Some places that have hamburgers on the menu are incapable of making them. Not one of the ones you listed, but my daughter gets a jr. steakburger (hamburger with no cheese) kids meal from Steak n Shake, and 3 out of 4 times they put cheese on it. I specifically made a request to please not put any cheese on the burger at least 1/2 of the time. They did not charge me for cheese (the menu clearly lists cheese as an upgrade with a 50-60 cent charge), either. I have had to return it. My daughter will not eat fast food cheese. McDonald’s is sometimes the default option because somehow they rarely manage to screw up a Hamburger Happy Meal. As someone else mentioned, Burger King is the opposite and while I like a Whopper ( or double or triple) with cheese it’s inconvenient to order there, especially when they have many special deals revolving around various Whoppers without cheese.
Studies show people who don’t like cheese on their hamburgers voted for Trump.
I don’t know what others have said about reasoning for this; I do know that others have pointed you to “restaurants” which do not default to cheeseburgers.
If a restaurant offers a “hamburger”, and a separate “cheeseburger” (or a hamburger with the option of adding cheese), the restaurant has to upsell you to a cheeseburger. That’s a good practice for the restaurant, as it certainly doesn’t take 20 or 30 cents of cost (product and labor) to add one or two slices of cheese to a burger. But the customer may decline the option.
If a restaurant offers a “cheeseburger” only, then no upselling is needed. Instead, you the customer, have to ask for removal of the cheese (I do this all the time, for example, just today at Carl’s Jr., since I prefer the Famous Star without the cheese). This means that more burgers get sold with cheese, without having to convince you to make that choice. And since many places that sell “cheeseburgers” only do not refund you the price of the cheese if you opt to get your cheeseburger with “no cheese, please”, then those restaurants get the added value of charging you for cheese all the time.
I blame the Big Mac, which was one of the first burger joint burgers that always came with cheese, and had that fact factored into the price. 
That’s the kind of thing I expect from a stooge of the Milk Marketing Board. What did they pay you to sell out your species in this way?
You really need to explicitly say ‘no cheese’ every time if your daughter is this rigid. No one comes out ahead when you send something back.
Yes, I had this issue with them. Cheeseburgers 2 for $1. Hamburger 89 cents
I ordered 2 cheeseburgers ,no cheese. , they asked " you mean hamburgers?"
I told them yes but the 2 for a $1. They told me they couldn’t do that. Cheeseburgers have to have the cheese.
I got a little hardheaded then.
Q: Could I get it without pickles? A : Sure
Q: Could I get it without Keychup? A : Yes
Q: Could I get it without mustard? A : Yes
Q: Could I get it without a bun? A : Yeah we can do that
Q: But I can’t get it without Cheese? A: no sir, they won’t let us do that, then it is a hamburger
But Burger King has to pay for cheese, your profit will be higher if you do not use that ingredient,
The regional manager won’t let us.
( light bulb moment) Can I get it on the side?
A: Yes sir. Then makes my order, gives me the 2 hamburgers ( well cheeseburgers, no cheese), and a French fry paper, with 2 slices of cheese in it. I say thanks, hand her the cheese and ask her to throw it away for me.
Never mind the cheese. A pair of nice buns are, as always, de rigueur.
Brilliant! You will clearly be a valuable asset once I mobilize the anti-cheeseburger resistance.
Two pages in and no one’s commented that “Cheeseburger Hegemony” would be a great band name.
Could you not have ordered the double cheeseburgers, without cheese? Also, BK used to have specials for 99¢ Whoppers. Awesome deal, but the default is no cheese. When asked if you want cheese, they didn’t tell you that it was a 50¢ upcharge (at the time, about 10¢was normal).
From reading Tread’s experience just a couple posts up, it seems not. (Though Tread did eventually get around it by asking for it “on the side.” Clever cat.)
“On the side.” Brilliant. I wish I’d thought of that. Nah, I’m much more satisfied with our “boycott” and “F-you BK salute!”
She, sir.
Absolutely not true. Unless it’s bright orange cheese.
There is a junior HAMBURGER and a junior CHEESEBURGER option and they have different prices. The customer is not the one being rigid when they don’t specify “please give me this thing I ordered and not this completely different thing I didn’t order” 100% of the time. It’s also not that picky when a kid who likes hamburgers does not like said hamburger with gross American cheese product melted into the beef and does not want to eat it.
You waited six years to reply to that?
One doesn’t want to be too hasty in debates. Words must be weighed, thoughts organised…
Do you want the right burger or not?
IT’S ON!
(Yes Discourse, that is a complete sentence: it’s got a noun and a verb. )
My first zombie thread. Woohoo!
I’m a real Doper now.