Place: B-Bops
Lunch: Classic single (no lettuce, no tomato), chili (w/cheese & onion), Pepsi (because I suck at being a no good worthless rotten diabetic)
B-Bops is our local version of the double drive-thru discount burger joint that was such a fad in the late 80's and early 90's that featured loaded quarter-pound burgers for 99 cents. Most of these chains nationally have all but died off, but this market is so backwards that the concept continues to thrive. Heck, we still have two operating K-Marts, a Bonanza, AND a Bennigan's. We're about a Shakey's Pizza away from being a living retail history museum, and we even had one of the last of those outside of California. It was even on the frontage of one of the K-Marts.
This location is brand new but foregoes the double drive-thru in favor of a standard fast food building with a single drive-thru and an indoor dining room. B-Bops had to conform to the design standards of the uppity development this store is located in but wanted to keep their fun retro style, and the result is a mishmash of hideousness. The building looks like a re-purposed 70's Taco Bueno, but painted in white, black, blue, yellow, red (a fake "neon" pinstripe)...it's just awful. There's fake arched window framing painted black along the drive-thru lane
It's also instantly popular. The joint is jumping. Nice to have a B-Bops nearby where you don't have to eat in your car in the winter.
Aside from price increases (that 99 cent quarter-pound burger of the past is currently $3.59), B-Bops hasn't changed much. They make a good charbroiled burger and one of the better fast food chilis. They have the usual alternate options like chicken and what not.
Keep it simple.
