I would never go because Elon is associated with it, but otherwise it’s kind of unremarkable. I’ve seen big chain restaurants with similar prices in the area. My biggest gripe is is that kid’s burger is the same price as the adult burger.
Same.
The prices seem reasonable albeit still a tad too expensive (my limit is 10€ for street food unless it’s something special).Oh, I’m with you. I just don’t pay $13 for a burger. Just because they’re unremarkable doesn’t mean they aren’t dumb.
The kids grilled cheese (which is literally just bread and American cheese) is also $13
The adult grilled cheese is cheaper!
Obviously the “just price everything at what we think people will pay” strategy.
Thats literally what every business everywhere does. It is basic economics. Prices are determined not by the cost to produce, but by what people are willing to pay.
I guess what I mean is that this place seems to be doing it at the aggregate level. Like someone decided that people going there would spend $13 for a meal, so everything is $13. Adult hamburger? $13. Kid’s hamburger? $13. Grilled cheese? $13.
Most places would say that people aren’t going to spend the same amount for a grilled cheese as for an adult burger, so they’d make the grilled cheese cheaper.
That’s a fair point.
The one good thing was the tallow fried french fries. Back in the 70s Mc Donald’s fried theirs in beef tallow and they were magical. What the heck is a “Snap O Razzo” hot dog? Nothing really interesting here. I’d rather go to an In and Out burger.
wow, 1/3 lb is small, I prefer to go to McDo they have the bigger 1/4lb burger!!
/s
Truly the American way.
Imagine being the richest person on earth and best you can come up with for a new restaurant is the most boring menu at ridiculous prices.
Edit: To be fair tho, gonna need a source on this. Since OP hasn’t provided a link or anything.
Its a diner menu. He opened a Friendly’s. The menu is standard diner options. Prices are also standard market prices.
Fuck they’ve actually created a Nazi Cyberpunk Diner.
The reviews are surprisingly good on Google Maps. For now.
I mean, if you’re enough of a fanboy to still fw Tesla of course you’ll give his shitty diner a good review.
How many do you think he has bought?
For most people that is morally corrupt. Elmo just calls it a good business decision.
God that’s the most boring hamburger I’ve ever seen in my life. I was expecting boring, but that’s really not any more than Wendy’s, if Wendy’s smashed the burgers (for the people who don’t cook, smashing the burgers is not some incredibly expensive secret technique)
Thank you! Got down this far and don’t see anyone mentioning the fact that this menu feels like they just did word salad on a denny’s menu.
You could, I don’t know, google it:
“Yo that’s $13 for a hot dog” - Macklemore
I’m confused on why the burger is only 50¢ more than the hot dog.
Go look at a picture of the burger. Enlightenment will follow
Tesla Burger and Epic Bacon. Very cool, Elon…
He really has the naming skills of an 8 year old.
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The Boring Restaurant
Why they fuck would you take one of the most expensive sources of beef (Wagyu) and make chili out of it?
Because it sounds nice? Literally, zero chance that is actually wagyu. It would be inedible due to the fat.
Wagyu is still just a type of cow and if you aren’t eating expensive graded cuts it’s not that much more expensive than angus. It’s still pointless to eat in a chili as the whole advantage of it is the marbling
I suppose you are correct. I took it to mean wagyu steak. They could just use the scraps from trimming the steaks they give to worthy people.
Also not all cows end up being graded super high so they have plenty of “low quality” Wagyu
Imagine living your entire life in prison and then you are murdered for your meat, only for some schlub with a neck beard to say, “eh… Kinda mid” about you.
Getting criticized in life for being too fat and in death for being too lean, just failing at everything
It’s likely American “wagyu” - i.e. unregulated “premium” beef
Yalls care too much about billionaires. This is entirely irrelevant to me. Who cares?
Buddy the community is called mildly interesting. As in not very interesting. The point is they don’t really care about it.
Remarkably unremarkable
“Excuse me waiter, from which minority do you source these meats?”
“all day breakfast” do you see that McDonald’s? Donyou see it? That’s how to do it.
I don’t know what’s wrong with the McDonald’s breakfast procedure, but McMuffins apparently takes a lot of time. I ordered 8 one time, to feed the family, and the teen went seriously? I can only make 4 at a time, so it’s going to take a while
I’ve heard that breakfast is kind of a loss leader for fast food chains. It’s cheaper than the lunch options and the point is just to get people in the door in the morning and they’ll hopefully come back later/another day for more profitable meals. Don’t know how true it is, but that would explain the limited hours and them giving you grief for trying to order a bunch.
Did you tell the teen “Then why the fuck are you talking to me? Get back there and start crackalackin!”
I know it’s a joke, but I’d slap a bitch if they said that during my shift at a minimum wage job.
They should be fucking arrested for wasting Wagyu beef in a chili.
Surprisingly reasonable for a slightly upscale LA joint. Only issue is … who the fuck in their right mind would waste actual Wagyu beef in some chili? You can put almost any beef in chili, nobody will notice because it’s fully submersed in a stew that tastes like chili. So why use the most expensive beef on the planet for it? Unless it’s just fake Wagyu, which tbf, I guess it probably is at that price point. Still a dumb marketing gimmick to anyone that knows anything about beef.
Restaurants, industry wide have done what Weinerschnitzel has done for decades:
Take the unused/unpurchased cooked meats and put them into a container in the refrigerator. The next day, grind them up and put them in those stews and chillis.
It saves money actually.
They’re not serving Wagyu anywhere else on their menu, that I recall seeing anyway.
Which means that Chill and probably half that menu is catered by some Restaurant group daily.
Ghost kitchen.
Wendy’s uses grill scrapings and unsold patties in their chili. And it is the bomb!
Insipid menu.
Not a lot of things here I don’t already make at home.
Making chili out of premium beef seems a waste.
Anyone with 2 kids would buy an adult burger and fries and split it between the kids.
Making chili out of premium beef seems a waste.
Indeed. 99% of the point of chili is that you can use the lowest grade stuff and it doesn’t matter because it just cooks down and gets loaded with spices. Not that I would expect a multicentibillionaire to care about food economy
It still most likely is the lowest grade stuff, just with bits of leftover Wagyu tossed in just so they can call it Wagyu chili.
I would think that they would just reuse the hamburger patties like at Wendy’s.
I initially thought it would be cheaper to buy the meat scraps from the vendor, but then again that probably already goes into the patties.
Makes you wonder if the ovens will explode like his cars and rockets
