So many fast food places have been going out of business this year. https://nypost.com/2026/05/11/business/five-guys-closing-multiple-california-stores-amid-financial-woes/
5G just leaving California because it’s prohibitively expensive to keep doing business there. Nothing to see folks, same as always, move along.
>>22017862>So many fast food places have been going out of business this year.I wonder if I can call myself an analyst and get paid like $200million as a consultant to point out $16 fast food meals that look and taste like shit are why they're failing.
>>22017909The real work is figuring out how to spin that to blame everyone else instead.
crazy how they're all in c*lifornia maybe it's because that shithole taxes the fuck out of everything and thinks burger flippers should make $30 an hour
>>22017862Every time I get the itch for a nasty ol hunk of grease I look at the price and get so butthurt I don't buy it. For the same price I can go to a restaurant and have a higher quality hunk of grease (I feel like this is tied to how Chili's has kinda bounced back).
>>22017862It's not what it used to be. Used to be fast and cheap. Now it's 35 minutes for a sloppy $20 burger. Might as well sit down somewhere nice to eat.
Trumpian economy
>>22018018I double checked and for under $20 I can carryout a burger and side (or chicken sandwich and TWO sides) at the nearby Chili's.
Nobody wants their overpriced burgers. Especially when there's In-N-Out and a shit ton of corporates everywhere they've set up shop. Especially LA county which is full of legacy mom n' pop burger joints.>five guys couldn't even beat small business
>>22017862In my neighborhood it was like 10 dollars for a hotdog.15 for a.burger.Doesn't even taste good.Good riddance.
>>22017862fuck you five guys isnt fast food
>>220178665 guys is definitely expensive, but doesn't in n out have similar prices given they're the competition? Why aren't they closing?
>>22017949Gen z killing the economy by vibe cooking
>>22018102In n out costs less than half as much as five guys. I don't even know if I'd consider them competition, it's like saying Taco Bell competes with Chipotle.
I thought Five Guys was east coast only
>>22018109If east coast is your ass then yes
>>22017862>For some strange reason we started losing money when we increased prices by 25%>To make up for the loss we'll fire 100 people and close 12 stores>Better increase the prices some more as well>Surely this will make up for our losses
>>22017862Fast-food chains are now focused on Europe. They keep being opened everywhere. Every bistro or library in Paris are getting replaced by an American fast food chain...
>>22018069Right. There's better burger places that gives generous portions like Tommy's and The Hat.
>>22017862US is collapsing
>>22017862five guys isn't fast food
>>22018102>doesn't in n out have similar prices
>>22018107Ahhhh, gotcha. Thanks for that.>>22018472Nope, not joking. I live on the east coast. No in n out here my man.
>>22018151Maybe California should have thought about this before doubling labor costs?
>>22018015When your parents or grandparents were in college they paid for the whole thing and all extra expenses working a few hours on the weekend at the 50's version of five chuds. But somehow you shouldn't be allowed to live anywhere except sharing a room with ten other jeets in a slum on a full time job working there now. I'm not one of the retarded eat the rich fools but something isn't adding up.
>>22017862Five Guys is ridiculously overpriced. I can get a better bacon cheeseburger (Baconator(TM)) from Wendy's at half the price. I am honestly surprised that Five Guys can continue to exist in a competitive marketplace.
Fast food should be weighted to allow easy access to 1,600 calories for the poverty level of the city the franchise is set up at. If a fast food place made it so someone could eat 1,600 calories for $3.25 in LA County, you better believe that shit would be making money like gangbusters.
>>22018884You're likely to find that in a family run and operated place using cheap ingredients and having the lowest overhead possible. A home kitchen selling "plates" might achieve that, but /ck/ threw all kinds of shade about those the last time we discussed those.
