​up and melt the cheese. The last time I went before i finished eating the Manager came over and asked how things were? –and I told her I was not happy with the dry-​luke warm Burger –and she took it back and brought me another that was better but still no where near as good as they were 15 – 20 yrs ago when everything was cooked to order –before they started following suit with Burger King and pre-​cooking the meat. I’ve dined 3 or 4 times at the location in N. Arroyo Grand when in that area –and the food has always been hot and fresh every time –and the place is had a much nicer atmosphere (50’s décor) always spotless –so from now on they’ll be getting ALL my business

I think this is meant to be New Mexican rather than Mexican, but whatever it’s meant to be, it’s not pulling it off, not for me anyway. Usually found hidden inside a Carl’s Jr (so the two corporate chains can make corporate jokes and count corporate sales together)… it’s not worth your time or your dime (did I just make that up?)
Only because I was starving, I stopped here. I ordered Green Burrito (actually some other Tex Mex rip off with weak green chili on it and in it… ugh)… I should mention, I only rate national and global chains on a scale of 1 – 2. I rate family businesses on a scale of 3 – 5. Here is why:
Would you rather support the local family, or the multi national corporations and the rich men on yachts in the Carribbean? Why are the parking lots of the awesome local places usually half empty (or completely empty)? Why are the so-​called Mexican chains always so busy? Why can they afford to open so late and get all the TV advertising and all the prime intersection locations? Why are they taking over all the airports, stations, and rest stops? Why go and support Taco Bell, Del Taco, Baja Fresh, Chipotle, and so on? These places have systematically and coldly taken over the Mexican food scene by using the cheapest ingredients, pre-​packaged frozen systematic Americanized knock-​offs that are identical across the nation, ridiculously cheap prices for the polystyrene food on dollar menus, overpricing for everything else, rude underpaid servers on way less than minimum wage, and a ridiculously expensive mass brand advertising campaign that gets inside the heads of all the kids and the 20somethings and keeps them under the illusion that if it’s not a brand name, it’s not worth visiting. They spend all the money they should be investing in food and service, in advertising and cornering the market — the local places can’t compete — and someday all we will be left with is the same chains serving the same food all over the world. That is our future. It’s the way we’re heading and you know it. Every time you eat at a bland national chain, you buy into that, you support that. Boycott chains. Support your local Mexican eateries. It’s an embarrassment that generic brand national chains are even listed on a proper foodie website like Unilocal,let alone getting 4 and 5 stars from so called foodies. Wake up, America, before we’re all just batteries in the matrix.