Can I post in this thread if I just think that it's nice to have more options even if Five Guys maybe isn't my favorite burger chain or do I need to complain about how bad and expensive it is?
Five Guys Coming to Ames
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Did they not display the prices on the menu at that location? Did the cashier twist your arm into buying a $5 shake? I don't understand why people are complaining about how much they spent.
Also, $19 bucks isn't that much for a Burger, Fries and a shake. Where else are these people eating?
A quick meal...fast food? $19 is pretty steep for a drive-thru meal!
If you are getting out of your car, and sitting down, then you shouldn't expect to pay 9.99 for a meal. While 5 guys is "fast food" technically, its more fast casual, which comes with a little bit more expectations, thus price.
I get that...so I guess it depends upon what you are comparing the experience to, right? Compare it to McD's or Chik-fil-a...or compare it to BWW's or Chi-Chi's? Or something better? In my mind I just see Five Guys fitting closer to the fast food type experience...just has always been there for me for some reason.
I kind of see this since you order at a counter and pick up your food at the counter. It's probably more similar to Chipotle. For comparison's sake, what would a burrito, chips with queso and a drink cost at Chipotle? Throw in a couple of extra bucks because it's a shake instead of a soft drink and it's probably pretty similar.
Yeah...I could not think of "Carlos O'Kelly's" when I was posting...that is what I was trying to come up with...is Chi Chi's still even a restaurant?
I think they've been gone for about 15 years. Seems people got sick, and a few died, at their restaurants.
Target would lose its ass in West Ames. Find me a town the size of Ames with 2 Targets.
The Duff store does ok but not as well as they'd like it to since it's not a Super Target. Take people out of that store and suddenly it doesn't make money while you'd have a money pit in a West Ames Target.
Before someone tries to say "Well, Walmart has 2 stores!"....Walmart has a much larger segment of the population they're after and they beat Target in the place it matters the most in a college town....price. That isn't to say no college students shop at Target (false), but most students are going to gravitate to the lowest price (Walmart).
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Woah...no way! In the 90s we used to go to the one in Cedar Rapids to watch MNF and drink! We always had fun in the bar area...made for some tough Tuesday mornings in the fall though!
I like McAllisters in West Des Moines, next to Five Crooks. Better food for the dollar.
Believe me my family went there all of the time when I was growing up. I looked it up and it will be 15 years this fall.
Fell on some hard times I guess you could put it. Per the internet:
"In November 2003, a month after filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, Chi-Chi's was hit with the largest hepatitis A outbreak in U.S. history, with at least four deaths and 660 other victims of illness in the Pittsburgh area,[8] including high school students who caught the disease from the original victims.[9] The hepatitis was traced back to green onions at the Chi-Chi's at Beaver Valley Mall near Monaca, Pennsylvania, about 30 miles (48 km) northwest of Pittsburgh.[10] Chi-Chi's settled the hepatitis A lawsuits by July 2004.[11] At the time the suits were settled, Chi-Chi's had only 65 restaurants, fewer than half of the number of four years prior."
There was a hepatitis outbreak at one of their Pennsylvania restaurants. Wiki said four people died and several hundred people got sick.
When I was in Ames everyone I knew shopped at target and couldn't stand Walmart. Even now the new Walmart is a dingy, dark, cold place.
Wow. I guess the lesson is to never trust a restaurant founded by a former Green Bay Packer football player.