Hungry Jacks set to arrive in Hervey Bay

4th Oct 2007

Hungry Jacks Logo A reader of benmay.org has let me know that Hungry Jacks is set to come to Hervey Bay. Hungry Jacks will be going where a few have guessed, which is at the Bunnings / Main st / Boat Harbour Drive corner. The coming soon sign will be installed there today!

To read my older post on the Hungry Jacks rumor, click here.

22 comments

I want to work at the new hungry jacks

Artem Bond on 18th March, 2008 at 6:09 pm
My husband and I visited the Hervey Bay store yesterday for the first time and sadly it will be a long time before we visit again. We ordered 2 Aussie burgers, onion rings and small fries as we have done on previous visits to the Maryborough store. Sadly after eating our food from your store both my husband and I became ill with vomiting and diarhoea. As this in the only thing we ate the same for the day we can only conclude that it was the burgers or the onion rings that caused this.
Maybe one day we will return as we have enjoyed Hungry Jacks in the past,
but I can assure you it won’t be for a while Angela

Angela on 18th May, 2008 at 8:39 am
Hi Angela,

Wow – that is not good… I went there for the first time the other day, it was OK…. I have only gone just now as there as the first 2 weeks there was nothing but traffic and thousands of people..

There was just usual new staff problems taking forever to get served etc etc.. but nothing too out of the ordinary for a fast food outlet

Ben May on 18th May, 2008 at 3:49 pm
Hi,
i work at hungry jacks in brisbane, browns plains and it really isnt that bad! Yu know, we have to go through alot as well. all yu have to do.. is order yur food, pay and wait. while we keep serving, and the guys out the back have 20-50 burgers to make at once, before impatient customers start abusing us because they have waited for 5 mins. think of the people that work there before yu get impatient and shitty. we get ignorant self absorbed customers everyday..yu just get friendly service. if not, its because of the customers. and Angela, i am sincerly sorry to hear about what happened to you and your husband and i hope yu bothe recover

Random :] on 21st May, 2008 at 9:25 pm
I have been looking forward to Hungry Jacks coming to the Bay for so long and I must say now that they are here, I am not so fussed on the food that is served. It took me ages to make the young girl serving me to understand what it was that I was asking for and then it wasn’t right when we got home. That is so frustrating. They needed to be better trained before opening.

AngelaE on 22nd May, 2008 at 3:34 am
Hello, can you please tell your staff at hungry jacks in hervey bay to wash there hands before they handle food? as I do not like food poisoning!!!

Tony on 23rd June, 2008 at 10:01 am
ii think that the hungry jacks in hervey is PATHETIC!! Me and my friend went there one day and we were waiting half an hour just for two burgars!! ii mean two plain burgars and they served 3 other people with big meals for their family before they managed to give us our burgars! And as for the drive through, do not ever go through the drive through as they did not set the ground properlly and one day its all going to collapse in! Which is not good… Every other hungry jacks is good besides hervey bay! So just watch what your eating and doing when you go there ok! Thnks

Rosiee BeTTch!! on 25th June, 2008 at 12:27 pm
I too also work at Hungry Jacks and some people with in the town are just so rude and impaitient you need to understand these are 14 15 year old kids and for most of them its there first job, as for the the staff washing there hands i can assure you they do i have never worked for a company that is very big on food safety before, sorry Angela you were sick but i can assure you it would not of been food poisning as i have worked in the food industry for many years and if you claim to have got food posioning from eating that than i am 100% sure the other 200 people that eat that same burger that day would off got sick as well maybe you need to take a look at your own food preperation at home. and please give them a break i am sure you would not like people talking about your kids like that.

Steven on 21st April, 2009 at 8:11 pm
omg people give them a break no wonder people dont want to open business in hervey bay the town is full of scabs some people have nothing better to do than complain, i got to Hungry Jacks in Hervey Bay Every Day and i think the people are great the food it fantasic yes the service may be slow some times but for crying out loud look around you and see how busy the are.

casper on 21st April, 2009 at 8:37 pm
Steven, thanks for your comments, I can see you are also casper

It isn’t an insult to the young people who are working there, but more to the managers who hire all younger people who have limited abilities .

Look at McDonalds, they know what they are doing, because I have NEVER waiting anywhere near as long there as I do at Hungry Jacks.

Ben May on 25th April, 2009 at 5:02 pm
Sorry Ben I Don’t think its a insult to the managers and i am not being rude in any way but the way i see it is at least they are giving these young kids a go and teaching them some skills but i do think people need to calm down a bit i was there the other day and i saw this customer yelling at this girls because she asked what size meal he wanted now she was only doing her job and no i am not casper my uncle also wanted to make a comment but used email address to do so.

Steven on 5th May, 2009 at 9:12 pm
Steven,
I’m sorry, but I spat my coffee all over my computer keyboard in laughter when I read your comment about Hungry Jacks giving these young kids a go and teaching them some skills. The reason they employ these dropkick kids is because they are cheap. That is the one and only reason. You’ve been brainwashed if you think otherwise.

Patricia on 9th May, 2009 at 1:06 pm
Well Patricia good to see you have faith in today’s
teenagers, so you don’t think any one should give them a go, may be they do hire them because they are cheap but at least they a working not hanging around the streets doing drugs and drinking.
I also understand these so call dropkick kids as you call them go to some of the best schools in the bay. we all have to start some were at least they are not on centerlink..

Steven on 11th May, 2009 at 8:02 pm
I don’t disagree with you at all in relation to these kids having to start somewhere – and good on them for trying. What I object to is your suggestion that Hungry Jacks are somehow doing the community a huge favour by employing them and providing them with valuable skills. There is only one reason they are employing them, and that is because they are cheap.

Patricia on 13th May, 2009 at 8:29 am
Everyone has once been in a new job not knowing what they are doing, getting confused, shy and bewildered.

Grow up people, if you want to complain on the service, why dont you go and get a job there and see how overwhelming it is.

Yes sometimes it may be slow, but those kids are trying and I commend them for what they do.

All i can say about everything on here is Ben, get a god given life and stop ya bloody whinging

Duffa on 2nd June, 2009 at 2:30 pm
Once again, I am not saying that it’s YOUR fault… HJ should employ more experienced staff..

How do you explain that McDonalds you can be served in a minute and on your way, and at HJ it is a 10 min wait or what ever? McDonalds hire young people…

Ben May on 4th June, 2009 at 11:50 am
Who r u talking to Ben, YOUR FAULT????

Duffa on 4th June, 2009 at 12:25 pm
I’m talking to you.. who else would I be talking to? What’s my fault

Ben May on 4th June, 2009 at 2:11 pm
How would it be MY FAULT anyway, Im sticking up for the people who constantly get critisized for trying, get over yourself and grow the fuck up

DUFFA on 17th June, 2009 at 9:56 am
Hey DUFFA,
I think the point that we are trying to make is that these kids are NOT even trying. They don’t care, they aren’t interested in learning, they know they are being used, and it won’t get any better. Ask yourself this – WHY is the service so much better at Macca’s? Surely the job description at both outlets are roughly the same. So why is service almost non-existent at one outlet, and fine at the other? If you don’t know the answer, please feel free to ask.

Patricia on 19th June, 2009 at 2:14 am
I would like to make a point do you notice you never see different staff at mcdonalds? No or if you do they arent on during peak rushes. also have you ever noticed there are atleast 2 managers on the counter at Mcdonalds or in Drive Thru at all times. Do You Notice This At Hungry Jakcs? NO i work there and you are lucky if there are 2 managers on at a time this normally happens when its shift change time also staff are always changing at hungry jacks which means we are working towrds having a unified team to get the customers served and improve the service while giving young people ago unlike mcdonalds where you are lucky if you see different staff to the usual ones they have on or if you actually get to see a staff member and not a manager also if our service is so crap and patheic as you are stating why do the customers keep coming back??? why? also if you are telling duffa to ask you about how to do service does this mean you work for mcdonalds? and by that meaning you have a vested interest in trying to get more sales for mcdonalds? also its FAST Food NOT INSTANT !

HardWorkingYoungPerson on 25th June, 2009 at 9:06 pm
I like Cheese.

Richard on 25th June, 2009 at 9:20 pm