Bensons Eats & Treats, Athens TX

Great Food, Great prices and service! Exactly what you would hope for from a hometown business and restaurant which has been serving the community for decades… HIGHLY RECOMMEND BENSONS!

Great experience! Friendly staff. I don't give 5 stars, as that leaves no room for improvement.

My husband, four of our grandchildren, a visiting friend, and I ate at Bensons Eats and Treats, during the Old Fiddlers Reunion. The burgers, chicken strips, fries, gravy, toast, and ice cream were excellent! Service was exceptional! The chicken strip basket is highly recommended!

Went to drive thru placed order then drove to pick-up window. They brought food out back door and gave it to someone else. When I asked where my food was told gave it to a black car I was in a white car. They never did come to the window. Worst service ever. Food was not that great once I did get it. Chicken strip basket and a barbecue sandwich which appeared to be from a can.

Whataburger is WAY better than this place. Everytime I order here, they give you the wrong order, tell you to drive behind the building then forget you exist, and half the time their machines are broken.

Terrible food and even worse the tables are never I’ve ate here since I was a child and the food never gets any better

Friendly staff, clean, quiet and peaceful atmosphere, variety of desert the front counter personnel was very nice and knowledgeable of the menu and prices no matter what time of day or night I go in the staff is always nice and I notice communication between the front counter and cooks which is a very good thing the lady and man cooking was communication very well also I would highly recommend eating at BENSON'S EATS AND TREATS

HIGHLY RECOMMEND!

Full disclosure, I met the owner of this place at church but I set that aside to be able to be objective about this place, so here goes.

Bensons is freaking amazingly good! I had a chicken sandwich with a cherry shake and my wife had a burger with a strawberry shake and we were definitely impressed!

The staff was outstanding and they had no idea we knew the owner from church (she wasn't there that day) and their friendly welcoming demeanor was the same no matter who walked in the door!

My shake had real cherries in it, none of that almost cough syrup flavor you sometimes get and my wife's shake was amazing as well! The food was fresh and amazing as well, I have a video of the steam still coming off my sandwich and the curly fries are awesome!

Now the critiques:

When you go (and you for SURE want to go) be careful about parking in the spaces directly in front of the building, traffic can get a bit crazy.

And that's really the only critique we had and that's nothing!

Overall, Benson's is the epitome of that hole in the wall hidden gem just waiting to be discovered. So go discover it! You won't regret it and we will for sure be back!

The food is about average, and hasn't changed much since it was a Dairy Queen. The service is the same, not terrible but not quite exceptional. The atmosphere of the place, however, is depressing. Nobody smiles, and looking outside on a vacant lot which used to hold a play area for kids is a bit like looking at a copy of your favorite movie on VHS cassette: empty and useless.

We stopped in last night. The staff was so friendly and they were young. We ordered our food. And the y have a drive thru that's needs were being taken care of. I will say there was a little wait on food but we ordered Fried stuff. When they brought it out to the table it looked BEAUTIFUL, Every item was fresh and HOT, and it was delicious, WELL WORTH waiting a little on. The Owner "Buffy" came over to the table and greeted us and was extremely nice! Was great being treated warmly. The food menu looks like Diary Queens but the taste and quality and Size far exceeds any dairy queen I've ever been too. Love this place and all who work there! Thank yall.
Cindy - December 30,2022

If you're in Athens Texas drive on by this establishment. Terrible place, poorly ran. When you leave a comment on their Facebook page about how they conduct business, they don't address it, they just delete it. They let employees off the clock stroll in and make drinks and touch everything without even washing their hands. Rude employees acting like children act inconvenienced by you trying to order food. Expect a long wait for mediocre food by fast food standards if you're not ran off by how they don't practice proper food handling. Mr Benson that ran DQ in Athens for many years would be embarrassed of how they are disgracing his name. Zero stars.

If you want fast food that isn't a nationally branded company with an authentic 90s/early 2000s aesthetic. Benson's fits the description!

The moment you see the menu, yes. It looks that a copy and paste from another fast food joint. Maybe even the burgers as well, but I recommend the hornets hot burger. Definitely athens authenticity. Loved the staff there, made me feel like I was living a rerun of the good burgers movie

All and all, great prices for meals and shakes, reasonably paced service, worth the wait! Planning to comeback again soon!

Imagine the dairy queen menu. But cheaper and tastes better.

Got a dipped cone and cheeseburger with tots and tea. Chocolate actually tasted like chocolate! Fast, friendly, and cheap. I'll be back for sure.

I’ve been 3 times and the first time everything was amazing, the second time they forgot my fries but the food itself was still pretty good. This third time they knowingly gave me a bad milkshake. As the manager and two other workers tasted the icecream, discussed it tasting weird and determined to still make my shake but not make anymore. The shake was sour tasting. Disappointed with the inconsistency since the first time it was so good.

The food was fresh and delicious. I'm definitely coming here the next time I'm in town and hungry for a burger.

I am in love with the Hornet Stinger burger here and stop almost every week after the farmers market to get one on my way home. If you have not tried it you are missing out! Best burger I have ever tasted. Of course the addition of an Avalanche is usually a needed bonus as well.

The food is amazing! We got 3 meals and 2 large desserts for under $50 too. Ask for the extended menu and the list goes on! Better than any commercial fast food restaurant which you can tell just by the taste that more thought and customization goes into the food that is made. I can’t even explain it… you HAVE to go for yourself to understand!

Was great service. One of the best single meat, regular hamburger combos that was really worth the money, that I have seen in a while.
Food was fresh, hot, off the grill.

One of the best places for hamburgers and chicken strips in Athens, Texas. Hamburgers taste homemade and the fries are excellent. Chicken strips come with a side of country gravy, which in my mind is the only way to eat them properly.