Hopdoddy has stores throughout Texas and in Arizona, Colorado, and California. The hybrid system is expected to increase the $16 per-person check average at Hopdoddy since it makes add-ons easy.
HOP DODDY FULL
“Now you pay your server before you leave, like full service.” “It’s more hospitable than having guests pay and then having to open another check for them to get a second drink or a shake,” Villavaso says. The check is kept open at the table and is paid at the end of the entire dining experience. Then a server brings their food to the table, refreshes drinks, keeps the table clean, and brings requested condiments. Hopdoddy has been developing a hybrid service system where guests wait in line and order at the counter, but keep their ticket open rather than pay at the register. Our service line is geared around a 10-minute ticket time.”
HOP DODDY HOW TO
“A tremendous amount of training goes on to teach how to time things so everything is going out hot. “It’s a scratch kitchen,” Villavaso says. The potatoes for the fries are blanched each morning and cut in-house, and all sauces and dressings are made in-house as well. Every burger is ground fresh to order and all buns are baked from scratch on site. Only antibiotic- and hormone-free meat is used. For those of age, alcohol can be added.īesides a full bar in every location, Villavaso says, what differentiates Hopdoddy from other burger concepts is the quality. With choices ranging from the $5 Vanilla Bean to the $6 Red Velvet, Chocolate Stout, and Nutella & Chocolate Pretzel, guests order a lot of shakes both before meals and for dessert. There is one part of the menu well suited to kids and kids at heart, and that’s the list of handcrafted shakes. Sides include truffle fries, chili con queso, and quinoa.
HOP DODDY PLUS
In addition to beef, there are turkey, chicken, lamb, bison, tuna, and black bean burgers on the Hopdoddy menu, plus three salads: Caesar, spinach and arugula, and baby kale. Even more adventurous is the K-Town Belly, a $12 grass-fed beef burger topped with pork belly, kimchi, house-made gochujang sauce, Korean rice crispies, mayo, and basil leaves.Īll burgers are available on the guest’s choice of an egg (challah), whole-wheat, or gluten-free bun. Popular burgers include the $8.25 El Diablo, which is an Angus beef patty topped with Pepper Jack cheese, caramelized onions, Habanero and Serrano chilies, salsa, and chipotle mayo. While the $7 Classic Burger-Angus beef, red leaf lettuce, white onion, and beefsteak tomato topped with Hopdoddy’s signature “Sassy Sauce”-is the bestseller along with the Kennebec fries, other menu offerings are more This combination of beer and beef has garnered a lot of attention in six years, being named one of the “Best Burgers in America” by both Food & Wine and Every Day with Rachael Ray.Īlong with the beverages, tastes and prices at Hopdoddy are geared more toward grownups than the kids’ meal crowd. The name Hopdoddy is a combination of hops, a key ingredient in beer making, and “doddy,” a Scottish nickname for cows. They wanted it to be a social experience where guests could wait in the line with a locally crafted beer or frozen margarita in hand as their burger is created in front of them. Villavaso and his longtime business partner in several full-service restaurant brands, Larry Foles, created the concept with Austin restaurateurs Larry Perdido and Chuck Smith. “But 80 percent of tables have barstools, and not a lot of burger places can say alcohol is 17 percent of sales.” “That’s not to say we don’t cater to families with children,” he says. Guy Villavaso, founding partner of Hopdoddy Burger Bar, calls the growing Fast Casual 2.0 “an adult place to get a burger.”
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