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We just walked out of be.good tonight. First off, the trend of "unbundling" burger meals is spreading. You see a reasonable price on the board only to find out that if you want the whole meal, it is going to cost you triple. I had to pay $15.99 for a burger, fries and a drink. For that price, I have to order the food myself, carry it on a tray and bus my table when I am done. I don't know what is causing this but I am not paying. Had we stayed, we would have paid $30+ dollars for what amounts to a couple of hamburgers.
That's not fast food. We can still get two small burger MEALS for around $5, or two larger ones for slightly less than double.
The topic title says a burger costs $15, while the thread says a burger plus a side and a drink costs that much. A little click-bait there.
I do agree that is an expensive price for burger, fries, and a coke, but that is certainly not average for a fast food meal. I think most chains charge $5-8 for the same combination.
I'll have to put in another plug with others for Steak N Shake. But I have one weakness there. I have to get their strawberry banana milkshake with my meal, or as a dessert after. And it's not a good milkshake if pieces of the fruit are big enough to get stuck in the straw.
Something else to check on when eating out. I cook our breakfast 6 days a week. On Sunday I get our breakfast at McDonald's. I get a sausage and egg McMuffin, a sausage biscuit for my wife, and 2 hash browns. That's usually a little over $7. I can get online, fill out a survey about my service at McD's, and get a code to put on the receipt to buy one sandwich and get one free. Now our McD's breakfasts are less than $4. I've seen other places with something like this on their receipt.
You'll never see me in a place where a burger meal is $16. Don't know if I've ever seen a place that charges that much.
You weren't paying for the meal. You were paying for Planet Hollywood in a casino.
I second the motion for Steak n Shake. We can get a milkshake, two burgers and fries for about $12. Cookout is edging it out lately, because we don't do milkshakes often and their fries are really exceptional.
Anyone is welcome to try and start their own fast food business and set whatever prices they want. It is not big governments place to try to price fix our meals and centrally plan the economy. We see the real world results of that system in places like North Korea, Cuba, and more recently in Venezuela.
We have seen from the hundred to two hundred million murdered by centrally planned economies in the 20th century, the tens of thousands that had to resort to cannibalism under such regimes, and the quality of life of billions that were negatively impacted by expropriation of their private property and fruits of their labor; that a centrally planned economy does not work.
Still having trouble picturing a FF meal to be $15. Even a whopper value meal goes for no more than $7 or $8. Even a la carte, a higher figure of $10.
If you go to the more fast casual places, then I could see that. Elevation Burger a decade ago had double, organic burgers for $6, and then another $3 or $4 for fries in olive oil. I get a shake which is another $5, but that's because their ingredients are better, and they don't do "combo meals".
I do In And Out if I'm in the area. A double double is tasty enough, but quite affordable at $3.50
Depends what you're after. 7-8 bucks for a burger, 3-4 for fries, and another 3-5 for a drink is perfectly fine. I'll do that over and over before I ever pay 3 bucks for a crap burger. But as you mentioned, it's usually at fast casual places that carry these prices. At those places, it's worth it. At a regular fast food place? Not so much.
Sorry but Five Guys Burgers and Fries win hands down to Freddie's or In And Out "salad on a bun" (where's the beef?). In And Out used to be great until they shrunk up their patties to a postage stamp...
You can save a lot of money and calories by not ordering or eating the french fries. After a while you don't miss them.
I could give up fries if I had Samoa Cookhouse bread to eat all the time instead...
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