I don’t understand all the negative comments on this thread. You’d think most Freepers are shut-ins whose only dining out experience is some downscale all-you-can-eat buffet joint. And they want the rest of us to feel like we are being pretentious for wanting better for ourselves.
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The thing that makes me LOL about this is the suggestion by the one I’ve pinged is that somehow we are sheep being exploited by the dark forces of the Democratic party because we might choose on occasion to pay 8 dollars for a burger, when we can get one for 4 dollars at a fast food place. Or that we are mindlessly following whatever trend makes its way to Main Street.
It’s pretty simple economics to me. The value, flavor/portion size/freshness, is easily double that of a fast food burger.
I didn’t say $8 a burger. I said the trucks are getting $10 and up and the hip bloggers are putting them on the facebook, instagram, et al with “NOMNOMNOM” quotes, then getting picked up by the weekly Village ‘Vice’ alt-sex-weekly and touted as the best damn thing to eat in the whole frickin’ town.
And they plain aren’t.
Had a burger, shake, and onion rings today at Broiler Burger (what some hipsters will probably discover the year they finally announce their closing) and call it “retro” and “throwback dining” with “kitchy interior”.
TRENDY #### show how pricing power belongs to the HIP.
The headline said it all.