Fatburger is a California based fast-ish food chain. They are better than McDonalds but also more expensive and slower and not any nicer to eat/order at. Their burgers are configurable with a lot of options, but in the end you end up paying restaurant prices for a burger that isn't as good and isn't much faster.
A) The line. I hate lines. Even though In-N-Out does do a great job of moving the line fast, I still don't have any desire to sit in my car breathing the exhaust of 50 other cars to get a fast food burger. I'd rather order ahead and go pick it up.
B) It's better than McDonalds, but not by much. It's a hard truth that people will get super offended about, but In-N-Out is just a slightly better McDonalds. People not from CA see the hype about it and are disappointed after trying it, thinking it will be like a Five Guys or Habit or something. It isn't. It's truly just a fast food burger done well.
Mediocre burger that ends up costing $16 when you get a fry and drink. There are sit down burger restaurants not charging as much, that are much better. TBH a Philly cheesesteak from Jersey Mike's is better and cheaper.
20-30 years ago they were awesome. Used to be around the speed and price of five guys but way better. They've been on a steady decline for a long time now. All of them near me have been shut down for a while, I'm kind of surprised they're still around in any significant numbers.
27 Comments
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone · 23 pts · 223d
Wtf is a fatburger
homes@piefed.world · 23 pts · 223d
Bankrupt, apparently
NatakuNox@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 223d
They were growing. Think Chipotle but burgers. But $15 for a burger. No thank you.
CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 223d
Chipotle but burgers is 5 Guys.
NatakuNox@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 223d
Fine Fat Burger was the Qdoba of burgers.
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 223d
How is Qdoba not bankrupt? They are always like a worse version of the other Mexican food chains in the area.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 223d
Holy fuck, if I want to pay $15 for a burger, I have a number of places around my city I can get a great one, and none of them are a fast food joint.
JTskulk@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 222d
It's more like $10. I'm gonna be sad if my local one closes, I like Fatburger.
dogslayeggs@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 223d
Fatburger is a California based fast-ish food chain. They are better than McDonalds but also more expensive and slower and not any nicer to eat/order at. Their burgers are configurable with a lot of options, but in the end you end up paying restaurant prices for a burger that isn't as good and isn't much faster.
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 223d
If you were already in California would you not just go to in-and-out?
dogslayeggs@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 222d
A) The line. I hate lines. Even though In-N-Out does do a great job of moving the line fast, I still don't have any desire to sit in my car breathing the exhaust of 50 other cars to get a fast food burger. I'd rather order ahead and go pick it up.
B) It's better than McDonalds, but not by much. It's a hard truth that people will get super offended about, but In-N-Out is just a slightly better McDonalds. People not from CA see the hype about it and are disappointed after trying it, thinking it will be like a Five Guys or Habit or something. It isn't. It's truly just a fast food burger done well.
C) I don't like the fries from In-N-Out.
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 222d
C) agreed the fries are like cardboard.
But McD has nothing like animal style AFAIK. I am not from Cali and I really look forward to in and out for some reason.
I never do the drive-thru tho
jambudz@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 223d
In n out is wildly overrated
IronBird@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 223d
it's a fast food burger, they're all the same.
yes, even X-regional chain.
BowtiesAreCool@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 223d
Sounds like Killer Burger
frunch@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 223d
Doesn't sound good
Thassodar@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 223d
Mediocre burger that ends up costing $16 when you get a fry and drink. There are sit down burger restaurants not charging as much, that are much better. TBH a Philly cheesesteak from Jersey Mike's is better and cheaper.
NatakuNox@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 223d
Jersey Mike's is owned by the worst kind of people. Don't give them your money
Thassodar@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 220d
I've been looking into this and I haven't found anything strange or suspicious about the company. Do you have a source?
NatakuNox@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 220d
Blackstone... Are you joking...
Thassodar@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 220d
Never heard of that until now, and that was fairly recent. I've been going there over a decade. Nothing has changed IMO.
roscoe@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 222d
20-30 years ago they were awesome. Used to be around the speed and price of five guys but way better. They've been on a steady decline for a long time now. All of them near me have been shut down for a while, I'm kind of surprised they're still around in any significant numbers.
Zephorah@discuss.online · 14 pts · 224d
The pic looks like the ME2 Citadel.
Deceptichum@quokk.au · 9 pts · 224d
CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 223d
Identity theft is my least favorite crime on the Citadel.
PointyFluff@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 222d
Shut up, Temu Picard.
lemmylump@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 223d
There's a shitty airport I have to travel to once a year, and this place is the only bar in the shitty airport.
Shit, the shitty airport just got shittier!
goombakid@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 223d
Great, now I'll never know how it feels to get a Fatburger at 2 in the morning.