Our chef has a man bun, a very well-groomed long beard, a facial piercing, wears black apron, and black gloves
If I were to start my own fast food business, I would make my food cheap as fuck and deliberately target locations that have:
- A sixth form or university campus nearby. Students are a big market.
- Nearby pubs or nightclubs. Doesn’t have to be a city centre, could be a local high street. The main intent would be to target the late night crowd.
People care about speed, cost and not eating something that will give them food poisoning, not gourmet food. The luxury market is oversaturated and we have anything but the luxury to do that often.
Also, if it’s a sufficiently large eat-in location like a diner, maintaining toilet facilities that don’t look like they’ve been vandalized is important too.
There’s a reason why premium fast food has spread so much.
By the time you’ve paid your business rent, your staff and your own rent, you can’t keep prices cheap and still make money.
And at a price point that covers your expenses, people won’t buy your “cheap and simple” food.
So you make your food “premium” cause a hipster burger doesn’t take more time or skill to prepare than a normal one, the cost of better ingredients doesn’t make a difference compared to your other expenses, and all you need for people to be satisfied with the experience is a couple thousand extra initially for interior design and marketing.I agree, there are still ways to sell your food cheap though. A good example is a vegan/vegetarian burger place near me. Demand for that kind of food is high because it’s a liberal college town, but that restaurant is the only one of its kind here, so it’s always full. Also they sell more fancy, more expensive dinner options in the evening which I’m sure subsidizes the cheap burgers. And if you mainly go there for their burgers you might return for dinner sometime to try out those options. They’ve existed for around 10 years now and their cheapest burger has stayed at 4,50€ that whole time.
Granted it’s hard to know what kind of demand there is in your town without trying some stuff and maybe failing.
The business model you are describing is perfect for a food truck.
They usually aren’t happy when I take a shit inside our local food trucks. They keep telling me it’s unsanitary but I always insist that a restaurant must allow its patrons fair use of their toilet facilities.
Fast food + college kids , good idea.
Fast food + drunk college kids, not so much.
As was suggested earlier, a food truck is the perfect solution. You’re not responsible for cleaning vomit.
That’s just like a food truck in my city with the BEST carne adovada nachos
Check out how successful Dick’s is in Washington. They have so many locations now. Their first location was Wallingford, Seattle. It’s about a 1 mile walk from the U district, where a lot of the college kids hang out. Now, Dick’s has a location in most major districts of Seattle, mostly around bars, and even outside of Seattle. They are cheap ($2.50 for a cheeseburger) and super fast because they don’t do customizations with a limited menu. Mostly window only walk up pick up, no dine in (except for the one outside the hockey stadium, but it’s standing only).
You’ve got the right idea.
Also, let’s not use plates. How about a small metal pan, fryer basket, or wood plank that allows the food to scatter onto the table?
Is there an equivalent Lemmy community to r/wewantplates? I just realized how much I missed browsing that one.
Fries on the side are a minimum for me.
…and they always put an egg on top of the burger for fucks sake.
To be fair, egg on a burger is pretty good
No it fucking isn’t.
I’ve upvoted you both
Same. They’re both perfectly valid opinions. If it’s 4 in the afternoon and I want a burger before a night of hard drinking, keep your damn egg to yourself. If it’s 4 in the morning after a night of hard drinking, a runny yolk on a greasy bacon breakfast burger is just what the doctor ordered. But for me hard fried or scrambled just don’t feel right.
It was messy, but I still loved it. Them my body spontaneously became allergic to eggs. A tragic loss to my taste buds, especially since a lot of the Asian foods I love like to include eggs (Ramen, fried rice, Omurice, Kimbap, oyakodon, etc etc).
And you just know that this is the type of restaurant to throw out still edible food in a dumpster and then call the cops when starving people try to take stuff from the dumpster.
Fast food isn’t far behind. I went to Burger King two days ago for the first time in ten years and was pretty shocked at the price.
I would 100% patronize a restaurant that had full transparency and decent no-frills food. They publicly post all their expenses and how much profit they make. Charge a table/dine-out fee, then actual cost of food and prep on top. Pay their workers in full, so no tipping required. Explain things like dining hours that help the business keep down costs.
I would too. Unfortunately I’m pretty sure most places that check even half those boxes still fail in the market. You often have to drag consumers kicking and screaming towards something more equitable and less exploitative, even when they’re the ones being exploited.
Forgot the server guy with a beard and a ponytail
That’s fixed capital for you.
I don’t get it
It would be fixed capital regardless of the interior design and chairs?
The difference is that fixed capital matters little to the rate of profit, so they can spend a lot of money and it still evens out over the period of operation. The food and wage, on the other hand, affects the rate of profit a lot. So we can usually see restaurants with “fancy” decors, but with shitty food and low wages.
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I’ve never once seen a $22 hamburger. Even at hipster places.
Edit: Not a single example that fits the meme. Sad.
You should go out more
I got out just plenty. Can you point out a popular fast burger place selling a $22 burger?
Unless fools want to try and pull iTs noT usd bullshit I bet much doubt you’ll find anything very popular.
popular fast burger place
This post isn’t about fast food places. It’s about overpriced local shops that sprung up in the formerly “bad” part of town and are run usually by <30 year olds with no business experience. Give me your hometown and I promise I can find one of them online for you to go to
Portland ME
The Surf & Turf Burger for $32 stands out
Damn 3 minutes lol
Only had to include lobster and ignore the $17 burger with sides they sell!
They’re charging $17 for a caprese salad‽‽‽
Lololol your funny to include lobster in this lmao. What a sad stretch. That same menu has a $17 burger with a side. Oh yeah you got me 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Every hipster place in France is charging €20+ for burgers, but you’d go straight out of business if you tried serving them without sides
Not what was said 🤷♂️
Here in Seattle I routinely see a burger get near that mark.
Link
Okay, Fries are included with this one but I’d say anything over 16 bucks can be rounded up to 20, taking tip and taxes into account.
You’ve also got Purple in downtown. Miso burger is damn good but is 22 bucks.
Lololol I’ll just round 20% and ignore the side that it comes with. Peak Internet.
Its the new normal in Australia at hipster cafes
Aha! Must be Australian dollars!
I mean sure, if we want to play the not USD currency game. But I don’t think that was what I’d bring implied here 🤷♂️
To be fair tho I live in Chicago and there’s 2 of these places by me. But there’s another 2 that I can get a loaded combo with fries and a drink for about $10 USD and it’s always fresh and delicious.
Link then, link the places in Chicago that are serving a $22 beef burger with no sides.
No link but American wild burger, the one in the city shut down apparently but there’s still one in the suburbs. Add bacon cheese and BBQ sauce and you’re at a little over $20 for a burger with no fries.
If you go to Google maps and just type burgers and filter price $20+ or $30+ there are plenty burger bars that will match that criteria.
