€40!? I thought it was bad enough at a festival when I got a pick-and-mix and it cost a tenner! €40 is ridiculous, did they have the audacity to add one of those blue dolphins to their bags? That's what always set it over for me.
I watch American footie and too often see adverts for things like pizza hut deliveried with two toppings and cheesy bites and 67 litres of coke for 8.99 USD and I cry looking at £23 large pizzas here.
It's never that cheap here, it's a bunch of hidden fees. Comes to about the same if it makes you feel better.
$8.99 + $5 delivery + 20% tip + 7% sales tax.
Plus you live stateside which in itself can feel like a tax sometimes.
I don't think so. I'm just bitter, even though we pay 17.5% - 20% at home, you never see the tax so it seems better to my smoothbrain. Plus everything is cheaper at home, plus the exchange rate, numbers big = bad to my ape mind.
Ah fair, yeah taxes are easier to stomach when they're not smashed into your face all the time. Sales taxes fuck me off though because, like all flat rate taxes, they're one of the most regressive going.
I think they're just taking advantage of "Rip-off Britain" prices... Apparently we pay a lot more for products in general than many European countries (excluding Scandinavian countries which pay even higher prices).
I wonder what Five Guys costs in Scandinavian countries, if they have them there!?
I guess many of these American chains over here are run as franchises and their business analysts advise the franchisees what prices they can get away with charging!
Really... cheaper than in the US? I'm shocked to hear that!
I guess McD's did some careful sums, knowing they'll make more money selling a higher quantity even at slimmer margins... they know their core demographic.
I guess Five Guys do too... despite the prices, it was still heaving!
I used to think that in the 1990s. When the US seemed to be years aged of us. Quite literally in terms of things like console releases and the US had things which never made it to the UK. Houses and gas were so cheap compared to here, wages were higher......But now we have more or less same access to tech. US house prices in places that you'd want to move to have rocketed. Their wages in certain sectors, like tech. Are far higher than the UKbut generally they've been stagnant since the 1970s. With the Federal Minimum Wage, not changing since 2009 and peaking in 1968 at an inflation adjusted $12.47. But healthcare and out of pocket expenses, robs you of any extra wage that you might get.
Some states min wage is 7.25 USD, I saw a post where a pack of eggs coated 7.50 USD. Pretty grim working for an hour and not getting a dozen eggs. Meanwhile in blighty that's £2.50, so like 15 mins work on mini wage!
The US has been badly hit over the last year by Bird Flu. So 140 million+ birds have been culled and removed from the supply chain. Partially because their battery hen operations are just so huge. When one bird gets it then every other bird for a few miles has to be killed as well.
I love it, but it's a treat... Besides, share chips and have a single burger and it's not actually that bad.
Do I? Do I chuff, I'm walking around with a bag of chips for hours, determined to finish this exorbitant monster.
I went to mcs on my way home from work the other day. Got 20 nuggets and avlarge coke. Payed the price of what used to be 20 nuggets and a large coke. They gave me 9 nuggets and a small diet coke. Checked the receipt and that's what they put through too, had to check their prices online to make sure they didn't change them on the tills before charging me or something.
I think it was 4.39 for 9 nuggets
But Mcs is usually really good for pricing. There is a CoL scale called the big-mac scale which is literally just the price of a big mac in the area and is surprisingly accurate when compared with other scales
They don't pay their staff a proper wage firstly, then huge delivery and admin fees, proba doesn't include tax. Then they expect a tip. Plus it's just more expensive here, we probably have higher standards on food quality vs the American version etc.
McD's doesn't though, and the same conditions apply.
One non-legal one, Americans don't like frozen burgers so even McD's uses fresh beef there.
No tipping in fast food places, in general. FG does table service and some peoole tip for that, I do in both countries.
I am allowing for tax, and mentally probably on the high end based on where I lived there.
In some places in the USA, min wage is eveb higher than here, and it is sometimes reflected in pricing but it's not as large a difference as people expect (doubling min wage in a red state = $0.50 on a Big Mac meal)
I do enjoy them but agree they are very expensive.
I have one maybe once a year (if that). Last one I has was expensed by work so a lot more enjoyable when I wasn't paying!
Popped in to see what they hype was all about. I thought I'd keep it simple and go for small fries, a bacon cheese burger and a coke. £17.50!
As I choked it all down in a rage, I calculated that to bring the rest of the fam would cost me nearly £90 bloody quid for 5 of us!
My rage continued to burn as I reluctantly concluded it tasted pretty good.
£90 is conservative... don't forget the deadly kid's _can I have_ + peer pressure combo
One kids wants a peanut butter milkshake... then your other half says _"oh go on, don't be tight"_ ...then of course you can't refuse getting the other kids a shake... 💸
My grandad used to come home drunk on a Friday, where I’d be staying with my gran. With a battered half chicken.
They’re fucking excellent, though you can wring the grease like a sponge.
That was my local Ed's too... back in the late 90's / early 2000's
Also the Soho branch sometimes but it was generally too crowded for my liking!
When I was trying to be a bit healthier, I swapped to their Portobello mushroom burger which was pretty damn good! Loved their cheesy fries!
Oh no, what a shame! I can't believe the one at Kings Cross closed, that was always packed! Probably the business rates that made the margins too slim.
You shouldn't. It's insanely expensive and the best comparison is a fresh McDonald's burger. Like if McDonald's put a bit of effort in and they weren't dry from sitting under a heat lamp for 15 minutes
Roger that, i was just lamenting the old heat lamp system meant you could pay and be eating in seconds. You get a fresher make, now, but it’s already a mcdonalds so that was never the priority
>they weren't dry from sitting under a heat lamp for 15 minutes
Most McDonald's stuff is made to order now - it's the only realistic way to deal with the level of customisation most of their products offer.
>Actually melted cheese
A quick go under a heat lamp for better quality might do some good (they might still do that, I don't know), but the problem was the burgers used to be prepared well ahead of time, then kept warm under the heat lamps for an extended time, which resulted in the burgers being a bit crap.
>still hot
They don't need to keep food warm for as long any more - they prepare it to order, then serve it while it's still hot/warm. They will still heat stuff to keep it warm where necessary (e.g. large orders to ensure it can all be served together) or where no customisation is possible (e.g. the apple pies).
Five Guys is fun as a vegetarian because it's a real throwback to a decade or so back when fast food restaurants just didn't give a fuck about veggie options - what with even KFC bending over backwards to offer us Beyond patties and the like, being told to suck it up, order the shitty awful pepper abomination and go fuck myself (in roughly that order) is oddly nostalgic
Local kebab shop caved to the pressure and now offers both gluten free and vegetarian kebabs.
Same price as actual kebabs.
For the vegetarian one they leave the meat out.
For the gluten free one they just dump salad and meat and sauce onto the paper.
I genuinely adore the no fucks given attitude.
Years ago, out on the beer in Newcastle, went to a kebab shop and one of us asked for the vegetarian kebab they had listed on the menu.
They thought it was going to be some kind of meat substitute.
What they got was a pita with “all the salad” and nothing else.
Brilliant!
Man, the kebab house I use regularly actually has a nice veggie kebab. They do skewers of pepper, mushroom, onion on the grill. And its way cheaper than a doner..
Haha, this is perfect. I was wondering of a way to adequately describe just how shit it is. £6 for a "grilled cheese" or something woeful, but it's just a burger bun the wrong way around and some fake cheese.
I went into the one in Poole while I was waiting for my missus, and although I was ready to be outraged after paying quite a lot, I thought it was decent.
I have never taken fast food chips home before because there were so many
We go there as a celebration kind of thing. Kid achieves something good at school? Five Guys. Something substantial happens at work? Five Guys. Wife left me? Five Guys.
😄 At least it became considerably cheaper after the wife left you! (sorry to hear that though).
Same here... It's used as a treat for the kids (an incentive that genuinely seems to work!) I can't face the wallet-rape unless the kids have 'earned it' or if it's for a birthday etc.
Never had five guys before and we ordered some for a night shift last year. Most dissapointing food experience in every regard of 2022 for me. Payed way too much, tastes way too average.
I experienced this went i went to one in Brum with my family (4 of us) last week. I got the price and I was like WTF? But was put on the spot so I had to suck it up. The quality wasn’t great, the service was poor and the restaurant was shit hole.
Ditto my experience at the weeknd... £35 for two of us
I was inspired to post this by the _white-as-a-sheet_ look on the face of a person who returned from the till to a table of 12!
A couple of Americans I work with have praised 5 guys for being a surprisingly decent burger.
So I take that as a sign that they are probably some of the best fast food chain burgers we can get here.
Money well spent on burgers good enough for Americans.
Take from that what you will.
I'm American and 5 guys in America is overpriced. Or maybe not overpriced, just that even their smallest burgers are usually more food than I want to pay for and for around the same price I can get a really outstanding burger from a nicer restaurant.
See, I really like it and don’t think it’s insanely overpriced. Although it’s fast food burger and fries I don’t think it should be compared to the likes of McDonald’s or Burger King. It’s much better than that and the price reflects that.
I think it’s more comparable to other food court chains, Frankie & Bennies, Wagamama, Chiquitos etc. if you were to look at it that way it’s one of the cheaper and imo better options.
you do not think it is overpriced?
bear in mind that being overpriced has nothing to do with if you are ok with paying that amount or anything like that
i bloody love 5 guys but there is no way it is not overpriced.
pizza and burger places are taking the piss so much that people do not even see it anymore lol
It’s an opinion I firmly stand by. It’s a more expensive treat for sure but I don’t think it’s outrageous. The most expensive burger at Burger King is £6.99, the most expensive burger at Five Guys is £8.95. I believe the increase in quality justifies that extra £2.
I do think that eating out is becoming more expensive in general but I don’t think Five Guys exploit that more than anywhere else.
Would rather pay £25 for two burgers and drinks than the shite at McDonald’s tbh. It’s a fair price for restaurant grade burgers without a restaurant style experience.
People love to shit on it like Nando’s. It’s quick, fresh and easy to access.
They do.
It’s not listed as an option on the milkshake part of the menu, but they’ll do it for you.
I just have bacon as I’ve tried it with peanut butter and bacon and it’s too salty.
Five guys has always been expensive but I found it increased a lot in price over the last year or so. For me and my partner both having a burger then sharing chips, sharing a drink it went up £5 which was probably around 25%. It went from an occasional treat to nope too expensive for what it is.
I just can’t justify 5 Guys.
It’s basically the same price as Honest Burger, which is vastly superior and also available to take away since the pandemic.
If you find yourself in Bristol, Three Bothers made alarmingly great burgers.
Five Guys was just starting out at the time and I forgot the name so ended up there due to not remembering correctly.
Three Bothers - Great
Five Guys - not impressed
Thanks, I'll give them a try
I'm only just across the bridge; I don't mind travelling to brizzle for a burger 😋
Have you heard of that amazing steak restaurant in Bristol owned by the butchers next door.... best £50 cube of steak I've ever eaten 😳
Been there once and it’s canny. Also don’t forget the Old Duke Pub, opposite on Kings Street, great place with some good bands.
I’m not from Bristol but Newcastle. When I was walking back from King street once to the hotel, some guy stopped me and said ‘here, du ya kna where King Street is from here?’ Turns out he was from the same local area of Wallsend as me.
Love Bristol.
Tried Five Guys when visiting London. Similar price (if not slightly more expensive) and much worse quality to burger joints in Cornwall, don't understand why people rave about them.
That was me when I let my two boys go in the pick-and-mix shop at Mont Saint-Michel. When they got to the till I went in to pay… €40 on sweets.
€40!? I thought it was bad enough at a festival when I got a pick-and-mix and it cost a tenner! €40 is ridiculous, did they have the audacity to add one of those blue dolphins to their bags? That's what always set it over for me.
Same here, but in Verona. They were nice sweets though.
Wow were they going round the shop in a JCB?
It certainly seemed that way. When the cashier rang it up I got worried looks from both the boys _and_ the cashier. Meh, I was on holiday.
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And now you must eat your weight in the free peanuts too
At least you'll have a metric fuck tonne of cold fries to wipe your tears.
This is the PG version of being done over by 5 guys
A number of American brands charge about double here what they do in the USA and Five Guys is one. How do they do it?
I watch American footie and too often see adverts for things like pizza hut deliveried with two toppings and cheesy bites and 67 litres of coke for 8.99 USD and I cry looking at £23 large pizzas here.
It's never that cheap here, it's a bunch of hidden fees. Comes to about the same if it makes you feel better. $8.99 + $5 delivery + 20% tip + 7% sales tax. Plus you live stateside which in itself can feel like a tax sometimes.
Watch out they are coming for you, exposing the American dream 'n all.
Do you pay sales tax on tips!?
I don't think so. I'm just bitter, even though we pay 17.5% - 20% at home, you never see the tax so it seems better to my smoothbrain. Plus everything is cheaper at home, plus the exchange rate, numbers big = bad to my ape mind.
Ah fair, yeah taxes are easier to stomach when they're not smashed into your face all the time. Sales taxes fuck me off though because, like all flat rate taxes, they're one of the most regressive going.
I think they're just taking advantage of "Rip-off Britain" prices... Apparently we pay a lot more for products in general than many European countries (excluding Scandinavian countries which pay even higher prices). I wonder what Five Guys costs in Scandinavian countries, if they have them there!? I guess many of these American chains over here are run as franchises and their business analysts advise the franchisees what prices they can get away with charging!
The thing is, some don't ... McD's is cheaper here.
Really... cheaper than in the US? I'm shocked to hear that! I guess McD's did some careful sums, knowing they'll make more money selling a higher quantity even at slimmer margins... they know their core demographic. I guess Five Guys do too... despite the prices, it was still heaving!
I think they are trading on American cool branding. All the kids my stepsons' age think the USA is the bee's knees.
I used to think that in the 1990s. When the US seemed to be years aged of us. Quite literally in terms of things like console releases and the US had things which never made it to the UK. Houses and gas were so cheap compared to here, wages were higher......But now we have more or less same access to tech. US house prices in places that you'd want to move to have rocketed. Their wages in certain sectors, like tech. Are far higher than the UKbut generally they've been stagnant since the 1970s. With the Federal Minimum Wage, not changing since 2009 and peaking in 1968 at an inflation adjusted $12.47. But healthcare and out of pocket expenses, robs you of any extra wage that you might get.
Some states min wage is 7.25 USD, I saw a post where a pack of eggs coated 7.50 USD. Pretty grim working for an hour and not getting a dozen eggs. Meanwhile in blighty that's £2.50, so like 15 mins work on mini wage!
The US has been badly hit over the last year by Bird Flu. So 140 million+ birds have been culled and removed from the supply chain. Partially because their battery hen operations are just so huge. When one bird gets it then every other bird for a few miles has to be killed as well.
I love it, but it's a treat... Besides, share chips and have a single burger and it's not actually that bad. Do I? Do I chuff, I'm walking around with a bag of chips for hours, determined to finish this exorbitant monster.
I went to mcs on my way home from work the other day. Got 20 nuggets and avlarge coke. Payed the price of what used to be 20 nuggets and a large coke. They gave me 9 nuggets and a small diet coke. Checked the receipt and that's what they put through too, had to check their prices online to make sure they didn't change them on the tills before charging me or something. I think it was 4.39 for 9 nuggets But Mcs is usually really good for pricing. There is a CoL scale called the big-mac scale which is literally just the price of a big mac in the area and is surprisingly accurate when compared with other scales
Five Guys charges about same price in China as UK while our average income is much lower.
5 guys isn’t much cheaper in the US, it’s the same amount but in dollars. I wasn’t impressed for the money, I’d rather a McD £1.20 cheeseburger.
They don't pay their staff a proper wage firstly, then huge delivery and admin fees, proba doesn't include tax. Then they expect a tip. Plus it's just more expensive here, we probably have higher standards on food quality vs the American version etc.
McD's doesn't though, and the same conditions apply. One non-legal one, Americans don't like frozen burgers so even McD's uses fresh beef there. No tipping in fast food places, in general. FG does table service and some peoole tip for that, I do in both countries. I am allowing for tax, and mentally probably on the high end based on where I lived there. In some places in the USA, min wage is eveb higher than here, and it is sometimes reflected in pricing but it's not as large a difference as people expect (doubling min wage in a red state = $0.50 on a Big Mac meal)
I do enjoy them but agree they are very expensive. I have one maybe once a year (if that). Last one I has was expensed by work so a lot more enjoyable when I wasn't paying!
Popped in to see what they hype was all about. I thought I'd keep it simple and go for small fries, a bacon cheese burger and a coke. £17.50! As I choked it all down in a rage, I calculated that to bring the rest of the fam would cost me nearly £90 bloody quid for 5 of us! My rage continued to burn as I reluctantly concluded it tasted pretty good.
£90 is conservative... don't forget the deadly kid's _can I have_ + peer pressure combo One kids wants a peanut butter milkshake... then your other half says _"oh go on, don't be tight"_ ...then of course you can't refuse getting the other kids a shake... 💸
Sheesh, I grew up with oil money in the 90s and still had to share a kids fish supper with my brother. Didn't even want fish. Wanted the half chicken.
My grandad used to come home drunk on a Friday, where I’d be staying with my gran. With a battered half chicken. They’re fucking excellent, though you can wring the grease like a sponge.
I don't have many chippy choices where I live and honestly seeing a half chicken is so rare now a days. I wish I knew why.
> half chicken is so rare now a days. I wish I knew why. The abundance of fried chicken shops?
Possibly but I live remotely with usually only a chippy and a curry house or a Chinese serving the local community.
Tbf the small fries are about 2 kg worth
But you only need one portion of fries for all of you, and the small cheeseburger is generally enough, you can share a drink, too.
Their milkshakes are amazing. I don’t bother with meals though, so expensive!
Gotta love the peanut butter shake! I used to get them at Ed's Diner back in the day!
Ed’s diner Covent Garden.... wow blast from the past!
That was my local Ed's too... back in the late 90's / early 2000's Also the Soho branch sometimes but it was generally too crowded for my liking! When I was trying to be a bit healthier, I swapped to their Portobello mushroom burger which was pretty damn good! Loved their cheesy fries!
Around the same time too... wow how time flies.
I just googled it and there's now no Ed's in London? And they sell their food as microwavable in Iceland, noooo
Oh no, what a shame! I can't believe the one at Kings Cross closed, that was always packed! Probably the business rates that made the margins too slim.
I walked past the soho one a lot and it was always too busy to go in, kinda regret now
Isn’t “wondering aimlessly” just daydreaming?
I wandered lonely as a cloud
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I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I heard a voice "OI! GERROFF ME DAFFODILS!"
I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high oer vale and moor Till all at once I saw a crowd A host of giant dinosaurs
In this case, it's a daymare... stunned by the prices, walking around trying figure out what's just happened to your bank balance
The point is, wandering =/ wondering.
Ah I see... thanks
5 Guys is brilliant but it's definitely a once a year treat for me and the kids. It's delicious but it breaks my heart and the bank balance. 😂
I regret not trying a 5guys when I lived near one, there isn't one here in Blackpool unfortunately.
there isn't much in Blackpool in the first place unfortunately
Stacks is usually my go to for a proper burger but Its their Cajun fries that I keep going back for lol.
They have a "beach" or so I'm told. I never found it, just a cobbled coastline
Trafford centres only 45ish minutes away on a good day and they have one there. and theres one in preston it seems.
I didn't know there's one in Preston, that's definitely doable.
There is one here in Preston. Not far from PNE.
This is good news, thanks for letting me know.
You shouldn't. It's insanely expensive and the best comparison is a fresh McDonald's burger. Like if McDonald's put a bit of effort in and they weren't dry from sitting under a heat lamp for 15 minutes
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OPM every time!
They don’t do the heatlamp thing anymore do they? You have to wait for a handmade one
I dunno, my point was 5 Guys is like a fresh, juicier McD's. Whenever I get burgers from McD's they're always dry and a bit overcooked.
Roger that, i was just lamenting the old heat lamp system meant you could pay and be eating in seconds. You get a fresher make, now, but it’s already a mcdonalds so that was never the priority
>they weren't dry from sitting under a heat lamp for 15 minutes Most McDonald's stuff is made to order now - it's the only realistic way to deal with the level of customisation most of their products offer.
Were they not better under the heat lamps? Actually melted cheese and still hot
>Actually melted cheese A quick go under a heat lamp for better quality might do some good (they might still do that, I don't know), but the problem was the burgers used to be prepared well ahead of time, then kept warm under the heat lamps for an extended time, which resulted in the burgers being a bit crap. >still hot They don't need to keep food warm for as long any more - they prepare it to order, then serve it while it's still hot/warm. They will still heat stuff to keep it warm where necessary (e.g. large orders to ensure it can all be served together) or where no customisation is possible (e.g. the apple pies).
Five Guys is fun as a vegetarian because it's a real throwback to a decade or so back when fast food restaurants just didn't give a fuck about veggie options - what with even KFC bending over backwards to offer us Beyond patties and the like, being told to suck it up, order the shitty awful pepper abomination and go fuck myself (in roughly that order) is oddly nostalgic
Onions in a bun for you my friend.
Local kebab shop caved to the pressure and now offers both gluten free and vegetarian kebabs. Same price as actual kebabs. For the vegetarian one they leave the meat out. For the gluten free one they just dump salad and meat and sauce onto the paper. I genuinely adore the no fucks given attitude.
Years ago, out on the beer in Newcastle, went to a kebab shop and one of us asked for the vegetarian kebab they had listed on the menu. They thought it was going to be some kind of meat substitute. What they got was a pita with “all the salad” and nothing else. Brilliant!
Man, the kebab house I use regularly actually has a nice veggie kebab. They do skewers of pepper, mushroom, onion on the grill. And its way cheaper than a doner..
Haha, this is perfect. I was wondering of a way to adequately describe just how shit it is. £6 for a "grilled cheese" or something woeful, but it's just a burger bun the wrong way around and some fake cheese.
Working out how to swing a second mortgage to afford the extra fries
Secret is 1 fries is enough for a family of 4 anyway..
Also one soft drink
Not if your a greedy bastard like me I have to get the wife to tell me to stop eating them
hehe, your meant to eat 2 kilo of free peanuts first to slow you down
I went into the one in Poole while I was waiting for my missus, and although I was ready to be outraged after paying quite a lot, I thought it was decent. I have never taken fast food chips home before because there were so many
We go there as a celebration kind of thing. Kid achieves something good at school? Five Guys. Something substantial happens at work? Five Guys. Wife left me? Five Guys.
😄 At least it became considerably cheaper after the wife left you! (sorry to hear that though). Same here... It's used as a treat for the kids (an incentive that genuinely seems to work!) I can't face the wallet-rape unless the kids have 'earned it' or if it's for a birthday etc.
Never had five guys before and we ordered some for a night shift last year. Most dissapointing food experience in every regard of 2022 for me. Payed way too much, tastes way too average.
Oh it doesn’t travel at all - you’ve got to eat while hot
I experienced this went i went to one in Brum with my family (4 of us) last week. I got the price and I was like WTF? But was put on the spot so I had to suck it up. The quality wasn’t great, the service was poor and the restaurant was shit hole.
Do you not know the cheat code? 1 portion of fries and 1 drink to share. They are the greatest burgers in the world though.
I've tried the fries cheat code... Even the regular serving is enough for 2 people!
Anyone find their frys way way too salty.
Equal to a monthly mortgage payment..
If you're on interest-only repayments (the mortgage, not Five Guys) and you have a large family... then it genuinely could be!
At least one Small Fries is enough to feed the whole family.
Very true... and I do absolutely love it 😋. Will just have to have it far less often
A meal for two nearly cost £35 not long ago. I’ve not been back for ages. Honestly isn’t worth it.
Ditto my experience at the weeknd... £35 for two of us I was inspired to post this by the _white-as-a-sheet_ look on the face of a person who returned from the till to a table of 12!
I think I’d need a five guys paper bag to breathe In and out of, but the bastards would probably charge for that!!
😄 In a similar vein - apparently a contactless payment temrinal drops down with the oxygen masks on Ryan Air planes
They offered me to pay it off over 6 months
A couple of Americans I work with have praised 5 guys for being a surprisingly decent burger. So I take that as a sign that they are probably some of the best fast food chain burgers we can get here. Money well spent on burgers good enough for Americans. Take from that what you will.
I'm American and 5 guys in America is overpriced. Or maybe not overpriced, just that even their smallest burgers are usually more food than I want to pay for and for around the same price I can get a really outstanding burger from a nicer restaurant.
See, I really like it and don’t think it’s insanely overpriced. Although it’s fast food burger and fries I don’t think it should be compared to the likes of McDonald’s or Burger King. It’s much better than that and the price reflects that. I think it’s more comparable to other food court chains, Frankie & Bennies, Wagamama, Chiquitos etc. if you were to look at it that way it’s one of the cheaper and imo better options.
you do not think it is overpriced? bear in mind that being overpriced has nothing to do with if you are ok with paying that amount or anything like that i bloody love 5 guys but there is no way it is not overpriced. pizza and burger places are taking the piss so much that people do not even see it anymore lol
It’s an opinion I firmly stand by. It’s a more expensive treat for sure but I don’t think it’s outrageous. The most expensive burger at Burger King is £6.99, the most expensive burger at Five Guys is £8.95. I believe the increase in quality justifies that extra £2. I do think that eating out is becoming more expensive in general but I don’t think Five Guys exploit that more than anywhere else.
Muttering “i mean, yeah, it was a good burger…. But at what cost?!”
Milkshakes are good but the food is pretty shitty for the price
Would rather pay £25 for two burgers and drinks than the shite at McDonald’s tbh. It’s a fair price for restaurant grade burgers without a restaurant style experience. People love to shit on it like Nando’s. It’s quick, fresh and easy to access.
Bacon milkshake for the win.
You're kidding right, they don't actually serve those, do they? If Heston Blumenthal was involved with them, I wouldn't question it!
They do. It’s not listed as an option on the milkshake part of the menu, but they’ll do it for you. I just have bacon as I’ve tried it with peanut butter and bacon and it’s too salty.
Five guys has always been expensive but I found it increased a lot in price over the last year or so. For me and my partner both having a burger then sharing chips, sharing a drink it went up £5 which was probably around 25%. It went from an occasional treat to nope too expensive for what it is.
I still fucking love their food though. I just cant afford it lmao
I just can’t justify 5 Guys. It’s basically the same price as Honest Burger, which is vastly superior and also available to take away since the pandemic.
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Yeah, I can't get enough of their free nuts
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😉 The burgers are lush... just way over-priced.
Five guys nuts? Tooleater? Just can't get enough, you do you (unless you can get someone else to do you! Or 5).
🥳 The more the merrier! Can't beat a good burgering
Dem nutz
got him!
I'm a fan of the idea, the concept and the food. The price can go fuck the hell right off.
https://youtu.be/YHbJZlCStsA
Five guys is horrible
Yank here. I can confirm that Five Guys is overpriced crap here, to.
If you find yourself in Bristol, Three Bothers made alarmingly great burgers. Five Guys was just starting out at the time and I forgot the name so ended up there due to not remembering correctly. Three Bothers - Great Five Guys - not impressed
Thanks, I'll give them a try I'm only just across the bridge; I don't mind travelling to brizzle for a burger 😋 Have you heard of that amazing steak restaurant in Bristol owned by the butchers next door.... best £50 cube of steak I've ever eaten 😳
Pasture is the place for steak in Bristol
Hmmm that rings a cow bell...
Been there once and it’s canny. Also don’t forget the Old Duke Pub, opposite on Kings Street, great place with some good bands. I’m not from Bristol but Newcastle. When I was walking back from King street once to the hotel, some guy stopped me and said ‘here, du ya kna where King Street is from here?’ Turns out he was from the same local area of Wallsend as me. Love Bristol.
I'm glad there's something we share on both sides of the pond. They're good, but not *that* good. Mostly it's hype.
And it’s not even good food (a yank that despises 5👲
Tried Five Guys when visiting London. Similar price (if not slightly more expensive) and much worse quality to burger joints in Cornwall, don't understand why people rave about them.
That bad huh?
What’s a BigMac entrail burger & fries meal cost these days? £ for £ 5Guys isn’t bad value considering how much nicer the food tastes.
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You are insane if you think it tastes the same as McDonald’s. Massive difference in quality.
Wondering or wandering?
It should have been "wandering"... Here, have a gold star ⭐ Now take your grammatical corrections and get out