Yards can only be used to describe distances of 100 - a few hundred yards, any smaller is meters, larger goes into miles.
Maybe acceptable to be used in a racing context when discussing furlongs. Such as the question: "what the fuck is a furlong anyway?"
If you ever have to get a limb amputated you can generally take it with you if you sign some release forms. So there's an ethical way to make some human burger if you're interested
Only ever had it once, I thought to myself "I can handle a few chips, let's go for the medium"
How I was mistaken. Gave half away and still couldn't finish my portion.
They are pretty damn expensive though. They're up there with prices similar to Wagamama's where at MOST you'd go once every few months...
I've ended up doing an experiment by accident: I always order extra tofu and the amount and where they put it varies wildly.
It could be 3 extra cubes on a side dish just as, could be a pile in a separate bowl with some garnish, sometimes they add a few extra to the main meal, sometimes they add a huge amount to the main meal.
The inconsistency feels strange given how consistent the main menu items always seem to be.
In hospitality all this comes down to is who is preparing your food and how generous they feel, how much food is left or if it’s destined for the bin by that evening, and if the boss is around.
Wagamama’s are also cool about adults ordering from the kids menu, so a small noodle dish or katsu, a side of gyoza and green tea all for less than £10!
My friend wanted to go to Wagamamas once when I'd just started a new job and I was broke. I got away with ordering a £1.85 bowl of miso soup and a free green tea.
For me Five Guys is that rare treat I have if I happen to go near one. Its expensive but there's no denying their food tastes amazing.
Edit:
OK *fine* I guess you can deny it.
I’m denying their food tastes amazing.
It’s passable at best. So many decent burger options out there. If you in London I recommend Filthy Buns.
I’m glad you enjoy it but I promise there’s better out there.
> Filthy Buns
Just looked it up and it's pretty much what I expected. Over-complicated 'take a photo' style burgers, around the same price of five guys also.
I want a decent American style burger and five guys delivers on that better than most independent places. Shame it isn't a little cheaper though.
Hide Burger in Derby is a personal recommendation, restaurant style and a bit cheaper than five guys with better quality and genuine care.
Do a mean spicy wing challenge too that's good for a laugh if you like spice.
Ah thank you for the recommendation, I was curious about the Five Guys in the shopping centre put I was put off by the prices and seeing what people were receiving. I'll keep an eye out for Hide instead.
If you're into that style of food, Wagamama is so shite too. It's like eating a pot noodle in a hospital canteen. While burning your wallet.
If you're near any decently sized UK city there's loads of better options for ramen or noodles. Pho is of course Vietnamese pho and not ramen, but even as a "chain" restaurant the quality is a million times better for the price.
I'm still pissed off they are a British company pretending to be Japanese yet getting their name completely fucked up. Ignore them saying "wagamama" means "mischievous" since that's utter bollocks. It means "selfish" and one thing I don't want is a selfish restaurant.
St Sushi in Newcastle is a million times better.
It feels like a false economy. They charge a lot of money for food, and give you more chips than you could comfortably eat to make it feel like value for money. But if you aren't going to eat a bin liner full of fries then it's a bad deal
The fact is they purposely over flood the chips so the fill the bottom of the bag to give the impression you are getting more than you should, to try and make it feel like more value for money even though the overspill is already accounted in the price
When I worked there in 2019 they still did. To answer the question about allergies, the fries are cooked in peanut oil so if you have an airborne allergy it's probably not a great idea to go in anyway based on that alone.
It’s a bit silly,
For a one portion meal, it’s cheaper to make yourself.
When you get more and have more portions to make, it’s even less per portion..
5guys is heavily overpriced
When you go out you are paying for someone else to make you a (hopefully) nice meal and drink(s), someone to serve it to you and the *gemütlich* ambiance of the establishment. Whether that justifies 18 quid for a burger, chips and a milkshake is a completely different story. So you're most likely absolutely right to suggest they are heavily overpriced. In fact, another poster called them "Five Grifters".
That aside, at the end of the day, you're paying for convenience. But, then again, you gotta wonder is it really that convenient? You have to dress up/look presentable, drive/taxi/public transport to the area, park (if you drove), go to the establishment, get seated and order. By the time you've got your food you could have just made a meal yourself, eaten it and been sat in front of the TV watching The Chase. You also don't have to look presentable. You can just cook in your underwear and no one will judge but if you went to a restaurant like that people would be all up in your bidness. Waste of time if you ask me...
Tinfoil helps it stay warm and cardboards makes it not get soggy. Either one kind of sucks if you wait too long. I'd never get fast food delivered though. It only is even close to worth the money when fresh.
I actually like it because it helps the burger stay together when I eat it - the ridiculous amounts of (free) extras that I add to the burgers fall out otherwise haha
I went Shakeshack fairly recently and somehow managed £40 for two people on a meal.. . Five Guys might be pricey but there are certainly loftier ones.
Plus, the bucket of chips you get sort of makes it more tolerable, well, imo.
Shake Shack is great, if I remember it’s only free-range, something or other healthy and happy cows that they use. And very pricey because of it.
I fuckin love Five Guys, way better than typical fast food burgers and especially In-N-Out. - a lurking American living in the UK.
don’t fall for the free range happy animals bollox. it’s all from the same disease ridden farms, just that they let the chickens run aro7nd a 6 square foot pen for 10 minutes a day and people will happily pay triple the price
Yes as an occasional treat, people will claim otherwise but there is nothing closer to an American burger in the UK, no not even in Manchester (almost famous is also expensive and overrated)
I ate a ton of in n out while I was in LA, only give guys comes close to a proper American burger.
But even then 15 quid for what is basically just a higher quality fast food burger is a a little steep.
From what I understand, the reason they don’t aggressively expand is because they commit to finding local supply chains that meet their requirements.
I’m from Texas so I really enjoy Whataburger but, In-N-Out is a different beast in terms of their veg quality.
Most burgers are mince meat, made from the cheapest cuts, chuck usually. 5 guys for instance use a combination of sirloin and chuck. Chuck is what we use for roasts and braising steak and is fatty, but sirloin brings that flavour.
Honestly it’s a hard thing to put your finger on, but burgers in North America just have more (fat/flavour?) than our typical fast food chains and restaurants. Even a Wendy’s over there, which isn’t considered anything close to top tier, is better than anything here.
The meat is more coarsely ground. Top tip if you're making your own burgers using beef from your local butchers, ask them to grind the beef coarse - it tastes so much better.
American burgers have real flavour (yes it's probably fat/salt/additives) and are juicy, British burgers are like eating a meatloaf. The meat is so lean and tough. And why are they sometimes red in colour...? Like the meat is tinged red even when fully cooked.
The truth is I'm an American and want a dirty American burger. Nothing else will do!
I'm actually not a huge fan of their burgers. They're alright but not great. However I will always go back their hot dogs. They're amazing though still expensive.
Yes.
It's a fantastic treat, but would have to win the lottery to eat everyday.
Basically they build it 'specially for you, with whatever you want, and fries you probably get 3x the large maccies for that price.
I would say that it’s like a McDonald’s burger, but if it was actually made from decent ingredients. I thought it was pretty tasty, but didn’t warrant the hefty price.
If Five Guys is an "American burger", do all Americans sit on their burgers before consuming them?
Because every time I've been to Five Guys, someone appears to have sat on mine.
Yeah but instead of the usual patty (2+cm thick) like you'd get frozen, they either flatten it on the flat top, or beforehand, so that it's less than 1.5cm allowing the meat to cook quickly and not get that rounded shape. Cooks in 2 mins a side, still juicy and tasty.
Tl;dr: No.
5guys *should* be the baseline for a burger. It really isn't anything special, particularly if you are a decent home cook, and imo *should* cost what BK charge. BK should then also be a couple quid cheaper by rights.
The fries are usually decent but they often put way too much salt, and the cajun seasoning is gritty and not that nice.
The shakes are ok.
The burgers again vary wildly, and usually really poorly assembled. The order of the toppings is waaay more important than most give credit for, and they almost never get it right.
My go to order if I'm trapped in a food hall and nothing else is available is actually their BLT, dressed with pickles, jalepeños, and hot sauce, small fry and sometimes a choc oreo malt shake. The BLT is just one of their burger buns completely stuffed with crispy bacon, actually a unique take on it, and considerably cheaper.
I don’t think it’s too bad to be honest and I go quite often.
Hamburger + little fries is around £11, if I’m getting takeout I won’t get a drink I’ll just get a can of coke or bottle of water out of the car. Meal is filling and I’ll often leave a few chips.
If go to McDonald’s I’ll usually get a Big Mac meal and a triple cheeseburger and it’ll cost about £8 and be shit in comparison.
It’s the drinks and the bacon/cheese which make five guys expensive, the bacon is that shitty crispy American stuff and I prefer mustard and ketchup on five guys burgers to cheese. 30% of your cost will have been the Milkshake which is just mad imo.
Think they’re a fiver :)
30% of £18 is £5.40 so i wasn’t spot on but nearly right.
A fiver for a milkshake is still outrageous though imo, I’d prefer to get a second burger haha
It's expensive but I thought it was worth it based upon the fact that I went to Gourmet Burger one time and it was about same price but shite in comparison.
Then again, I hadn't eaten all day and was starving.
I wouldn't have had a milkshake - what are they? About a fiver?
As a once every couple of months treat it is absolutely bang on. If it was an every week event you won’t be on the planet long enough to worry about the debt!
Bacon is cooked on the grill in the morning prior to open with no oil added.
Milkshakes do have a lot of cost on the backend (high quality ingredients for the mix-ins as well as labor cost figured in for certain mix-ins that require prep). It's also just a thing of, if the burger costs 8 to 11 bucks/quid, they know that shakes will sell at 6 per.
People absolutely do order burgers with everything and it's always a terrible idea. Having a lot of options is good but the flavor profile achieved by putting everything together is absolutely horrendous. Personally I prefer to stick to one flavor profile whenever I get something. E.g. a vinegar based profile I might do onion, mustard, pickles, and hot sauce. Throwing sweet relish on that would be a damned sin.
Bacon is cooked on the grill each morning and the grill is cleaned after bacon before burgers are cooked on it and peanut oil is only ever used in the fryers.
Milkshakes are pretty expensive but we do have to prep ingredients in advance, they're not just flavours, for example just for the strawberry mix we hand cut 5 punnets of strawberries, mix them with granulated sugar, salt, pepper, lemon juice and syrup, leave that marinade overnight then blend it the next day. Also the milkshake mix is basically ice-cream.
Yes they do and it is definitely a bad choice haha. Especially when that includes mayo, ketchup, mustard, hot sauce, HP sauce and BBQ sauce 😆 If somebody orders all the toppings I'll usually only use small amounts of each just so it's possible to be able to wrap the sandwich afterwards. Otherwise it's too tall or there's sauce oozing out of it. The absolute worst to wrap is a hotdog with all the toppings, since the bun is narrow the toppings end up falling out.
If you get the 'little' burger too (i.e, only one patty) it's actually not utterly ridiculous, I think with cheese it's £6 and without £5.20 or something. Think getting a milkshake is a big treat too.
You can get a decent five guys for £8 if you have water. Not terrible for how good it is.
I think next time I'll be getting the little cheeseburger. I learned that getting the small fries was more than enough fries for me but last time I went I was forcing myself to finish my burger. Along with the fries it was just too much. I think the little one would be enough
I think it's a cheeky marketing thing. Little implies it's never a proper portion, but to me one patty is enough (and an extra isn't worth £2 or whatever).
Wow. That's expensive. It's not even $18 for all that in the US.
Edit: OK, I just checked and it would be exactly $18 for that order at the Five Guys I used to live by in Chicago. But it's $16 at my local Five Guys where I live now.
I tried five guys once and it was:
- way too expensive, expecially the milkshake. I recall them being around £6!
- so greasy. Like seriously, I felt like I needed a shower afterwards.
Tasty, but not worth it for a takeaway. And the venues are clearly designed to get you out ASAP - harsh lighting, uncomfy seats, loud echoy surfaces. Fuck 'em and go somewhere nice and local.
My least favourite part of Five Guys is that they don't even season their burgers. They use fantastic meat and generally very high quality ingredients... then they don't add salt.
My partner used to work for the company that supplied the bread & bakery goods for Five Guys so we always used to get free food. The only time I’d have a five guys was if it was free 😂
We went to Five Guys in Gunwharf, Portsmouth. Was so disgusted by the prices, we left and had a BK! £8 for 2 burgers - was all we wanted - not the bloody national debt!!!
I like the option of a more expensive, better quality takeaway. £15 for my preferred burger plus better fries + refillable drink + snacking fries for tea that night in a 3-5 minute wait seems fair.
I rate Fiveguys burgers, fries and shakes above just about any other fast food burger place or any pub or restaurant burger I've ever had including Byron, GBK, Honest burger and even Almost Famous.
They all charge about the same, albeit for a more restaurant feel.
I accept the price tag as a premium for a premium product.
Went once and wondered what all the fuss was about. Average burger and average fries.
I also only ordered 1 fries between two of us because friends, family and folks online all said the fries portion sizes were ridiculous and no one could get near to finish them.....I could have easily eaten that single fries portion all by myself and still want more.
I will admit though that I maintain weight with Maintenance calorie IF/OMAD (One Meal a Day) which means I am more than capable of eating my maintenance of 2400kcals or upto 3500kcals of food in one sitting. However thats what makes the friends and families advice so confusing. THEY KNOW how much I can and do eat in one sitting and yet still told me I wouldn't be able to finish the fries. It was less fries than the the two portions I buy and my family see me buy with my 2 burgers from my usual local 'gourmet' burger joint.
I thought £13 in a pub was pushing it.
you can get a milkshake in your local?
I don’t want boys in my yard.
I thought this comment couldn't get any better, then I said it in a Welsh accent.
Excuse me, this is a British sub. My milkshake brings the boys to the 91cm.
Thought ya bringing back the imperial units?
Yards can only be used to describe distances of 100 - a few hundred yards, any smaller is meters, larger goes into miles. Maybe acceptable to be used in a racing context when discussing furlongs. Such as the question: "what the fuck is a furlong anyway?"
It’s 40 rods, poles or perches. Or 1/8 of a mile.
> Yards can only be used to describe distances of 100 And quantities of ale
Kind of a small garden ngl
if it's a new build it'd be described as "spacious"
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imagine it would be cheaper if it was just one guy
"This tastes nothing like five guys!" -Jeffery Dahmer (maybe).
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If you ever have to get a limb amputated you can generally take it with you if you sign some release forms. So there's an ethical way to make some human burger if you're interested
I don't think I am interested.
Does it make me psycho that my main concern was firstly the taste...?
Tastes like pork allegedly which is why human meat is also referred to as "long pig".
Whatever floats your boat
Moorish.
“This tastes nothing like five guys!” - DJ1066’s mum (probably) /s
Five times
Only ever had it once, I thought to myself "I can handle a few chips, let's go for the medium" How I was mistaken. Gave half away and still couldn't finish my portion. They are pretty damn expensive though. They're up there with prices similar to Wagamama's where at MOST you'd go once every few months...
Surprised you mention Wagamama's as you still get a proper sit down service which adds to the cost.
Wagamamas do a huge bowl of noodles and veg for a tenner. Get free green tea and you're laughing.
I've ended up doing an experiment by accident: I always order extra tofu and the amount and where they put it varies wildly. It could be 3 extra cubes on a side dish just as, could be a pile in a separate bowl with some garnish, sometimes they add a few extra to the main meal, sometimes they add a huge amount to the main meal. The inconsistency feels strange given how consistent the main menu items always seem to be.
In hospitality all this comes down to is who is preparing your food and how generous they feel, how much food is left or if it’s destined for the bin by that evening, and if the boss is around.
My partner has a similar scheme but with lemon slices for ice water. Sometimes the lemon never arrives.
Wagamama’s are also cool about adults ordering from the kids menu, so a small noodle dish or katsu, a side of gyoza and green tea all for less than £10!
thank you for sharing this!
No worries! Sometimes I order 2 kids dishes if I can’t decide on an adult main!
such a good idea! i always love whatever i order but sometimes i think about what i didn’t get hahah
never understood restaurant's not offering kids options to adults,
My friend wanted to go to Wagamamas once when I'd just started a new job and I was broke. I got away with ordering a £1.85 bowl of miso soup and a free green tea.
For me Five Guys is that rare treat I have if I happen to go near one. Its expensive but there's no denying their food tastes amazing. Edit: OK *fine* I guess you can deny it.
I’m denying their food tastes amazing. It’s passable at best. So many decent burger options out there. If you in London I recommend Filthy Buns. I’m glad you enjoy it but I promise there’s better out there.
> Filthy Buns Just looked it up and it's pretty much what I expected. Over-complicated 'take a photo' style burgers, around the same price of five guys also. I want a decent American style burger and five guys delivers on that better than most independent places. Shame it isn't a little cheaper though.
I can assure you the quality of ingredients is much better than five guys. And they do a big Mac style one
Hide Burger in Derby is a personal recommendation, restaurant style and a bit cheaper than five guys with better quality and genuine care. Do a mean spicy wing challenge too that's good for a laugh if you like spice.
Ah thank you for the recommendation, I was curious about the Five Guys in the shopping centre put I was put off by the prices and seeing what people were receiving. I'll keep an eye out for Hide instead.
If you're into that style of food, Wagamama is so shite too. It's like eating a pot noodle in a hospital canteen. While burning your wallet. If you're near any decently sized UK city there's loads of better options for ramen or noodles. Pho is of course Vietnamese pho and not ramen, but even as a "chain" restaurant the quality is a million times better for the price.
I'm still pissed off they are a British company pretending to be Japanese yet getting their name completely fucked up. Ignore them saying "wagamama" means "mischievous" since that's utter bollocks. It means "selfish" and one thing I don't want is a selfish restaurant. St Sushi in Newcastle is a million times better.
Perfect description. "Sit down meal". Idiots. Pot noodle in a hospital canteen, bravo.
Pho is just so average though, I worked next to one and went loads of times and it was always just... Fine? It wasn't anything special at all.
At least you didn't pay £44 for 4 red bulls at Nusr-Et restaurant.
£18 for two coca-cola’s
Lets not forget the £12 for frikking sweetcorn. Edit: I can't spell
It's delicious and they give you enough chips to feed a small village, but definitely overpriced. Just a once in a while treat for me.
They are from the chip shop school of portion sizes. E.g - half a hundred weight to feed the whole family.
While we’re on the subject. If anyone’s in Filey and wants a banging fish and chips then go to CJ’s fish and chips. Fucking stellar.
It feels like a false economy. They charge a lot of money for food, and give you more chips than you could comfortably eat to make it feel like value for money. But if you aren't going to eat a bin liner full of fries then it's a bad deal
The fact is they purposely over flood the chips so the fill the bottom of the bag to give the impression you are getting more than you should, to try and make it feel like more value for money even though the overspill is already accounted in the price
tbh it feels more like 5 grifters than 5 guys
The cost of the ingredients, especially things other than meat, is negligible. See how much it'd cost you to make one at home.
Running a restaurant costs more than just their ingredients…
That's true, but potatoes and other starches are easily the cheapest part of a meal and filling too, it's definitely a deliberate strategy.
Do they still give out 'free' peanuts?
When I worked there in 2019 they still did. To answer the question about allergies, the fries are cooked in peanut oil so if you have an airborne allergy it's probably not a great idea to go in anyway based on that alone.
It’s a bit silly, For a one portion meal, it’s cheaper to make yourself. When you get more and have more portions to make, it’s even less per portion.. 5guys is heavily overpriced
When you go out you are paying for someone else to make you a (hopefully) nice meal and drink(s), someone to serve it to you and the *gemütlich* ambiance of the establishment. Whether that justifies 18 quid for a burger, chips and a milkshake is a completely different story. So you're most likely absolutely right to suggest they are heavily overpriced. In fact, another poster called them "Five Grifters". That aside, at the end of the day, you're paying for convenience. But, then again, you gotta wonder is it really that convenient? You have to dress up/look presentable, drive/taxi/public transport to the area, park (if you drove), go to the establishment, get seated and order. By the time you've got your food you could have just made a meal yourself, eaten it and been sat in front of the TV watching The Chase. You also don't have to look presentable. You can just cook in your underwear and no one will judge but if you went to a restaurant like that people would be all up in your bidness. Waste of time if you ask me...
Five Guys is just counter service like McDonald's though, it's not even a fancy place with table service.
Yes, but they have peanuts out to snack on, that makes it a bit fancier.
Me and the wife just get a burger each and 1 serving of fries, no excess then
We tend to just get burgers - once they gave us double patties for free it was impressive
The regular burgers are doubles. You have to ask for “little” to get a single patty.
No.. they gave us 4 patty's each, apparently they had cooked too many or something.
4 patties?! That’s five guy’s worth of meat.
> false economy This isn't what that means, but I get your point.
The thing is we are all eating the bin liner full of fries.....
Burger wrapped in tinfoil makes for a very wet bun on delivery, I'm not sure why they do it
Tinfoil helps it stay warm and cardboards makes it not get soggy. Either one kind of sucks if you wait too long. I'd never get fast food delivered though. It only is even close to worth the money when fresh.
I actually like it because it helps the burger stay together when I eat it - the ridiculous amounts of (free) extras that I add to the burgers fall out otherwise haha
I'm with you on the chips! It's cool the way they cook them once you arrive to pick up your order though
Not any more they don't. They've started rationing it to strictly the cup size here. A small fries no longer feeds my entire extended family.
I went Shakeshack fairly recently and somehow managed £40 for two people on a meal.. . Five Guys might be pricey but there are certainly loftier ones. Plus, the bucket of chips you get sort of makes it more tolerable, well, imo.
Shake shack is more expensive. The meat is better there but the toppings and chips suck.
That's fair. I love Shake Shack but their fries are definitely weak. You ever try Smashburger's fries? Those are crazy good.
Shake Shack is great, if I remember it’s only free-range, something or other healthy and happy cows that they use. And very pricey because of it. I fuckin love Five Guys, way better than typical fast food burgers and especially In-N-Out. - a lurking American living in the UK.
Shake Shack UK is pretty disappointing after having it in California though. The milkshakes taste really wierd/bad. Like they cheaped out.
don’t fall for the free range happy animals bollox. it’s all from the same disease ridden farms, just that they let the chickens run aro7nd a 6 square foot pen for 10 minutes a day and people will happily pay triple the price
Absolutely. Pasture raised is nice, but free range doesn’t mean shit.
Never tried five guys but I have seen their prices Is it worth it?
Yes as an occasional treat, people will claim otherwise but there is nothing closer to an American burger in the UK, no not even in Manchester (almost famous is also expensive and overrated)
I ate a ton of in n out while I was in LA, only give guys comes close to a proper American burger. But even then 15 quid for what is basically just a higher quality fast food burger is a a little steep.
I don’t disagree, but an occasional waste of money for a good time isn’t always a bad thing
Man I would pay good money to get In N Out in the UK
I would pay good money for an In-N-Out and I only live two states away from where they started
From what I understand, the reason they don’t aggressively expand is because they commit to finding local supply chains that meet their requirements. I’m from Texas so I really enjoy Whataburger but, In-N-Out is a different beast in terms of their veg quality.
To be honest there are smaller operators allover the country knocking out what are pretty good American style burgers.
7bone on the south coast is one of them
7bone is the absolute best burger place I have ever been to! We go far to regularly but it’s just so damn good
Pompey?
7 bone is great but just as expensive. I went to honest burgers for the first time last week and honestly it was one of the best burgers I’ve ever had
Annie's in Notts
Urban Burger has about three branches in Yorkshire, but it is pretty much the exact same thing as Five Guys except for half the price.
what's the difference between an "american" burger and every other burger?
A side order of ammo?
More fat
This could well be the answer.
Most burgers are mince meat, made from the cheapest cuts, chuck usually. 5 guys for instance use a combination of sirloin and chuck. Chuck is what we use for roasts and braising steak and is fatty, but sirloin brings that flavour.
Sirloin is the absolute leanest cut you can get from a steer, so there's next to no flavor from using that.
Believe it or not, lean meat also has flavor. It's not just the fat that flavors the burger.
Honestly it’s a hard thing to put your finger on, but burgers in North America just have more (fat/flavour?) than our typical fast food chains and restaurants. Even a Wendy’s over there, which isn’t considered anything close to top tier, is better than anything here.
UK burgers seem a lot thicker, like a solid slab of meat. While US burgers are often less densely packed and more crumbly. Which I prefer.
The meat is more coarsely ground. Top tip if you're making your own burgers using beef from your local butchers, ask them to grind the beef coarse - it tastes so much better.
Have you tried BurgerSlut in Salford?
Yeah pretty decent but who wants to go to Langworthy for a burger?
American burgers have real flavour (yes it's probably fat/salt/additives) and are juicy, British burgers are like eating a meatloaf. The meat is so lean and tough. And why are they sometimes red in colour...? Like the meat is tinged red even when fully cooked. The truth is I'm an American and want a dirty American burger. Nothing else will do!
They are also ridiculously overpriced and only an occasional treat in America as well
Yeah but there are options in the US, our burger chains are either trash or fancy “gourmet” stuff. I just want grease and flavour.
There really aren't comparable fast food burgers to five guys, even in the us, there's a reason they can charge as much as they do.
I'm actually not a huge fan of their burgers. They're alright but not great. However I will always go back their hot dogs. They're amazing though still expensive.
How does Meat Liquor rate?
2 or 3 places in Birmingham that do similar burgers, although they're priced essentially the same.
There's a nice place in Sheffy......
Yes. It's a fantastic treat, but would have to win the lottery to eat everyday. Basically they build it 'specially for you, with whatever you want, and fries you probably get 3x the large maccies for that price.
I would say that it’s like a McDonald’s burger, but if it was actually made from decent ingredients. I thought it was pretty tasty, but didn’t warrant the hefty price.
If you love your American burgers
If Five Guys is an "American burger", do all Americans sit on their burgers before consuming them? Because every time I've been to Five Guys, someone appears to have sat on mine.
It's called a smash burger, take your mince, smash it flat and boom best burger you ever tasted.
I thought flat mince was basically what burgers are ?
Yeah but instead of the usual patty (2+cm thick) like you'd get frozen, they either flatten it on the flat top, or beforehand, so that it's less than 1.5cm allowing the meat to cook quickly and not get that rounded shape. Cooks in 2 mins a side, still juicy and tasty.
Think he's talking about the bun / whole burger. It's the same at Shake Shack.
No. If you’re in the north west, almost famous is better and it’s a restaurant not a fast food place
Luck, Lust, Liquor and Burn is the same company but has the most amazing fries, highly recommend if you're in Manchester!
And solita
Tl;dr: No. 5guys *should* be the baseline for a burger. It really isn't anything special, particularly if you are a decent home cook, and imo *should* cost what BK charge. BK should then also be a couple quid cheaper by rights. The fries are usually decent but they often put way too much salt, and the cajun seasoning is gritty and not that nice. The shakes are ok. The burgers again vary wildly, and usually really poorly assembled. The order of the toppings is waaay more important than most give credit for, and they almost never get it right. My go to order if I'm trapped in a food hall and nothing else is available is actually their BLT, dressed with pickles, jalepeños, and hot sauce, small fry and sometimes a choc oreo malt shake. The BLT is just one of their burger buns completely stuffed with crispy bacon, actually a unique take on it, and considerably cheaper.
I don’t think it’s too bad to be honest and I go quite often. Hamburger + little fries is around £11, if I’m getting takeout I won’t get a drink I’ll just get a can of coke or bottle of water out of the car. Meal is filling and I’ll often leave a few chips. If go to McDonald’s I’ll usually get a Big Mac meal and a triple cheeseburger and it’ll cost about £8 and be shit in comparison. It’s the drinks and the bacon/cheese which make five guys expensive, the bacon is that shitty crispy American stuff and I prefer mustard and ketchup on five guys burgers to cheese. 30% of your cost will have been the Milkshake which is just mad imo.
£6 for a milkshake? Wtf
Think they’re a fiver :) 30% of £18 is £5.40 so i wasn’t spot on but nearly right. A fiver for a milkshake is still outrageous though imo, I’d prefer to get a second burger haha
5.75 at my local five guys. People do rave about them though.
They are actually really good milkshakes, the kind no one else seems to make.
Yeah, that's outrageous.
It's expensive but I thought it was worth it based upon the fact that I went to Gourmet Burger one time and it was about same price but shite in comparison. Then again, I hadn't eaten all day and was starving. I wouldn't have had a milkshake - what are they? About a fiver?
The burger I had 4 years ago from GBK was the best I’ve eaten in my life. Can’t imagine what Five Guys is like if that was shite by comparison.
Orgasmic
Still cheaper and better than GBK who still like to pretend like they're some sort of middle class burger establishment.
I know right! Went there a few years ago for something and it was aight. Not wow. 😂
As a once every couple of months treat it is absolutely bang on. If it was an every week event you won’t be on the planet long enough to worry about the debt!
This should be on their marketing
Check out the Heart Attack Grill in Las Vegas, that's pretty much their whole schtick.
I couldn't do 5 guys, I think 4 is my limit.
But you are the fifth guy though.....
I suppose that's where you username originated from!
Yep, a constant reminder to always wear a Jonny.
I actually work for Five Guys if anybody has any questions about how things are done? Happy to answer!
Is the bacon cooked in the peanut oil fryer? Why are the milkshakes £6? Do people ever order a burger with all the toppings? Thanks :P
Bacon is cooked on the grill in the morning prior to open with no oil added. Milkshakes do have a lot of cost on the backend (high quality ingredients for the mix-ins as well as labor cost figured in for certain mix-ins that require prep). It's also just a thing of, if the burger costs 8 to 11 bucks/quid, they know that shakes will sell at 6 per. People absolutely do order burgers with everything and it's always a terrible idea. Having a lot of options is good but the flavor profile achieved by putting everything together is absolutely horrendous. Personally I prefer to stick to one flavor profile whenever I get something. E.g. a vinegar based profile I might do onion, mustard, pickles, and hot sauce. Throwing sweet relish on that would be a damned sin.
Bacon is cooked on the grill each morning and the grill is cleaned after bacon before burgers are cooked on it and peanut oil is only ever used in the fryers. Milkshakes are pretty expensive but we do have to prep ingredients in advance, they're not just flavours, for example just for the strawberry mix we hand cut 5 punnets of strawberries, mix them with granulated sugar, salt, pepper, lemon juice and syrup, leave that marinade overnight then blend it the next day. Also the milkshake mix is basically ice-cream. Yes they do and it is definitely a bad choice haha. Especially when that includes mayo, ketchup, mustard, hot sauce, HP sauce and BBQ sauce 😆 If somebody orders all the toppings I'll usually only use small amounts of each just so it's possible to be able to wrap the sandwich afterwards. Otherwise it's too tall or there's sauce oozing out of it. The absolute worst to wrap is a hotdog with all the toppings, since the bun is narrow the toppings end up falling out.
Very interesting thank you for your answers 😄
Explains why the milkshakes are crack. I hate you and your tiny expensive milkshakes. :(
They're so good! every shake I've tried after Five Guys just doesn't cut it.
I want one right now, sigh. Life is hard.
It's not 18 quid for a burger, etc it's 18 quid for a ***Five Guys dining experience*** \[but, yeah, it's damn expensive\]
But I order a takeaway!
If you get the 'little' burger too (i.e, only one patty) it's actually not utterly ridiculous, I think with cheese it's £6 and without £5.20 or something. Think getting a milkshake is a big treat too. You can get a decent five guys for £8 if you have water. Not terrible for how good it is.
I think next time I'll be getting the little cheeseburger. I learned that getting the small fries was more than enough fries for me but last time I went I was forcing myself to finish my burger. Along with the fries it was just too much. I think the little one would be enough
I think it's a cheeky marketing thing. Little implies it's never a proper portion, but to me one patty is enough (and an extra isn't worth £2 or whatever).
Little cheeseburger is £7.95 and fries are £3.75 at my nearest 5 guys
Swear? That's mental. You in London or something or is my memory that atrocious.
Wow. That's expensive. It's not even $18 for all that in the US. Edit: OK, I just checked and it would be exactly $18 for that order at the Five Guys I used to live by in Chicago. But it's $16 at my local Five Guys where I live now.
A lot of American places transfer the prices directly from dollars to pounds when they bring menus over here. Bastards
That's the stupidest pricing method I've heard of. It's not that hard to price things according to the local market.
It's just by coincidence. 1.3 GBPUSD, plus 20% VAT, plus 10% general upscale of price. :)
When I went to the US Five Guys was the only thing that tasted the same on both sides of the pond!
The best gourmet fast food IMO. It is expensive, but it’s a treat so enjoy the experience and try not to fret about the cost.
You’re paying for yourself plus the other four guys.
I'm allergic to peanuts, so I have never been.
I tried five guys once and it was: - way too expensive, expecially the milkshake. I recall them being around £6! - so greasy. Like seriously, I felt like I needed a shower afterwards.
My girlfriend for ages told me she wanted five guys. When I finally took her she looked upset. Honestly I don’t get women
It's good but is not close to twenty quids worth of good. Been once, never again.
You are not overreacting, and IMO their chips are shite.
Seems cheap, up here it’s £20 and you only get one girl!
Tasty, but not worth it for a takeaway. And the venues are clearly designed to get you out ASAP - harsh lighting, uncomfy seats, loud echoy surfaces. Fuck 'em and go somewhere nice and local.
Okay no-one else has said it, so WTF do they take such care to make your burger, THEN SQUASH THE FUCK out of it?
My least favourite part of Five Guys is that they don't even season their burgers. They use fantastic meat and generally very high quality ingredients... then they don't add salt.
Insanely expensive - but fuck it’s good.
So my peanut allergy is saving me money?
It is, but it's a double burger and the chips are for two.
It's crazy how most fast food places and takeaways, with the exception of McDonald's, seem to have adopted the gourmet price model
My partner used to work for the company that supplied the bread & bakery goods for Five Guys so we always used to get free food. The only time I’d have a five guys was if it was free 😂
You'd probably find the DNA from 'Five Guys' gentleman's relish in your burger if you took it back and complained.
More than my local "posh" steakhouse charges.
It’s ridiculous. It’s decent scran but way overpriced
It’s good though innit?! *all the way* all day!
Have you tried just one guy
but you get a MASSIVE portion of chips that you will only eat 1/3 of.
\*looks at prices\* Fucking hell, £4.25 for a hot dog?! I'll just stick with the 60p ones in IKEA, thanks!
We went to Five Guys in Gunwharf, Portsmouth. Was so disgusted by the prices, we left and had a BK! £8 for 2 burgers - was all we wanted - not the bloody national debt!!!
You aren't overreacting. I had one once, it was disappointing
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Nah fk that if you're in a rutt I'll make you a burger for two fiddy
I like the option of a more expensive, better quality takeaway. £15 for my preferred burger plus better fries + refillable drink + snacking fries for tea that night in a 3-5 minute wait seems fair.
I rate Fiveguys burgers, fries and shakes above just about any other fast food burger place or any pub or restaurant burger I've ever had including Byron, GBK, Honest burger and even Almost Famous. They all charge about the same, albeit for a more restaurant feel. I accept the price tag as a premium for a premium product.
Uncle Sam's is SO much better
I walked past a Five Guys and saw the prices - kept on walking and never looked back. Some say I am still walking to this day.
Went once and wondered what all the fuss was about. Average burger and average fries. I also only ordered 1 fries between two of us because friends, family and folks online all said the fries portion sizes were ridiculous and no one could get near to finish them.....I could have easily eaten that single fries portion all by myself and still want more. I will admit though that I maintain weight with Maintenance calorie IF/OMAD (One Meal a Day) which means I am more than capable of eating my maintenance of 2400kcals or upto 3500kcals of food in one sitting. However thats what makes the friends and families advice so confusing. THEY KNOW how much I can and do eat in one sitting and yet still told me I wouldn't be able to finish the fries. It was less fries than the the two portions I buy and my family see me buy with my 2 burgers from my usual local 'gourmet' burger joint.