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PostPosted: Sun Mar 29, 2015 13:29 
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Weird, though-are they better over here? I thought it was pretty standard fast food in the States, and priced accordingly; here it has a bit of cachet.

In the US, it's pitched as "a good deal better than McDonalds, and a little more expensive." Which is a fair description, I think (I really like their burgers, although I prefer In-N-Out.) Here, they've taken the same food and service and priced it on par with a gastropub or GBK or Byron, which feels a little off to me. Presumably they did market research and concluded there's no room for a £5 and they couldn't come downmarket so they went upmarket instead. Seems to be working for them, based on the expansion.


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Is 5 guys not that good, then? We were out a few weeks ago and bang in the middle of Gourmet Burger Kitchen and 5 Guys, and we just plumped for the Gourmet Burger Kitchen more out of chance than anything as we had previously never been to either. On balance, was that the better of the two?

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I didn't know they had opened up over here. It was great fast food at $5ish, and far better than MaccyD's, but for the prices others have mentioned I'd go with GBK.


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Is 5 guys not that good, then? We were out a few weeks ago and bang in the middle of Gourmet Burger Kitchen and 5 Guys, and we just plumped for the Gourmet Burger Kitchen more out of chance than anything as we had previously never been to either. On balance, was that the better of the two?


Depends on what you are after. 5 guys is a lot dirtier than GBK.


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Is 5 guys not that good, then? We were out a few weeks ago and bang in the middle of Gourmet Burger Kitchen and 5 Guys, and we just plumped for the Gourmet Burger Kitchen more out of chance than anything as we had previously never been to either. On balance, was that the better of the two?
IMHO:

McDonalds: the baseline. Flavourless beef, uninspired toppings. Decent fries.

Five Guys: McDonalds++ i.e. gussied up fast food. Better beef, better toppings (but nothing elaborate; bacon, cheese; that sort of thing.) Very good fries. Counter service, food comes wrapped in foil and cardboard.

GBK: Lowest rung of the higher end burger chains. Bland-ish meat, overcompensated for by lots of novelty toppings and bread (bacon jam and chilli relish and on a brioche bun.) Excellent garlic aioli. Order at a counter but they bring your food out on a plate.

Byron: GBK++. Tastier meat (that they'll also serve rare), a bit less novelty in the toppings (could be good or bad depending on how you feel about that.) Not fast food ie. table service and you pay at the end of the meal. They do courgette fries, which are excellent if sometimes underseasoned.

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Weird, though-are they better over here? I thought it was pretty standard fast food in the States, and priced accordingly; here it has a bit of cachet.

In the US, it's pitched as "a good deal better than McDonalds, and a little more expensive." Which is a fair description, I think (I really like their burgers, although I prefer In-N-Out.) Here, they've taken the same food and service and priced it on par with a gastropub or GBK or Byron, which feels a little off to me. Presumably they did market research and concluded there's no room for a £5 and they couldn't come downmarket so they went upmarket instead. Seems to be working for them, based on the expansion.

Yeah, that seems to fit. I suppose I'm just surprised that in an area where there are plenty of options - as you nicely list below - and in which information and people flow so easily from country to country, that you can take a chain like that and make it fly at such a different price point. Could I take Primark to the US and sell clothes at Abercrombie prices?*

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The shock of not having net curtains at the window.

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Here's a bit of a random letter from the bank....

We're giving you back £20 plus interest, from four and a half years ago.....

I'm pretty sure they could have got away with it, although I'll take the £22.57p, obviously.

I'd say this is probably Mrs Hearthly's transaction, there's no way an ATM would get away with conning me out of £20.

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5 guys is very greasy, far more so than McDonald's. The meat seems a little better, and the burgers appear to be hand formed, but this could easily be done by machine. There are more toppings and you have a choice. They also have free peanuts as everything is fried in peanut oil.
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When I was 9 I typed in a short BASIC programme from an April issue of the never-lamented and unfunny kids' computer 'comic' Let's Compute! that promised to double your computer's memory.

ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view!
Surprisingly enough, it didn't, but just flashed up an 'April Fool' message. Had I recognised the ASCII code numbers in the DATA lines, I probably wouldn't have wasted that hour
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I read your post earlier, Kern, and have only just realised the relevance. Even with the quiz thread underneath, ffs.


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Apropos of business stuff, how does the factory floor know of things long before I do?

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Apropos of business stuff, how does the factory floor know of things long before I do?

Same reason as I find out all the interesting detail of our strategic developments from reception rather than at actual briefings.


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A) Reception or the factory floor is the one place where everyone passes through at one time or another during an average day, and things get overhead and gossiped about more readily.

B) I buy the staff on reception frequent gifts.


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A) Reception or the factory floor is the one place where everyone passes through at one time or another during an average day, and things get overhead and gossiped about more readily.

B) I buy the staff on reception frequent gifts.


a) good point. I rarely go there as ppe and hygiene take ages.
b) I always stop for a chat with reception. Makes my life a fair bit easier when I want stuff posted and rooms booked.

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So the new thunderbirds series isn't actually bad. In fact, it has a couple of non ideal changes but is generally on a par with the original.

And the boy has now watched the first episode 5 times in 3 days.

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I did mean to watch this if only because I can't remember all their names.

I think I'll enjoy it.


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I did mean to watch this if only because I can't remember all their names.


Its easy

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I did mean to watch this if only because I can't remember all their names.

I think I'll enjoy it.

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The kids, being huge fans of the original Thunderbirds, were very excited by the remake. And hooray, they enjoyed it. I thought it was an interesting mix of CGI and the old school "blowing up models" approach that made the original such a hit.

This weekend I was forcefully reminded of why I hate PC gaming. I tried to get Baldur’s Gate working on the modern laptop ( my old desktop I sued to use got recycled), and wasted several hours on the attempt. The reason for trying was that I fancied some old school RPG goodness but “can you run it” says “NO” to Pillars of Eternity, due to my Intel HD 4000 graphics adapter.

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This weekend I was forcefully reminded of why I hate PC gaming. I tried to get Baldur’s Gate working on the modern laptop ( my old desktop I sued to use got recycled), and wasted several hours on the attempt. The reason for trying was that I fancied some old school RPG goodness but “can you run it” says “NO” to Pillars of Eternity, due to my Intel HD 4000 graphics adapter.


Running stuff that old is always going to be hit and miss though; it's 17 years old to be fair. There is an Enhanced Edition that was released in 2012 which you'd probably have more luck with though:

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This weekend I was forcefully reminded of why I hate PC gaming. I tried to get Baldur’s Gate working on the modern laptop ( my old desktop I sued to use got recycled), and wasted several hours on the attempt. The reason for trying was that I fancied some old school RPG goodness but “can you run it” says “NO” to Pillars of Eternity, due to my Intel HD 4000 graphics adapter.


Running stuff that old is always going to be hit and miss though; it's 17 years old to be fair. There is an Enhanced Edition that was released in 2012 which you'd probably have more luck with though:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldur%27s ... ed_Edition


Or from GOG

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This weekend I was forcefully reminded of why I hate PC gaming. I tried to get Baldur’s Gate working on the modern laptop ( my old desktop I sued to use got recycled), and wasted several hours on the attempt. The reason for trying was that I fancied some old school RPG goodness but “can you run it” says “NO” to Pillars of Eternity, due to my Intel HD 4000 graphics adapter.


Running stuff that old is always going to be hit and miss though; it's 17 years old to be fair. There is an Enhanced Edition that was released in 2012 which you'd probably have more luck with though:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldur%27s ... ed_Edition

Yeah, true. I'm not paying £30 to rebuy games I already own, though.

And this was after applying all the recommended BG mods and fixes as well...

In contrast, I got Mechcommander Gold and Dungeon Keeper 2 working perfectly!

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This weekend I was forcefully reminded of why I hate PC gaming. I tried to get Baldur’s Gate working on the modern laptop ( my old desktop I sued to use got recycled), and wasted several hours on the attempt. The reason for trying was that I fancied some old school RPG goodness but “can you run it” says “NO” to Pillars of Eternity, due to my Intel HD 4000 graphics adapter.


Running stuff that old is always going to be hit and miss though; it's 17 years old to be fair. There is an Enhanced Edition that was released in 2012 which you'd probably have more luck with though:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldur%27s ... ed_Edition

Yeah, true. I'm not paying £30 to rebuy games I already own, though.

And this was after applying all the recommended BG mods and fixes as well...

In contrast, I got Mechcommander Gold and Dungeon Keeper 2 working perfectly!


It's actually only £14 from GoG and, aside from the enhanced engine, it's got an expansion pack and a load of new content in which doesn't seem unreasonably priced. Or, as Findus Fop points out, pay £7 for the original version updated to work on newer platforms (with your money back if it doesn't).


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Also, you don't already own it. You own a disk with a lot of useless 1s and 0s on it, if it doesn't work.

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It's actually only £14 from GoG and, aside from the enhanced engine, it's got an expansion pack and a load of new content in which doesn't seem unreasonably priced.

It's 25-30 or something for both BG1 and BG2 EE versions...

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£13/14 for both BG1 and BG2...

I may give that a go.

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You are using the 'Ted' forum. Bill doesn't really exist any more. Bogus!
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RIP, Owen. RIP, MrC.

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