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    Checkers

    3.0 (48 reviews)
    InexpensiveBurgers, Fast Food
    Closed 10:00 am - 2:00 AM (Next day)

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    Good for kids
    Outdoor seating
    Good for groups

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    Exterior at Night
    Deena J.

    Ordered at 1am and the employees were super helpful. Food was very fast and delicious. Pleasantly surprised that the fries were just fried and very fresh.

    Small fries, hot, crispy, but unfortunately too salty.
    Anna W.

    Two for five bucks was a great deal. My partner said it was a good, honest American chili dog and hamburger. I stole one bite of each and it was a good way to take the edge off my hunger. The fries were crispy, hot and I really enjoyed the spice they use, but the salt should be better controlled. We were 'walkup kitchen' customers. The service was great.

    The Big Buford (no pickle or tomato on mine)
    Sara K.

    Today I had Checkers for the first time since I was a kid living in Florida and it wasn't bad! This location has an order/pick up window which I always delight in using as I feel like a caged animal 6 months out of the year here in Buffalo. My order was placed right away and my food came out in about 60 seconds. I ordered the Big Buford which is 2 patties, cheese, lettuce, tomato, pickle, onion, ketchup, mustard, and Mayo. It did not disappoint. Patties were a decent size and everything tasted fresh... albeit it is fast food not a gourmet burger. I did not order any fries or anything but the Big Buford filled me up on its own!

    Checkers Morher Cruncher Chicken Sandwich
    Denise H.

    Fast and friendly service with a smile, you can order burgers, boneless wings, fries, funnel cake fries, Mozzarella sticks or the mother cruncher chicken sandwich, which was very tasty.The crispy fish sandwich is also very delicious, tender and crispy.Plus grab a ice cream cone or milkshake for dessert.

    Checkers Mother Cruncher Chicken Sandwich
    Diane H.

    Offering speedy service with a smile you can try the big buford burger, boneless wings, hot fries,Funnel Cake Fries, mozzarella sticks or the mother cruncher chicken sandwich which comes with Lettuce, tomato, and pickles it was crispy and delicious. The crispy fish sandwich is tasty and satisfying. Also save room for dessert and grab an ice cream cone, milkshake or cheesecake sundae.

    Hours
    Randall B.

    I'm upset that this place has been here for 2 years and I had no idea! Why has no one told me about the awesomeness that is Checkers? Hmph! Let me start here with a simple math equasion. Checkers is greater then McDonalds, Burger King and Red Robin. Not only in flavor and quality but also in affordability. For clarification, one can easily observe from the value menu that you can obtain 6 burgers for $9. These arent the rip off burgers you get from the dollar menu at say McDonalds, no. These are more like home on the grill picnic burgers that hit the spot just right. I'm talking about the, hand you the bag of food from the drive thru window and you feel a weight in the bag kind of burgers and this place is open LATE! Now I've eaten here twice in the last few days and I've explored a bit on the menu and mostly I have to say the Value menu above the main menu is where it's at. They also offer spicy chicken which is a very herb like, feel a burn in the belly after eating kinda chicken but its also quite good. It's different for sure. At first I was hesitant but you should try it and see for yourself. Def has a bite to it. Some day I will have to try one of thier sides and featured burgers, but I love the quick, affordable value options this place offers and I hope that option on the menu doesnt change. ALTHOUGH if anyone from corporate reads this, the value menu is hard to read from ones car. Could use larger print and a light shining on that sucker! Worthy of mentioning they are also currently offering a FREE Buford Burger if you Text "BUFORD to 88001" and there are other text deals pictured as you drive thru, so check that out! Solid 5 stars from me Checkers, keep it real my friends Keep it Real !!!

    Starlight waiting for food
    Fox E.

    People keep checking me out. I am so sick of it. Just because I do all this work to "keep this a 10" like Mayhem does when he's a hot girl out jogging. I call people that check me out "Checkers", and I wish I could afford to employ someone to keep them in "Check." Or even keep them in "Checkers" because then at least they could enjoy some yummy chain food while being kept in Check because of all their Checking-out of me. Anyway. What to order: Any of their chicken sandwiches, maybe a burger possibly, and def. a shake. What else: It's a chain, it's fast food, why are you even eating here anyway. So my back story with Checkers is similar to a back story told by a chiropractor. Only not. Speaking of chiropractors, if they're Egyptian, does that make them Cairopractors? Indeed, is an Egyptian farm vehicle a Cairotractor? Anyway. So when I was a teenager (literally), I was driving an old Pontiac Bonneville - and later a Ford Crown Victoria - around all sorts of southern states having orgasmic fun - sometimes literally - and when in Florida, I was always excited by the race-car-flags of Checkers. I ate a lot of fast food chain food back then, what can I say. I was an impressionable teenager or something. Checkers was always a wonderful little treat, and very exotic, as well as very cheap. You could get 2 burgers for a couple of dollars - one chicken, one beef, and also cheap drinks and shakes. Fast forward a decade (ish) and I was cruising through beautiful tropical exotic palm-tree-lined Cheektowaga (giggle) and what should I see, shining at me with red neon lights, like a beacon in the night... but a brothel. Oh no wait that was in the Nevada desert. So there I see, shining before me, a Checkers. I had to do a double take. Is this seriously a Checkers, I asked myself. In Buffalo? How did it get here from Florida? And why did it take so long? And are they even from Florida? I've seen them in Atlanta... but not this far north, ever. Starlight insisted that I do a U-turn and I always do what she says (and I always do what my gf says, as well, btw, even moreso), so I U-turned and went back and ordered some Checkers. To my delight, the menu hasn't changed drastically and neither have the prices. I got 2 pretty good sandwiches for $3 - one was a spicy fried chicken sandwich that I liked. One was a cheesy Cheddar Bacon Burger that I was very surprised to love, even more than the chicken, despite the fact that Checkers is usually best for Chicken. Great fast food sandwiches. In addition to this, I ordered a chocolate milkshake. They have baby size shakes for under $2, which is perfect for someone that does a lot of work in the gym as I mentioned in the first paragraph, so I got chocolate, and I loved every sip! Much better than a McDonalds shake, and probably better than a BK shake too, which are actually quite good. Maybe a little too sweet, but not as sweet as a BK shake. Also the girl in the drive thru loved Starlight, and got very squealy and girlie and gushy when she saw my little furry orange ball of love (I mean Starlight, silly). And I love it when girls get gushy, in all kinds of ways. So if you've never had a Checkers, come and Checkers it out. You might be surprised, because it is probably a better standard than the awful Wendy's and McDonald's that you're used to. It's nowhere near as good as NC's similar chain, Cook Out, not even close... but then very few places are. Nom nom nom. Check out the full adventures of Starlight at Checkers in the three pix I uploaded of her at this location. And enjoy this exotic, southern chain while we have it Buffalo!

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    the food is delicious, the people that work there are very understanding and nice. thank you

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    food is always good especially the sea salt carmel milk shake! it's like crack in a cup so addicting.

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    Disgusting grease pit bag was saturated with grease it was dripping off Burger do not go it was very bad and a waste of money

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    Terrible service. Had a strand of hair in my cheese burger that was longer than 12inches long. Made me sick. Avoid this checkers.

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    Is it so friggin hard to include the sauce for the chicken strips? Especially when you asked for 2 and got none. Dumbasses.

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