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Re:One million cancel broadband as living costs rise (UK) by Kaijo on Thursday May 18, 2023 @04:49PM (#35993841)
Five Guys is not "3x any other burger chain", that is lunacy. I live in London and eat burgers a lot. Chains like GBK ("Gourmet" Burger Kitchen, of course just another mid-market chain, not gourmet in a classical sense), Honest Burger, Byron Burger, Black Bear Burger, Burger & Beyond, Patty & Bun, other imported USA chains like Shake Shack, and others. They're all popular places to go for a burger, and they're as or (typically) more expensive than Five Guys. You can find much more expensive burgers too. And yes you can find cheaper burgers, but not very nice ones (I do not enjoy Big Macs at all, and for that matter I don't like Five Guys either, but I can get something I like for their prices). I would say what I regard as a "decent" burger here has gotten much more expensive.
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Re:One million cancel broadband as living costs rise (UK) by skippyboxedhero on Thursday May 18, 2023 @04:54PM (#35993919)
We don't all live in London big man.
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Re:One million cancel broadband as living costs rise (UK) by Kaijo on Thursday May 18, 2023 @05:05PM (#35994045)
Correct. However, enough of us do to render your claim that Five Guys is "3x as expensive as any other chain" entirely factually incorrect. And the situation's basically the same in any UK city big enough to have a few Five Guys.
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Re:One million cancel broadband as living costs rise (UK) by skippyboxedhero on Thursday May 18, 2023 @05:07PM (#35994066)
It isn't. I would try leaving London. Almost all the chains you have mentioned do not exist outside London.
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Re:One million cancel broadband as living costs rise (UK) by Kaijo on Thursday May 18, 2023 @05:28PM (#35994312)
It is. I do. If not chains by the same name, equivalent ones that are as or more expensive than Five Guys. E.g., Fat Hippo are in Birmingham, Cardiff, Durham, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, Liverpool, Nottingham... And of the chains I mentioned, GBK for example are all over the place, in about 15 different towns and cities. I know of a chain in Manchester, "Almost Famous", if they're any cheaper than Five Guys, it'll be by about 50p. And so on. Your claim that Five Guys is 3x any other burger chain is ridiculous.
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Re:One million cancel broadband as living costs rise (UK) by ztrww on Saturday May 20, 2023 @05:37AM (#36010526)
I bet the person complaining about the price of burgers was in London or some other major city which has them though. And nicer burgers won’t be much cheaper outside of London (they simply might not exist in some places though)
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Re:One million cancel broadband as living costs rise (UK) by asdff on Friday May 19, 2023 @12:36AM (#35997793)
How much do you even pay in the UK for a 5 guys hamburger? the previous comment had a complicated order. For reference, in southern california, the regular hamburger is $10.79 from five guys. A lot higher than in n out, a double double is less than $5, but probably $2-3 cheaper than what you'd pay at a low key sit down restaurant like a brewery or whatever.
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Re:One million cancel broadband as living costs rise (UK) by yootyootr on Friday May 19, 2023 @05:40AM (#35999638)
The Walthamstow (North London) Five Guys is selling the regular hamburger right now for £8.65 which in dollars is $10.75.
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Re:One million cancel broadband as living costs rise (UK) by asdff on Saturday May 20, 2023 @03:04AM (#36009966)
Out of curiosity I just checked Detroit, MI, median income of 20k usd a year. Still about the same at $10.49. This is almost bewildering how the price is pegged to about $10.75 the world over, no matter the price of labor or rent or beef or getting it to the world over. Margins must be all over the place.
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Re:One million cancel broadband as living costs rise (UK) by yootyootr on Wednesday May 24, 2023 @04:54AM (#36055573)
I suppose it's to prevent Burger Arbitrage
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Re:One million cancel broadband as living costs rise (UK) by justinclift on Friday May 19, 2023 @07:24AM (#36000351)
As a point of comparison (here in East Coast Australia) decent (mid-range) hamburgers are commonly around AUS$18-20.

According to xe.com, that's about US$12-13.30.

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