In 1999, the Northern Burger Diner was mysteriously destroyed with most waitstaff lost including manager Joe's colleague and wife, Sandra. Years later, Joe's son, Ford, waiter at the new Northern Burger Diner Two, must go to Wisconsin to help his estranged father who obsessively searches for the truth of the incident. In doing so, father and son discover the disaster's secret cause on the wreck's very grounds. This enables them to witness the reawakening of a terrible threat to all of their fryer machines, which is made all the worse with a second secret revival across the street, a competing restaurant. Against this cataclysm, the only hope for the Northern Burger Diner Two may be The General, but the challenge for the father and son duo will be great even as they struggle to understand the destructive ally they have.