Shake Shack

If McDonald's had draft beer, I guess I'd eat there. Today at Shake Shack they played Wild Nothing. Great summer vibes.

Now I'm in Chipotle and they're playing the Smiths.

I don't wanna hear that shit at a fast food chain!

dude why the fuck did you go to Shake Shack AND Chipotle?

They've since played Nico. "Please don't confront me with my failures..." poignant in lieu of all the garbage i've eaten today

that's like 6 meals right there

wait was this over the course of the day or just for dinner?

Course of a day. After student teaching orientation in south philly ended at 11 i took the bus to walnut, ate at shake shack, walked back to west philly, talked on the phone with people in my apartment, took a nap, walked around some more talking on the phone, and then went into chipotle

ethical and sustainability questions aside, is a shake shack burger ~better~ than say a big mac? less in terms of money than in time standing in line like a dork. asking for a friend.

i fucking love shake shack

The meat industry is evil and i am evil for participating in it. So's your friend.

one time i found myself checking out their calorie counts trying to figure if i cld eat only shake shack without becoming morbidly obese

u can eat only anything without becoming morbidly obese, just somethings u can't eat v much

also ok i thought you did both for dinner and i was v surprised but nvm carry on

meant like feasibly jeez

Bobby's Burger Palace makes a rly good burger too AND THEY HAVE FOUNTAIN FANTA, DO YOU KNOW HOW RARE THAT IS?????

what is "feasible" tho
think abt it

You will die sooner than you would if you ate a varied diet of mostly vegetables, some lean protein, and fruit.

Feasibly Jeez is my new 90's bar band name btw

The Jeez Feasible

what is "feasible" tho
think abt it

― Gay Fire Beautiful Dong (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, September 4, 2014 9:38 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah thats what i was doin

You will die sooner than you would if you ate a varied diet of mostly vegetables, some lean protein, and fruit.

― Treeship, Thursday, September 4, 2014 9:38 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

u will die sooner if u keep talking to me like this treesh

http://media0.giphy.com/media/uiVH8ETzr9nZm/giphy.gif

shake shack
baby shake shack

shake shack is good

never had one of their shakes tho tbh

There is a shake shack at citi field that seemed to have 100 employees working at once

Eat about 20 shack burgers over any period of time and you will never crave one again. That sauce...

someone i think in the times described citi field as a food court with a baseball game in the background

p sure ive had more than 20 shack burgers

say one were to go to shake shack in battery park city for lunch tomorrow. would one have to wait in line forever like a dork? again, asking for a friend.

its like a normal take out place maybe wait like 5 mins at the most but prob less

the lines were when there was just the one location

ok cool

I've had exactly one (1) Shake Shack burger; it was p good

Treesh did you go to the one in rittenhouse or ucity? I bike by the one in ucity every morning but I've never been in, just the rittenhouse one

Treesh wanna go to shake shack next week?

The one in Madison Square Park makes you wait an hour even if there's nobody else on line! It 's a branding thing. You get a free cronut with your meal though.

ugh that's so fucking obnoxious

I've never had their shakes but they have a coffee shake and I wanna try that

Xp steve, i went to the rittenhouse one. I'll definitely go to shake shack with you whenever, they have the Brooklyn IPA there right now as their seasonal and it's pretty good. I know you're not an ipa person though, they also have other really good beverage options

can we go to the ucity one and judge all the upenn undergrads?

went to A Thing at some gallery tonight (lol I never do this) and heading home there was a Chipotle right fucking there and I joked about going there because I would never do that because I despise Chipotle. So I suggested going to Shake Shack even though it was a couple of blocks out of the way. But we headed there nevertheless but on the way were distracted by Trashy Mexican Food, Non-Chipotle and went there because that shit is a siren song to the husband. Should have done Shake Shake instead. But Trashy Mexican, Non-Chipotle is still miles better than fucking Chipotle why because decent margaritas at the very least.

Yes. Omg dude, on my block it's been like a constant frat party for the past two weeks and it is awful.

ya i dont f w those corporate tacos no way

g∞n wanna come to shake shack w/ me and treesh?

quince wanna get Trashy Mexican w/ me like every day forever?

but of course

I only fuck with Shake Shack's shakes tbrr

Treesh and Stevie have you guys ever been to Nifty Fifty's?

Kinda lame and quaint but also charming and I just can't quit it

thats messed up man the shack burger is so tite

I'll take a UPenn Shake Shake and raise my GWU Whole Foods. Dear god in heaven. I started working at the GW hospital over the summer and had No Idea what it would mean to have like a whole university arrive in the 'hood overnight. Nothing like a whole university arriving overnight in oh I dunno Bethlehem, PA

xposts see Stevie I luv you tons but Stephen is your Trashy Mexican go-to 94/7. I'm kinda like Legit Good Mexican or else default to good burger any day of the week. But man, does that man love him some srsly trashy Mexican.

i support trashy mexican

dayo that is so gd far out of the way!!! is it worth the trip?? what else is in that area besides i mean idk i was gonna say the Graffiti Pier but it's like miles and miles past that

Dunno if it's 'worth the trip' but def worth stopping by if you're in the area

There used to be one in the city right by where I played Little League

RIP the only Nifty Fifty's in the city

can someone who has had the shakes tell me what is so magnificent abt them and which is the best one to get? Like caramel shake sounds v good too, maybe after I've already had the coffee shake once

I had a jury summons this Tuesday in downtown Brooklyn, and I had Shake Shack for lunch, which I ate outdoors, on a bench, by myself, wearing a suit, sweating, and quickly too.

The coffee shake, malted

I mean I ate it quickly. I didn't sweat any faster than normal.

Looks like there is a nifty fifty's in northeast Philly now but one of my rules is never go to the Neast

I don't usually fuck with ice cream because apparently I hate america or something, but if I have to mess with it it's gonna be a coffee milkshake or a chocolate soda with peppermint ice cream. Both rather rare. I have yet to try a Shake Shack Shake but I'm gonna soon. Coffee, for sure. Malted sounds like a unusual but worthy plan, thanking u dayo

People who get a plain shake when a malted is on offer are disgusting savages imo

Well tbh I got it malted because I was using my friend's coupon and by malting it I got maximum value

I'm gonna try the burger again over the weekend tbh

As for Shake Shack, I challopically deny it is fundamentally different from e.g. Five Guys

omg its soo much better and different than five guys

Agree

five guys is good but its basically just a big sloppy burger with tons of toppings, shake shack is all abt the flavor of the meat and the meat grease and how it seeps into the bun, much more primordial burger tbqh

Had Shake Shack on UWS of Manhattan in 2009, it was plenty good but I certainly wouldn't have said it stood out as, for lack of a better word, tasting like meat! In fact I would have described it exactly as "a big sloppy burger with tons of toppings." But that was a long time ago and they may well have perfected the formula between then and now!

if I malt my milkshake it will taste like Whoppers and that is SO FUCKING GROSS imo

shake shack is the real deal, they make an outstanding burger. the calorie count on a shackburger isnt completely outrageous; just dont get fries or, if you must, split them with a friend.

five guys isn't worth it on any level imo.

in a million years it wouldn't occur to me to get a malted coffee shake but totally want to try it

Treesh do you want to get the malted coffee one and give me a sip?

sure, that sounds amazing honestly.

lol i was only kidding, you can get whatever you want. My ex used to call me a #foodDom because I would always like tell other people what they were going to order.

One recently opened up at King of Prussia, much to my delight.

UK shake shack is such a disappointment - just terrible in comparison to the manhattan original :-(

luckily five guys opened about the same week in London so i just gorged myself on their fries and cried myself to sleep a bit to get over it

I can't wait for the Chicago Shake Shack to open up. Got to try it when I was in Connecticut last summer and the burgers are so much better than Five Guys.

there will be a shake shack opening here soon. five guys sucks

The biggest problem with Five Guys is the all the goddamn SHOUTING the employees do. "ONE IN THE DOOR", "GOT IT", "TWO PATTIES", "GOT IT", "BYE YOU GUYS" (the last one shouted from the opposite corner of the restaurant as the door. It's fucking obnoxious.

loud talking no bs efficient counter service employees are either great or terrible, there's a fine line.

I had a small thing of ice cream from the london one once. It was underwhelming and overpriced. But I'll prb go back to try a shake at some point if they're recommended. It's difficult to find good milkshakes in the uk.

I really want to have shake shack someday. So bored w/in and out burger.

Headed to shack shake right now

Wonder how long I'll have to wait

2mins

2mins

― lag∞n, Sunday, September 7, 2014 12:08 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

If I had waited 10 min it could have been a 1 min wait

which one did u go to

Dumbo, laughed at the people waiting in line for grimaldis on the way

tour buses stop at grimaldis and 50 tourists get out and wait in line ive seen it

sounds like pink's hot dogs in l.a.

its good pizza but theres plenty of good pizza in ny

Having revisited shake shack and 5 guys this weekend can confirm shake shack clearly superior

Toasted butter bun a thing of beauty, although the working class essence of a Five guys double bacon cheeseburger with 'all the toppings' is something I can appreciate if never eat

So clear which chain got their start in DC and which got their start in NY

otm good observation

wait there's a shake shack in dumbo?

so there's 2 brooklyn shake shacks?

Yeah

I too was unaware of shake shakes imperialist expansion

saw them constructing one on atlantic too last i was there

theres one in istanbul too

When shack shack brings back the crinkle cuts I hope they keep the show strings too

re: imperialism
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-09-04/shake-shack-said-to-aim-for-1-billion-ipo-valuation.html

apparently there's one of these in harvard square (according to their website)

weird

dude theres one in NEWTON

itd be cool if the shake shack gold rush inspired other fine dining types to get into the fast food game

There's a Shake Shack in Oman but not one in California?

i have been to both mass shake shack outposts, the harvard one is v nice, the newton one is ok if you have the mistfortune to be driving on rt 9

i pass the Shake Shack in northwest DC all the time when i'm working, finally went in to satisfy my curiosity a few months ago, but i only had a shake and apparently the burgers are a big deal too so i still need to check those out. the shake was fine i guess but i was having a really terrible day that day and i think i had set my hopes too high and there was no way it could bring me the happiness i wanted it to.

gimme Nation's Giant

there are at least 3 in brooklyn

fulton street, dumbo, and across from barclays center

Now I'm in Chipotle and they're playing the Smiths.

idk this isn't that remarkable

http://pitchfork.com/news/51489-you-probably-wont-hear-radiohead-playing-in-chipotle/

Did Treesh know about this

re harvard square: one thing I KNOW shake shack is not better than is mr. bartley's burger cottage. i have spoken.

cherry lime ricky

guys

Treesh and I are Shake Shacking on Thursday and I could not be more excited

unless Björk was there, then I'd be more excited

Björk Shack

baby Björk Shack

can you confirm that malted coffee shake is going to happen?

well, I am going to get a regular coffee shake so it is T-dawg you are going to have to campaign for this.

don't let me down, treesh. Stevie I'm gonna need you to put aside your Whoppers aversion and do a comparison test!

oh I would love a taste but not a whole thing

re harvard square: one thing I KNOW shake shack is not better than is mr. bartley's burger cottage. i have spoken.

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, September 8, 2014 4:04 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

mr. bartley's kinda blows, sry dude.

the secret best burger in harvard is at shay's pub and wine bar.

"Now I'm in Chipotle and they're playing the Smiths."

idk this isn't that remarkable

― clouds, Sunday, September 7, 2014 5:21 PM

Today, marketing research consultants tell them what to play and when to play it. Eventually, facial recognition software connected directly to surveillance cameras will determine the age and gender mix of customers on the spot and pipe in the song that makes them order extra guacamole.

shay's is for 20-year-olds who are already 45 in spirit and your incorrect opinion only means more sweet potato fries for yours truly

omg you did not just diss shays

i've been there many a time and yes i did, what of it? admittedly it's probably been 20 years since i was in there.

i also hated the tasty and rejoiced when it closed

wow rude

oh yeah and clover is kind of terrible

i do like crema and harvard bookstore, just so it's clear i don't hate everything in harvard square

ok well at least we have some common ground (re clover)

praise me, I thought that was my challopiest op of all!

praise be

i mean, you're welcome to praise me too, i just didn't mean to demand that

they do the exact kind of vegetarian food i hate

it's a burger place! what else could they do besides emulating meat?

don't let me down, treesh. Stevie I'm gonna need you to put aside your Whoppers aversion and do a comparison test!

― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Monday, September 8, 2014 5:34 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

for you, i will order a malted coffee shake and report back.

stevie, i'm not sure, but i think our trip to shake shack is the most anticipated shake shack-related event in the history of the board.

Oh yes I definitely agree

I think the real question here though is whether I should order the Simple Burger with Cheese (no sauce) or the Frazy Bacon SlamBamber (no sauce) because bacon cheeseburgers are fine and all but is Shake Shack's like particularly exceptional? What sort of dimension do the chopped cherry peppers add?

they do the exact kind of vegetarian food i hate

― call all destroyer, Monday, September 8, 2014 11:25 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it's a burger place! what else could they do besides emulating meat?

― Gay Fire Beautiful Dong (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, September 9, 2014 12:07 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

clover is not a burger place btw if there was some confusion here

The worst vaguely upscale east coast fast food chain is boloco

Oh I thought you meant Shake Shack, like "Why doesn't a burger joint have a plethora of innovative non-analogous vegetarian options!" and I was like c'mon bud

I've never even heard of that xp

It's a boston thing. Their burritos taste distinctively "off" to me, like they are poisoned

The chopped cherry peppers are SO SO key, do not skip!

ok shake shack is pretty good yall

not convinced by the fries but burger and shake were excellent

it's not called fry shack

im not really "into" fries

at Mets games i always opt for Blue Smoke over Shack

blue smoke is dece is it crazy over priced like at the restaurants tho, both danny meyer properties fwiw

every time I get fries w a burger I am v unpleasantly full by the time I'm done and if I'm gonna make way 4 da shake I will skip those fries

rather just eat two burgers tbh

yes i only pay ripoff bullshit prices for fancy chain food at the ballpark, bcz i am full-fledged rent-poor now.

every time I get fries w a burger I am v unpleasantly full by the time I'm done and if I'm gonna make way 4 da shake I will skip those fries

this is smart

rather just eat two burgers tbh

this is also smart

shake shack new haven is v close to prime 16 whos burg is superior imo

Shake Shack New Haven also closed after http://www.nhregister.com/general-news/20140404/shake-shack-in-new-haven-closed-after-worker-exhibits-flu-like-symptoms-to-re-open-saturday

goin 2 shake shaq tonight

http://i.imgur.com/q3e87zR.gif

just back from shake shack fyi

Guys Treesh x Stevie x Shake Shack is happening imminently and there are some v exciting surprises coming up for those following along at home

http://i934.photobucket.com/albums/ad184/sdolnack/02929406-D3DA-4724-BDC8-2BE720399D46_zpsrjuyvdvd.jpg

the new haven shake shack is also noteworthy for having tables made out of a bowling alley and 'hand crafted in brooklyn'

brooklyn is good

I am for real glued to thread for upcoming posts!!!!!!!!

This is the biggest ilx food event since dayo and quincie bee-eating Shanghai FAP imho

^

k so we got drinks first at this weird cheap-feeling sushi place and they had $2 cocktails with cryptic names and we both ordered things with names that made no hint at their ingredients like Drunken Emperor and Sloppy Sensei and they tastes like things that moms served at Pampered Chef parties but they were $2

Then we went to Shake Shack and QUIZZO was happening so we ate burgers and did Quizzo and we tied for first but then lost the tiebreaker question bcz we only named 3 out of the top 10 most followed Twitter accts and then we slammed trays and cried and left

Also the food tasted good and fries were free bcz Quizzo promo

http://i934.photobucket.com/albums/ad184/sdolnack/5F835536-D273-4AB9-9C6A-051B08F1D754_zps65ivolds.jpg

http://i934.photobucket.com/albums/ad184/sdolnack/25772449-8A73-4880-8418-D159DAA51379_zpsc5hgdkly.jpg

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Treesh did u have fun? What was yr overall assessment of the evening?

A+

Did you guys meet any hot Drexel students?

are u asking if we met ourselves

what are u asking

so awesome <3

f/ quizmaster chris

that is a good quiz question

bieber
obama
kim kardashian
kanye?
katy perry?
taylor swift?
lebron james?
some youtube celebrities I've never heard of?

okay I got 4

gaga

Ri ri

Beyonce

beyonce is 52nd apparently

not Yoncé !

four left to go hint only two of them are people and the other two are popular social networks

I feel like the social networks shouldn't count

ya

but not counting social networks I would be guessing for about a week straight before I guessed #9

yeah v international

Yeah who knew Ashton Kutcher had such global appeal?

idg why some of these accounts follow hundreds of thousands of people, like you have 38m followers but youre following 400k whats going on here

I think bieber like has some intern who is just clicking follow on a bunch of girls so they are like omg bieber actually looked at my twitter (buys some more bieber t-shirts)

the one in grand central also had tables made from bowling lanes in Brooklyn if this is why I can't get a game of bowling in Brooklyn imma be pissed

dont worry there are two bowling ally/bars in williamsburg alone

not when shake shack expands nationally

brooklyn is like the amazon rainforest for shake shack

quincie, i had the coffee malt and compared it to stevie's coffee shake (unmalted). the malt and the coffee tastes sort of cancelled each other out in a weird way. it didn't taste very malty and it didn't taste much like coffee.

also, i really hope thursday shake shack quizzo becomes at least a semi-regular thing. mordy and other philly ilxors are more than welcome

coupla hotties in that pic up there for real

so treesh did you prefer the straight-up, unmalted coffee, then, or did the combo achieve some sort of synergistic awesomeness?

also wtf where is the fucking burger review???? Stevie did you get the cherry peppers, I hope u did

also I would drink all of the $2 cocktails with you guys because you rule

oh yeah! the burger was v good, cherry pepper relish abounded, I think we both agreed that unmalted milkshake was richer and more flavorful than the malted one (I couldn't taste the malt at all!), it was an excellent meal. Perhaps not worth $13 for a burger + a shake, but possibly worth it for a burger, a shake, and (free) fries.

Between free fries and Quizzo it is very certain that these two #chillburgerbros will be Shake Shacking again in the near future

"Quizzo Night At Shake Shack" - Hot Drexel Students f/ Quizmaster Chris

my double cheeseburger was, if anything, a lil too rich/meaty and would go for single next time. unmalted strawberry shake was VG, fries, as seems to be the trend here, were overcooked skins, shackodog was p good, overall p good but no supermacs

My fries were lukewarm and soggy but flavorful but also way too short and thinly cut for my taste. You kind of had to pluck clusters of them.

excellent summation, y

i had the cheese fries once they were p good

i was biking home from work yday and I started craving shake shack real bad

i really hope thursday shake shack quizzo becomes at least a semi-regular thing

how wd you guys feel abt a visit from Dr Morbius on Oct 9?

sounds awesome dude. there was a baseball question we missed last time that would have allowed us to win.

is baseball good? y/n

any year when the Red Sawx and Yanks are BOTH dead, it's the best

MORBS OMG YES YES YES

a visit from dr morbius is a good title for like a gothic horror short story

http://i.imgur.com/Ji53LB9.png

*barf*

gosh

uh

hey Treesh

hey treesh should we Shake Shack tomorrow? Do you think they have the good fries back?

GUYS

This cheese sauce is fucking UNREAL

Like it has the most insaaaane umami richness to it!! It tastes like it has some sort of mushroom/white wine/glutamate component or something? IDK it's like if you deglazed the richest fond and then put it in cheese sauce!!! IT WAS BATSHIT.

^ (verified)

V CRUCIAL UPDATE

http://sploid.gizmodo.com/shake-shacks-new-fried-shallots-burger-looks-like-crunc-1676590714/

MY MAN TREESH, are you up for this new and exciting burger challenge????

Just went in on the Meister (DC SS). It was more crunchy onion bits than rings but still really good. Actually, bits are probably even crunchier.

Atlanta got a Shake Shack a few months ago, but I hadn't even realized it until a coworker posted his review on fb today: "Not a shack. The burger and shake are middling attempts. This place thinks a lot of itself, but its basically a seasoned-down, tarted-up Five Guys with milk shakes. 4/10, will not return."

Who's on board with the IPO?

That new burger was always available to people who understand that you can basically do whatever you want with the menu, like ask for the shallots that were offered with the hot dog on the burger.

Most people who don't think much of the place order the shackburger with nothing on it which is not in fact all that great. You need to either order up to the mushroom or bacon versions or down to the cheeseless burger with everything else, and in either case order rare so that you're actually tasting the meat. Most people who think it compares unfavorably to Five Guys lack taste buds.

I think the Five Guys comparison was a knock. Atlanta has no shortage of good burger places at which to dine.

lol not a shack

"I think the Five Guys comparison was a knock. Atlanta has no shortage of good burger places at which to dine."

As does any major city. That is not the category to which Shake Shack does, or pretends to, belong. However, it is at the top of the fast-food burger pyramid and the quality of its ingredients or combinations, when appropriately quality-controlled, can meet or exceed a non-fast food equivalent.

That said, I reserve it for special occasions these days. It may be good, but it isn't health food.

same

I still haven't tried it, having only found out today that it's here. I probably will, though, because HAMBURGERS.

its really good

i might go grab a shackburger tomorrow.

We went to shake shack by barclay's center after a nets game because we had really wanted ice cream and not realized the concessions (blue marble etc.) close well before the game is over. They had some apple pie flavored custard, which I didn't think was very good. Still have never had their burgers/fries though.

update: i grabbed a shackburger.

and...

The shackburger grabbed him

love the shack, never had a bad shackburger. was able to resist the shackmeister--the pull of novelty was defeated by the fact that i actually don't really want fried shallots on my burger.

i really, really want fried shallots on my burger

Things I want 2 try at Shake Shack:

1. Burger w/ crunchy shallots
2. Burger w/ crunchy shallots + cherry pepper slaw
3. Burger w/ cheese sauce instead of sliced cheese

Stevie do you have a favorite Custard Stand?

No I don't think I even know of any!

I like Olympia Dairy Bar (haven't been there since they were bought by Lapp's):

http://i.imgur.com/Ss2xjBR.jpg

but I want to go to Hudock's this summer at some point (haven't been there for like 25? years)

http://i.imgur.com/zy7VEuM.jpg

cherry peppers is the A#1 thing that separates shake shack from the rest of the pack

At the center city one. Not the same as the one in university city

Shackmeister Burger remains divine though, it's true

Treesh we have to go to UC v soon

i'm going to be very upset if we don't win that quizzo eventually

Fuck we shoulda gone during winter break

no. it doesn't count if we don't beat out all the hot drexel students while they're on campus.

we should go next thursday feb 5th

found it's hard to skip lunch, get off at a bus stop across the street from shake shack, and not go in.

i like this shack frost ale a lot

feel eerily close to liberty place. i am used to seeing it from a distance, either in west philly or south philly. my students submitted sonnets today. this really is a great city.

they're playing "Postcard to Nina" now i mean come on

this isn't a fast food chain this is utopia

Stock has been flirting with 50 for a week now. They're planning on opening up in Japan next year.

went to the harvard square shake shack the other night, they played
the knife - heartbeats
dinosaur jr - little fury things
some cut copy song that i didn't know

i got a shake despite not having my lactase pills on me but it didn't even give me indigestion, this shit has mystical properties

drove by the shack on NJ route 4 across from the Tesla dealership

the way we live now

Overheard tourists consuming Shake shack in Central Park :

- do you think they put butter on the grill and then make them?

- I could eat like 10 of these

umami burger es good

One of my best friends roomed in college with the co-founder. He passed on early-stage/seed investing TWICE. Sucka.

Non-upscale local burger joint now serving burger topped with stuffed mushroom a la Shack

saturday, $5 burgers and beer for all local grad students. so excited. it's going to be packed.

sorry five dollar all you can eat burgers and beer and maybe fries

holy shit

double checking the email, it's actually unlimited of anything on the menu. trembling with excitement rn

oh wait, turns out i had to buy a ticket and they're sold out now. never mind

ugh wtf

steve are you free to get shake shack at like 7 or so

I am not, I work til 8:30 and then my girl Molly and I are going out :(

like an actual human girl named Molly I mean

lol

funny, i have a date in NYC with my girl Margarita

oh i love her

stock is on fleek

Those investors who got in early are the gosu.

Early=now

chilling at the shack rn, they're playing young galaxy

I really like shake shack, especially the Smoke Shack burger and the Chicken Shack. It's gotten to the point where I can't decide between those two and I end up eating both and then regretting it. Also, the best concrete I've had was the Lobster Tail in Cambridge, MA.

they also have a sweet local burger here called the Lockhart Link Burger where they add a Kreuz Market jalapeno cheese sausage link on top of the burger

i'm at the cambridge one right now I didn't realize the lobster concrete was an exclusive thing. ive never been interested in trying it

planning to get dinner at the shake shack at citi field tomorrow night. already excited.

nice. citi field was so classy when i was there, and only in part because it was when i met dr. m.

Citi Field is great. Looking forward to an evening of bros, brews, burgers and baseball.

i think the first time I ever heard of shake shack was when they were building citi field and ppl were excited that it was gonna have a shake shack in it

One just opened in my hood in queens.

treesh my man I miss hitting the Shack w/ you

Never understand people who go to the Shack at Citi Field like there are Danny Meyer taquerias and Dave Pasternack seafood shacks just dotting the landscape

Even apart from the lines

Had it a couple times lately -- leaves me feeling pretty ill. Yuppie McDonald's, basically.

stfu dumass

The Shake Stack, custard and crinkle fries were all tasty, don't get me wrong, just don't like the way I felt after.

I think McDonald's is tasty too.

Their chicken sammich is better than the chic fil a one

yeah I had that last time it was good

their fries could be so much better than they are. especially for what they cost and you only get a little handful.

hurting you got too much food, that's on you not the shack.

I shared the fries and the custard though. I only ate like 1/2 an order of fries and 1/3 of
a custard.

y'all need to up yr shake shack game

fries are skippable at the shack imo, they're not exemplary just solid

Breakfast at Penn Starion now. Little can of Stumptown Nitro Cold Brew.

never read this thread before; it is great. craving shake shack now. i told the students in my advisory to share a goal for the year with me at the beginning of the school year and explained it did not have to be an academic goal, "for example I have a goal of eating at Shake Shack more this year." i am doing abysmally at this goal tbh.

Shake Shack has breakfast?

Their breakfast sandwiches use the same potato bun as their hamburgers. Not ideal imho

Lots of talk about stock price itt; stock now trading at less than half its peak, slightly below IPO value. Sort of strange because I do feel like it's kind of ubiquitous now, I was in a mall in Scottsdale and I saw one! Maybe people thought it could be much bigger and still profitable and they were just wrong?

i was at the penn station one last night!

missed connections

I wish they had a large order of fries for people who don't eat burgers and just want fries.

Shake Shack has breakfast?

― IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive), Monday, January 8, 2018 11:20 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Breakfast is currently available at the Madison Square Park, JFK, Union Station, Grand Central, Fulton Center, Penn Station, LAX and Dubai Airport Shacks.

Lots of talk about stock price itt; stock now trading at less than half its peak, slightly below IPO value. Sort of strange because I do feel like it's kind of ubiquitous now, I was in a mall in Scottsdale and I saw one! Maybe people thought it could be much bigger and still profitable and they were just wrong?

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, January 8, 2018 8:43 AM (forty-eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

similar phenomenon on west coast with The Habit expanding as the stock price continues to decline

think there will be a huge burger fight when The Habit meets Shake Shack in Denver

There is apparently a counterfeit Shake Shack in Tehran, which is intriguing.

whoa, I thought knew burgers but I have never ever heard of the Habit

There is apparently a counterfeit Shake Shack in Tehran, which is intriguing.

feikh shack

treesh i miss it when you went on dates to Shake Shack w me

Lots of talk about stock price itt; stock now trading at less than half its peak, slightly below IPO value. Sort of strange because I do feel like it's kind of ubiquitous now, I was in a mall in Scottsdale and I saw one! Maybe people thought it could be much bigger and still profitable and they were just wrong?

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, January 8, 2018 8:43 AM (forty-eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

There was a lot of talk about how it was way overvalued when it first started trading and it couldn't hit the growth needed to justify the valuation. Also, just anecdotally, yes, it is ubiquitious now, and it also seems unspecial and rarely super busy the way the old locations used to be. My whole theory about it to begin with (which seems to have proved correct) is that it was the kind of business that needed excitement and scarcity to thrive, like it was this "special treat" thing that people would go out of their way to stand in line for. Once it's everywhere, it loses that excitement, and then it doesn't really offer everyday foods you can eat for lunch at work and not feel like shit after.

sheikh shack?

Close!

https://www.instagram.com/sheakshacktehran/

Someone keeps editing the legit Shake Shack wiki page to put the fake Tehran branch in.

ha, nice work iran

sheak shack looks p good

Is anyone familiar w/ this place BurgerFi? Visiting family in Michigan and tried it, seems to be a Shack knockoff, similar design scheme (but w logo branded into top bun). Burger was alright. Good fries. They put sprinkles in my daughter's shake which I though was weird.

Biggest + was two veggie burger options (as opposed to the Shack's mere portobello choice) for my kids—a house made patty and one made by Beyond Meat—the pricey but convincing fake meat we sometimes use at home.....

i've seen one of those in Boston i'm pretty sure but never been in

i like eating shake shack for lunch. not heavy at all for a burger and for like $6 it's actually one of the cheapest things you can eat in manhattan. and if you use the app to order you can get in and out in like 2 mins.

treesh i miss it when you went on dates to Shake Shack w me

― the masseduction of lauryn hill (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, January 8, 2018 4:18 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post

Me too. Great times.

I had the new chicken club thing a few weeks ago and thought it was delicious, that niman ranch bacon is tasty. But then tonight i had a burger at the fulton center location and it wasn't even good. And they fucked up my order, and the orders of the two guys who came to the pickup window at the same time as me. McDonald's double quarter pounder with cheese is probably half the price of the double shackburger and better imo.

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— nappa (@spookyboosky) March 25, 2018

didn't really realize how good this place was, veggie burger and frozen custard is a dope late night snack

Yes chicken club seconded
Shit is crack

Chicken club is the deep cut of the menu imo

Still love the chicken shak, but overall I like this place less each time I go. I was at the one in Hudson Yards after being stuck in the mall due to hard rain and having no other kid-friendly option. Cramped, crowded, miserable experience, touch screens that didn't work, inexplicably long wait for food, people behind the counter refused to give us trays to eat off of for some reason, and the burger and fries are just not that good. Generally speaking I find all the locations I've been to have been really uncomfortable places to sit and that the overall experience is just not pleasant.

A few months ago, I walked by a Shake Shack in suburban LA that was a completely empty at prime dinner time.

I've still only been to the OG like 15 years ago when it was at MSP/Flatiron and you had to wait in line for way too long. Can't even remember if it was any good or not.

man alive OTM
The longer each location is open, the more oily and greasy and disgusting the interior becomes, the effect of which is just compounded by the hoi pilloi clamoring for napkins and soda cups and annoyed at the wait for their food

I was a skeptic from the beginning as this thread shows, but always basically liked this place -- I'm with man alive, though, the last couple of times I've had their burger, it was just... not that great. Not bad! But not great. In particular, this from man alive

it was the kind of business that needed excitement and scarcity to thrive, like it was this "special treat" thing that people would go out of their way to stand in line for. Once it's everywhere, it loses that excitement

feels right to me, I enjoyed it more when they didn't have it in my local mall and it was an "I can have this because I'm traveling" treat.

Or maybe the food has actually gotten worse, which is not an unreasonable thing to expect for a rapidly expanding chain.

The shakes are still good.

I love Shake Shack and In'n'Out, but can't even imagine going to mobbed hamburger restaurants at this moment

I mean, you order on the app, you pay on advance with your credit card, you're in there picking up the stuff for like 2 minutes, there's an indoor mask mandate where I live. If it were actually mobbed I might feel different but there were like four people in there.