I’ve had queries from the Mickie D cashiers when I order a medium instead of a large soda. “You know they’re the same price, right?”
It seems to me like they should realize that, if they still sell them, there must be some people who want them.
Even back when they were the same price a la carte, you would still only get a medium drink with your medium-sized value meal or whatever.
A month. At 30 times $1.49, it would be worth $44.70, for only $7.99 a month. You can also enroll online for $5.99 but I don’t do that. They have you enter a phone number when you purchase; I use our old long-abandoned land line number.
At $8 a month, they’re probably not losing money on anyone, even if they don’t buy anything else. Though of course they’d prefer if you did buy other stuff.
I speed-parsed this as a daily charge, and went, “Jeebus!”
Colored pieces of paper which you can exchange for goods and services.
But that’s not important right now.
I dropped by a Shake Shack today on the way back from a day trip. Another “smaller” chain of 250-odd locations per wikipedia and defined as “fast casual.” The fries were unimpressive, but I thought the double-cheeseburger was actually pretty decent. Another thinly-grilled patty version like In-N-Out. But it sure isn’t the cheapest.
Around these parts, a Double Double at In-N-Out will set you back $4.04. A plain hamburger is $2.46. I’d put those in the running for Best Cheapest.
Shake Shack is fairly common here in South Florida. And is quite proud of their NYC heritage. Which IMO is mostly a matter of being proud of indifferent service and indifferent food trendily described while delivered at a very premium price. YMMV of course, but IMO forget that noise.
Yeah — it’s not national so I didn’t mention it, but I’ve always been stunned by their prices, especially given the quality. They would easily win my quality bang-for-buck in this category.
Steak ‘n’ Shake has gone downhill lately, but as far as I know they still have their “4 under $4” menu where you can get a double steakburger with cheese and fries for $3.99.
Really? Shake Shack fries are my favorite fries. Perfectly crispy on the outside and steamy and fluffy on the inside.
Mine mostly weren’t that 
. I don’t much care for crinkle-cut to begin with (I usually prefer steak fries if given a choice), but this batch had a number of smaller, thinner ends that came out dryish. But they did travel a bit, which never does fries any good.
You know, even though I’ve lived in California since 2005, I literally just tried Carl’s Jr. for the first time today. And I thought the burger I got there had that same weird lighter fluid taste. Interestingly, both chains advertise their burgers as “charbroiled” (Ok, BK calls them “flame broiled”, but same difference). I wonder if something about that cooking method in a fast food environment gives them that weird flavor.
Not exactly… They deliberately add that flavor, because it’s what customers expect from a “flame-broiled” burger.
That was my second guess, that they were adding some sort of artificial “flame broiled” flavor.
They supposedly used to cook them on a grill. Now they’re sent out to be heated up? with fake ‘smoke’ flavoring, which is a big. fat. FAIL…anything to save a buck, i had a jr. whopper at BK once a month for decades, and now they are just garbage.