Our chef has a man bun, a very well-groomed long beard, a facial piercing, wears black apron, and black gloves
But he's passed out in the back, so this teenagers gonna slap your burger together.
But a black & white stencil print of him is the cover of our menu.
The bartender makes and sells his own line of beard balm. The waitress wears overalls and a bandanna on her head and she's just so fucking done.
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.
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.
Throw in a fun clown mascot for the kids, and I think you’re on to something with this cheap fast food idea
I hate how this society has turned something as deeply emotional as cooking and turned it into a factory farm where people think burgers and hot dogs just magically appear with fairy magic.
Everything in life can be deeply emotional, just not for everybody.
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.
It's annoying that you can either choose between having a weedy shit burger that's mostly lettuce and has to be held together with a stick, or eating a really expensive one and have to look at a load of wanker tat on the walls.
Also, you can stick your brioche buns up your arse. A brioche bun is not a load bearing bun. It dissolves in contact with moisture.
Those guy knows his buns
hell yeah lemme get that pretzel bun SON! shit SLAPS
Kaiser Roll FTW
Kaiser crowd represent!
Hold on, a brioche bun can totally work! Toast the bun, put a little mayo on it, put the veggies on the bottom (at least the lettuce), and a regular-sized burger will hold up just fine.
Not saying it can't go wrong, especially in a place that just wants the decor and the food to look good on Instagram even if it's disappointing when you bite into it. But for burgers I've made, a brioche bun can be a nice option. :P
Also why do Americans like mixing sweet and salty. Here in Australia they have brioche buns everywhere now. I hate that crap, if you don’t have normal buns give me two slices of bread instead
Hipster burger restaurant starter pack.
And the main burger is called 'the americano' which is fatty, with too much cheese, and a sweet relish.
That does describe America pretty well though
"if i pay $50,000 for this hanging piece of flare, and only stay open from 4-10pm we can siphon money from money with our money from the people who have money. But our waiter? minimum wage, cameras in the back our head chef is a wanker from out of state who pretended to be something they are clearly not, and the wine? straight from my vineyard, with minimal staff, green card only workers and an ever living hate for anything that shows compassion or empathy. that'll be $18 a glass of home wine and $38 for alfredo pasta add $8 for broccoli add $10 for chicken. what...what's wrong this is just business."
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.
Question for the audience: what city do you most associate this style with? For me it's Seattle, because that's where I live, and ugh, it's everywhere.
Boulder, CO comes to mind for me. Although, there's one in my small town that's almost exactly like this so I suppose these are just everywhere.
Confession: I actually kinda like this decor. Not the overpriced food and drinks though.
Yeah, I doubt many people mind the decor, just the prices that seem to always come with it.
I don't associate this with any particular city, but with the rich neighbourhoods in every city, particularly the recently rich neighbourhoods built from gentrification and forcing the existing poor residents out. An upscale "urban eatery" is a sure sign that the neighbourhood is destroyed.
I've seen dumb places like this in every city I've lived in.
Winston-Salem, NC. This looks like 3/4 of our downtown hipster spots. Except everything here is also a microbrewery. Soooo many different IPAs. I didn't realize that there were so many ways to make beer that tastes like shit.
In my head I’m picturing Portland, OR
Yeah, I don't think there's a restaurant on Alberta that doesn't have at least a little of this aesthetic.
That said, Pine State is worth the asking price and I'll kill on that hill.
I'm in Portland and I swear I've been to the restaurant pictured. I probably haven't, but it's deeply convincing.
I think the answer is "The city you've been to." Greensboro is full of crap like this.
Really? I see most US places come with sides at least. I have to go with Queenstown, NZ.
We have them here in Atlanta GA.
Came here to call out Seattle too. Those chairs especially show up in any style of restaurant it is wild. I see this some in Spokane (or I did when I was there last don't know if there are more or fewer of them in the last few years).
I was gonna say SF, but now that I think about it the burger places there tend to be a bit more quaint and definitely don't have the live laugh love shit everywhere. At least I've never seen one, but it's a big fucking city so there's almost definitely at least one.
They were everywhere in Denver.
I moved to Seattle 2 years ago, and I’ve seen it ALL over the US. Mostly in gentrified neighborhoods or the college kid areas.
Fries on the side are a minimum for me.
Funnily enough here the prices of fast food chains have risen so sharply that the fancy hipster burger places are now priced the same or even cheaper. Like a double cheeseburger at a McDonalds is 5.50 euros but a local burger joint with burgers twice as big, filling and so much tastier are 6 euros, it's a pretty simple choice.
Where is that because here a "gourmet" burger is more like 16€ with fries.
Estonia
5.50 for a double cheeseburger! I swear that was a dollar menu item here but that long ago.
Damn...what is this, r/seattle?
Don't forget the fact that despite it's just a cheeseburger, it's named "The Vonderbilt Wonder", "Halfsie Pattsies", or "Edmonton the Second". Ideally on a menu so scant on details it's hard to tell the french fries from the extra avocado.
The truly fancy places call ‘em “frites”, not French fries. That way they can charge an extra three bucks for the fanciness.
And the menu doesn't show the price like:
Cheeseburger £13
Instead you get:
Cheeseburger 13
So cool and minimalist.
Reminds me of that one joke from What Men Think About.
"In our restaurant, dry bread is called a crouton. It is still the same piece of slightly fried bread, but dry bread cannot cost 8 dollars, whereas a crouton can."
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.
Lol I have those exact barstools at home.
TIL they are supposed to be hipster/fancy?
I think it's a offshoot of the shabby chic aesthetic. Expensive stuff made of cheap elements because you're being sold a certain flavor of minimalism.
I suspect it's also so the rich assholes can pretend to be in touch with society by occasionally "getting the poor people eating experience" (at a premium of course). They emulate classic burger joints and diners while being ten times more expensive with none of the charm.
Well you bought them from design within reach and paid their ridiculous prices, so you should know.
same here lol
Aldi for $17.99 each if I remember correctly!
woah - raz
I despise that kind of lighting because it's so fucking dim at nighttime. The places that still have physical menus apparently expect everyone to pull up their cellphones' flashlight to read it.
One place I went last year also had some boardgames, but only opened at night and only had that shit dim yellow light. Reading anything was nearly impossible and even the colors of the game pieces were blending together, "is this red, pink or orange?"
They do it so I'm not as ugly. I apologize.
Old man pro tip: use your phone's camera viewer to read menus and such in darker places.
Gentrified takes on junk food with gratuitously expensive ingredients that are a slightly more subtle equivalent to just sprinkling everything with gold leaf like in 1990s Moscow or somewhere (“Our Southern-fried hog jowls come from rare heritage-breed hogs sourced from a tiny family-owned farm in the Outer Hebrides”)
My daughter begged us for a year to take her to a place called the Sugar Factory. It has really fancy and overpriced milkshakes. So we finally relented. They have the monstrosity below for $150.
What is the fucking point? Honestly?
I can't speak for how that tastes because we weren't willing to pay for food there, but the drinks (my wife and daughter got milkshakes, I got an appletini) were not good. Fun to look at, but pretty mediocre. I'm guessing the burger is more of the same.
But my daughter felt it was worth the experience.
But my daughter felt it was worth the experience.
That's exactly it. I've been to the Sugar Factory before and everything was pretty good, not great. You're 100% paying for the experience.
What if we just didn't build a ceiling and called it the industrial aesthetic?
Hate joints like this.
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
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 went to one of these wanky places in London and had to use my phone light to illuminate the menu sufficiently so I could see it, thanks to those shit light bulbs they insist on hanging everywhere. There are dozens of them and yet they give off no light.. wtf is the point.
I feel like I've seen more Karens in these places than any other
I mean, that's who they cater to...
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.
That's literally "The Works" burger chain in Ottawa.
These restaurants keep my cousins' reclaimed wood furniture business alive.
I've never once seen a $22 hamburger. Even at hipster places.
Edit: Not a single example that fits the meme. Sad.
