On any given night there is one burger. Not a menu of eight, not a build-your-own board – a single burger that changes week to week, plus a style of sauced fries and a shake. That is the thing most people get wrong about the Mr Gees burger truck (the Haberfield operation also written “Mister Gee” and “Mister Gee’s”): they show up expecting to browse, and there is nothing to browse. You order what is running that night. The whole appeal is the opposite of a fixed menu, and once that clicks, the rest of the experience – the line, the car wash, the price – makes sense.
Below is the short version, then the detail that actually changes your night.
Quick answer: The Mr Gees burger truck is a single-item rotating operation parked inside a working car wash at 315 Parramatta Road, Haberfield. One burger runs per week, alongside “Dirty Fries” and a milkshake. Snapshot prices put single-patty burgers around $10, with specials like the Cheese Boogie at $12 and the OG Truffle at $13; an off-menu extra patty has run $3. Historical hours cluster around Thursday to Saturday evenings from 6pm. Because it is mobile and has operated at more than one site, confirm the live location and schedule on the truck’s own social media before you leave.
What “One Burger a Night” Means When You Walk Up
The menu is three things. A Broadsheet review describes it plainly: “one burger, a style of sauced chips… a milkshake… and a few soft-drink cans,” with the burger changing weekly and the fries and shake changing less often. Time Out Sydney frames the same model – “a burger, blinged’up-fries and a shake, the styles of which change every week.” You do not pick from a wall of options. You get what is on that week.
That matters for how you plan a visit. If you drove out specifically for the truffle burger, it may not be running – Broadsheet notes it “returns to the menu every few weeks,” not every night. The AU Review makes the same point about the Buttersoft special and directs readers to the truck’s social media for a current read on what is on. So the practical move is: decide you want a Mr Gees burger, not a specific one, unless you have confirmed the week’s special first.
The fries carry a name, too – listed as “Dirty Fries,” cut thin and topped with a special sauce, a little cheese, and a chopped-tomato-and-spring-onion salsa, per Time Out. The shake rotates through flavors like Red Skins.
Where It Is: 315 Parramatta Road, and Why the Car Wash Is Not a Gimmick
The truck parks in the middle of a working car wash on Parramatta Road in Haberfield – address 315 Parramatta Road, corroborated across Broadsheet, The AU Review, and the Newsworthy round-up from UNSW journalism. Broadsheet dates the Haberfield site to May 2015, after an earlier car-wash spot in Burwood.
The car wash is not set dressing. It is the seating. Broadsheet describes patrons on milk crates and a few stainless-steel tables that are “layover furniture for daytime carwash customers.” A Wanderlog visitor note adds the practical upside: you can actually get your car washed while you wait, since the truck sits on an operating car-wash lot. If the line is long, that is a real way to use the time.
One more thing within 20 meters: Newsworthy reports a second truck, Sakura on Wheelz, parked just 20 m from the Mr Gees van in Haberfield, running a Japanese-fusion burger menu. If the week’s Mr Gees burger is not what you came for, there is a backup a few steps away.
Hours: Three Sources, Three Slightly Different Answers
This is where you have to be careful, because the published hours do not agree – and they come from different years and possibly different sites, so none of them is wrong exactly, they are just snapshots.
- Broadsheet lists Wed to Sat, 6pm – 10pm.
- Time Out Sydney has it opening around 6.30pm and popping up every Thursday, Friday and Saturday (no closing time given).
- Newsworthy lists Thurs – Sat 6pm – 10pm, Sun 6pm – 9pm.
The honest resolution: treat all three as historical and do not bank on any single one. The AU Review’s instruction settles it – “keep an eye out on their social media for a more up-to-date expression of their menu,” and Time Out says the same for location. The truck’s own Facebook (facebook.com/MisterGeeBurgerTruck) and Instagram (@mistergeeburgertruck) are the live source for both the schedule and where the van actually is on a given night.
Prices: Snapshots From Different Years, Not a Current Price List
Prices for the Mr Gees burger truck exist only as time-stamped snapshots, and they are not directly comparable – different burgers, different years. Here is what each source caught:
- Time Out (an earlier snapshot): single-patty burgers “normally around $10,” with an off-menu extra patty at $3 – which, for doubling the beef, is the detail most people miss because it is not printed on the board.
- Newsworthy (a later snapshot): the OG Truffle Burger at $13 and the Cheese Boogie Burger at $12.
Do not average these into a single number – they are different items observed at different times. The useful takeaways are two: expect a single burger to land in roughly the $10 to $13 band historically, and if you want more meat, the $3 extra patty is the cheapest upgrade on offer.
The Mr Gees Burger Truck Lineup: Truffle, Buttersoft, Cheese Boogie
Since there is no standing menu, here is how the recurring specials actually read – in prose, because quantities and build steps change with each week’s version. For a full write-up of any one of them, the source is named at the end of each description.
The Truffle Burger (signature). The one that built the queue. Broadsheet describes a thick beef patty on caramelized onion, with rocket, truffle-oil-spiked mayonnaise, pepper, and melted cheese on a light brioche bun. Full description: Broadsheet’s review.
The Buttersoft (seasonal). A heavier, sweeter build – The AU Review lists a grass-fed beef patty, double American cheese, tomato, onion, bacon jam, peanut butter caramel, and a special sauce. The peanut-butter-caramel-against-bacon-jam move is the whole character of it; it is not a burger you order expecting restraint. Full description: The AU Review.
The Cheese Boogie and OG Truffle. Both captured in the Newsworthy round-up as part of a short five-burger rotation, each built around its own sauce. Full description: Newsworthy.
Broadsheet also catalogs ingredients that have cycled through other weeks – Korean mayonnaise, miso-glazed bacon, grated Granny Smith apple, bacon jam. A note on the truffle burger: some aggregated listings mention Havarti cheese, but the primary review says only “melted cheese,” so treat the specific cheese as unconfirmed unless the truck’s own post says otherwise.
A one-item-a-night rotation is a model other concepts borrow when they want a tight line and low prep; the economics of running a narrow format read differently once you compare it to a full taco or dessert build in our cuisine section. See also our soft serve ice cream truck guide and the mobile coffee truck guide.
How Long You Actually Wait – and Why the Answers Split
Wait time is the most contested part of the experience, and the sources genuinely describe different conditions, so here is how to read them rather than pick one.
Time Out reports that the line “moves fast” and that once you order, you “barely wait five minutes” before you are seated – crediting well-organized staff. Newsworthy sets a floor on cook time: “be prepared to wait more than 10 minutes while the chefs freshly make your meal, you can’t rush art.” A Wanderlog visitor review describes a far worse night – 40 min of waiting, then “another 10-15min” after a lost order, totaling “just under an hour.”
The resolution: the five-minute figure is post-order, the 10-minute figure is the cook, and the hour-long account was a service failure, not the norm. Plan for a real queue plus a cooked-to-order wait, and go in expecting the 10-minutes-plus number rather than the best case. This is a made-to-order truck, not a warming line – the time is the trade for a burger cooked to order.
The 2018 Explosion, the Surry Hills Move, and the Owner’s Separate Restaurant
Here is the part that changes whether the Haberfield van is even there when you arrive. In July 2018, Broadsheet ran the headline that the burger truck had exploded and was “now out of action.” The team then took a temporary move to Surry Hills while the van was down.
Owner Gee Ozgen – who studied cooking, dropped out to travel, and drew his inspiration from the food carts of New York and Los Angeles – chose not to franchise or multiply the truck. He opened a separate, different-concept restaurant called Happy Ending, at 55 Majors Bay Road in Concord. His reasoning, per Broadsheet: “I just feel like the truck is one of a kind. I want to preserve that charm.” So the restaurant is not the truck under a new roof; it is a different venue, and you should not assume one tells you anything about the other’s hours or menu.
The Business Record, and What It Does Not Tell You
On the Australian Business Register, there is a company registered as Mister Gee Pty Limited under ABN 25 608 217 554, with an ABN status of “Active from 14 Sep 2015” and GST registered from 01 Oct 2015. The register also records the business name “Mister Gee burgers” and a main business location in NSW 2127. You can read the entry on ABN Lookup.
One caution worth stating plainly: the register confirms the company and the business name exist, but it does not state that this company operates the burger truck. So treat the ABN as a record of a registered entity, not as proof of who is running the van on a given night. For that, you are back to the live social accounts.
Verify Before You Drive: The Checklist That Saves a Wasted Trip
Three facts stack up to one instruction. The operation is mobile. And it was knocked out by the 2018 explosion. No single third-party page reconciles all three, which is exactly why third-party hours and addresses go stale.
So before you leave: check the truck’s own Facebook or Instagram for tonight’s location and the week’s burger, and confirm the current Google Business listing rather than trusting a years-old hours block. If the live accounts are quiet or the listing is marked closed, assume the format has moved on and do not drive 12 km on a snapshot.
The $3 Double: What an Extra Patty Actually Costs You
The extra patty is the detail most people miss because it is not printed on the board – so here is the arithmetic that makes it the smartest order on the truck. Starting from a single-patty burger at the usual $10, the off-menu patty at $3 works out like this:
- A doubled burger lands at $13 ($10 + $3) – the same ballpark as the truck’s priciest named specials, but with twice the beef.
- Going double beats buying two burgers by $7: two singles would run $20 ($10 + $10), while one burger with an extra patty is $13 – so if you want more meat, upgrading the one burger saves $7 over ordering a second.
Takeaway: if you are hungry, don’t buy a second burger and don’t walk away with a single.
FAQ
Is “Mr Gees” the same as “Mister Gee”?
Yes. “Mr Gees,” “Mister Gee,” and “Mister Gee’s” all refer to the one Haberfield burger operation. The spelling just varies between listings and reviews. No separate, distinct business trades under a different spelling, so you are reading about the same car-wash van either way.
Can I reserve or pre-order?
Nothing in the published record points to bookings or pre-orders – it reads as a walk-up, cooked-when-you-order line. Given cook times run past 10 minutes and queues form at opening, arriving right at the posted start (historically around 6pm) is your best shot at a shorter line.
What if the burger running that week isn’t one I want?
You have a neighbor. A second truck, Sakura on Wheelz, parks about 20 m away in the same Haberfield spot with a Japanese-fusion burger menu, so a different cuisine is within walking distance if the week’s special at the main van doesn’t appeal.
Why does one review mention nearly an hour’s wait?
That was a single visitor’s account tied to a lost order, not the usual service. The organized nights describe roughly five minutes after you order, on top of the queue and a 10-minute-plus cook. Judge your trip by that range, not the outlier.
Does the Happy Ending restaurant replace the truck?
No. The owner opened Happy Ending in Concord as a deliberately different concept and said he wanted to keep the truck “one of a kind” rather than expand it. Treat them as two unrelated venues with their own hours, menus, and locations.
