Whataburger sucks compared to In-N-Out! You Texans have not truly lived until you have had an In-N-Out burger! (Austin: Greek, diner)

[radiolibre99]

I was stuck in line behind the ONE car in front of me for over 6 minutes by their clock. That car got two regular-sized bags of food - I had figured they'd ordered for a soccer team or something.

Six minutes, that's it?? Here in LA it takes me nearly a half hour to get an in and out burger on a weekend night. Sometimes longer. Californians think In and Out is the best thing ever created on gods green earth, yet there's never a line a far better burger joint; Fatburger.
Sometimes I think Californians just live off hype, trends and the majesty that once was CA.

When I first had in and out, I thought the quality was really good for a fast food chain. But I never thought it was better than some of the joints out in Texas like Becks Prime.
But tell that to a Californian and they'll think you're a jealous hater who doesn't get it. But the whole In and Out thing is microcosm of the whole CA mentality that feels insulted when people don't consider it the best. Many texans don't because while I still acknowledge that CA is a more beautiful dynamic state, I didn't come from a Podunk state either. I came from a flourishing comparable state that boasts a developing economy that's outpacing CA. I'm not gonna be bow at the feet impressed with everything Californian. I'm not blindly patriotic to Texas I know it's not CA. I know CA overall is better quality but the gap between the two states had shrunk to the point where I'm mostly like, that's cool, we have something like they back home.

[theone33]

California is cool if you are a millionaire who doesnt work.

[Slowpoke_TX]

Originally Posted by EasilyAmused

Both are lardass,fast food crap.

This right here.

The best burgers don't come from a place with a drive-through.

[Pincho-toot]

There are In and Outs (sp?) in Texas too. I was in one in Dallas but didn't eat there. I actually just got a job at Whataburger, and I've eaten there before. Whataburger is delicious so if this "In and Out" is actually better, it must be heaven.

[TheMoreYouKnow]

Originally Posted by BadgerFilms

There are In and Outs (sp?) in Texas too. I was in one in Dallas but didn't eat there. I actually just got a job at Whataburger, and I've eaten there before. Whataburger is delicious so if this "In and Out" is actually better, it must be heaven.

It's not.

[curbur]

Braum's need to move to Austin, Houston, and SA.

[johnnyz]

Although I DO agree that Whataburgers are not consistent.... some are great, some are not..... I was sooooo unimpressed and let down by In-N Out when they opened here in Austin...... I'll take Dan's Hamburgers, Burger-Tex or Phil's Ice House ANY day over either...

[Milton Miteybad]

Originally Posted by versionmanager

In N Outs are, sadly better than Whataburgers now. Might not have been the case in the old days. Burgers were huge and inputs were top notch. Fuddruckers kicked ass back then too!

The Town I was born in matured into a City!

When Whataburger went corporate (i.e., the bean-counters got control of the menu, early to mid-80s) is when the quality hit the skids. Same thing for Fuddrucker's. When they started out, a single Fuddrucker's burger could swallow a medium-size California city all by itself. Now a Fuddrucker's burger is about the size of an In-N-Out, and you have to build most of it yourself.

Same thing for Schlotzsky's in the 1970s...back then, it was a completely different, utterly unique sandwich on fresh-baked bread that was so big it would leave anyone trying to eat the whole thing writhing in pain on the floor. Then, once you were on the floor, the sandwich would kick you in the berries and shout: "You still wanna piece of me, Jack?" The 1975-era Schlotzsky gave no quarter and took no prisoners...to be able to say you ate a whole 70s-era Schlotzsky was a quite an achievement. Then the bean-counters got hold of the menu, and Schlotzsky's started its inevitable slide into sandwich mediocrity.

The result, alas, is the half-hearted offerings they are serving up today. There aren't many food enterprises that can maintain the level of food quality on which their reputations were built over the long term.

So Whataburger ain't what it used to be. Neither are Fuddrucker's or Schlotzsky's.

In-N-Out is a serviceable, if not spectacular fast-food burger, at least for the time being, but their quality will inevitably tumble downward as time goes on. (They'll never be able to replicate the Fuddrucker's mystique from the 70s and 80s, of course.) Enjoy them while the quality lasts, because they will have no immunity to bean-counter-induced mediocrity.

[C24L]

Originally Posted by curbur

Braum's need to move to Austin, Houston, and SA.

that wont happen cuz Braums has a corporate policy that it wont have any locations outside of a 300 mile radius of Tuttle,Oklahoma.

[RJ312]

I really want to prefer Whataburger to In-N-Out because Whataburger was founded in Texas and In-N-Out was founded in California. I just can't do it. In-N-Out's hamburgers/cheeseburgers taste better.