Chadders, the wannabe In N' Out!

Monday night was so much fun. We all (the family) got together at the Oswalds house and had dinner because Robert and Laura were in town with their children. They are so CUTE. I got off work at 6 so we were going to be a little late anyways, but then Davey called and asked if we could pick him up at BYU, and then we had to go get Kate, Penny, and Tanner. We got on the freeway at about 6:30 and the freeway was FREAKING PACKED. So we got off the freeway and took Geneva, then state. We were about there and then we saw a fast food joint called Chadders it looked just like in n' out. Seriously, we went to the Oswalds and had such a good time. Jason had to do some studying so he was studying most of the time, although he did socialize for a bit of the time. When we were finished with family shindig, we decided to stop by the new restaurant called Chadders. It was almost exactly like In n' out.


Apparently they did something about it on KSL, so here is what they had to say about it...



Customers Forming Long Lines at New Restaurant
May 29th, 2007 @ 9:43pm

Alex Cabrero Reporting

A brand new fast-food restaurant in American Fork is getting a lot of attention. At times, the drive-through line is 20 cars long. Some new restaurants wait years to pack people in. Chadders, in American Fork, waited a week.

Jared Dalton, an American Fork resident, said, "I like it. I think it's really good and I like the French fries and stuff."

Linda Wandvik says, "I think it's just the fresh food and the quickness of it, and the customer service is really good."

They're all things a brand new restaurant would love to hear, but Chadders is a fast food joint, selling only burgers, fries, shakes and drinks.

So how could a fast food hamburger place, which didn't even advertise, be so packed, it draws people in who just want to see why it's so packed?

The attraction is in the building, the menu, the colors, even the food; it's all very similar to those who've been to Las Vegas, Arizona or California.

"Actually, I'm from California, and it reminds me of In-n-Out Burger. I always loved In-n-Out Burger, so as soon as they opened up, we had to come and try it," Linda Wandvik says.

Maurine Henry said, "To me it seems like a wannabe In-n-Out, but I don't know."

Darren Vandecar said, "They have a menu very similar to In-n-Out Burger's, so I think the fact they're so busy must be that people see it as a similar experience to In-n-Out Burger."

Just whatever you do, don't call this Chadders restaurant an In-n-Out Burger franchise. People here say it's very similar. Management wouldn't go on camera with us, but they say they have nothing to do with the popular hamburger chain. However, rumor around town is that the guy who runs this place, used to have something to do with In-n-Out Burger.

Even if it's not exactly the same, people who love In-n-Out Burgers are just fine going in and out of Chadders.

We spoke with an In-n-Out burger representative in California. She told us her company does not have any franchises in Utah.



I honestly think that this is a wannabe and it bothers me that they deny it being a wannabe, but it's still pretty good. I do recommend it.

Money Money Money, Lots of Money, it's a rich man's world.

Life has been a little bit more busy than normal. I have been looking for a job ever since we got here from Montana. I feel like I am a burden if I don't earn any money and use all of Jason's stipends for our needs. So I have been looking for something part time that pays decent. About a week ago cousin Davey called Jason and told him about a job I should apply for. Davey's bishop is a neurologist and works in a clinic right next to the Utah Valley Hospital and he needed a secretary. I sent Davey my resume through email and Davey sent it to his bishop and two days later I got a call from the manager of the office asking me to come in for an interview. I went in on Friday, it was really weird, they had me come in an hour early to fill out a questionare about myslef, it was like an interview on paper, and then I had the real interview. It only took 10 minutes and the woman said they didn't usually hire people on the spot but I came highly recommended by Davey's bishop, (whom I have never met). So I now have a job and I start on Monday! The hours are from 1-6 (I think it's Monday-Friday) and I don't work on any national holiday!!!!! On top of that, New Years Eve and Christmas Eve are HALF DAYS!!! I am pretty excited about that because at the Brick Oven I had to work almost every holiday except for Christmas and any holiday that lands on a Sunday. So I am very excited.

WalMart Jesus

I'm sure you've all seen the Christus statues at deseret book for about 300 dollars, if you haven't here is a link. http://deseretbook.com/store/search?search=christus&x=0&y=0 Well, we were at Walmart grocery shopping (our first time grocery shopping for A LOT of food.) Jason disappeared for a few minutes and then showed up with two boxes. One had a picture of the Salt Lake Temple, and the second had a picture of the Christus. They were each only 15 dollars so we got them. Some of Jasons old roommates came over to watch a movie one night and they saw our christus statue and Jason told them we got it at walmart. It looked like they didn't believe him for a little while. Ever since we got that statue, every time we go to walmart Jason insists we go over to where he found it and see if there is another one, and each time we see that there isn't one there he swears that we got the last one ever!!! Anyways... Here is a picture of our "last Christus EVER!!!" from walmart for only 15 dollars.

Updated "How Clean is Your House"

I have been online for days looking for seasons of "How Clean is Your House" to buy. I couldn't find it anywhere. It was ridiculous. I found some books with the same title, by one of the women in the show but nothing about seasons of the show. Jason even looked for me. They don't even sell seasons of it in the UK! I was outraged! Jason finally found a way for me to watch it down here. YOUTUBE!!! I had forgotten how amazing that thing is! You go to youtube.com and search for "how clean is your house" the person who put them on youtube has each episode split into three segments, so you have to make sure you are watching the same episode, usually they have the title of the episode and then 1,2, or 3 to tell you what part of the episode you are watching. So if anyone wants to check it out... There you go. Just remember it's pretty gross sometimes, but it's soooo good.

New Apartment

I has been a little while since I have been constant in my posting, so I am going to try harder. We have our apartment set up... It's kind of messy right now, Jason is unpacking a box that we stuffed in the closet because we didn't want to do anything with it until now, and I am scrapbooking... Oh, and we are watching stuff about college football on the mtn.

When we first walked in the dishwasher was in the living room, the fridge was pulled out, and the oven was outside! We were like, "are you sure this is supposed to be it?" So we went back to the office and the woman said that they were putting in new carpet and linolium in the kitchen and they should be done in a few hours. Since we decided to move in a day early we were ok that everything wasn't put together yet, we were still waiting on all of our things Jason's parents were going to bring down from Montana. We went and ran a few errands and then came back and everything was back together but the carpet had little bits of carpet pieces all over, and we decided to clean it up to our liking. We had been cleaning for about half an hour (maybe less, maybe more) and we heard a key in the lock and then someone tried to open the door (we had the door already unlocked so he had just locked it) he tried it again, walked in, saw us and was like, "They said you weren't moving in until tomorrow." He introduced himself as the repairman and he had a really neat accent (we think it was russian or something like it.) We told him it was fine and he was just going to fix a few things, so we cleaned while he fixed things, then we all left. Jason and I came back the next day and finished cleaning until his parents came with our stuff, then we unpacked. We literally just took the things out of the trailer and put them in our living room. We set up our bed and tv and then we all went out to eat, (My mom, Janna, Kate, Penny, Jason, Me, Denny, and Rita.) We went to Sizzler and I didn't think I would like it, but it was pretty good. By the time we finished eating It was about 10:00 PM so we went home to put things away. Cousin Davey came over and put our vacuum together and chatted for a while. He left and we went to sleep.

We realized our couches were hideous!!! I'm not joking, a checkered blue, green, and white. We just didn't like them. We went to a few different stores looking for couch covers and they were $80.00 + it was ridiculous, we decided to look at wal mart and if they didn't have any then I would just have to make them myself. We found one for $20.00 but the color didn't match anything in the room, so we pulled it out to see what it looked like, and it was just a blanket!!! We thought it was a waste of money so we put it back and bought 1 dollar a yard fabric and I made couch covers. I even made some pillows to match.

We unpacked all of our kitchen appliances and dishes and put them in the cupboards and realized that there wasn't going to be any room for any food in the cupboards. We had to be creative and get one of those plastic drawers (kind of like a rubbermaid dresser) and we put the food in that. Anyways... This is what the couch looked like before, you can also see things being set up. Here are some more pictures...



The quality of this picture isn't the best but it's kind of a look at our couches, with the covers.

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