Five Guys — Restaurant in Poway

Five Guys in general is doing what most restaurant chains are doing, which is diminishing the size of the portions of particularly their top bacon cheeseburger, the amount of ground beef that they give you; while trying to be deceptive about it; while still trying to hold onto the image of being the top burger chain. Sadly, given the fact that the entire industry is participating in this deception of the public, Five Guys following suit just leaves them in the position they’ve already been in, which is probably the best national chain of burgers. But, that still means they’re diminishing their product while increasing their price to $14 for the big money burger that used to be anywhere from six dollars to seven before it increased to nine something. Then it was $12 and now it’s $14. At some point you have to realize when you go to a burger joint to get just a burger and the fries without the drink and it cost you $22 & change their constantly using every imaginable excuse to gouge the price while diminishing the amount of food they give you. Do we really think inflation and circumstances are impacting restaurants for ever in this way? Does it ever let up?

P.S. in the selections below, they indicated “bacon double cheeseburger” is one of the options. But Five Guys doesn’t have an item that they call a bacon double cheeseburger. They have a burger that previously looked like it had two full-size patties on it that most people think of as for a bacon double cheeseburger, but it was actually referred to as the bacon cheeseburger. That was foresight inti the price gouging that they would engage in because they always called it the bacon cheeseburger, even though back in the early 2000s it was two full-size patties. It appears the patties have been sized down: they are noticeably thinner and that’s a common thing you find with burger restaurants. The way they get you is they claim they’re giving you double burger, when they restaurant is given m quarter pound or even a half pound burger patty and slice it horizontally so you get 2 x 1/4 pound patties that amount to, basic 1/2 pound burger for $14. You better be getting a half pound of beef on that...

Very good tasting burgers! Love how they let you pick what you want on the burgers. I went with a bacon cheeseburger with grilled onions and mushrooms with jalapeno to add some kick.. It was great!! Chocolate milkshake was also delicious.. Its not a huge shake but very good.. Place gets 4 stars because the wait for the food was pretty long (not that thats a bad thing because I want it fresh) but once my food was made it sat up there for awhile before I finally said 4 minutes later is that number 22 and the guy goesd ummm yeah sorry.. So he just never called my order and the food sat for at least 4 minutes... That's ok though cause it was still warm and so good! 🍟...

This place used to be better when it 1st opened but now things have really gone downhill, the burgers are supposed to come well done as you can see in the picture of mine that is medium to medium rare when I asked for more mustard they made a face and handed me a packet and I had asked for a proper side because I like a lot of mustard and they made a face and slowly honored my request, the food took 27 minutes for a Burger. It's extremely overpriced for what you get, the only reason I'm giving them 2 stars is because the cajun fries are delicious. Also the Men's restroom was completely unacceptable! Why would I want to...