Guest #96, your order is ready.

Overall Rating: 7.6/10

Burger - Once again extra lettuce. My order these days is now a Cheeseburger no onions, extra lettuce, mustard fried, no pickles. I'm going to stick with this for a while imagine, but I think from time to time I might have to take out a bit of lettuce. Not only does too much of it mask the other flavors but it can get messy pretty quick. Still, I really do like the extra lettuce. I can't give near perfect marks on taste though, due to the masking of the flavors with too much lettuce. The texture of this burger was pretty spot on. Nothing was too crunchy or soggy at all. Almost every bite was perfect. Although I did have a few extra bites of bun leftover at the end. Presentation wise the extra lettuce also makes it hard to judge, but I can't fault them for not being able to put that much lettuce on and make it perfect looking. I mean, it's like a salad between a two buns.

Taste - 1.65 (out of 2)

Texture - 1.9 (out of 2)

Presentation - .8 (out of 1)

Fries - Probably some of the worst fries I've ever had at In-N-Out, which is a shame. They were limp and flimsy, no crunch whatsoever. Not only that but despite putting salt on them they didn't have hardly any flavor. They weren't "gross", just really sub-par.

Taste - 1.25 (out of 2)

Texture - 1.0 (out of 2)

Diet Coke - 1 (out of 1)

You want something interesting? Yeah, I can't do that today. Nothing noteworthy was seen or heard.

Guest #25, your order is ready.

Overall Rating: 9/10

Burger - Extra lettuce is now standard as part of my order. And as usual mustard fried is there as well. The burger was really good, but extra lettuce does get a bit sloppy as the lettuce doesn't really have an anchor and falls out quite a bit. Nothing extra special to say about this burger other than I had a bit more than usual left over at the end. Just bun really and small bits of lettuce and tomato, assuming some cheese in there as well. But once I'm done with the meat I don't generally eat the rest as it has more of a burnt grilled cheese taste. I've always found that strange.

Taste - 1.8 (out of 2)

Texture - 1.75 (out of 2)

Presentation - .8 (out of 1)

Fries - These were some of the best fries in quite a long time. I had intentions of trying well done fries, but as my wife was with me and we were sharing I decided to appease her and just get normal fries. Luckily for me they were actually quite a bit more done than they have been in the last few months. They ended up nice and crispy on the outside but still soft on the inside. And as always, salt and pepper had to be added.

Taste - 1.7 (out of 2)

Texture - 1.95 (out of 2)

Diet Coke - 1 (out of 1)

Nothing exciting. Most interesting thing I saw were two cops and one was definitely tired as he was resting his head on the table. Well more like on his arm, but his arm was flat on the table.

Guest #32, your order is ready.

Overall Rating: 8.2/10

Wow, totally forgot to write this over the weekend. Good thing I actually remember most everything about the meal. Unfortunately though there was nothing of interest outside of the meal, so this will just be a food review.

Burger - I tried something new again, but nothing as extreme as a double-double. This time I got extra lettuce and it was totally worth it. One of the problems I find w/ In-N-Out is the inconsistency with the lettuce proportions. Getting too little lettuce makes the burger just take like ground beef and american cheese, or sometime like a grilled cheese. So yeah this was really good but next time I will make sure to go back to mustard fried as well. I kind of got used to that slight mustard taste and found myself missing it. Texture wise everything was pretty good. Nothing was over cooked or soggy. Almost perfect. Presentation could have used some work though. The lettuce was put on sloppily so I had to adjust its position multiple times and there were a few bites that seemed to be more on the meat and cheese side of the ratio than everything else. But otherwise a really good burger.

Taste - 1.65 (out of 2)

Texture - 1.8 (out of 2)

Presentation - .7 (out of 1)

Fries - Sadly the fries didn't live up to the burger. Actually the taste was pretty good but offset by the lack of seasoning and the fact that weren't nearly done enough. None of the full fries were crispy at all and I had to eat some of those really small pieces just to get some crunch.

Taste - 1.65 (out of 2)

Texture - 1.4 (out of 2)

Diet Coke - 1 (out of 1)

One thing I will say is that I am thinking about removing the proper amount of S&P on the fries as part of the criteria. The reasoning is that in all the times I've been doing this I think there has only been a perfect amount once or twice. It's so rare that using it as part of the judgement is likely to end up with never getting anywhere near a overall perfect score for the meal.

Guest #58, your order is ready.

Overall Rating: 8.4/10

I decided to try something that I haven't tried in many years, a Double-Double. And here are the results...

Burger - Well, I now remember why I don't get the Double-Double. There is way too much meat and cheese on that thing. And you can taste the burnt parts of the meat more and all the extra cheese sticks in your mouth. At that point you can barely taste the bun, lettuce and tomato. So how do I rate this thing? Well, it was messy. It tasted OK overall. Maybe I should have left the extra tomato on this time. Could have used more lettuce as well to offset all the meat. It's not that the burger itself was gross, I just felt gross eating it. Presentation wise it looked fine, nothing out of the ordinary. Picking it up I instantly could tell it was heavier than a normal cheeseburger. Texture wise it was mostly fine. Maybe a bit one note because there wasn't much lettuce so everything was fairly soft. Man, I'll never get one of these things again.

Taste - 1.4 (out of 2)

Texture - 1.5 (out of 2)

Presentation - .8 (out of 1)

Fries - On the other hand, these fries were near perfect. They had the great crispy texture on the outside but not dry on the outside. I added salt and pepper but I'm considering no longer taking seasoning into consideration as part of the score as I'm almost always adding more.

Taste - 1.8 (out of 2)

Texture - 1.9 (out of 2)

Diet Coke - 1 (out of 1)

I don't think there was anything interesting. I should have taken a picture of the dog at the table next to us. He was giving me a look almost the entire time. Also, the guys at the counter are starting to remember me. One mentions my "cool" shirts and this time the guy asked where I worked. Apparently he's neighbors with a coworker of mine.

Guest #27, your order is ready.

Overall Rating: 8.85/10

I'm a few days late on this one, my bad. I hope it doesn't affect the accuracy of my review.

Burger - It was nothing extraordinary but it was still pretty good even by In-N-Out standards. Not enough lettuce for my liking and it was a fair bit lopsided as I probably had a good three bites of just bun at the end. Well I would have if I bothered to eat the just bun bites. I do remember the bun edges being pretty toasted to the point of being hard.

Taste - 1.75 (out of 2)

Texture - 1.6 (out of 2)

Presentation - .75 (out of 1)

Fries - These were some of the absolute best fries I've ever had at In-N-Out. Honestly, outside of maybe needing a bit more salt and pepper there wasn't really anything wrong with them. Texture was great, slightly crispy on the outside and still soft on the inside but not overly dry either.

Taste - 1.85 (out of 2)

Texture - 1.9 (out of 2)

Diet Coke - 1 (out of 1)

Guest #43, your order is ready.

Ratings: 8.8/10

No In-N-Out Burger isn't closed. And yes I still go every week. It has simply been almost two months since my last original number. So let's get this show on the road!

Burger - I've been mixing it up lately between regular and protein style (always w/ mustard fried though). Today I decided to go regular and I did not regret it. It was one of the better burgers I have probably had in months. Really there were only three specific things wrong (other than the double tomato but that doesn't count). First, the edges of the bun was too crispy. This is why I have tried light toast before but unfortunately I'm not a fan of that either. Second, there wasn't enough lettuce. I like a hefty amount of lettuce on my burger and there wasn't even enough to last the whole meal in this one. Lastly, the tomato was a bit hard. It didn't taste bad in any way though, just towards the center was a bit tougher than I like. Despite all of this though it was delicious and was probably the most mustard I've had on the burger since I've been ordering mustard fried.

Taste - 1.8 (out of 2)

Texture - 1.6 (out of 2)

Presentation - .8 (out of 1)

Fries - The fries were also some of the best I've had in a long time. I didn't put any salt or pepper on them, which rarely happens. They tasted great to me and I think the only thing that would have made it better is if they were a bit crispier on the outside. While they weren't all that crispy they also weren't too flimsy/mushy either, not like a wet noodle or anything.

Taste - 1.9 (out of 2)

Texture - 1.7 (out of 2)

Diet Coke - 1 (out of 1)

So this meal almost reached a 9 but couldn't quite get there. Sometimes I question how much I really like In-N-Out and then I have a meal like this and it reminds me why I go every week. So was there anything interesting this time? Nothing interesting really, but it was the first time sitting at the stools with more than just myself during a lunch visit. I like to get my seats quick so when I saw they stools were empty I just sat down. Sure we probably could have found a table eventually, but why hassle when you can just relax?

Guest #73, your order is ready.

Overall Rating: 8.15/10

Well it's been a while. So long in fact that I hope I remember the rating system I made, as I think it only got used a couple of times so far. The previous original number was actually July 22nd. Let's hope now is the start of another new number streak.

Burger - Sometimes I wish my duplicates were original numbers because they are so good that I want to review them. And sometimes I wish the original was a dupe because it's nowhere near as good as it could have been. The burger wasn't actually that bad, but the bun was super toasted and I'm not a fan of the crunchy bun. They always just feel/taste stale to me. When eating the center of the burger and not the edges everything tasted great. It was a bit messy as well, but I don't usually consider that in the rating because that's probably more "user error" than anything.

Taste - 1.7 (out of 2)

Texture - 1.25 (out of 2)

Presentation - .9 (out of 1)

Fries - The fries were pretty good today. Of course that was after putting on salt and pepper. But texture wise and "base" flavor they were good. Slightly crispy on the outside but not too dry on the inside. Even I'll admit sometimes the fries can be very blah, but this was not one of those times.

Taste - 1.5 (out of 2)

Texture - 1.8 (out of 2)

Diet Coke - 1 (out of 1)

Unfortunately the first new number in a while was not accompanied by anything interesting. There wasn't even something worth noting to the smallest degree. What a shame.