# The Counter, Mountain View CA: Reviews

Source: Local AI Registry, https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/mountain-view/the-counter-mountain-view-ca. Free to reuse with a link back.

By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Updated 2026-10-26.

Canonical: https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/mountain-view/the-counter-mountain-view-ca

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## In short

The Counter is a burger restaurant in Mountain View, CA. Its AI Score is 61 of 100, which is fair.

What each mark on this page means: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#marks


## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Type | Burger restaurant |
| Address | 2580 W El Camino Real, Mountain View, CA 94040, USA |
| Hours | Mon to Thu 11:30 AM to 9 PM · Fri to Sat 11:30 AM to 10 PM · Sun 11:30 AM to 9 PM |
| Phone | (650) 850-5700 |
| Rating | 4.2 across 1,674 reviews on Google |
| Updated | October 26, 2026 |


## All the details

Every row is something the owner can add or correct. Each one is marked Confirmed, Visitor submitted or AI guess, with where it came from.

| Group | Fact | Value | Mark | Evidence |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Location info | Address | 2580 W El Camino Real, Mountain View, CA 94040, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Description | Contemporary chain with customizable gourmet burgers, including vegetarian, plus beer & wine. | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Hours | Mon to Thu 11:30 AM to 9:00 PM · Fri to Sat 11:30 AM to 10:00 PM · Sun 11:30 AM to 9:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Name | The Counter | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Phone | (650) 850-5700 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Monday | 11:30 AM to 9:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Tuesday | 11:30 AM to 9:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Wednesday | 11:30 AM to 9:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Thursday | 11:30 AM to 9:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Friday | 11:30 AM to 10:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Saturday | 11:30 AM to 10:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Sunday | 11:30 AM to 9:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Services | Service | Beer | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Customizable gourmet burgers | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Vegetarian burgers | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Wine | AI guess |  |
| Links | Facebook | https://facebook.com/thecounter | AI guess | Our record |
| Links | Instagram | https://instagram.com/thecounterburger | AI guess | Our record |
| Links | Website | https://www.thecounter.com/stores/mountain-view/32033 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |


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## Visiting The Counter

Address: 2580 W El Camino Real, Mountain View, CA 94040, USA. Phone: (650) 850-5700. Hours: Mon to Thu 11:30 AM to 9 PM · Fri to Sat 11:30 AM to 10 PM · Sun 11:30 AM to 9 PM. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile.)


### Location info from Google Business Profile

From Google Business Profile: "Contemporary chain with customizable gourmet burgers, including vegetarian, plus beer & wine."


### Parking and getting in

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### Nearby

| Place | Type | Distance |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SAJJ Mediterranean | Mediterranean restaurant | 1 min walk |
| Lady M Cake Boutique - Los Altos | Cake shop | 2 min walk |
| El Camino & San Antonio | Bus station | 2 min walk |
| Boba Bliss | Tea house | 2 min walk |
| Starbucks Coffee Company | Coffee shop | 2 min walk |
| It's Just Wings | Chicken wings restaurant | 2 min walk |


## Reputation

4.2 average across 1,674 reviews: Google 1,674. (Confirmed, read October 26, 2026.)

This burger restaurant is known for its customization options but struggles with service consistency and food quality. (AI guess, from 1,674 reviews.)


### What people like

- Ability to customize burgers
- Veggie sprout burger
- Sweet potato fries


### What people do not like

- Long waits for food
- Burgers served incorrectly
- Staff inattentive or unresponsive


### Press

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## Questions people ask


### quietest day to hit this place?


### last update from here was when?


### trying to book here, how long is the wait?


### what else is on El Camino around The Counter?


### rough idea what The Counter costs?


### people keep recommending The Counter, what for?


### opening hours here, what are they these days?


### Booking at The Counter in Mountain View, how does it work?


### anything people actually moan about here?


### where exactly is this place?


### best burger restaurant in Mountain View, CA


### walking in for a first visit, what happens


### weekends at The Counter, are they open?


### torn between The Counter and Shake Shack for Customizable burgers with diverse toppings?


### points or member pricing at The Counter, worth signing up?


### same day tables, does that ever happen here


### Why do people rate The Counter?


### how much is a first visit around here


### going here on Saturday, what should I expect


### regulars here, who do you book with?


## The AI Score: 61 of 100

It measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. Mountain View burger restaurants run 24 to 61. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. The Counter scores 61. The same method scores every business on the registry.

| Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | The Counter |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Retrieval grounding | 26 | 50 | Whether you appear in the ranked results AI retrieves and cites: AI-Overview citations, organic top-10 for your money queries, and the Bing index ChatGPT leans on. | Fair |
| Off-property attestation | 20 | 40 | Volume and consistency of what others say about you: YouTube mentions, branded web mentions, third-party “best-of” lists. The cause of retrievability. | Poor |
| AI visibility | 14 | 100 | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. | Good |
| Reviews & response | 12 | 77 | The star average is only one input. We also read volume, velocity, the specificity of review language, and response cadence. Specific reviews are what AI quotes verbatim. | Good |
| Backlink & citation authority | 8 | 67 | Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you. | Good |
| Google Business Profile | 8 | 90 | Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first. | Good |
| Speed & mobile | 7 | 56 | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. | Fair |
| Content freshness & schema | 5 | 77 | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. | Good |

Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology

How AI decides what to say about a burger restaurant: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-ai-decides-local-business. What to check before you choose one: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-to-choose-local-business


## Entity map

Every person, place, organization and treatment named on this page, with a stable ID and a public reference. The JSON-LD below connects them to each other.

| Entity | Type | ID on this page | Same as | Relationship to The Counter |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| The Counter | LocalBusiness | #business | https://www.thecounter.com/stores/mountain-view/32033 | Subject of this page |
| Mountain View, California | City | #city |  | City The Counter is in |
| Local AI Registry | Organization | #publisher | https://localairegistry.com | Publisher of this page |
| Steve Lee | Person | #author | https://localairegistry.com/team/steve-lee | Author of this page |


## Topical map

Where this page sits in the registry. It's one profile among the burger restaurants in Mountain View, linked to the lists and towns around it.


### Lists

- Best burger restaurants in Mountain View: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/mountain-view/burger-restaurant
- Best businesses in Mountain View: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/mountain-view


### Nearby

- /san-jose: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-jose
- /los-angeles: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/los-angeles
- /san-francisco: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-francisco
- /san-diego: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-diego
- /irvine: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/irvine
- /santa-clara: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/santa-clara


### Every list

- Every leaderboard in California: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca


## References


### Sources cited

- [1] Google Business Profile, https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJyS7o4Zuwj4ARon29W1GsXJo (accessed Oct 26, 2026)
- [2] AI engine output: ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Oct 26, 2026, https://localairegistry.com/methodology (accessed Oct 26, 2026)