Freddy’s Frozen Custard & Steakburgers

I visited the Grand Island location last night with my wife (it was her two-​year anniversary request!). The food was good, but the restaurant was FILTHY. There was food everywhere, all over the floor, and there was visible grease smeared and smudged over all of the surfaces. Yuck!

UPDATE:
I have loved Freddy’s for years but lately the Grand Island Nebraska store has become TERRIBLY and unacceptably filthy. The floors are filthy and greasy and only get an occasional mopping. The trash cans are greasy and filthy from top to bottom. If you look back on the floor in the kitchen you see trash and empty cups lying underneath work surfaces and cookers. In the main dining area, even all of the walls and the prints hanging on the walls look greasy and smudged; the frames are covered in greasy dust. The bathrooms are terribly gross.
Yes the food is good but this is simple mismanagement, and it worries me. Somebody running this establishment thinks that «cleaning» is a simple matter of wiping off all the surfaces and mopping the floor. Someone is too lazy to actually do a periodic scrubbing with a good cleaner of every square inch of the place. It’s disgusting, and it worries me on another level: if management has no ATTENTION TO DETAIL on issues of cleanliness, then how can I trust them on other issues such as food safety?
Someone needs to close the restaurant early one evening and force the employees to break out the Pine Sol, get down on their hands and knees and really put some elbow grease into scrubbing every single square inch of exposed surface, be it the floor, the bottoms of the tables, the legs of the chairs, the walls and prints, and every nook and cranny in the bathroom. Then this deep cleaning needs to be repeated monthly — along with the regular daily cleaning.
Sorry Freddy’s. Love your food but one thing I cannot stand is a lack of attention to detail, and your Grand Island management staff have dropped the ball. It will take a lot of hard work to get the place back up to snuff.

I did enjoy the food at Freddy’s. It’s your typical up-​scale, overpriced fast food burger joint. I thought their cheeseburgers had great flavor and you have to try the cheese sauce and seasoning on the fries. I did feel a bit out of place as this seems to be a hangout for the older crowd, probably because they are the only ones who can afford it. Great food, just expensive for what it is, fast food.

Very nice and friendly staff! Really good party melt and vanilla custard!!! Get ya some!

Great place for a burger! my 5 year old had two. My family love our visit. Clean, friendly and nice. Milk shakes were good.

The good, pretty clean, greeted me when I came in, had sweet tea, good tasting food, enjoyed the fries. The bad, server looked dirty, meat was super thin, and when I wanted lettuce and tomato they charged me, but did not give me anything back when I did not want the pickle and onion that came with burger? It was ok, but I kept thinking it was not what the store intended, just ho-​hum, come in if you want. I did enjoy the photos on the wall and their honoring of our service men and women.
Ok, came back today, as I had some time to kill before my flight, ordered the chili cheese dog and fries, lots of help there, (that were truly helpful and acted like they wanted to be there!) hotdog and fries were great, everything very lively this trip, glad that I returned and raised to 5 stars :-)

Went here today for the first time. (Drive thru) My husband ordered a bacon cheese burger with ketchup only. I ordered my meal with a bottle of water. When we got to the window he handed me a glass of water, not what I wanted but okay I’ll live. We enjoyed the shoe string type fries but when we opened our burgers we were a bit disappointed. My husbands ketchup only burger, was smothered with mustard and onions and did not have a drop of ketchup on it. The patties are quite thin as well, not bad but very thin.
Double check your order before driving ten miles out of town!

After reading other reviews I will say that this isn’t better than Five Guys, In-​and-​Out, or Whataburger. I will say that this a unique experience and I wouldn’t pass it up when another opportunity arises. Not a thick burger but more of a chopped steak. Things I’d suggest: ask for condiments like ketchup (they’re listed on the menu board) and put some of their seasoning on your burger when you pick it up. Onion rings are okay and they serve seasoned «shoestring» fries. One other bonus you won’t find in the other places is the Freddy’s Fry Sauce which is a ketchup mayo with the seasoning spice added in. GF had a chocolate shake that she said was very chocolately. Again, doesn’t beat anyone else but worth a try to see for yourself.

In my pursuit of a good burger in Grand Island, I stumbled upon this place, I ordered a Cheese burger and fries and the burger wasn’t bad, it just had really thin meat (think McDonalds cheeseburger but thinner) Fries were good but too slaty, all in all a pretty good burger!

Not bad for a fast food joint but I was really here for the frozen custard! Yum!

Garbage! Steak burger is fried to overdone dry! Can’t believe one review rated this junk better than In & Out. Don’t waste your money unless you liked over cooked dry burgers that you would have to add liquid in your mouth to chew and swallow.

great burgers, great fries, great custard
Outstanding service!
Way better than in and out, five guys and smash burger!

In the late 70’s-early 80’s there was a comic book called «The Fabulous Furry FREAK Brothers» which was only sold in the UK not the US or Canada for some reason, about some potheads in SF and one of the Freak Brothers was Fat Freddy. So I call this place Fat Freddy’s. Fat Freddy was always given some money to «score a lid of weed» but always got «burned» many times because he was so in need of food and got «ripped-​off» of his money so he couldn’t «score».
So Fat Freddy’s it is.
Really good hot dogs and frozen custard, and I must say awesome burgers too cos they make them fresh not reheated like McD. Which means for a long drive-​thru line, do not come here if you are some type-​A personality unoriginal douchebag. You will just get in my way and be annoying.

Ok so let me keep it simple…
By far this place is beyond good…
For us cali ppl FREDDY’S beats IN &Out
service is great… Restaurant itself is clean and very spacious.
If your ever in the cornhusker state this place is a must.