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All the workers have forearm tattoos
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At least 3 people are wearing beanies in the middle of summer
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Bacon is $4 extra
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The burger comes out on a bun drenched in butter and is so greasy/oily that halfway through it may as well have been served in a bowl
The place is being run by 3 bearded lumbersexuals in flannel and ball caps having the time of their lives and a chick in overalls and her hair in a bandanna who could not be more over it.
Drinks are served in jars, and your fries, well, you get 8 fries in a rusty old can.
Also:
- The waiter has a twirled moustache and wears a mesh shirt combined with a bowler hat
- The $4 extra bacon is burned to charcoal strips
God I wish my wish waiter wore a mesh shirt, where the hell is this?
In a place where touching the waiters is not included, sorry ;)
It’s also a dry pretzel bun
The biggest disappointment
Also the heat is cranked up uncomfortably high. The air is muggy. The whole place smells of onion.
A guy is laying in the corner working on his MacBook wearing those brown Marshall headphones
The sound is provided entirely by a neglected Technics 1200 that nobody knows how to adjust accept the barback that only works on Wednesdays and Fridays.
At this point pretty much all BOH staff in any resto are packing tons of tats. Probably easier to count the ones who don’t
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I literally just opened a place like this lmao
Good luck, honestly.
$22.50 is a lot for a burger, but I’ve had some burgers that price that are life changing.
RIP??
Not Bay Area is it?
I love the federation sometimes.
I hate those fucking stools. I swear they were invented to be so uncomfortable that once you’ve choked down that mediocre overpriced burger you want to leave as soon as possible because your ass hurts.
Getting people to leave quickly allows more people to enter, which means more burgers served.
always order everything to go and take it home and eat it in the comfort of my own bed.
restaurants are so uncomfortable.
What’s wrong with you 😧
When you eat so many luxury burger that you can only afford a studio, there isn’t any other seating than bed.
nothing?
You eat in your bed? Ngl that is nasty
Don’t worry, they mean the bed of their truck. The airflow at highway speeds ensure all crumbs are carried away immediately!
In what way?
Genuinely curious if it’s because you might get food in bed or the act of eating where you sleep?
100% because of mess
They’re shitty amazon order stools I bet.
I assume they got them cheap when a school science lab was upgrading to something made this century
How the fuck do you even
The first thing you have to do is
Manage to price tater tots at 1 dollar
Denim aprons denim aprons denim aprons
This meme is either very old or was made by someone in the midwestern US (always years behind on fads).
All of the bistro burger joints have gone the way of the dinosaur in my neck of the woods. Now it’s all smash burger fast food knock offs.
Taphouse/brewery has replaced the bistro burger joints that couldn’t survive covid.
This meme is so old it’s kid is the hostess at a burger joint like this
its* kid is the hostess
I mean… Most of the places near me a burger with a sides is typically like $13 - $16 and I am definitely in the Midwest…
The places I see like this that are still around are moreso just generic American food :tm:. They sell more than just burgers, but the burgers are stupid expensive
Nah, I got take out 3 burgers in SF area for 60 bucks in a place that looked like this and offered 6$ fries. Wtf
I can’t think of any neighborhood in SF where I’d choose one of these places over literally anywhere else. Too much good cheap food here.
What??? San Francisco has expensive food? That’s simply not believable
Scammed.
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Why is this so accurate
Half of the “artisan” burger chains in my city are marginally better than a fast-food chain. One, maybe two of them make burgers so good that they’re worth the occasional splurge.
Holy shit his is accurate, wtf lol
Holy shit even the pictures look like a local restaurant named: Allentown Burger Venture (ABV) lol
I’ve never seen a burger come without some side at a non fast-food restaurant in my city and I don’t know why I find the concept so gross.
Burger Batch in Richmond VA is like that or at least it was last time I went. Good burgers; way overpriced. The pictures are spot on.
Yeah I believe it, the trend didn’t hit my city (Montreal) though, which is lucky. I went to Ottawa (a near city) a couple years back and they have a row of cookie-cutter pubs in their fancy part of town which all served burgers without fries and you had to pay extra for ketchup. I don’t know when I got radicalized, but that definitely paved the way.
I went to Portugal last year and they have this custom of serving crisps(chips, if you’re American) instead of chips (that’s fries if you’re American!) I bloody hated every second of it, the burgers were delicious though
Gross? Pretty harsh word for some fries. Does McDonald’s near you not sell big macs on their own?
So I don’t know if you read my comment, but I said
non fast-food
which in this particular case excludes McDonald’s.
Okay well in my defense I was reading very fast and read it as fast food lol
Pffftahahaha, I think I’ve been to this restaurant. I probably looked at the menu, eyes bugged out of head, ordered a cider or something and left.
Virgin orders something cheap out of obligation vs Chad “prices are too high, I’ll just eat at home”
you ordered something? About time I saw that I would just say nvm lol
Yeah I’ve had a burger from a place that roughly fit this description, I was really sad when they closed because it was by an extreme margin the best burger I’ve ever had in my life.
Life is significantly worse without that burger.
Fuck, with all of the restaurants that closed during the pandemic, I feel this.
Places either closed down or dropped so far in quality they are now a shell of their former selves.
Exactly. A brewery near us used to have really decent food. But the quality was so bad post pandemic, we haven’t been back since early 2021.
There’s a restaurant in Florida called “The Ormond Garage” and they don’t serve fries with the burger. It’s another like $6 for fries that aren’t even that good. I went there once and they didn’t have to go cups for the meal that I called in… The server told me she could get me a regular cup and I could just drink it there while they were putting my $15 burger into a takeout box.
I contemplated walking out with the beer glass they handed me, but I just left.
I live near a place where the fries come with the burger, but sometimes you have to ask for them. The bean counters assume about 50% of the time that you don’t want them. Lunchbox laboratory in Seattle, in case anyone’s wondering. It sold out a long time ago and has been crap since
There’s a BBQ place near me, and I ordered tater tots there once, as a side. They were $4. They literally gave me 4 tater tots. They were one dollar apiece.
There are two types of BBQ places; stingy, overpriced, gourmet bullshit with barely any sauce and greasy, messy, heart stopping heaven. The former always pretends to be the latter.
There’s also Mission BBQ which is stingy, overpriced, overly-sweet non-gourmet bullshit with jingoistic pro-military support-the-troops bullshit thrown in for good measure.
Don’t forget the right-wing “we’re ignoring mask mandates in the height of the pandemic and not limiting seating because we’re god-fearin’ 'mercans here!” bullshit.
I ordered a gyro with a side of onion rings (the onion rings alone were $7) from a local place to take home. When I got home and opened the box of onion rings, I saw there were only six small (like, 1.5" in diameter) onion rings in the too-large box - more than a dollar per tiny ring. Next time I went I complained about the onion rings and they showed me the menu which said “6 onion rings” in the item description albeit in a tiny font. Like, they knew what complete and utter bullshit it was so they had to have something legal to fall back on.
“Bro, we told you we were bullshitting you, right there in the sign. That means we’re not at fault”
Fuck that shit.
Very accurate. Unfortunately for me, the place that looks like this, also has the very best burgers.
They serve “local IPA” on draft for $11 or, ironically, a miller high life for a dollar.
