Uncle Boy's

This is a sympathy four star review.
It was kind of sad to see all three businesses across the street shut down.
I hope Uncle Boy's can stay.
We used to come here years ago.
Ordering in person at their terminal felt impersonal.
The workers were busy having a conversion with themselves and ignoring the customers.
No hellos or help with ordering.
I had the O.G.
burger $9.50 and onion rings $9.
My order was for dine-in and they put it a brown paper bag and they didn't ask if I wanted water or anything else and went back to joking with the other employees.
They don't bring the food out to the parklet.
I'm not sure why I tipped.
It is one of those fallacies where the option to tip is at the counter and not after the meal.
The little 4oz burger tasted OK.
It tasted like a Jumbo Jack but with a toasted bun and whole slice of red onion.
I really should have went up to Laurel Village and had a Super Duper burger instead.
The service is much better there along with the food.
But that's a chain restaurant.

Used to go here all the time for late night snacks, and the food is honestly still pretty good, but the price creep has become insane.
Almost $12 for a small bag of onion rings? They were less than $5 a few years ago.
The onion rings are literally the same price as the burgers now.

Prices have leapt up all across the menu (+$3 to the burgers and onion rings).
The onion rings here are still great, but my recent visit has me questioning the value and cleanliness. In my original review, I praised their service and great onion rings.
Their service is kind of cold now, and I saw one of the staff grabbing raw bacon with his bare hand which was probably washed, but I did pause to stare for a second.
The onion rings are fried to order, which ensures they're perfectly crispy and the onion inside snaps when you bite into them, instead of slipping out of the batter. Also, I got the OG burger with American cheese.
It's comparable to a Whopper from Burger King.
The patty was slightly crisped, which I liked, but also nice and juicy.
However, they could have used a little less salt.
Under the top bun, there was ketchup, mustard, mayo, lettuce, then a slice of tomato implanted inside the rings of a red onion, then American cheese with the patty as the last ingredient to the bottom before the pickles adhered to the bottom bun with more mayo.
The burger was done in about four minutes despite the cashier saying fifteen minutes. Also, this place used to have customers around the clock.
It still gets customers but definitely isn't as busy as it used to be.
This restaurant has gone downhill a little, but I'm hopeful they'll recover and still have the same quality of food I remember.