I was about to say the same, but then realized that none of the entrees include fries. $14 for a burger and fries is not unexpected at your average sports bar, but without fries for a plain Jane burger? I don’t know what the market is like in LA …
But $12 for four strips of bacon is outrageous, and $5 for this cookie is a slap in the face
The hot dog says "served with fried potatoes" at least. If the burger doesn't come with fries that's criminal. How can you serve a burger without fries
LA varies widely in food prices (I visit 2-3x a year). The overall vibe I can distill it down to is that these are competitive with small restaurants with no big name recognition or premium ingredients. UOVO pasta? 30-40$/serving. Some no name poke restaurant next to a Ralph’s? 15$ for a whole ass bowl of raw fish fresh from the fish market.
LA is the land of Star fuckers, where name recognition and vanity are above all else. If you stay away from the star fuckers, food there is actually affordable compared to the cost of living.
Yeah prices look normal to me expect for the children's menu. The point of a kid's menu is that it is cheaper because the portions are smaller. I don't understand what they are smoking with the identical prices to the adult menu.
Casino el Camino was like $20 for a burger and fries without tip. It was good, but that’s ridiculously expensive. I can get a Sweet & Spicy Bacon Burger at Whataburger for half the price and it’s just as filling (double patty and bacon).
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)
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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's weird seeing so many people defending these prices. Their arguments are all I'm getting scammed like this at other places so therefore it's not a scam here. Y'all paying $14 for a Smashburger with no sides y'all getting fucking scammed and shouldn't be paying for it anywhere.
"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.
First of all, yes, those look like shit. Brown gravy? Square flat bricks that I assume are meant to be biscuits? Just awful.
But, an over easy or sunny side up egg is always a welcome addition to biscuits and gravy. That's the only thing they got right.
I really don't get how people screw up the gravy so badly. It's just sausage crumbles in a pan, coated with flour once the fat has rendered (melted) a bit, then adding milk or cream and pepper to your desired consistency and taste respectively. Simmer and add spices until it looks good. Maybe add some minced sage if the sausage doesn't have it already. If you're not starting your gravy recipe for biscuits and gravy with sausage, you're doing it wrong and should be ashamed. It doesn't come from a box. It's not white as a sheet and devoid of spice or flavor. It's not vegetarian. It's not gluten free. It's also not brown gravy, which is made entirely differently using fond to give it the brown color.
The biscuits are no better. Even Bisquick biscuits from a box would turn out better for most people than these depressing bricks.
The hot dog is a little expensive but considering prices in LA these days, most of these prices are actually pretty reasonable. LA is a very high cost of living place now. Wages are far higher than almost anywhere else on the planet.
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.
Ridiculous prices? This is pretty much normal in my area, which isn't one of the most expensive places in the country. Boring ass menu though
Damn. Poor USians. Y’all are getting scammed for shitty food 😭
Yes, we are.
This guy’s hot dogs probably aren’t even $13.
I was about to say the same, but then realized that none of the entrees include fries. $14 for a burger and fries is not unexpected at your average sports bar, but without fries for a plain Jane burger? I don’t know what the market is like in LA …
But $12 for four strips of bacon is outrageous, and $5 for this cookie is a slap in the face
The hot dog says "served with fried potatoes" at least. If the burger doesn't come with fries that's criminal. How can you serve a burger without fries
LA varies widely in food prices (I visit 2-3x a year). The overall vibe I can distill it down to is that these are competitive with small restaurants with no big name recognition or premium ingredients. UOVO pasta? 30-40$/serving. Some no name poke restaurant next to a Ralph’s? 15$ for a whole ass bowl of raw fish fresh from the fish market.
LA is the land of Star fuckers, where name recognition and vanity are above all else. If you stay away from the star fuckers, food there is actually affordable compared to the cost of living.
Yeah prices look normal to me expect for the children's menu. The point of a kid's menu is that it is cheaper because the portions are smaller. I don't understand what they are smoking with the identical prices to the adult menu.
It’s because fries are extra on the adult menu
Yeah, most hipster burger places charge more, TBH. In Austin the standard price for a burger is now $16 without sides.
Casino el Camino was like $20 for a burger and fries without tip. It was good, but that’s ridiculously expensive. I can get a Sweet & Spicy Bacon Burger at Whataburger for half the price and it’s just as filling (double patty and bacon).
The Jackalope actually has reasonable burger prices if you’re downtown. Like $5-6 for the basic ones
https://www.tesla.com/tesla-diner
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)
Its a diner menu. He opened a Friendly's. The menu is standard diner options. Prices are also standard market prices.
You could, I don’t know, google it:
https://yelp.to/2Q6tjlNPzz
"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.
Electric sauce!
Re𝕏taurant
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.
The kids grilled cheese (which is literally just bread and American cheese) is also $13
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 adult grilled cheese is cheaper!
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 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.
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.
The Boring Restaurant
Remarkably unremarkable
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.
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.
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!
He still doesn't understand who his base is...
No one who wants organic food or can pay those prices likes Musk still
Does he even have a base anymore? Who hasn't he pissed off?
And of course he's got Martin's on there. Fucking TACO lackey BS.
https://www.knowtheceo.org/news/buns-guns-amp-insurrection-the-story-of-martins-potato-rolls
Sigh. I had a sinking feeling when it kept mentioning them. Another thing to go on the list to avoid buying
It's weird seeing so many people defending these prices. Their arguments are all I'm getting scammed like this at other places so therefore it's not a scam here. Y'all paying $14 for a Smashburger with no sides y'all getting fucking scammed and shouldn't be paying for it anywhere.
4 strips of bacon for $12 is the really crazy one to me idk. It's also weird asf that the burger doesn't come with fries but the kids burger does.
I'm seeing the parking lot as a cybertruck meetup, lol
Might be why he’s doing it. Those sad acts would go for this.
They should be fucking arrested for wasting Wagyu beef in a chili.
Da fuck is New School American Cheese?
Neoliberal cheese. It takes all the milk from the cow and leaves nothing left.
Makes you wonder if the ovens will explode like his cars and rockets
He really doesn't hire graphic designers, does he?
Even Grok could have done better than that.
Why is the kid's grilled cheese $4 more than the adult one? Just because they cut the crust?
Maybe?
"It's one banana, Michael. What could it cost? Ten dollars?"
One day very soon she is going to be wrong, but only because that price is too low.
You have to be dumber than a bag of rocks to be a fanboy of a corporate douche. They're mostly tolerable at best.
"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.
"Excuse me waiter, from which minority do you source these meats?"
How long till it burns down?
How do you fuck up biscuits and gravy? The name is the ingredients.
Literally looks like shit:
First of all, yes, those look like shit. Brown gravy? Square flat bricks that I assume are meant to be biscuits? Just awful.
But, an over easy or sunny side up egg is always a welcome addition to biscuits and gravy. That's the only thing they got right.
I really don't get how people screw up the gravy so badly. It's just sausage crumbles in a pan, coated with flour once the fat has rendered (melted) a bit, then adding milk or cream and pepper to your desired consistency and taste respectively. Simmer and add spices until it looks good. Maybe add some minced sage if the sausage doesn't have it already. If you're not starting your gravy recipe for biscuits and gravy with sausage, you're doing it wrong and should be ashamed. It doesn't come from a box. It's not white as a sheet and devoid of spice or flavor. It's not vegetarian. It's not gluten free. It's also not brown gravy, which is made entirely differently using fond to give it the brown color.
The biscuits are no better. Even Bisquick biscuits from a box would turn out better for most people than these depressing bricks.
Mildly concerning.
Is the 1/3 lb burger a reference to that time when people misunderstood fractions?
Not everything is a reference. I think they are indeed serving a burger that contains 1/3 lb of beef.
Both can be true though
Yeah, but that's less meat than a 1/4 lb'er...
No thanks! I feel like the Health Inspectors would fail that place...
(If muskrat and PEDOnald were still in love, I'd assume the health inspectors would be losing their jobs next)
I promise everything on that menu is like $10 overpriced.
$13 for a hot dog. Hot dog better be code for a fat blunt for $13
The hot dog is a little expensive but considering prices in LA these days, most of these prices are actually pretty reasonable. LA is a very high cost of living place now. Wages are far higher than almost anywhere else on the planet.
Can you still get a good $3 hot dog in NYC?
He stole Sonic's whole swag
Also, Epic Bacon? 😐
What! No polonium tea????
Fuck Elon, but man do I love all-day breakfast.
4 pieces of bacon is almost the same price as a burger?
Sounds about tesla
Tallow fried potatoes? Heart attack venue.
I thought he hated California now and packed up and moved everything to Texas. Anyway, it seems to be about as innovative as any of his other 'ideas'.
Ew. Couldn't stomach anything from him.
"Epic Bacon"
No 69s or 420s.
Not one vegan thing on the menu, he really has no idea who his market is lmao.