The Lakewood Jack in the Box reopened Nov. 21, 2025 after months of construction. Photo by Madelyn Edwards.
Stuffed jalapeños lovers, rejoice! The Lakewood Jack in the Box on Gaston Avenue is newly renovated and open again.
The opening is going on today (Friday, Nov. 21) until 1 p.m. and then again from 5-9 p.m. To celebrate this occasion, you can win prizes and buy your burgers, fries and tacos at “throwback prices,” or what the menu prices would have been when the Jack in the Box opened in our neighborhood in the late 1960s:
- BØNUSBURGER for 49 cents
- Jumbo Jack for 59 cents (10 cents more with cheese)
- French fries or curly fries for 35 cents
- Two tacos for 29 cents
- Chicken nuggets for 29 cents
- Jack’s Spicy Chicken Sandwich for 79 cents
- Onion rings for 39 cents
- Shakes, cheesecake and churros for 29 cents each
- Rootbeer, orange soda and Coke for 15 cents, 20 cents or 30 cents depending on size
- Coffee for 19 cents (10 cents more for iced coffee)
Each customers is limited to buying three items, so choose wisely.
Prizes you can win at Jack in the Box’s grand reopening Nov. 21. Photo by Madelyn Edwards.
After hearing about the opening on Facebook, neighbor Bill Robbins rode his bike to the Jack in the Box and snagged some of the highly discounted food.
“What a deal, huh?” Robbins said. “Cheeseburger, fries and shake for a buck 44 ($1.44).”
That order usually costs over $10 for the regular size.
Robbins wasn’t the only person to show up for Jack in the Box’s reopening.
“This morning, the line was all the way down the street when we opened,” owner Chris Aslam said.
In addition to the throwback prices, the Lakewood Jack in the Box opening also had the old clown-head ordering box in the drive-through.
The Lakewood Jack in the Box’s reopening included this throwback drive-through ordering box. Photo by Madelyn Edwards.
“This store has a lot of history,” Aslam said. “It was actually Norman Brinker from Brinker International, the one behind all the major full-service brands; This was his last project that he was working on. As he was doing this, he started the restaurant Steak and Ale.”
He continued, “We’ve had so many customers just tell us amazing stories of what this Jack meant to them as children and kids and such. So it was really heartwarming to hear the emotional connection people have to this.”
Our Jack in the Box was almost completely torn down over the summer, though Aslam still calls it a remodel because the foundation and some of the previous building carried over into this new iteration.
Inside the newly remodeled Jack in the Box in Lakewood. Photo by Madelyn Edwards.
“This store being as old as it is from the ’60s, it really needed to be remodeled,” he said. “And this was a lot of fun doing this project, and the community has been so amazing here.”
