Graham Bradley on Five Guys:

Lotta discussion on X about the price of a meal at Five Guys. I can explain why.

Yes, it's expensive. I used to work in food delivery in Utah, for a company that had contracts with Five Guys as well as a recognizable national chain that I will not name. I'd deliver both stops on the same route, same day.

BUNS
Chainstore got their buns pre-made and delivered in cardboard boxes, or else bagged and shipped on plastic trays. Whenever we delivered to Chainstore we had to pick up the empty trays from the last delivery and make room for them on the truck. Kind of a pain.

Five Guys didn't get buns from us, they ordered those from a bakery, and they weren't so flat and spongy.

MEAT
Five Guys definitely bought the more expensive meat, however it is that they "grade" meat, the better and leaner stuff went to their kitchen.

A similarly-sized case of beef at Chainstore was a lot lighter, meaning it was a higher fat percentage.

Also, the bacon was thick-cut and premium at Five Guys, and they ordered way more of it because people wanted way more of it. And they have hot dogs at Five Guys--they order Nathan's all-beef franks for that.

PRODUCE
The produce orders were pretty similar from what I recall--onions, lettuce, tomatoes, etc. I don't remember a brand difference. Hard to screw up lettuce.

POTATOES/FRIES
Chainstore fries come pre-cut, treated/processed, bagged, and frozen, just like their chicken nuggets.

Five Guys will order a pallet of potatoes at a time--7 layers, 7 bags per layer, 1 bag = 50 lbs. And these are good hearty American taters. One of the locations I delivered to had a marker board on the wall where they wrote the name of the Idaho farm that supplied their taters at any given time.

Five Guys fry ingredients: peanut oil, potato, salt, the end.

OIL
Every burger joint uses canola or soybean oil for their fries. This includes Chainstore. It's cheap, and it's also garbage.

Five Guys orders the same quantity of oil as everyone else, but it's peanut oil. They literally store the cartons in the lobby along with their potatoes. That's not a decoration--when they need more peanut oil, they go into the lobby and get a carton.

SHAKES
Chainstore had their shake mixture premade at a plant somewhere, it arrived in thick plastic bags that were then wrapped in cardboard about the size of a shoebox.

I don't know what Five Guys uses for their shakes because we didn't handle their dairy. If it's anything like the rest of their product, they get premium ingredients and make it that way.

EMPLOYEES:
I'm only saying this because it's the truth, and not out of any malice: the employees I dealt with at every FG location (and I service five or six during my time with that company) were polite, professional, and healthy-looking people.

A fair amount of the Chainstore people were not in the same boat. I never delivered to a disgusting Five Guys location that smelled bad or looked gross in the kitchen. I never delivered to a Five Guys at 2AM and found the manager sleeping in a chair in the back, hunched over the computer desk, then calling her non-employee boyfriend to help her put away the delivery. I have the feeling that is against company policy. Alas.

CONCLUSION:
Dunk all you want on the cost of Five Guys, but it's up there because you're paying for quality, domestic ingredients that aren't dialed down to be cheap, quick poison. Yes, it's a burgers-fries-shakes joint. It's made to order by people who are paid well. It's a restaurant and not fast food. It's everything that the HealthBros say you should want in food, and everything the WageThems say you should want in an industry.

Good things cost good money. That's all.

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