I stumbled onto Val's Rapid Service when I drove the Jefferson Highway in 2018. That happened to be during one of the restaurant's busiest periods and I was fascinated by how it earned the "rapid" with kiosks for ordering and assembly line style preparation and delivery. It wasn't nearly as busy today and I expected to zoom right through ordering my meal now that I was experienced. I zoomed right up until payment time when I could not get beyond the "Pay Now" button. No problem. I simply paid at the window when I picked up my order. When I did, I mumbled something about my lack of success paying at the kiosk and was told, "Yeah, that doesn't work."

I did not order fries back in 2018, but I did today, and found out they are very good. I've heard the Five Guys always tosses "extra" fries in each bag. I've a hunch that Val's has been doing it longer, and I'm pretty sure they are doing it better.

This trip differs from most of my route following outings in tracking the current rather than historic path of a route. Not only did that make this trip short enough to be feasible, it made sense to me since the entire outing was based on a ferry that was very much not part of the original US-10.