It wasn't bad when it was a 5 dollar burger.
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Now it's not even $5 fries
I usually get a double and think it's pretty good, maybe a bit too tall
Go to McDonald's if you want to spend $60 for shit. At least 5 Guys is still good
It's not bad food, but it's definitely not worth the money.
It's also not very good. I don't get why some people rave about it. Local places are usually much, much better.
Guess you only got a family of 3.
But they give you so many fries!
It varies by location. The one near my house can hardly be bothered to fill the cup. One like an hour away I used to go to for work fills half the freaking bag.
Putting fries in paper cups is a stupid idea to begin with.
Not at any of the ones I've been to :( It's more than McDonald's but it's never been a problem to finish them.
Should be called Fries Guys
Meanwhile i grabbed potato buns and beef and made myself a bunch of smash burgers that would put five guys to shame. Only cost like $10
It's interesting to hear how prices are so different in other parts of the world.
Where I live, which is considered low cost of living for the USA, $10USD is about what it would cost to buy a pound (roughly 0.5 kg) of the lowest grade hamburger and a pack of generic potato buns at the lowest cost store around. That wouldn't be enough to make a bunch of burgers unless they were slider size and it wouldn't cover the cost of all the other extras (veggies, cheese, condiments) that I'd need to be able to approximate a burger from a place like Five Guys.
Granted, I could do much better for myself for much less than $80 (assuming we're talking about $80USD for a family of 3 - 5). But there are some advantages to not having to do the shopping, the prep work, and the clean-up. I could see doing this every once in a while as a special occasion thing, but then I haven't eaten at Five Guys in over a decade, and I don't know if their food has declined in quality as much as pretty much all the other fast food places.
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Wendy's $5 or $6 meal deals... you get a double stack, nuggies, fries & a drink, and a frosty with each purchase for a year if you get their key tag.
Key tag?
Edit: oh, it's a 3 dollar keychain.
It's $1 at mine
Their hotdogs are almost the same price.
Went there around covid time... Got shorted on fries and a 30 dollar bill for two...
Bro this is Burger in fries in freedom-land... Gtfo
It's terrible, but I guess it depends on the area?
Like, our local Steak and Shakes make far better burgers for nothing. Not to speak of real burger joints everywhere.
But if you're... I dunno, in a burger joint desert and Cracker Barrel is the only other choice, and you're rich, maybe Five Guys is not terrible?
I live near Vancouver bc and there are not many decent burger places near me. Not that burgers arent everywhere, but relatively few actual real burger joints. A world record stone throw from just about anywhere nesr me and i could hit a dozen indian or sushi places though
but five guys are always a very satisfying burger when im near one.
I dont consider it fast food, kind of a category above
But FatBurger has dissapointed me so many times that it's easy to understand how easy it is to completely fuck up a burger
Their buns get soggy.
They also wrap them too tight at times they're like hockey pucks when you take them out of the bag.
There is a five guys in my city. Tried it at two different locations, given its good reputation.
The single worst burger place. That they have any sort of reputation at all for being good is a stain on the fabric on the concept of restaurants.
I think it just varies a lot from location to location. I went to one in Limassol once and it was great.
The one I used to go to by my home made the best burgers in town. The one I went to twice by my office was gross.
I thought it was a one off but the number of people shitting on them in this thread tells me they have a quality control problem. There are good ones but yeah if I paid what they charged for a mediocre burger I wouldn’t go back either.
Same
The one I sometimes go to makes excellent burgers and fill the bag to the top with fries. It's expensive but I don't go there very often (and I hate McDonald's and BKs burgers)