Ritzee Hamburgers

Reviews

• Dan B.

  star star star star star_border 1 November 2026

  The fries are amazing!!! The burgers and the milkshakes are great too.   Great diner food and at a really great price.

• Tristan H.

  star star star star_border star_border 27 October 2026

  Ritzee's is a block west of the Urbandale Speed's, it's closest competitor in the area.  Unlike Speed's, Ritzee's is counter service.  Once you order and pay at the counter, you find a table or booth and someone brings the prepared food from the kitchen.  The more complicated the order, the longer it takes.  We generally get a couple of 1/2 lb. cheeseburgers (Ritzburgers) and fries and that takes 5 - 10 minutes.  
  
  The decor is strictly 1970's with a lot of photographic memorabilia about Battle Creek.  The booth we typically pick still has the remnants of a "No Smoking" label on the table (dating back to those fond days when dining rooms were divided between those that were compelled to smoke during a meal and those that didn't or wouldn't).
  
  It's classic diner food that is satisfying because it is hot and filling rather than imaginative or flavorful.  The protein in the burgers is not seasoned (which we consider an idiotic practice, considering how many different seasoning mixes are available.  We put together a seasoning mix whch we store in our shelves at home for when we make burgers.  It's made of things readily available - so, sorry, no star anise - and it makes the burgers much more flavorful.  It's one of the reasons we WILL drive to Back to the 50's in South Haven because the owner's seasoning of his protein is spot on).  The fries are traditional krinkle fries without seasoning.  Milk shakes are ice cream blended with milk so only a moron could mess up that recipe.  The food is okay, nothing more.  Going to Ritzee's is a matter of convenience rather than a spot I will drive to.  I will say that prices are very, very reasonable.  
  
  Service is generally good.  Because of the order we prefer, we are advised at least once, if not twice, that it'll take so many minutes for our order to come up.  And that's fine.  We don't come to Ritzee's in a rush to eat.  
  
  So, of course, I don't understand who would go to Ritzee's using the drive through.  Just because a restaurant has a drive through doesn't mean the restaurant is equipped to use it appropriately.  Ritzee's is like fast food much like Panera's is like fast food.  The punch line is:  They really aren't.  As with any Panera, I'd go in, order, pay, grab a chair, and wait for my take out order to be picked up.  I would never expect Ritzee's to churn out an order as fast as a McDonald's.

• Aaron G.

  star star star star star_border 17 October 2026

  Ritzee was our go-to fast food growing up in Battle Creek.  While visiting town my parents and I went to the last remaining location (the other two closed a decade or two ago) so the nostalgia likely influences my rating.  We went for lunch on a Tuesday, you order at the counter and grab a booth and they bring food out.  The inside of this location has not changed much in 30 years.  Ritzee has a wide range of burgers, chili dogs, sandwiches and a lot of other stuff I did not remember.  I ordered a chili dog, Oliver burger and fries.  My mom got a BLT and my dad ordered the chicken sandwich.  The food came out in less than ten minutes.  The chili dog was every thing I recalled, the chili sauce was rich and savory, the bun held up to the dog/sauce and flavor was great.  The olive burger was just OK (there used to be better ones in BC), now the crinkle cut fries were outstanding as always.  I will not be back in BC as often now that my parents have left but I do hope this place keeps going and that life grants me a few more visits for a chili dog fix!

• Lisa G.

  star star star star_border star_border 12 October 2026

  Pretty standard burger, with a really cool retro twist.  I love the pink neon, the huge larger than life sign that tells us who they are.  I have never gone in this place, for fast food I typically opt for drive through, but maybe we should try going in next time because the complaints that people have about the long waits are true.  They were nice enough, but when you use a drive through, you hope for some speed.  The burgers are good, no frills, the chicken strips for my son were decent.  The fries were pretty good as well, very well seasoned which isn't always the case.  So I want to love this place, but in all I can only fall in like with them.

• Jennifer L.

  star star_border star_border star_border star_border 8 October 2026

  Worst service ever !!!! And I go there weekly well up until today I did the new girl at the drive through is rude and looks like she hates life