Niceeeeeee!

Can confirm quality on the first day (at 11am right after opening but before the lunch rush) was good. Saw one person being given q free drink because they had to wait a bit longer than usual.

Five Guys is Better

Cool! I wonder when the one near Grove Street is going to open...

nice. the one by grove street has a bunch of shake shack branded window dressing now, and my gf peaked in the other day and said inside looks like a mostly ready shake shack

Both used to be better years ago, before aggressive expansion

What's the JC location specific concrete?

Downvoted for the truth, smh.

Was this where Johnny Rockets was?

yes

martys solos

I'm surprised how fast this opened , I ate there in the late Spring...

now we can get hamburger from S.S. and chickenburger from The Lord's Chicken

I waited like 30 min for 1 shake last night. Sorta tilted me lol

So Johnny rockets is gone now or did they move location at the food court?

Agreed on this.

i thought they were building more apartments and demolishing this mall. no way that's happening now.

there's one in hoboken but johnny rockets? ehhh

Highly recommend the sugar cookie shake. It’s ridiculously high calorie (so if you care about that you could not drink it all or just not get it), but it wastes exactly like a liquified, frozen sugar cookie! Maybe that’s not your thing, but it’s pretty good imo

Since when? Mall has been incredibly popular for a long time now, with tons of lunch spots and a movie theater

Chains can be super quick. They’ve basically made stores into kits. Once they’ve got measurements for the space, they pick the components that fit, a contractor installs and it’s up and running.

They do this for redesigns too. They can retrofit a place in a week or so even keeping it running during the day and working overnight.

A crazy amount of engineering, design, architecture, etc must go into planning to minimize modifications to meet code in various places etc.

That’s just the “master plan” from the city.

Real Estate companies dump potential ideas for their lots in there, so when they want to sell it’s easier to adjust zoning.

It’s now much harder for city council to object to a plan like that if it was proposed. If they attempted it would end up in court and the city would likely lose.

That makes the land way more valuable and more potential buyers.

This is how wealthy corporations make money.

Agreed, though I think Shake Shack went a little further down hill than Five Guys.

a little sad to lose the subway. it was cheaper and had more veg options.

Opened before Whole Foods.

Overhype is reaaaaal

I've given up on Five Guys as the average quality varies so dang much.

The average quality of Shake Shack seems to have higher standards regularly enforced, but it's still a chain.

while i feel you on lack of vegetables in jersey city, subway is absolutely disgusting.

i really wish they would open a westville here.

This could be a whole thread: things that were announced after Whole Foods and opened before. I bet some of them have even opened and closed.

If nothing else, it could be flair.

I believe there’s progress on the whole foods recently

Ooo thank you for the review