Excellent | Worth a Detour
Jay Bee’s
Review by: Jane & Michael Stern
Foot-long hot dogs topped with mustard, onions, chili, and slaw … giant-size hamburgers dressed to the hilt with cheese fries and battered onion rings on the side … hand-chopped barbecue sandwiches decorated with slaw: Put these menu items together with a brash, drive-through (and dine-in) operation, and you have a truly all-American eatery. Jay Bee’s feels like fast food squared, and yet signs throughout the sprawling establishment warn that because everything is made to order, some items will require a wait.
In this place, a “wait” means about three minutes before your number is called over the loud speaker system, meaning your tray is ready to be toted to a table inside or on the patio out back (known as Jay-Bee’s Outback). At peak mealtimes, the big wait is the long line of cars at the drive-through window, where Iredell County natives come to buy a dashboard lunch or a party meal for twelve.
Hot dog highlights range from the simple foot-long with cheese (and, of course, chili and slaw) to such specialties as the Prairie Dog with dark-hued barbecue sauce, cheese, and onions and the “Northerners’ Fancy” Kraut Dog with sauerkraut and mustard. There are all-beef dogs which, although delicious, seem out-of-context here in pork country, and ninety-nine cent corn dogs for kids.
Although Jay-Bee’s pride is hot dogs, hamburgers are alright, too. Available in quarter-pound or half-pound configurations, they are hand-formed from daily-ground beef and sizzled to appealing succulence, particularly good when dressed with a heap of sauteed onions.
The beverage menu ranges from sweet tea and milk shakes to Dr. Pepper and Mountain Dew; and if you dine inside, a refill of any soda is free. One quart size drinks – yes, thirty-two ounces – are available at the drive-through window.
Directions & Hours
10:30am - 8pm
- Monday: 10:30 AM – 8:00 PM
- Tuesday: 10:30 AM – 8:00 PM
- Wednesday: 10:30 AM – 8:00 PM
- Thursday: 10:30 AM – 8:00 PM
- Friday: 10:30 AM – 8:00 PM
- Saturday: 10:30 AM – 8:00 PM
- Sunday: Closed
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One Response to “Jay Bee’s”
Brisco
August 18th, 2010
We stopped in at Jay Bee’s on a Saturday in July on our way to South Carolina for a week of vacation. I had Jay Bee’s targeted for lunch.
I ordered the half-pound burger “all the way” with slaw and chili. My wife ordered the third-pound cheeseburger and my daughter got the brat. The brat was the highlight of the meal: nice snap and cooked perfectly. My wife’s burger was served with the cheese unmelted and she said it tasted very ordinary.
I was excited when the person behind the microphone (inside the store) told me it would take around 15 minutes to prepare my burger. I envisioned a hand-made patty covered with chili and slaw. What I got was, it seemed, a third-pound Sysco patty with a quick splash of chili and a decent amount of slaw. The burger had “snap” to it and that’s not what I was looking for. I received my burger in six minutes and I would have gladly waited 15 minutes for the real thing. As I looked around the restaurant I noticed 75% of the folks had ordered the foot long or other tube meat. It made sense. Pass on the burgers.