Carl’s Jr

Our burgers were very good and the server was nice. I never like it when they are all speaking a foreign language. I wish they would speak English.

Horrible terrible over priced small portions, slow did I say over priced & small portions and over priced well they are and they are one if the few choices for fast food in that area so your better off starving till you get to Salinas (north) or Paso Robles (south).

All I can say is I’ve been here many times and the food and service have been excellent.

Horrible. I sat in the drivethru for 3 minutes. The automated system asked if I wanted a burger. Three cars were ahead of me. After waiting she then had the nerve to tell me they were closed in the middle of me ordering. Our company orders here 3 – 4 a week. That will end. I do no stand for poor customer service. Mr Charles Black has done retraining to do.

Today was a complete rip off my burger had one tiny slice of tomato half of a onion n a wanna be piece of lettuce. Management should check their line of production and it wasn’t busy so there’s no excuse. If you want Carl’s might as well skip it unless you like getting ripped off

There was PUBIC HAIR sticking out of the cheeseburger sandwich!!! Good thing I saw it right away otherwise my son could’ve eaten it! SO NASTY!!!

Carl’s Jr was not by idea of a quick dinner. But I had to much stuff in my car to try one of the well rated Mexican restaurants in Soledad.
I was surprised that my bargain burger was tasty. The drive-​thru was quick and I was on my way home my stuff next to me and a burger in hand.
I think I will add Carl’s Jr. to my fast food on-​the-​road stops even though I could not check the bathroom to see if it passed the road trip test.

Very clean well kept franchise. Happy to see an all natural burger on the menu. The burger and fried zucchini were quite good.

I love the spicy chicken sandwich and it’s only a dollar!!! Even better but everything else my god its so expensive lol

I’m really sad about this road trip: every place that I have used the restroom at smells like Coors Light and sausage; this Carl’s Jr is not the exception, but rather, most likely, the root cause of highway restroom miasma. To compliment the pictures of biscuits on the menu, the décor is highly influenced by the early 1990’s contemporary interior design; reminiscent of non-​art deco while paying homage to both Motel 6 and Chuck E. Cheese Pizza, and are apparent in its motif. That is to say, for all this, I definitely wont eat here at Carl’s Jr. Yet, the customer service is phenomenal. I asked for an unused Togo box, so they gave me one. So now, while parked on the roadside shoulder of the highway, I will cook my own food. Here is what I am having and how:
First of all, I have a portable electric skillet in which olive oil will be heated over medium high heat before adding sausage meat, but any form of bite size protein will work. In this case, after crumbling the sausage meat as it browns, I add chopped garlic to the pan. When all of the crumbles have browned evenly, I think it is best to deglaze the pan using whiskey, wine, or chicken broth, but whatever else you may find at truckstops and gas stations will work, shifty whiskey for me. Then, this is when I like to stir in crushed-​by-​my-​own-​hand tomatoes and bring the sauce up to a bubble just before reducing the heat to a simmer. Insomuch, I look forward to stirring cream into the sauce, this will blush the color and cut the acidity of the tomatoes, half and half from any gas station on I-​95 will do. Season with salt and pepper from Carl’s Jr. Luckily, I have peas and basil to add into the sauce. Mmm mm, I’m loving it. All it needs then is to toss in some hot penne rigate in pan with the sauce which has been steeping in super hot water, or can be boiled first. Either way, use a Carl’s Jr. togo box which is recyclable, clean, frugal and easily held while eating on the side of a highway; and, as the flavors begin to meld together in the Carl’s Jr box creating an offal aroma, the hints of Coors Light and sausage are overwhelming.

Standard carls jr but this one has the breakfast biscuits. Good service when we went. Convenient to our hotel which had free breakfast that was not up to snuff.

Typical Carl’s. Used a coupon for a couple of Big Carl burgers. Had a bit of a communication glitch with the employee, but was resolved easily.

We stopped here purely out of sheer desperation for a bathroom/​snack break from the car, while making our way from Santa Cruz to Santa Barbara at about 9 pm, after sitting in stand-​still traffic for 45 minutes.
We only had fries, but they were pretty tasty. Piping hot and crispy, but they needed a bunch of salt. It took them about 10 minutes to bring them to us though, but the girl did apologize for the wait (after she had been yelled at by the cashier for not bringing to them in a timely manner…)

servers impolite
crowd unfriendly
area looked unsafe
don’t stop here at night