A Midtown Lunch reader reports that the Five Guys in Midtown raised their prices for the second time in the last year—80 cents for fries and 30 to 40 cents for burgers. "Burger and Fries now is $12 (including tax) up from $11 which is still crazy.”
Those fries are priced to share for 2 or 3 other people (though yes, you can eat them all by yourself), so if you go with a colleague or 2, the price for a burger and fries should be under $10.
I think Five Guys is a nice burger, and surprisingly tasty given their whole "well-done only" schtick, but their prices are already absurd. I appreciate that it is not directly comparable, but In N' Out manages to keep their prices at around half of Five Guys, for a product that most (incuding myself) consider to be superior. Five Guys is now well within poor value territory -- the fries especially.
Get ready though, because there is a lot more of this coming. The bailout of Paulson and Gaithner's friends at Goldman Sachs, AIG, and Merrill Lynch doesn't come for free, but at the expense of trillions of newly printed dollars, each one devaluing the ones already in your pocket or bank account. This is probably just a small foretaste of the Bobamanomic hyper-inflation which is coming upon us. Get ready for $100 hamburgers.
This price hike does stink. I love 5uys, and I've come to just accept that its a bit pricier. I gotta say though, this place gets so often compared to the much cheaper in-n-out buger... I don't get it.
I had my first in-n-out burger recently, and while it was much cheaper, I thought there was no flavor to the meat, and the buger seemed to be mostly bread and rabbit food.
Sorry to ruin your politics Makanmata but rate of inflation is at a ten year low (at least). This is just a price hike on an already overpriced burger joint - a "fast food" joint I might add, though yes their fries are good and big enough to share for two. The $100 hamburger was last year, no? But I agree with you on In-'n-Out.
I usually get two small burgers, small fries and a large coke and it's been something like 18 bucks. And they're raising prices?
Hint: Five Guy's, the answer to shorter lines is not to raise the prices on the one's who still come.
Besides, doing lunch in Midtown and not having delivery is just plain stupid. Changing that might help business.
The midtown one did delivery when they first opened. Then they stopped and angrily denied every having it when we called one time. It was weird.
The last time I wast there, last week, they mis-condimented my burger.
Carnegie John's cart is a couple blocks away. That's a cheaper, bigger, awesome juicy street burger served up by a good guy. I actually like going there more than 5 Guys. In fact I'll be grabbing one Monday for lunch.
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A Midtown Lunch reader reports that the Five Guys in Midtown raised their prices for the second time in the last year—80 cents for fries and 30 to 40 cents for burgers. "Burger and Fries now is $12 (including tax) up from $11 which is still crazy.”
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Those fries are priced to share for 2 or 3 other people (though yes, you can eat them all by yourself), so if you go with a colleague or 2, the price for a burger and fries should be under $10.
BigAl72 at 5:20PM on 03/19/09
that IS crazy!
Sakura at 6:37PM on 03/19/09
That is not nearly as crazy as credit default swaps.
benzado at 7:27PM on 03/19/09
Wow, what afford lunches are left for the working man and woman? What a luxury -- burger and fries . . .
jkdrummer at 9:26AM on 03/20/09
I think Five Guys is a nice burger, and surprisingly tasty given their whole "well-done only" schtick, but their prices are already absurd. I appreciate that it is not directly comparable, but In N' Out manages to keep their prices at around half of Five Guys, for a product that most (incuding myself) consider to be superior. Five Guys is now well within poor value territory -- the fries especially.
Get ready though, because there is a lot more of this coming. The bailout of Paulson and Gaithner's friends at Goldman Sachs, AIG, and Merrill Lynch doesn't come for free, but at the expense of trillions of newly printed dollars, each one devaluing the ones already in your pocket or bank account. This is probably just a small foretaste of the Bobamanomic hyper-inflation which is coming upon us. Get ready for $100 hamburgers.
Makanmata at 10:26AM on 03/20/09
This price hike does stink. I love 5uys, and I've come to just accept that its a bit pricier. I gotta say though, this place gets so often compared to the much cheaper in-n-out buger... I don't get it.
I had my first in-n-out burger recently, and while it was much cheaper, I thought there was no flavor to the meat, and the buger seemed to be mostly bread and rabbit food.
5uys ftw.
JudgeFudge at 1:16PM on 03/20/09
Well, it's a good thing they're not called Six Guys (bu-DUM dum). I'll gladly pay you Tuesday...AND Wednesday for a burger today.
Summerfield at 3:25PM on 03/20/09
Sorry to ruin your politics Makanmata but rate of inflation is at a ten year low (at least). This is just a price hike on an already overpriced burger joint - a "fast food" joint I might add, though yes their fries are good and big enough to share for two. The $100 hamburger was last year, no? But I agree with you on In-'n-Out.
boomshanka at 5:12PM on 03/20/09
I usually get two small burgers, small fries and a large coke and it's been something like 18 bucks. And they're raising prices?
Hint: Five Guy's, the answer to shorter lines is not to raise the prices on the one's who still come.
Besides, doing lunch in Midtown and not having delivery is just plain stupid. Changing that might help business.
The midtown one did delivery when they first opened. Then they stopped and angrily denied every having it when we called one time. It was weird.
The last time I wast there, last week, they mis-condimented my burger.
Carnegie John's cart is a couple blocks away. That's a cheaper, bigger, awesome juicy street burger served up by a good guy. I actually like going there more than 5 Guys. In fact I'll be grabbing one Monday for lunch.
MikeNYC at 3:28PM on 03/21/09