Here you go, John -- SoCal flavor, first-person, smooth and real: --- I stopped by the Jack in the Box on Santa Monica Blvd and honestly, this spot delivered. I ordered the Hot Mess combo and it came out hot and fresh, no lag, no attitude -- just solid service. The sandwich was stacked with those crispy jalapeño onion rings and that creamy white sauce that cools the heat just enough so you can actually taste everything. Perfect balance. Crunch, spice, creamy smoothness -- all working together. They didn't skimp either. The curly fries were generous and seasoned just right. You know that moment when fries are fresh out the fryer and still snapping a little? That. Plus two tacos on the side -- classic Jack tacos, always dependable -- and an ice-cold Coke to seal the deal. For Santa Monica prices, this felt like a real bargain. Hot, tasty, filling, and fast. The crew was cool and professional, and the food came out exactly how you want it -- fresh and dialed in. Sometimes you just want something satisfying without the whole production, and this place hit that SoCal comfort vibe perfectly. I'll definitely swing back through. --- read more

Jack in the Box - Fast Food Near Me - Santa Monica, California

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I ordered online, went to drive thru, they made me go around the block, returned waited for 2 cars in front, when I got food it was all cold, fries 2 burgers 2 tacos, over $16 waisted. read more

Slow and can't get a simple order correct every time I've gone. Place hasn't changed.

Extremely rude staff. They completely ignore customers and clearly don't want to communicate. When you ask how long the wait will be, they don't respond, ignore you, and literally wave you off. Very unprofessional and disrespectful. read more

I come here occasionally when I'm inside of Monica. They don't carry the original Jack in the Box formula anymore. You order a chicken teriyaki bowl and they give you some kind of Indian sauce on it. You ask for the teriyaki sauce that goes with it. We don't have it. You get a shake and the straws fall apart. They give you a wooden spoon. They're buying inferior products and representing it as Jack in the Box product. It's not the same. I have a complaint about this. The teriyaki bowl was lousy, not the same. No teriyaki sauce. No compliments and poor plastic straws. I give it a five thumbs down. On top of that lousy service, I had to go back for the straw that fell apart on me. read more

This place always gets my order wrong. I keep it simple. Always order plain meat cheese n bread. Today I ordered a chicken sandwich plain add cheese. Funny the burger had the custom order sticker. Burger came with everything on it. I love the location an convenience but customer service an food prep royalty sucks. I get dirty looks an employee's talk trash in Spanish. Lol they don't know this white boy is fluent. read more

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I've been traveling to this area every week for a month due to a weekly dr appt at UCLA. we have lunch there every time afterwards. Huge dissapointment when my grilled chicken club had no bacon, no cheese and no sauce. Just a sad thin dried out chicken breast with lettuce and too much tomato. Come on guys! Get it together! Know your job or go back to school to learn how to do something you can do! If that's possible. read more

Jack in the Box - Fast Food Near Me - Santa Monica, California

My breakfast Jack's had EGG SHELLS (Tuesday February 21, 2023 at approximately 12 noon) ...and/or maybe sand I'm not sure what went wrong but please don't take it out on the customers. I can tolerate an eye lash or particles of other condiments but EGG SHELLS make me physically sick. Yes crunching down on EGG SHELLS made me regurgitate everything in my system while I was driving. I'm still having flashbacks and this is why I'm reviewing this morning. WHOEVER DID THAT, IT WASN'T FUNNY. read more

The food was hard and cold as soon as I received it. The customer service from the gentleman at window was very nice. But, I was fearful to eat the cold hardened food as I might get sick so I threw it away. I was under the impression at Jack n the Box they don't prepare it until u arrive, but clearly this food had been sitting out waiting for purchase . Disappointing. read more

Horrible service, long wait for cold food. Overall bad experience. Very messy in side the store.

They are very nice. Got my food in 3 minutes. But 1 star down for egg shells in my sandwich, it's a common mistake, the sandwich felt crunchy when it shouldn't, but I didn't the actual eggshells, so either it is eggshells, or the eggs are a little burned, or something it shouldn't have been there. read more

Worst jack in the box, takes forever and the wait is horrible ! Food is okay but the wait for it is not okay they need to do better and provide better customer service! read more

Don't order from here! Order pick up found they gave me wrong item when I got home called the store no one answer. Called again next day he ask me to come back to get correct item. I live an hour away so I drive back to store 2days later talk to the same guy he said there is nothing he can do. read more

Staff working this morning till 3:00am was great. Worked fast and got my order perfect. Thank you

went there to go eat lunch had to use the restroom. I had to wait for the homeless and the smokers to come out of the restroom. They're in there getting high. Ask the manager can you ask them to come out? The manager was scared to ask the homeless smokers to leave the restroom. They were in there for over 30 minutes. read more

I ordered the Classic SAUCED AND LOADED Popcorn Chicken combo thinking it was gonna come as advertised with the sauce on it and when my order arrived it was just plain nuggets no sauce included not even in the bag :/ false advertisement, first time ordering so I didn't know it wouldn't come with the sauce... not sure if this was a mistake but I'm disappointed... they don't taste too bad but they dry asf read more

Tacos ! Tacos tacos ! Always a good staple when going through the drive thru late at night !

As I write this I am currently sitting on the toilet sh*tting my brains out. This place 100% gave me food poisoning. These guys need to tighten their sh*t up. The food was also cold when I received it. 0/10 food quality. read more

Wendy at the drive through was not wearing her mask over her nose. I will not be returning. read more

If you want to wait in the drive thru for your food for a long period of time and have no one explain why they are super slow head on over to this jack in the box. I should have checked yelp before coming. Too many 1 read more

Drive through took like 10 minutes and there was only 1 car in front of me( also it's New Year's Eve so the store was dead inside)

We stopped by here on the way home because the kids wanted chicken nuggets. It's a very wet night so we went to the drive through which was a little backed up. We ordered a 20 piece nuggets, a jr jack and some jalapeño poppers. The line seemed to be taking longer than expected. We finally get to the window, pay and get the order then drive away. We get home and the nuggets are no where to be found. We instead get an order of onion rings which we hate. We call the store right away and speak to the cashier who knew she made a mistake right away. We tell her the issue and we ask if they would credit us to come back another day to get it. The very rude cashier says that we must come right away to pick it up. We explain that it's pouring out and there is no way we would drive to jack at this time or take the kids out of the house. She puts us on hold to check in with her manager. She comes back and says her manager said we must back tonight. We ask to speak to him directly. His name sounded like "jello", he says the same thing. This is unacceptable as it was Jack in the Box's fault. He then says to come back and they would take care of us which I know is a lie as he didn't even bother to take down my name or info. Terrible service and they won't take responsibility for their mistake :/ read more

You have to be real stupid to work at a fast food and not know the difference between a sweet and sour package and syrup... just shut down this place read more

Outrageous: this place is guilty of discrimination against seniors. My father had ordered food here; he needed to use the restroom and was refused entry. I'm appalled at this location's lack of professionalism and downright discriminatory behavior. Will contact corporate. Before this is done, the management of this location will know my name. Reporting to state of CA if corporate does not take action. Horrible human beings. This is why I don't lose any sleep when fast food joints can't get people to staff them: when you are managed by bad people, you'll never keep good employees. You are an embarrassment to the community of Santa Monica and to the Jack in the Box brand - and to humanity. read more

I have been here several times, because it is close to my work. I drive through, because that is the way I roll. I have never ordered here without incident, it often goes something like this: *Hello, Welcome to Jack in the Box may I take your order? *JL* Yes, I would like a plain Jumbo Jack, a regular chocolate shake, regular coffee, slice of cheesecake, an order of jalapeno peppers and an order of cheese sticks (note order for two). *OK, so that's a plain jumbo Jack, chocolate cake, coff. . . *JL* Wait, that's a chocolate "shake" not a chocolate "cake" * OK, That will be $.$$. Drive forward please. Incredibly long wait. * Here is your Regular Coke. *JL* That, wasn't in the order. I ordered a Regular chocolate shake. a slice of cheesecake, a regular coffee, etc. but no Coke. *Ma'am, I didn't get the shake. *JL* That's fine but could we please get one? (one is made, concessions are made on my part since my mid-west accent sometimes does funky things to vowels, you can't blame people for that even if you want to) What you can blame them for is the chicken burger and cheese burger in our bag, and the missing plain Jumbo Jack. The fact I had to ask repeatedly for cream and sugar for the coffee and the fact that it was a drive through, but I spent about 20 minutes driving through. Incredible. Work on it, J in the B. read more

Gordon Ramsay has it wrong. The most important thing about a resturant is not a clean kitchen, great food with local produce, attentive staff e.t.c. The No1 thing restaurant should cover is having the people that take your order UNDERSTAND AND SPEAK BASIC ENGLISH. After today it's the last time I order from this dump, I'd rather drive the extra mile and go to santa monica where they do everything way more properly. As to the guy who said how other people wait 1 day to go complain, well imagine this:you order your 2 teriaki chicken bowls with extra chicken. You see the bowls in the bag. However upon returning home you realize they only put a normal quantity of chicken and they didn't even bother to cover it with sauce(see photos). What am I supposed to do, drive 5 miles at 12am to go tell them to fix it? read more

Jack in the Box - Teriyaki bowls with 'extra' chicken - Fast Food Near Me - Santa Monica, California

Ok, first time back here since I was nursing and coming here a lot, and may I say, Thanks to the Dodgers I saved cash, but...I immediately got sick, ick- Wow, but....Go Big Blue Dodgers!! (my personal advice, either wash your hands more or change ya dayuum gloves more often, staff. read more

Don't go here. The customer service is horrible. Worthless pieces of shit. Jack in the box should raise their bar for hiring workers. Otherwise risk losing valuable customers because I love their spicy chicken strips. Great food ruined by petty crappy staff. read more

I don't usually review fast food chains, you can assume they're all reliably 1 or 2 stars. But I also don't usually get violently ill off of a 99 cent menu. When people from LA tell you NOT to eat somewhere, listen to them. I wanted to try it out of a combination of drunkenness, masochism and respect for their adorable commercials. That was a mistake. On the other hand, if some night you're concerned you won't be able to vomit the liquor out of you, pick up a couple tacos here. Cheaper than ipecac. read more

i had a chicken sandwich it made me throw up luckily i didn't get food poisoning. tell your cooks to actually make sure the food is ready & fresh read more

Tbh I was not looking forward to going to this Jack In The Box because of the yelp score but was actually surprised with the not bad customer service and the decently fresh chicken sandwiches we ordered ! This place deserves 3 stars !! Well at least for the drive thru. Ps no wait at 2am on Sunday night!! read more

The employee taking my order was using vulgar language and didn't care if their were kids around and disrespectful to other employees

There app for deals n rewards SUCK ! Not 1 jack in the box on the West Side of L.A employee knows how to use it wtf I've tried all of them I'm logged in the app but won't let me order n I have many points for rewards but can't use them cause employee's don't know how the app works WTF ! Including Santa Monica... read more

I ordered the stacked bacon breakfast sandwich after reading about it and seeing promotional photos of it online. When I got home and opened it up - it did not look anything like the picture. It was very small, had two dried out, over cooked, flattened eggs on it, only a bit of bacon and practically no cheese . The bun was cold and completely dry. Besides the fact that the sandwich looked nothing like your promo picture it was also one of the most tasteless cardboard like things I ever eaten. In addition can not believe you have the audacity to charge 6 dollars for something so tiny it should be on a dollar menu. From your press photo I was expecting something large and full of cheese and bacon and soft eggs . A treat of something decadent and gooey and yummy. It was beyond disappointing in every way. read more

Jack in the Box - Fast Food Near Me - Santa Monica, California

Bad environment for eating. Homeless people swarming around. It's not like I've got any problem with them, but I'd like to eat my food while not watching them fight. Really filthy dirty place. Smells bad, dirty tables, messy beverage section & oily-greasy food. Men's restroom is out of order almost all the time (2 visits) Do I wanna go back, most likely no read more

Jack in the Box - Stuffed jalapeños - Fast Food Near Me - Santa Monica, California

EGG WHITE AND TURKEY BREAKFAST SANDWICH. ok, being that the buns touch, it sure doesn't look like the marketing pic. i wanted to try the new "healthier" breakfast option, but didn't remember much about it. when it came, i was disappointed it came on a hamburger bun. but that's an easy fix. under the hood, it had two ripe slices of tomato, egg whites, and a deli turkey slice. it tasted fine, nothing to write home about. with tomatoes, it was vaguely reminiscent of my favorite breakfast dish, EGGS FLORENTINE (to which i add CANADIAN BACON). very vaguely, lol. it's still kinda greasy, which is probably why it tasted ok. frankly, idk why anyone would order egg whites if they didn't have to for health reasons. i got some hot sauce for contrast. what it really needed was some salt, some pepper, and some sourdough bread. read more

Jack in the Box - under the hood of the Turkey and Egg Whites Breakfast Sandwich - Fast Food Near Me - Santa Monica, California

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Food is hot and staff is kind and friendly. I actually had excellent customer service when I drove off without my card. I came back later in the day and was greeted with my card safely secured and a free cake. Wow. 5 star read more

Came buy on Sunday with my kids they were quick to take my money but they block of restroom. Maybe you guys should be close as well.

Most incompetent employees I have come across yet hands down! Whether you are at the drive thru or ordering inside I can guarantee you that you will regret the thought of having a meal here. Avoid at all costs! You can thank me later. read more

Eat breakfast, lunches; and late night sometimes. Always delicious. Coming back for more tnext week!