fries are another $8.00

All the workers have forearm tattoos
At least 3 people are wearing beanies in the middle of summer
Bacon is $4 extra
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

It's also a dry pretzel bun
- The biggest disappointment
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?
Drinks are served in jars, and your fries, well, you get 8 fries in a rusty old can.
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.
Reminds me of the Bobs Burgers episode where he parties late with a bunch of chefs and tries to serve Teddy an artisanal foam burger that took like an hour to make lol.
A guy is laying in the corner working on his MacBook wearing those brown Marshall headphones
Also the heat is cranked up uncomfortably high. The air is muggy. The whole place smells of onion.
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.
I hat that brushed butter bullshit. If you want a butter burger, it goes on the hamburger patty,
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

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 😧
- You eat in your bed? Ngl that is nasty
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

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.

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.
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.

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.

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
- Scammed.
- 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
Taphouse/brewery has replaced the bistro burger joints that couldn't survive covid.
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
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...
This meme is so old it's kid is the hostess at a burger joint like this
- its* kid is the hostess
That's great news, right?
Why do coastal cities always do this shit? At least in the midwest, a person is more likely to come up with a good plan and keep it going long term.
- Midwest is always about 4 years behind coastal City trends.

They serve “local IPA” on draft for $11 or, ironically, a miller high life for a dollar.

And it's always warm

Holy shit his is accurate, wtf lol

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.
- Mine are 17 but have a literal 3/4 lb (smoked) patty and 2 strips of real good old fashioned bacon, two fried texas garlic toasts for a "bun", the real fancy french mustard and my house sauce, the best pickles ever, 5 onion rings but no side. I can do this because I'm a bar in the middle of nowhere, not in a major city with staff and massive expenses.
RIP??
Not Bay Area is it?

Cheese:

American $1

Cheddar $2

Smoked Gouda $3

Isn't American cheese just cheddar cheese with some extra flavoring?
- American is typically more mild in taste and smoother than cheddar; unless we are talking Kraft Singles American, which is a smoother or creamier cheddar.

Also serving it on anything but a plate.

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To be fair, Five Guys is every bit as expensive. But I'll take Five Guys over most of those places anyway. Free peanuts is tempting.

Five guys will let you fuck your burger up with 12 toppings tho. Better value proposition
- Five guys will let you fuck your burger
  
  This echos my last five guys in restaurant people watching experience.
Five guys is a $15 burger with no sides place not a $20 burger with no sides place.
- That's also $15 with the option of every topping known to man ,and if you do add sides theyre enough for a meal on their own.
Have I just gone to a bad Five Guys? I went to one once last year and the burger was mediocre at best and the fries were greasy to the point of being sickening. I haven't gone back since.
- you defo went to a bad 5 guys, I've been to st least 6 different locations and have never been disappointed in the experience
I'll gladly put Five Guys in my mouth for the price they ask. Plus all the nuts you could want.

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We have this exact hanging lamp at home from Amazon lol

How much for a burger
- One bussy and penetrative cuddling.
that's not a home, my friend. you're living in a restaurant!
- i wish
That's the exact point lol. These restaurants are trying to feel more "homey" and "rustic" so they can feel more justified when they're upcharging their mediocre food.

And the word "Offerings" will appear on the menu

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.

you ordered something? About time I saw that I would just say nvm lol

This is incredibly accurate.

Holy shit even the pictures look like a local restaurant named: Allentown Burger Venture (ABV) 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.

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.

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

Very accurate. Unfortunately for me, the place that looks like this, also has the very best burgers.

Glad I live in the south, where we have fast food bbq joints with $6 burgers better than you'll get anywhere else.

The Good Burger in Spain (and probably other countries)

This is my favorite spot in town but it ends up being $20 with the fries. I never go there

This is Carl's Jr.'s design to a tee! 😂

I see you're in Vegas too

Any major city, really

In my neck of the PNW they may cost $25 but they come with a side

And that shit's fire, worth every damn penny

My roommate and I usually go out once a month to snag some food from those places and try to hit up different ones each time

How dare you
Meh, Inn and Out burgers taste just as good as any $25 bougie burger.
- Holy fucking shit. I have never had a burger or fries as bad as In and Out at any price. McDonald's is better than in and out. Anything is. Kinda disqualified your opinion here.

I pretty much stopped going out for burgers because my area lacks a really good burger. We do have two places that do smash burgers pretty well and it's a food cart, so it's affordable, but any proper sit down started charging $20+ for frozen patty style garbage.

I see you've been to 8oz.

Bit of an exaggeration. The most expensive place I've ever seen (by a lot) is Iceland and this is barely accurate there.

This is not an exaggeration in Oregon
- Restaurant prices aren't a secret. I just checked places in Portland and the most expensive burger I could find was $15 and that came with fries, and that was the most expensive one on the menu. This is a meme joke and is exaggerating to be funny, don't confuse that with reality.
- Have you paid $22.50 for a burger on its own? I find this post odd because I live in an expensive city where you can easily see plates over $30 but even at those places, their burgers are the much cheaper option and still often include fries or have a $2-3 upcharge to get fries.

I said it last time this meme came up. Nobody is selling burgers this expensive.

I've sat in places that have burgers this expensive.
- Sure you have
Burger Bar in Montreal https://montrealburger.com/#menu
- Oh you mean $22 CAD or about $17 USD. Or did you think everyone in this thread was talking about CAd? I bet you just googled $22 burger 🤣
  
  They all had fries too.
This is most definitely real. I've walked into places like this, looked at the menu, and walked right the fuck out. Have you never been to a major city before? I bought a six pack of bud light at a convenience store in Manhattan for $20 before because it was the cheapest they had. Fortunately I was only there for a couple days for work.
- Link.
Haha wow for once I agree with Mr -3800.

You're right, and the thread to me seems full of Boomeresque attitudes. The most expensive burgers I've ever had were in Iceland and they were this expensive... But so was everything else. Just about every meal was over $30 there.

There sure are a lot of comments on this repost like no one's ever seen it before. Are we being infiltrated by bots again?

People don't see every post every time they're posted. Reposts suck for very active users, but for new and infrequent ones, they serve a purpose.
Not everyone spends every waking hour of every day on the internet. You're outing yourself here.
- I work full time & go to college full time, and I still recognize reposts 🤷🏻‍♀️
  
  Outing myself as Omnipotent & Omniscient! 😄
I’ve seen it before, but it’s a good one