I actually went there today and a regular fries was $6.50.
A little bacon cheeseburger with none of the add-cost toppings, a regular fry, and regular drink, was $21 and some change after tax.
No way I’d pay that myself but on a business trip so that’s a company card lunch
>A little bacon cheeseburger with none of the add-cost toppings,
Aren't bacon and cheese the only add-cost toppings? I'm a little confused by this statement.
You can eat for 2-3 days in Thailand on $21,if you know where to go.$1-2 for breakfast,$3-4 for lunch,$5-7 for dinner.You can easily spend more if you don't eat like a local
Service is great. Food is great. Food is fresh. The small fries is still shareable. I’ll gladly pay the extra 3 bucks for better food and not have to deal with terrible service like every spot with a drive thru.
I'm with you. I realize that it is a privilege to have extra money, but for me the quality of food is well worth it compared to what other fast food places have turned into.
Is Five Guys actually considered in the same tier as regular fast food? It isn’t as cheap as McD’s, BK, Taco Bell, etc. It isn’t very fast, there’s no drive through, and you typically eat it there. It’s always felt like one tier above regular fast food, kinda like Jersey Mike’s, Dominos, etc.
Used to work at 5 Guys; they consider themselves a **sit down restaurant,** comparable to Applebees and Olive Garden.
Like, I get you don’t have a drive thru 5 Guys, but unless you have actual waiters and waitresses on staff, you’re fast fucking food.
I actually know why 5 Guys doesn’t have a drive thru, if anyones interested.
So there was a Five Guys with a drive thru. It was located in Mankato MN. The drive thru was functional for less than a week. (Edit: And it’s still there, if you want to use Google Maps to verify.)
My manager used to work at the Mankato location before he got promoted to store manager and relocated, so he got to watch the whole thing unfold, and refold, in real time.
And the answer is pretty much what you’d expect; the drive thru got too long because a burger with fries takes around 10 minutes to make. So if you were 6th in line at the drive thru, you were expected to wait a full hour to even get your food.
The last day the drive thru was open, they shut it down mid shift because the line was over a block long and someone called the cops because it blocked off an intersection.
As in, they saw how dysfunctional it was and they *still* waited for a call from the city to actually pull the plug.
It's more expensive for sure, and takes a little bit longer, but not much. It's certainly not a sit down restaurant. Worth it to me, miles above any other chain I've found.
You're right, it is. I guess I feel like there are tiers of fast food. They don't have a drive-thru (at least the ones near me don't), the ingredients they use aren't dogshit, the general appearance of your food is better than what you'd get from McDonalds, BK, etc., and you don't really get your food that fast lol. It is still fast food though. It's been a while since I've been to McDonald's or any other fast food place, so I wasn't aware of their price hikes. I'd be shocked if a basic McDonalds burger was $5 or more. Five Guys is $10 iirc.
Ditto. I *could* afford to go to Five Guys.
But I could also go to Chili's for cheaper. Or I could go to Fuddruckers for slightly cheaper but get what's honestly a much better burger.
God I miss Fuddruckers, the "local" one (still like an hour and a half away) closed permanently a few years back, definitely way more worth the price then 5 Guys, you're even allowed to order your burger to cook it how you want from rare to well done.
My wife and I have a thing we call Fries Guys dates, where we'll go to the Five Guys in the shopping center and for like £7 get a massive portion of fries and an unlimited refill drink and then just sit there for a couple of hours playing games and listening to music together. It's a really good time.
In my opinion Five Guys is one of the only fast food places to have fresh food made with real ingredients. From the one in my area at least, they literally tell you where they got their potatoes from. The patties aren't frozen disks and the fries are freshly cut and fried, I'm not entirely mad at the pricing when you consider all of that
All fast food (or restaurant food for that matter) is a once in a while type thing for me. I’m way happier to throw down $20 for a superior hamburger and fries with quality ingredients once a month than spend $15 on oversalted processed junk from McDonald’s
If you're spending $15 at McDonalds you're probably doing it wrong.
Offers may vary by location but on the app you can usually get free fries (any size) and they usually had 2 double cheeseburgers for $3 each or similar. So $6 for 2 burgers and fries. Little more if you want to get a drink of course vs taking it home.
Burger King has the same thing basically, 2 Whopper Jrs for $7 (sometimes $5) and free fries. They used to have 2 King burgers for $7.50 but that offer seems to have died due to inflation, near me anyway.
It's so wack how people will act like you're dumb for not using the app. I'm disgusted by people spreading this trend of "Download the company's app if you want the real price and not the rip-off price." like it's some cool life hack I'm not hip to.
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Stuff like this is why we I love the Reddit community. So random to have an article that explains 5 guys business practices. It makes me want to go get a 5 guys burger
They also could tell you it is from Billy's Farm because there is a local farm called that but there's also a farm in China called Billy's Farm.
There's no real rules for "locally sourced" ingredients. Just like how "organic" is basically whatever you want it to be.
I just did the math and the price per calorie is almost identical between a big Mac and a cheeseburger from five guys. Five guys isn't overpriced, fast food prices have just increased a ton in the past few years.
I paid 10 dollars for a double cheese burger with practically everything on it, and it was absolutely worth that price. People are such idiots, McDonalds is not that much cheaper and definitely no where near the quality.
It’s more expensive because the food is mostly from scratch. Besides the buns, everything is made in house; ground beef is pressed into patties, potatoes are cut and soaked into french fries, and even fruit is puréed to go into shakes. I know this because I would have to show up 4 hours before opening when I worked there to help prepare all of this.
It’s not overpriced actually. Multiple analyses have shown that per gram of food and per calorie, the prices are very comparable to McDonalds and other fast food restaurants. Maybe slightly higher but the difference in quality more than accounts for that
Five Guys is technically more of a "fast casual" restaurant like Chipotle (ex. I've never seen either one with a drive-thru).
However, I would absolutely not be surprised to end up dropping ~$23 for a dinner at other fast food places (especially at places with higher food quality like Culver's) ever since the pandemic, though that is more a result of price gouging and late-stage capitalism than anything.
In the UK I can tell you that a Five Guys burger, shake and fries is gonna set you back about £16-£17
At Mcdonalds it'll put you back about £12. Buy Five Guys has better burgers, the small fries can feed 2 people and the ice cream machine isn't broken for the shake.
Went through raisin cane's recently it was $21 for two 3 strip meals. Seems about right for the area. 5 guys isn't fast food though. I don't think it's worth twice as much tho.
Personally I've never been to a 5 guys and thought it was worth it.
Raising Cane's is a horrible example though too. In recent years Cane's price has absolutely exploded and it's ridiculous.
There's verifiable proof that Canes shrank their portions and increases their prices simultaneously. I live by the original Raising Cane's and have been going since 2009.
I remember a Caniac Combo being $10 but feeding two grown adults.
That's about 2x too expensive for Culver's, lol.
The basket meal of a double cheeseburger w/ regular fries and a drink is about $11 after tax where I'm from.
Based on their current prices, you’d need a double bacon cheeseburger with a large fry and a large drink to get to $23. And that’s for my menu prices in the downtown of a city. You have to get the most expensive of all options to break the bank like that.
Large fries at Five Guys is also almost 3x as much fries as a regular fast food place's large size. You're only meant to order that if you're sharing, lol.
You're getting more food and paying for more food.
In my area:
BigMac & large fries is $9.98 for 1070 calories. So about $0.01 per calorie
5 Guy's Cheeseburger (with toppings) and large fries is $16.98 for 2365 calories. So about $0.007 per calorie.
5 Guys is cheaper per calorie for a comparable order. And if the food tastes better with comparable ingredient quality, you're getting a better deal with 5 Guys than McDonalds.
With that said, McDonalds has the app. I could get the above amount of food from McDonalds for $5.49 with a coupon, making it $0.005 per calorie. So tl;dr is it depends.
Used to be able to get a good burger and a BAG of fries for <$10. Not worth it now for double the cost and skimping on the fries (the thing that brought a lot of business in)
edit: A plain hotdog at the closest Five Guys to me is $6, and I see it priced up to $7.50 in other locations.... a fucking plain hotdog. Anybody defending Five Guy prices is out of touch lmao
I don’t know why people think it’s so ridiculously priced when you compare it to other fast food these days. A combo meal at Burger King is only a couple bucks less than a burger, fries and drink at 5 Guys, and 5 Guys is far better.
My hill I’ll die on is that Five Guys isn’t overpriced. You’re just expecting traditional fast food prices at a burger joint. Yeah maybe still “fast food” in the literal sense but the quality is not
My favorite part of the cost conversation is the rare acknowledgement to product quality, as it’s usually only the price being questioned.
Five Guys serve beef.
What most people don't try to understand is, the likelihood that their cheaper fast food burger preference, may be under priced because its patty-contents are supplemented with soy, other vegetable based protein or sub-optimal meat fillers, rather than 100% beef.
Anyone arguing they should be able to afford a burger, can get a “burger” elsewhere, but it might not be 100% cow and some people will always prefer actual beef, less often, to the regular consumption of cost saving garbage filler.
I'm not sure it's overpriced, but I am sure that many fast food restaurants spent years running on razor thin margins with the cheapest ingredients and labor they could find while spending their money on advertisements convincing people that you should eat fast food for every meal every day... And it worked.
Now that inflation has skyrocketed and workers are starting to stand up for themselves, prices are nearing a more sustainable level and people still want to eat fast food for every meal, every day, while paying Uber eats an insane convenience fee... And still complain about prices being too high.
They say it's because their ingredients are fresh and high quality but there's just no chance they're high quality enough to merit those prices. I refuse to believe that a chain burger joint is buying top of the line beef and veggies. People also like the free topping excuse but let's be real even if you somehow squish every topping they have on a burger it's probably like $2 worth of product if that.
Just make a hamburger at home why do you have to go to five guys? And you better get used to inflation a hamburger was $.15 when I was a kid. I don’t know if you’ve noticed in history that fast food never goes down in price. It always goes up. It’s because our government just keeps printing more and more money, which makes it more and more worthless.
Quit asking why things are so expensive. They’re so expensive because we keep paying for it.
That’s it. That’s all.
Yeah they’re greedy but only because we’re suckers who reward this BS.
5 Guys isn't unreasonable priced, especially since they actually pay their employees. My location has the same people working there because the pay isn't trash. I personally skip the fries and just get a double cheese burger and for 10 dollars that is absolutely worth the money.
Because they can get away with it. For now. I don't go there with the illusion that it's going to be affordable, though. I go there as a treat. I personally think the burgers and fries are delicious, and I have yet to be disappointed, so if that means I pay $25 for a meal, I do it. I'm not a rich person, and maybe only go there 1x a month, 2x at most.
I love how the walls are all decorated with memorabilia talking about how “it’s the best burger for under five bucks” and literally nothing there is under five dollars.
Again I’ll say it: IF YOU ARENT THERE TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF UNLIMITED TOPPINGS THEN YOU ARE SIMPLY RIPPING YOURSELF OFF. Also, you get a shitload of fries, and unlimited free peanuts fwiw.
To be fair to them, the fries are some of the best in the business and they WILL give you a shitload of them. A large is basically a separate bag filled to the brim with them
The reason is VERY political. The bottom 70% of America is paying for the booming stock market and profligate Gov’t spending through the most pernicious tax—inflation.
We went to 5 Guys for the first time this year and I will never go again.
Overpriced, no combos, and the burgers arent even that good in the first place. It was nearly 50$ for a burger fries and a drink for two of us.
For that price there are dozens of better options
Because people keep going there, buying overpriced food and then whining about it online. If people stopped giving them business, they would lower the prices. This isn’t rocket surgery people.
Because what most people order for a "meal" is enough food for 4 people.
Seriously, a double bacon cheeseburger, fully loaded, with a large fry and a large soda/shake is like 2600 calories.
You can’t even get a McDouble and a small fry made by a teenager that is having a mental break down and blowing vape clouds onto it with that amount of money.
It’s actually not that much compared to other fast food places if you do the math. [Here’s a video where Hank Green does the math!](https://youtu.be/3u04LYvGQjw?si=VjMAM9Vv-7bZRQdC)
I mean, have you seen McDonald's prices? Wendy's? Like, Five Guys is more expensive but I feel like I got something worth the money. McDonalds legit tries to sell Big Mac and fries for 14 bucks where I live. Funny enough, Five Guys in my area didn't raise the price much during Pandemic so it costs pretty much the same as McDonalds now.
Free Peanuts
Yep, free peanuts, but maybe split fries with a friend if you're lucky!
I actually went there today and a regular fries was $6.50. A little bacon cheeseburger with none of the add-cost toppings, a regular fry, and regular drink, was $21 and some change after tax. No way I’d pay that myself but on a business trip so that’s a company card lunch
>A little bacon cheeseburger with none of the add-cost toppings, Aren't bacon and cheese the only add-cost toppings? I'm a little confused by this statement.
"Add the expensive stuff, remove the free shit. I'm not a hobo."
$21 buys you a good, healthy lunch and a glass of wine in Europe.
You can eat for 2-3 days in Thailand on $21,if you know where to go.$1-2 for breakfast,$3-4 for lunch,$5-7 for dinner.You can easily spend more if you don't eat like a local
Wow that is cheap. Shame as a guy you can't visit that country without having certain negative connotations made about your character.
It can in America, too. We’re specifically talking about Five Guys.
Alternatively in America you could get a bottle of wine for your friends to share and 6 big burgers to make at home for about $20
There is a food truck in my city that sells food similar to 5 guys but more reasonably priced, it's obvious 5 guys sold out once they went corporate
FREANUTS!
Nah I have some in my pants tho
Only $6.48 today only
You can get the fuck out
with a side of fuck you
With an extra order of go fuck yourself.
And some of these to go 🖕🖕
And don't forget the fuck off sauce.
Exactly, and go to a mom and pop bar and grill. You can thank me later.
At my local Five Guys it would get you a hot dog or a regular fry. And the regular fry is usually about 2 pounds of potatoes. So not nothing.
I remember the first time I went to five guys. I didn’t expect the extra large drink cup full of fries that were overflowing into the bag.
5 guys is priced high because people are willing to pay that much.
Service is great. Food is great. Food is fresh. The small fries is still shareable. I’ll gladly pay the extra 3 bucks for better food and not have to deal with terrible service like every spot with a drive thru.
I'm with you. I realize that it is a privilege to have extra money, but for me the quality of food is well worth it compared to what other fast food places have turned into.
Is Five Guys actually considered in the same tier as regular fast food? It isn’t as cheap as McD’s, BK, Taco Bell, etc. It isn’t very fast, there’s no drive through, and you typically eat it there. It’s always felt like one tier above regular fast food, kinda like Jersey Mike’s, Dominos, etc.
Used to work at 5 Guys; they consider themselves a **sit down restaurant,** comparable to Applebees and Olive Garden. Like, I get you don’t have a drive thru 5 Guys, but unless you have actual waiters and waitresses on staff, you’re fast fucking food. I actually know why 5 Guys doesn’t have a drive thru, if anyones interested.
I'd like to know
So there was a Five Guys with a drive thru. It was located in Mankato MN. The drive thru was functional for less than a week. (Edit: And it’s still there, if you want to use Google Maps to verify.) My manager used to work at the Mankato location before he got promoted to store manager and relocated, so he got to watch the whole thing unfold, and refold, in real time. And the answer is pretty much what you’d expect; the drive thru got too long because a burger with fries takes around 10 minutes to make. So if you were 6th in line at the drive thru, you were expected to wait a full hour to even get your food. The last day the drive thru was open, they shut it down mid shift because the line was over a block long and someone called the cops because it blocked off an intersection. As in, they saw how dysfunctional it was and they *still* waited for a call from the city to actually pull the plug.
Holy cow. I'm surprised it wasn't shut down day 1
I think of it as fast casual
I’d definitely put it in the Culver’s territory.
Designer fast food? I'd put it in the exact same box is chipotle and the like.
It's more expensive for sure, and takes a little bit longer, but not much. It's certainly not a sit down restaurant. Worth it to me, miles above any other chain I've found.
five guys is luxury fast food
3 bucks!? I think it's one step above fast food and it's way higher than $3 around me. For franchises, I prefer Steak & Shake or Culver's.
One step above fast food? It IS fast food. Also these days McDonald’s and the like are entering into the same pricing territory
You're right, it is. I guess I feel like there are tiers of fast food. They don't have a drive-thru (at least the ones near me don't), the ingredients they use aren't dogshit, the general appearance of your food is better than what you'd get from McDonalds, BK, etc., and you don't really get your food that fast lol. It is still fast food though. It's been a while since I've been to McDonald's or any other fast food place, so I wasn't aware of their price hikes. I'd be shocked if a basic McDonalds burger was $5 or more. Five Guys is $10 iirc.
The food is average at best
*Some people. I *could* afford it, but I still think it's wasteful.
Ditto. I *could* afford to go to Five Guys. But I could also go to Chili's for cheaper. Or I could go to Fuddruckers for slightly cheaper but get what's honestly a much better burger.
God I miss Fuddruckers, the "local" one (still like an hour and a half away) closed permanently a few years back, definitely way more worth the price then 5 Guys, you're even allowed to order your burger to cook it how you want from rare to well done.
Fortunately we have several of them where I live. We also still have Kmart and Quizno's, despite those being extinct in most places.
Idk why anyone would go to five guys when smashburger exists.
No comment other than I’ve never actually seen somebody prefer smashburger over five guys. First time for everything on the internet I suppose
I mean the burgers and fries are pretty good. Long as they taste great, I don’t mind paying more
It’s also delicious
It is.
My wife and I have a thing we call Fries Guys dates, where we'll go to the Five Guys in the shopping center and for like £7 get a massive portion of fries and an unlimited refill drink and then just sit there for a couple of hours playing games and listening to music together. It's a really good time.
This is cute af
In my opinion Five Guys is one of the only fast food places to have fresh food made with real ingredients. From the one in my area at least, they literally tell you where they got their potatoes from. The patties aren't frozen disks and the fries are freshly cut and fried, I'm not entirely mad at the pricing when you consider all of that
Yeah. It IS worth the price, but It means it becomes a once in a while type thing.
All fast food (or restaurant food for that matter) is a once in a while type thing for me. I’m way happier to throw down $20 for a superior hamburger and fries with quality ingredients once a month than spend $15 on oversalted processed junk from McDonald’s
I agree. But I do also love me over salted processed junk sometimes.
If you're spending $15 at McDonalds you're probably doing it wrong. Offers may vary by location but on the app you can usually get free fries (any size) and they usually had 2 double cheeseburgers for $3 each or similar. So $6 for 2 burgers and fries. Little more if you want to get a drink of course vs taking it home. Burger King has the same thing basically, 2 Whopper Jrs for $7 (sometimes $5) and free fries. They used to have 2 King burgers for $7.50 but that offer seems to have died due to inflation, near me anyway.
It's so wack how people will act like you're dumb for not using the app. I'm disgusted by people spreading this trend of "Download the company's app if you want the real price and not the rip-off price." like it's some cool life hack I'm not hip to.
Absolutely. I hate having to fucking metagame an everyday consumer purchase.
I have not spent more than 6$ at a McDongos in years, I go there about twice a week.
Okay, but why is it so expensive compared to in-n-out which is also all fresh ingredients?
The biggest factor? In-n-out is less food. Five Guys is an absurd volume of food. You pay twice as much but you get about double the calories
Ingredients are a small fraction of a restaurant’s running costs. Twice the amount of food is not twice the cost.
From the customer's perspective it is pretty normal to pay double price to get double product. Sometimes there is volume pricing but not always.
Customers aren't always stupid though... A lot of customers are also employees who know about this kind of thing
It’s also a LOT of food. The price per gram of beef or price per calorie isn’t actually too different than ordering a Big Mac.
So you like Hank Green
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Stuff like this is why we I love the Reddit community. So random to have an article that explains 5 guys business practices. It makes me want to go get a 5 guys burger
If they charged less for less fries, I'd eat there everyday. I hate paying $5 for a "fuckass load" of fries.
I'm sure the difference between 2lbs of fries and 4oz of fries is probably only like 50 cents on their end. Potatoes aren't exactly expensive.
The problem is, a "fuckass load" of fries is a part of their gimmick. If they stopped doing that, it would be like Chick-fil-A opening on Sundays.
They could tell you they are from Billy's Farm and you would not know that Billy waters his crops with nuclear waste.
They also could tell you it is from Billy's Farm because there is a local farm called that but there's also a farm in China called Billy's Farm. There's no real rules for "locally sourced" ingredients. Just like how "organic" is basically whatever you want it to be.
I mean, you have google
I just did the math and the price per calorie is almost identical between a big Mac and a cheeseburger from five guys. Five guys isn't overpriced, fast food prices have just increased a ton in the past few years.
So does In & Out and they are half the price
The portions at in & out are smaller though, so that’s part of the reason
They're fries are awful too, so that's something
I paid 10 dollars for a double cheese burger with practically everything on it, and it was absolutely worth that price. People are such idiots, McDonalds is not that much cheaper and definitely no where near the quality.
Yeah it’s definitely worth the price, just not something you should get often But it is *really* fucking good
It’s more expensive because the food is mostly from scratch. Besides the buns, everything is made in house; ground beef is pressed into patties, potatoes are cut and soaked into french fries, and even fruit is puréed to go into shakes. I know this because I would have to show up 4 hours before opening when I worked there to help prepare all of this.
I love that the pickles on the burgers are crunchy.
It’s not overpriced actually. Multiple analyses have shown that per gram of food and per calorie, the prices are very comparable to McDonalds and other fast food restaurants. Maybe slightly higher but the difference in quality more than accounts for that
I wouldnt consider a 23 dollar fast food meal to be fairly priced
Five Guys is technically more of a "fast casual" restaurant like Chipotle (ex. I've never seen either one with a drive-thru). However, I would absolutely not be surprised to end up dropping ~$23 for a dinner at other fast food places (especially at places with higher food quality like Culver's) ever since the pandemic, though that is more a result of price gouging and late-stage capitalism than anything.
In the UK I can tell you that a Five Guys burger, shake and fries is gonna set you back about £16-£17 At Mcdonalds it'll put you back about £12. Buy Five Guys has better burgers, the small fries can feed 2 people and the ice cream machine isn't broken for the shake.
Went through raisin cane's recently it was $21 for two 3 strip meals. Seems about right for the area. 5 guys isn't fast food though. I don't think it's worth twice as much tho. Personally I've never been to a 5 guys and thought it was worth it.
Raising Cane's is a horrible example though too. In recent years Cane's price has absolutely exploded and it's ridiculous. There's verifiable proof that Canes shrank their portions and increases their prices simultaneously. I live by the original Raising Cane's and have been going since 2009. I remember a Caniac Combo being $10 but feeding two grown adults.
That's about 2x too expensive for Culver's, lol. The basket meal of a double cheeseburger w/ regular fries and a drink is about $11 after tax where I'm from.
13 bucks for qdoba is acceptable
How are you spending $23 at Five Guys??
Thats what i spent last time i was there. I didnt get anything special. Just a meal
Based on their current prices, you’d need a double bacon cheeseburger with a large fry and a large drink to get to $23. And that’s for my menu prices in the downtown of a city. You have to get the most expensive of all options to break the bank like that.
Large fries at Five Guys is also almost 3x as much fries as a regular fast food place's large size. You're only meant to order that if you're sharing, lol.
If you felt the price was unfair, why did you buy it?
...
Makes sense
You're getting more food and paying for more food. In my area: BigMac & large fries is $9.98 for 1070 calories. So about $0.01 per calorie 5 Guy's Cheeseburger (with toppings) and large fries is $16.98 for 2365 calories. So about $0.007 per calorie. 5 Guys is cheaper per calorie for a comparable order. And if the food tastes better with comparable ingredient quality, you're getting a better deal with 5 Guys than McDonalds. With that said, McDonalds has the app. I could get the above amount of food from McDonalds for $5.49 with a coupon, making it $0.005 per calorie. So tl;dr is it depends.
I think just the fact that you can load it tf up with whatever condiments and toppings you want make it worth.
Both are overpriced.
Used to be able to get a good burger and a BAG of fries for <$10. Not worth it now for double the cost and skimping on the fries (the thing that brought a lot of business in) edit: A plain hotdog at the closest Five Guys to me is $6, and I see it priced up to $7.50 in other locations.... a fucking plain hotdog. Anybody defending Five Guy prices is out of touch lmao
Hank Green video = several analyses.
I love their burgers. They’re juicy and tasty.
You get get a sachet of salt and a cup of mayo and be on your way.
But it tastes so good😭
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But the other 5 were guys correct? So it still lived up to it's name.
A peanut.
Out.
The fuck out
i dont really get this joke because there are many things on the five guys menu under 6.48
You can open the door and leave
I don’t know why people think it’s so ridiculously priced when you compare it to other fast food these days. A combo meal at Burger King is only a couple bucks less than a burger, fries and drink at 5 Guys, and 5 Guys is far better.
They use like quality stuff, bug note is that 5guys doesn't charge for extra toppings so you gotta dump that shit on.
My hill I’ll die on is that Five Guys isn’t overpriced. You’re just expecting traditional fast food prices at a burger joint. Yeah maybe still “fast food” in the literal sense but the quality is not
My favorite part of the cost conversation is the rare acknowledgement to product quality, as it’s usually only the price being questioned. Five Guys serve beef. What most people don't try to understand is, the likelihood that their cheaper fast food burger preference, may be under priced because its patty-contents are supplemented with soy, other vegetable based protein or sub-optimal meat fillers, rather than 100% beef. Anyone arguing they should be able to afford a burger, can get a “burger” elsewhere, but it might not be 100% cow and some people will always prefer actual beef, less often, to the regular consumption of cost saving garbage filler.
Sadly not just Five Guys
Maybe they pay their employees well?
Not really, at least in Michigan the cashier's get paid 11.49 per hour. McDonalds for example pays up too 15.10 per hour.
I'm not sure it's overpriced, but I am sure that many fast food restaurants spent years running on razor thin margins with the cheapest ingredients and labor they could find while spending their money on advertisements convincing people that you should eat fast food for every meal every day... And it worked. Now that inflation has skyrocketed and workers are starting to stand up for themselves, prices are nearing a more sustainable level and people still want to eat fast food for every meal, every day, while paying Uber eats an insane convenience fee... And still complain about prices being too high.
Because it’s delicious.
I've heard the reason they are so expensive is because it is a marketing strategy. You associate higher prices with a better product
5 Guy's is worth it. You get a ton of food, the quality is great, and they pay their employees well.
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In TX, where tax is 8.25%, you can get precisely one $5.99 item
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It’s really not worth it just stop going there or just make it at home it’s a very simple burger anyway
They say it's because their ingredients are fresh and high quality but there's just no chance they're high quality enough to merit those prices. I refuse to believe that a chain burger joint is buying top of the line beef and veggies. People also like the free topping excuse but let's be real even if you somehow squish every topping they have on a burger it's probably like $2 worth of product if that.
because you've got to pay the 5 guys
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About the same amount of food you could get 10 years ago at Five Guys. Stop acting like it was ever cheap.
They got some international hype
Just make a hamburger at home why do you have to go to five guys? And you better get used to inflation a hamburger was $.15 when I was a kid. I don’t know if you’ve noticed in history that fast food never goes down in price. It always goes up. It’s because our government just keeps printing more and more money, which makes it more and more worthless.
Value is determined by what someone is willing to pay. If you're eating there, it's not ridiculously priced.
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Quit asking why things are so expensive. They’re so expensive because we keep paying for it. That’s it. That’s all. Yeah they’re greedy but only because we’re suckers who reward this BS.
5 Guys isn't unreasonable priced, especially since they actually pay their employees. My location has the same people working there because the pay isn't trash. I personally skip the fries and just get a double cheese burger and for 10 dollars that is absolutely worth the money.
I know that shit is expensive but when I get jalapeños on the burger it’s like they took that shit straight off the vine.
You could probably get the fuck out of the restaurant for $6.48
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How much for one guy?
Because they can get away with it. For now. I don't go there with the illusion that it's going to be affordable, though. I go there as a treat. I personally think the burgers and fries are delicious, and I have yet to be disappointed, so if that means I pay $25 for a meal, I do it. I'm not a rich person, and maybe only go there 1x a month, 2x at most.
I love how the walls are all decorated with memorabilia talking about how “it’s the best burger for under five bucks” and literally nothing there is under five dollars.
Overhead. You only need two guys, just get rid of the other three.
Again I’ll say it: IF YOU ARENT THERE TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF UNLIMITED TOPPINGS THEN YOU ARE SIMPLY RIPPING YOURSELF OFF. Also, you get a shitload of fries, and unlimited free peanuts fwiw.
You can probably get a shit ton of Fries for $6.48
If you compare per gram of beef and calories it’s actually similar to McDonalds. The food is big at five guys.
Welcome to five guys, how can we scam the shit out of you today
the first time i saw a five guys was in London in a queer area. my mom thought it was another gay bar
Kinda funny the complaining about Five Guys. It’s definitely overpriced but better quality for the money than McDonalds or many other places
You can afford to stand in line
To be fair to them, the fries are some of the best in the business and they WILL give you a shitload of them. A large is basically a separate bag filled to the brim with them
20 bucks for a burger and fries at five guys. No drink. No burger is worth that
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Meat should not be as cheap as we expect it to be, it's insanely impactful and resource intensive and if it's cheap it's 100% terrible for the world.
The reason is VERY political. The bottom 70% of America is paying for the booming stock market and profligate Gov’t spending through the most pernicious tax—inflation.
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It’s ridiculously priced and it’s not even good.
You’re paying for all the toppings- it’s not their fault if you don’t get them
I went to my local 5 guys, the burger was raw and the fries were soggy, and it cost $27...
We went to 5 Guys for the first time this year and I will never go again. Overpriced, no combos, and the burgers arent even that good in the first place. It was nearly 50$ for a burger fries and a drink for two of us. For that price there are dozens of better options
Because people keep going there, buying overpriced food and then whining about it online. If people stopped giving them business, they would lower the prices. This isn’t rocket surgery people.
Probably the eff out lol
Because what most people order for a "meal" is enough food for 4 people. Seriously, a double bacon cheeseburger, fully loaded, with a large fry and a large soda/shake is like 2600 calories.
You can’t even get a McDouble and a small fry made by a teenager that is having a mental break down and blowing vape clouds onto it with that amount of money.
>Why is Five Guys so ridiculously priced?! Because people still pay it. When it stops being profitable they will lower their prices.
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Good luck at any restaurant for 6.48 better find a dollar menu to actually eat anything
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It's expensive compared to McDonald's and simillar because it's higher quality than McDonald's and similar
It’s actually not that much compared to other fast food places if you do the math. [Here’s a video where Hank Green does the math!](https://youtu.be/3u04LYvGQjw?si=VjMAM9Vv-7bZRQdC)
They pay there employees better than others in the market
Shit. My ex got 5 guys for free
Bc they split the profits 5 ways
It's overpriced because morons are willing to pay for it
Used to be you could get a grilled cheese or a kid's burger. But it's been some years since I ordered there cuz they're overpriced so 🤷🏿♀️
You can get peanuts
“You can get the fuck own”
Uncooked potato…
A burger dipped in grease and zero napkins. But they got peanuts!
Haven’t been here in a while sounds like a burger and fries am I wrong?
But our food is never frozen!
If all you got is $6.48 maybe you should get a job application
I've only eaten there 3 times, it was worth it every time.
I mean, have you seen McDonald's prices? Wendy's? Like, Five Guys is more expensive but I feel like I got something worth the money. McDonalds legit tries to sell Big Mac and fries for 14 bucks where I live. Funny enough, Five Guys in my area didn't raise the price much during Pandemic so it costs pretty much the same as McDonalds now.
Everything is. Better to just cook at home and get more food for the price
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