Checkers

This place is disgusting. Dirty, Ryde employees, and awful service. We ordered our food, paid for it, and after waiting for over 15 minutes (it wasn’t busy but they catered to all the drive thru people before anyone dining inside), we left for McDonalds next door. Never will I be back.

Haha people be all kinds of hatin’ up in hyeah! My experiences at Chicagoland Checkers seem to be a roll of the dice – sometimes great, sometimes sketch-​as-​hell.
I normally go to places with fast-​food for one reason and one reason only, and in Checker’s case, it’s their fries. Even Caty D – who «only wanted a shake” – had to admit that their breaded, seasoned fries were pretty darn tasty.
When it comes to their grub, it’s the textbook definition of hit-​or-​miss. My ‘cheese champ’ was nowhere near as ratchet as I was expecting (actually pretty good), the sweet tea was large & in charge, and the stuffed Oreo cone was a pleasant surprise. I was genuinely glad I stopped here for a quick bite… until I tried to leave, to continue going east on North Ave.
The traffic flow to enter/​exit this Checkers is complete bananas. Whoever was in charge of logistics should be thrown into the deep fryer. The ONLY option you have after picking up your order at the drive-​thru window is to merge onto North Avenue. Want to turn left? Not a chance. You’re going west, and there’s not much you can do about it. Sure, you can attempt a U-​turn, but being located at the busy three-​way intersection of Kostner/​Grand/​North, that’s a herculean task. It took me 10 minutes just to get back in the direction I was originally headed, and at that point I was so irritated I almost didn’t want my food anymore. Almost.
Because getting in & out of here is goddamned impossible, I wouldn’t recommend.

OMG!!! NO STARS! I was excited when this checkers location opened because it is close to my house and I used to love checkers when I was a kid. This place is disgusting. Brand new restaurant looks as though its been there for 20 years,. The employees are ghetto and Ratchet and don’t let me get started on the Drive-​Thru window girl. She looked like a drug fiend lost, used and abused and did not belong near any window let alone trusted to handle money. Well, my instinct was right because she tried to rob me!!! First of all I was very hesitant handing this girl $ 100 bill from the drive thru for a $ 12.00 order but that is all I had. Imagine handing $ 100 to someone who looks like they are complete drug addict. She hands me back $ 78 like I was born yesterday and then told ME I was not counting right. Boy I almost went through the window and took her life I was sooo mad! So then, this jive-​ass manager comes strutting over talking about he will fix the problem, and for me to pull over while he counts her bank. INCONVENIENCE!!! I have things to do but okay. So I pulled over and waited. And waited. Annnd waited some more. Finally after like 15 minutes I go inside and there he is, Mr Jive Turkey himself, making burgers in the damn assembly line. I lost it. I Screamed all in front of the customers for him to give me my money or I was calling the cops and whooping the thief. Needless to say I got my money, but screw that place!

Urg! A place I do not want to go back too again.

I’m so glad that they brought checkers back! I am in love with their fries, and the service is always fast and friendly! You are in and out with a Good quality meal in tow! This is always my go to place for quick food!

I was so excited to see that we were finally going to get a checkers. However I am very disappointed in the food and service. Super slow. The place is disgustingly dirty with grease everywhere. The food is just nasty. I wanted to flip out when I got my nasty food after waiting over 30 mins for it. The checkers in Atlanta Georgia are so good. I wish we could get a good clean checkers. What kind of ish is this!!! Close it down.

I fondly remember having Checkers as a kid and loving all their food before a lot of them closed down in Chicago. Naturally when I found out there was one near my new apartment I decided to check it out. To my delight they have a variety of different burgers and I mean BURGERS! Huge burgers with all sorts of fattening toppings like huge amounts of bacon, cheddar, sour cream etc. This place seemed like an American dream. Honestly you should sign a death waiver when entering this place as a proclamation that you’re ready to be sent to hell in a hand-​basket and you don’t blame Checkers. This is truly a southern delicacy restaurant that city slickers like us don’t really appreciate.
During my second visit service was a bit slow. I ordered the Big Buford, some mozzarella sticks, another burger (which I knew hardly anyone ordered which is why it took so long to make). Mozzarella sticks were pretty bland even though they looked good. This is the theme with this place as I continued to eat the food. Everything LOOKED beautiful (like it came straight out of a burger commercial), but tasted pretty meh or average. You can tell they don’t use high quality ingredients at all which is why a burger that would usually be considered «gourmet» and on a menu for no less than $ 12 is only 3 – 5 here. On my first visit I ordered chili cheese fries, again they looked fantastic, but tasted meh.
I honestly left feeling a bit disappointed. If you’re looking to get bang for your buck then you can go here for big burgers with lots of ingredients. Just don’t expect anything that’ll excite your taste buds. They get extra brownie points though because they don’t expect much from their customers. On the receipt if you fill out a survey you get a free burger (no purchase necessary). This is unlike Burger King or McDonalds which require you to sign away your life (or buy a small fry AND a drink) just to get a free burger.

Love spicy chicken combo. Seasoned fries are amazing.

Bad! Bad! Bad! Is the only way to describe this place. I went there tonight (11÷10÷13) for the second time since its opened back up on the north side and had the same experience I got the first time I came. The food was COLD! If this is the quality of food they serve, it’s going to be closed just as fast as they opened up. Heed my warning don’t eat there!

Place was dirty, only one restroom was working. Garbage all over the floor where people were eating, garbage all over the place where food was being prepared. Service was very very slow, location unsanitary will never come back. Avoid at all costs

Service is slow and horrible, place is filthy, Yolanda was rude. Extremely disappointing as I love checkers and was excited to see them coming back to the north side.

It’s new on the north side, so it’s extremely busy. I was expecting to wait a long, long time for fast food. There were security guards in the parking lot when we arrived. I was also expecting that. It’s Humboldt Park. Some idiot with a baby in her arms inside the restaurant got into an altercation with a car in the drive thru because he was «looking at her the wrong way.» She even stepped up to the counter to try to voice her grievances at the window-​never mind the poor people in line to order, the staff at the counter, or her baby’s ear. Yep, was betting on somebody showing out like that also. What I wasn’t betting on was cold fries when they were that busy. I didn’t think I would have to stand in the exact spot I picked our food up in at the counter for more than five minutes as Dorothy called out orders to waiting customers from a new space on the counter. At least 15 people passed us and said nothing as we stood there, waiting to tell them our carry out order was simply missing an order of fries. Shout out to the nice cashier who finally paid attention to us saying «excuse me.» 366 and 367 also walked out with their orders before we were called for 365. The manager, Gary, I believe, was getting pretty friendly with some girl who came inside while looking for missing food from the drive thru without a receipt. She had to ask him not to touch her because he was flirting and poked her in the stomach. Really? I was pretty excited to get a banana shake (which they ended up being out of) and some hot Checker’s famous fries, but it looks like it’ll be another ten years before I do because eff this place.