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Five Guys: Obamacare will boost burger prices [job losses because of Obamacare]
Washington Examiner ^ | March 11, 2013

Posted on 03/11/2013 9:22:40 PM PDT by grundle

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To: bert
"I’ll have to ponder that because I was convinced the general rise in fast food was the result of the rise in the price of beef and flour and potatoes."

But prices don''t seem to be getting much higher at places like Applebee's, Denny's, Cracker Barrel, etc.

41 posted on 03/12/2013 5:45:12 AM PDT by randita
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To: randita

Those places are in mortal danger. They have reduced portions and changed the menu to sell two for $20 or such.


42 posted on 03/12/2013 5:50:36 AM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 .....The fairest Deduction to be reduced is the Standard Deduction)
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To: jersey117; Secret Agent Man
it is so wrong muslims are exempt from all this crap.

I believe that is an internet hoax.
43 posted on 03/12/2013 6:00:10 AM PDT by jaydubya2
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To: COBOL2Java
Probably most of them.

I know a guy that works at Cracker Barrel in Florida and he said that his bosses told him to be sure to vote for obmama because Rommney would get rid of medicare and medicade. He does not vote.

44 posted on 03/12/2013 6:15:49 AM PDT by sport
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To: bert

—EBT-—

?????


Electronic
Benefits
Transfer

(welfare/foodstamps)


45 posted on 03/12/2013 6:28:30 AM PDT by Peet (Notice: Due to the high price of ammo, there will be NO warning shots.)
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To: Peet

Got it... thanks


46 posted on 03/12/2013 7:10:36 AM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 .....The fairest Deduction to be reduced is the Standard Deduction)
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To: grundle

47 posted on 03/12/2013 7:13:08 AM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: pepsionice
I would make this bet...by 2016, a delux Five Guys burger will likely run around $14.

Something like that...

to scarface367
On News/Activism ^ 01/06/2008 5:00:33 PM PST · 86 of 169 ^

Inflation has pretty much been uniformly positive since the 1930s.

Using non-inflation adjusted dollars will ultimately put us all in the top tax bracket.

This is why I am confedent that I will get back every single penny I have put into Social “Security” in the past 4 decades.

Of course, by then a hamburger might cost $1999.99, still, I’ll get every penny...


48 posted on 03/12/2013 8:06:51 AM PDT by null and void (Gun confiscation enables tyranny. Don't enable tyranny.)
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To: C. Edmund Wright

I agree, Five Guys is hardly different in price from other places. A Five Guys combo is about the same price as a large sized McDonald’s combo. The portions at Five Guys are huge (particularly the fries).

I’ll take a place like Five Guys any day over the meat paste from McDonald’s.


49 posted on 03/12/2013 8:14:56 AM PDT by Marko413
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To: jaydubya2; jersey117; Secret Agent Man
jersey117; Secret Agent Man ~ it is so wrong muslims are exempt from all this crap.

jaydubya2 ~ I believe that is an internet hoax.

Nope. Muslims and Anabaptists (Amish, Mennonite, Hutterite) are exempt on religious grounds.

The Amish take care of their own as part of their religion.

The muslims regard insurance as gambling, it is specifically forbidden. (Even Snopes says that as such they can apply for exemption, while denying they have one!)

You didn't read the bill before you passed it didja?

Well, now you've found out what's in it...

50 posted on 03/12/2013 8:26:20 AM PDT by null and void (Gun confiscation enables tyranny. Don't enable tyranny.)
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To: null and void

Thanks for the correction null and void!


51 posted on 03/12/2013 8:50:20 AM PDT by jaydubya2
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To: Graybeard58

Dunno


52 posted on 03/12/2013 8:50:53 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: 9YearLurker

True.

My Mom took food stamps after divorcing, for two years.

We always had steak, pork chops and Sunday fried chicken. She never bought any boxed food except for oatmeal, cream o wheat, cheers and corn flakes. if you wanted sugar we weren’t allowed more than two teaspoons.

She marveled at how she could feed us and have guests but, moreover, we always had good food and at the end of the month, she gave her leftover food stamps to a family not even 1/2 the size of our family. there were 5 kids in our family and two in theirs

They couldn’t make it on the food stamps they were given.

My Mom, to this day, remarks how they never learned not to eat from a box .

Whole foods are cheaper and healthier.

They don’t need CrapDonalds. cept maybe the dollar chicken sandwich.... now I’m hungry


53 posted on 03/12/2013 9:00:05 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: jaydubya2

Da nada. Your turn to cover my back!


54 posted on 03/12/2013 9:11:50 AM PDT by null and void (Gun confiscation enables tyranny. Don't enable tyranny.)
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To: Marko413
I don't eat at either place. French fries are just wonderful food. Fried in peanut oil (at Five Guys) you get a nice big dose of omega-6 fatty acids and a pile of carbs to spike your insulin. That is perfect substrate for more arachidonic acid. I don't find french fries so irresistible that I would trade them for heart surgery or an early funeral. YMMV
55 posted on 03/12/2013 10:15:04 AM PDT by Myrddin
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To: Marko413

Yep, Five Guys, Burger Fi, and some other chains are a much better value, a little more money, but a lot more freshness and some level of hybrid service also. Those who compare them to BK or McDonalds (and I like BK too) are making a flawed comparison. But as you say, the money is not that much difference anyway.


56 posted on 03/12/2013 10:31:20 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright
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To: Vendome

You were blessed to have such a great mom!


57 posted on 03/12/2013 10:36:31 AM PDT by rawhide
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To: grundle

Just talked to some locals who are facing govenment cutbacks at the town level. I feel sad for them, but at the same time, all four were Hussain voters.

I have seen a number of people get their hours cut back. 40’s to 32.

I want to tell them to be grateful they have any job right now.


58 posted on 03/20/2013 5:56:35 PM PDT by Chickensoup (200 million unarmed people killed in the 20th century by Leftist Totalitarian Fascists)
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