Jack In The Box

This place is gone! They shut it down and removed the fixtures. RIP JITB!

This place is a depressing pit with a lot of scruffy types at night. But it has all Jack foods you would expect. The place is dingy though, the Men’s toilet is broken, and you need to ask for a token for the Women’s/Unisex pay toilet. The Soda machine is around the back, where the floor is sticky. All Hispanic crew at night, but they speak good English. Where else you going to eat around here at night.
It actually comes in handy when an accident on the Bay Bridge has First street all backed up bumper to bumper and your hungry for some grease.

I couldn’t tell whether the food was good or not because the seating area felt so grotty. I’ve seen more updated looking Jack in the Box restaurants and I think this one could do with refurbishment.
On the plus side, the people who work behind the counter are great.

NOPE! These guys need to go up to the Mc Donald’s on Market St. and take notes on what good customer service looks like. Despite there only being a few customers in line, the cashier still couldn’t handle it and the line kept growing. After I finally got to order I then head to the second line to await my food — which was incorrect as were the two orders ahead of me. Manager wasn’t much better than her inept crew — fake smile and canned responses. Half the customer service for twice the price. I’m sticking with Mickey D’s.

Good tacos, that’s about it.

Not so impressive, good only if you have take-​out order.
Good side is that it is available option in Financial District opens till Midnight and you may quickly grab a burger (If you like Jack more then other, I like it).

This location doesn’t smell like garbage and other than the Zombie problem is an OK location with a relatively nice staff and fast service. The food is fresh and tables are always clean.
The Richmond location is free of Zombies but smells like garbage more often than not so I choose this one. The overwhelming wafting smell from the guy that hasn’t showered in six years can make your eyes water but where else can you get two tacos for $ 1? Either way you gotta pay.
There is a 99% chance I will be back, I’m actually going for dinner tonight.

Was away from work for 5 days and wondered if the job market had changed much since last week. So I went to my local JITB to see how many homeless were in the dining room. Turns out the economy remains unchanged thus far.

It’s hard to find a Jack in A Box around the city nowadays so I was happy to see one near work. Dropped by to order the sourdough jack and curly fries I used to get all the time. It’s still as good as I remember it when I was a kid. Anyway never ran into homeless people or their stench at this location and the employees there seemed nice.

Shout out to las Latinas that make this place function like it does.
No matter what time of day or crowd size. Yazmin and Yoly are always friendly, smiling and pleasant.
Food is always hot and fresh

JitB
This is the office secret code to needing a venting/​therapy session with 1 large order of milkshake. Preferably Oreo cookies milkshake but anything large will do.
Use it when you need to chill, hit JitB.
Something about Oreo cookies milkshakes seem to make any bad day better.

Jack In The Box food at any location has no hope of rising above 3 stars, absolute maximum. Most of their menu is flat desperation food. But I appreciate this 1^st St. location for a variety of reasons.
One is proximity to the Golden Gate buses. Just got done riding the 72 for 2 hours butt-​early in the morning with nothing to eat? BAM, get out at 1^st just before Mission and Jack is right there in your face for instant greasy breakfast burrito gratification (and the coffee is actually halfway decent for fast food coffee, yeah its probably only 20% actual Kona or something, but it doesn’t have that charred burnt-​to-​shit taste that’s so popular now.) Got ten minutes to hop on the return bus and need a quickie somethingorother to survive the ride? Short lines in the afternoon and burgers are up in less than 5.
The other is the variety of nice ladies who work the location, amazingly sweet and polite for what I imagine must be a frequently «difficult» clientele. They also have a remarkably clean and functional bathroom, at least by downtown SF standards where even finding a public restroom can involve an Odyssey, and when you do it often looks like the stall from Desperado (
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The caveat is that this all applies while the sun is up. After dark the hobos and thugs come out in force around here.

Cheap, fast, on the go lunch.
employee’s are pretty friendly, fast. during lunch it can get a bit crowded not enough room to sit & eat.

Ok, it’s a Jack in the Box, and it offers the usual array of artery-​clogging delights (as well as some bizarrely out-​of-​context items — teriyaki rice bowl?!) And I confess that every now & then, I have a hankering (or a need!) for a greasy, decadent lunchtime burger. (Usually, this follows a decadent evening of drinking…)
There are plenty of fast food places in this, slightly sketchy area of downtown but there are a couple of reasons why I keep coming back to this Jack. (OK, there’s a third reason — it’s a block from where I work — but anyway…) First, I am addicted to the Spicy Chicken and the Sourdough Jack sandwiches. (Delicious at the time, slight regret afterward…) And second, very compelling — the staff is extremely helpful and friendly — an unusual experience for me in a fast food restaurant, where sullen and bored is more the norm.
So, I really, really am trying to cut the fast food out of my diet — but, for when I have the compulsion, this Jack in the Box is a better choice than most.

I eat here quite often. It is very close to my office. Plus, I have to admit that I am a Sourdough Jack junkie. I lived in Vancouver for seven years and was deprived of the sourdough jack fix for a very long time. So, I have been getting caught up.
The service at this Jack in the Box is usually pretty quick. They are very polite. Their food is consistently what I expect from a Jack in the Box. While not spotless, the restaurant is relatively clean.
Overall, as Jack’s go, it is above average.
Guilty admittance, in my 20’s, I actually worked for Jack in the Box in the San Fernando Valley. Funny thing, I do not put Jack in the Box Management on my resume.:)

I gotta do it. I hate writing reviews for fast food spots– don’t even usually like admitting I enjoy eating at certain ones. But when I saw that the overall rating for this Jack In the Box was only a 2 star, I had to offer my 2 cents.
First of all, I have never seen a fast AND competent cashier at a fast food establishment. These girls make me feel slow! (My favorite here is Jazmin– aka speedy gonzales) They run thru the line at hyper speed, you try to spit out your order, grab your soda cup, get your change and number, before you’ve been uncerimoniously forgottten for the next working Joe in line during the lunch rush at noon time. Totally unlike most Fast Food favorites who I swear usually compete with the DMV at who can help the LEAST amount of guests per day. You’d swear at some places they actually give out awards to those who some how manage to do absolutely nothing the most often.
This particular Jack In The Box also has very friendly counter help. Everyone smiles. They remember their regular patrons (and their puppy pals) from day to day. (Angelica, thank you!!) Order takers are clear, polite, helpful, and again QUICK. I love just how good they are. I look forward to seeing these girls every time I stop in!
I also love the little grilled chicken pita snacks. They’re fairly healthy– and very yummy for a quick bite when you’re low on time. My BF loves he can get a suasage and eggs sammy at all hours of the day!

Dislike 99%
The lady who took my order = not good service. tried to overcharge me for things that I didn’t want. Then her & another employee (guy) was so unhelpful about the bathroom. They kept blaming each other for «a key» for the bathroom. Then a customer helped my mom with the bathroom bc it was coin-​operated. Then dang woman didn’t even tell me it was coin-​operated & she said she was going to give me a key. wth…
The only thing I liked about my order was the Oreo shake. that’s it.
For sure not returning back.

Bum central. Literally, there are bums inside walking back and forth to the drink machine. And it smells. Why would I eat here, you ask? Well, I wouldn’t. I would just come here with my boyfriend during our lunch break. It was just too gross for me. It smells like they use the same soggy, moldy rags to clean the tables. And the carpeting smells. it’s just gross.
If you’re downtown, you have too many other fast food options (if fast food is what you’re looking for) to choose from to subject yourself to a meal here.

This is the stinkiest J in the B in SF. There’s so many homeless in this place that I think that the carpet has already absorbed their «aroma». I don’t understand why nobody that works at this fast food place tries to do anything about this problem. My suggestion: Just replace the carpet with tiles that are easier to wash/​clean, then the problem would be solved. And at the same time, hose down those homeless people too, since we already know that they need a bath. Or is the bad smell supposed to be some sort of experimental olifactory deterrent for people to stop eating at fast food joints?
I had not eaten at this place for a very long time, but when I passed by today, I got a craving for tacos and a chicken fajita. So I went in, soon the awful smell hit me, and I remembered why I had not returned to this place for so long. But then I thought that maybe I could still place my order and quickly be out the door. It was not to be, they took more than 10 minutes to fill my order. Because an employee abruptly went on break and the 2 that were left had problems figuring out what needed to go out. A manager came out from hiding, but left it to the employees to sort things out. It felt like torture waiting for my to-​go order to be ready.
Okay, I can confirm that the new smelly fast food deterrent system works on me. I will not be returning to this place anytime soon.

The only thing constant in this world is change.
I haven’t been to a Jack-​in-​the-​Box in eight years. The one I liked back then was on 3^rd Avenue in San Mateo. These days, I’m going Green. I ride the Muni everywhere. My old Mustang fastback with the vanity plates has probably been melted down and turned completely into Starbucks Frappuccino bottle caps and wrapper labels. So you see, San Mateo has become a little bit outside of my territory.
Today a sudden craving for a Sourdough Jack prompted me to brave the wilds of Two-​Star Alley, the fast food strip on 1^st Street. I knew I might have to hold my breath for a block or two on the way in and back out again.
Imagine my surprise when I found:
A clean street.
A clean sidewalk.
A clean counter with pleasant, efficient clerks who got my order right the first time.
A clean dining area filled with middle-​class workers, recently bathed and fully clothed, quietly minding their own business.
A Sourdough Jack, with fries and a soda, for $ 5.63. The burger on that delicious grilled-​butter-​on-​sourdough that can’t be beat, zesty special sauce, and oh holy mole, I had forgotten all about the bacon!
Truly, I am Divinely Protected.