Penny’s Place

Prior reviews have all commented on the very cool interior wall space of license plates, and tons of signs of a long past era ! The waitstaff was excellent heeding to each customer with a personal touch!
The food was subpar mainly due the amount of grease that came with the burgers etc. I knew I might be in trouble when the burger came out, noticing the sheen left on the plate. Not used to fried foods anymore & I paid for it later that day. Tried the banana pudding for desert, which was average.
Will go back to taste the breakfast menu, this time I will take some tums prior to chowing down, can’t beat the prices, cheap!

First timer… but I’ll be back… excellent food… very friendly… loved the character if the place.

Three of us ate breakfast there this morning, and were served tasteless, reheated packaged food on styrofoam plates. STYROFOAM plates! The décor is cute, but the food is a total waste of money. We will never go back — and we live less than ten minutes away.

A burger, fries, and a side salad. That’s not much to ask for. Yet in this case the «side salad» consisted of a bowl of lettuce. I asked for oil and vinegar and received white vinegar (for those who don’t know… that’s not the kind you put on a salad). The burger was clearly a frozen patty, small and unsatisfying.

Great food! Great people! Great prices! Excellent hot dogs!

I really wish I had liked the food here better, cause everything else was great. The place is lots of fun to be in and more inviting than it looks like from the outside. The staff is friendly and the restaurant is just a fun experience to be in.
The prices here are ridiculously cheap, most foods in the range of three dollars. But you get what you pay for, meaning that a salad is some pasty white iceberg lettuce with tomatoes and most other foods are deep-​fried and pretty generic. I felt very guilty and not at all healthy after the meal here, and the cooking was definitely not good enough to make the guilt worthwhile. But if cheap and greasy is the kind of food you like, this will be your heaven.
If you want to experience this place, I recommend sticking to the burgers. As far as I know, a Mint Hill cattle farmer supplies the beef to this place. His beef is pastured and (uncertified) organic. The burgers tasted fairly good.

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After reading the Unilocal review by Chad E. I had to check this place out! It is a dead giveaway when you walk into this place through the front door everyone will be looking at you because the regulars use the smaller entrance closer to the parking lot!
Signs All over the interior walls — A train and train track suspended from the ceiling! This place is small (50 seats) and full of Character and when I was here for lunch today it was also full of Characters… It was like something from a movie set!
OK enough about how cool this place is «how was the food» hummm the food is harder to review — The way I usually review food is by comparing a similar place or price point — I had a Burger and a BBQ sandwich — Both were about a 3 star prize compared to a burger three times the price and that’s not fair, so the food is better than «fast food» and was plenty fast and CHEAP so maybe I should say they could be getting more stars, though I’m really barely a fan and wish the food were better, because this is a cool place! I would go back for Breakfast and check that out!

I like Penny’s Place. I believe it’s a old school staple in Mint Hill and has been around forever. I’m sure it lives on it’s regulars that come in for breakfast and lunch each day — some older men from around town. From the outside, it looks like it would be very darke, since there aren’t really any windows, but it’s well lit inside. They have old tin ads and signs posted all over the walls. Pretty quaint. The prices are dirt cheap — literally you can get breakfast or lunch for under $ 5, but the portions are small and the menu isn’t very creative. If you don’t want to spend much and have a few extra minutes to spare, this is a good alternative to fast food. I don’t think I’d take my kids there, though I’m sure they’d enjoy the signs.

Most people do not look at small, unobtrusive cinder block buildings as attractive locations for restaurants. Dive bars, porn shops, other places you might not want people to see into from the outside, yes. But restaurants? Generally they are fairly well-​lit and you have windows. Not Penny’s.
This little hole-​in-​the-​wall in Mint Hill (not South Park, as the map would suggest) is a bit of a puzzle. For starters, the building does not match up to the service in any way. Walk inside and you will see what I mean. You are greeted warmly and welcomed like one of the family. Maybe better than many families.
Beyond that, I really could not tell you when they are open. I think they are open for breakfast and lunch most days. But since it is so hard to tell when they are open because of that little building, I have to go by the number of cars outside. You need to figure out how to park there, too, since there is not much in the way of a lot — it might be easier to park elsewhere and walk across the street.
Should you manage to get there, the service is excellent (excepting the paper plates — that is a minor inconvenience) and the food is solid all around.