I have eaten at a couple of Fudruckers here in the Boston area and enjoyed it. The person who has the franchise seems to have an active hand on the business and it shows.
They have recently opened a new location in a furniture store {Jordans} that was formally a Johnnie Rockets and as I understand it’s doing very well there also. Chow Jim

Real good ostrich burger at the store in Bridgewater, N.J.
The Bear

Not a big fan. It always SEEMS better than it IS. I’ve never been actively ill after eating there, but the one near us looks like an E. coli experiment about to burst…
ALWAYS full of the most annoying kids. I know it’s a family restaurant, but it seems like Fuddrucker’s has actively recruited the most annoying people around to eat there.
Great concept, could be executed better, IMHO.[:I]

Expensive by my standards except for the lunch specials. Recently spent about $15-18 for 2 quarter pound dogs, 2 fries and 2 soft drinks. I do like their dogs but don’t care much for the burgers.

I would never go to this restaurant because I detest the name!

When they first opened a Fuddruckers here my wife and I tried it. The medium rare hamburgers came out very, very well done and the condiment tables — they had three or four of them — were absolutely filthy. We never went back.

Last time I ate at one was in Columbia, SC and wasn’t overly impressed. It was good but not great. Didn’t like the goopy cheese to make your burger into a cheeseburger but it was no real big deal. I would eat at another if my hotel was beside it but that’s about it.

[:D]I never have eaten at any.I remember about the meat counter business with the meat because I think back in highschool my sister ate there once with some friends.The meat display turned her off.
She likes a good burger now and then,but doesn’t want to see it butchered.
I’m getting so I prefer to make my own at home with ground hamburger meat or ground chuck I buy from the grocery store.It’s more juicy and has a pretty good flavour and I can season it to my tastes.

I always meant to try the one in the Transportation Building in downtown Boston, but with so many good, less-expensive, local things around and Chinatown around the corner I never got around to it.

I guess it’s my fault they went out of business. [:I]

Next time you go try there fresh baked dinner rolls if they still have them. They are great.

I eat there when I go to foxwoods casino, and it’s pretty good. A little above average burger, ok fries. tastes better when i’m winning at blackjack though.

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Originally posted by Poverty Pete

In short, yes, it has changed. In the late seventies, in Houston, I recall Fuddrucker/s as a revelation in burger technology. I remember the butchers, behind the glass, hacking up carcasses for the ground beef, the whole side, not just the "lesser" cuts. They had boxes of fresh tomatoes, being sliced as needed. The melted cheese glop was exactly as it is today. (I don’t have rose-colored glasses, merely 20-20 hindsight!)

I forgot about their horrible cheese sauce!! I love cheese and hated the fact that they used that glop.

I think the Fuddruckers here died out because it was just too expensive. It would be about $50 for a family of four to eat there (12years ago).

I imagine the new health code restrictions on the cooking of hamburger meat would have really hurt their concept.

Having helped my late grandfather butcher many a steer, I can say without reservation that watching someone "hacking up carcasses for the ground beef " is not a sight I would care for while eating a burger. I’ll stick with the ball game, thanks.

In short, yes, it has changed. In the late seventies, in Houston, I recall Fuddrucker/s as a revelation in burger technology. I remember the butchers, behind the glass, hacking up carcasses for the ground beef, the whole side, not just the "lesser" cuts. They had boxes of fresh tomatoes, being sliced as needed. The melted cheese glop was exactly as it is today. (I don’t have rose-colored glasses, merely 20-20 hindsight!)

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Originally posted by Adjudicator

I last ate at a Fuddpucker’s around 5 years ago in Tallahassee, the nearest one to me. Didn’t get sick but it certainally wasn’t what I remembered from years earlier. The massive condiment bar seemed like a law suit waiting to happen, not to mention the obvious waste at the end of the day. There was a Popeye’s next door and it was busy as hades. Lesson learned.

There is a Fuddruckers up the road, about 3 miles from me. but have to admit, not having been there, since my girls were still at home.

I am curious as to your comments on the condiment bar, seemingly like a law suit waiting, and the "waste"? Just wondering.

When we dined there, it was fresh cooked burgers, and all the fixings to go with the burgers. Not gourmet, but a decent value. Has it changed?