re: $42 Five Guys Order has female BIG MAD! Bidnesses about to find out!

I don’t really disagree with her. Hamburger prices at 5 Guys are super high,

Last trip with wife and 6 1/2 year old was $52. Casting my economic vote at Freddy’s. $34 for same stuff… less the ridiculous amount of obesity inducing fries they give you at 5 Guys.

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We're going to start cooking at home.

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'Let me tell you something. These businesses are going to f*** around and y'all gonna find out what it means to piss off your customers

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She probably supports $20/min labor laws.

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Has she been to a grocery store lately?

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The wife (no pics, she's shy) went to the grocery store yesterday to buy stew meat. Twelve fricking dollars for a pound(ish). She got 93/7 ground beef instead, that was $7/lb.

FRED: Ground beef prices

What's likely is that grocery prices will likely continue to rise over the next year. Why? Back in the late spring Biden pushed through a mandate for a 50% increase in the amount of ethanol in gasoline.

Back in 2005, when GWB signed the first ethanol mandate with the Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS) which was part of the Energy Policy Act of 2005. The next year, per-bushel prices for corn went from $2.46 in September 2006 to $3.43 by November and then eventually to over $4 by February 2007. Since then, corn has never gone below $3/bushel although it had averaged below $3 from that time back to the early 1970s.

Today, corn prices are around $4.63/bushel. If activity follows the path it did in 2005, we should see the price move up to the $5-$7 range by next Fall/Winter.

There's a domino effect here. Corn is not only consumed by people, it's used as feed for livestock. Corn on the shelves then becomes more expensive in your local grocery store, but then so too does pork, beef, etc. Along with that, the extra demand means more farmers stop farming other things and move to corn (since a large chunk of its demand is mandated), meaning prices on other crops (beets, wheat, soybeans, lettuce, cotton, etc) go up due to lowering supply (for example, cotton's increase and wheat's increase trailed the rise in corn prices by ~6 months in 2006/2007).

In other words, if the pattern holds even somewhat true then regardless of what happens over the next 8-10 months, we should see food prices start steadily climbing again around Fall of next year then continue for at least another year.

You can't inorganically force a demand increase on a foundational product then expect the Law of Supply & Demand to just ignore downstream impacts.

But it's the lazy ,insulin dependent people who keep them in business just like the person in the picture.

Learn to cook, diet and lose weigh as you are taking too much out of our health care system.

guilty... guilty af...

sorry,, wrong thread...

I just looked the cheeseburger is 11.50 and the mini fries is 5.50 so that's $17 plus tax. Now tell me you're wrong and apologize

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I just looked the cheeseburger is 11.50 and the mini fries is 5.50 so that's $17 plus tax. Now tell me you're wrong and apologize

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I wasn't sure where she was from and thought it might be higher in her part of the country but I looked at ours (central Ms) and what she had on our local menu was over $23 without tax if I did it right. So two with tax would have been $49.22.

I'm telling you, five guys is ridiculous and I'll never eat there again if I'm paying.

The poster that called me a liar won't be back to own up to it though.

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Cost of materials up.
Cost of labor up.
Cost of freight up.
Cost of warehousing up.
Cost of real estate up.
Taxes up.
Utilities up.
Interest up.

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Money printing up….