Hardee's

Yesterday after an appointment I went through the drive through at Hardee's in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. It was the first time I had been there in a while. I ordered the hand breaded chicken sandwich. It was definitely not worth the 5+ I paid for it. The breading was soggy as if the oil was not hot enough to fry it and it was burned. I was so disappointed. I had to scrape the breading off to eat it. If I had been eating inside I would have returned it but I was on my way home and from out of town.

If you are on a time schedule, do not stop here to eat. We waited over 10 minutes just to order, then waited another 15 for our food. I am not sure if they were prioritizing drive thru orders or what, but it was terribly slow. Daughter ordered the French toast dips, they were hard. Possibly old? Overcooked? The powdered sugar was clumpy and literally dumped on the strips. Overall, three stars since I was so hungry.

Ordered A Big hot ham and cheese, a big roast beef, and a medium curly frie., to go. The girl waiting on us asked what we wanted so I tell her, she is more worried about hollering at a co worker saying hi and stuff, then looks at me and says what do you want, I said I just told you. And I proceeded to tell her again. When we got our food and when we go into the car I noticed that the curly fries are in a cup and most of them were regular fries and they were cold. Not happy with this place. Would not recommend it. Sandwich were hardly warm.

When we got to Hardee's, there was only one customer ahead of us; we were order 89. After a pretty normal wait time, they called order 88, thwn after a few more minutes, they called 90, then several groups came in almost all at once. All od those grouos ordered and were served (all they way through 97), before we heard them start putting our order together. In the chaos, it seems the kitchen had cleared our order, so the front had to tell them, item by item, what to make. Once everything else was together, the woman said, "I'm still waiting on a five piece." meaning the five piece chicken strips we ordered. So, after the kitchen cooked the strips, we finally got to eat; by then, the onion rings were chewy. For one sandwich, we asked no pickles, but when we got out food, it came with pickles. The person who asked for no pickles has a deadly reaction to cucumbers and pickles and, thankfully, realized there were pickles as soon as they bit into one.