hello everyone this is running on empty food review well hello ladies gentlemen and everyone
watching welcome one and all this is running on empty food review i'm your host the report of the
week thank you for tuning in and uh for being here in attendance present and accounted for
uh you know just getting right in i say this every single time too but you know and then
i'll say i mean it this time around and i'm gonna talk for 15 minutes anyway but let's
just pretend we're getting right into it um i am excited to try out this this uh newest item
it's not even a new item it's just a new place that i've never had before
shake shack now i've gotten lots of requests for uh shake shack you know over the years i think
gosh it's been a while you know lots of people they would always comment and even email and
write in they'd say could you review shake shack you know why haven't you tried them out etc and
this is one of those establishments you know kind of similar to in-n-out burger um what's the other
one jack-in-the-box and there's a couple others i want to try them out but there's just none near me
but over the last few years you know they've kind of been expanding new locations have been popping
up here and there and finally the day of reckoning has arrived and um finally i was able to get my
hands on shake shack and i'm looking forward to trying them out i've never had it before
this is going to be the first time i've ever had anything from them so what i wanted to do this
time around before just kind of diving in and you know trying out any new um releases so to speak
i just wanted to go ahead and you know just get like a little bit of a i would say a metaphorical
sampler meal you know get a burger some fries and a drink and uh well i'll make of it what i will
so today i'm going to be trying out for the main course the shack burger which seems to be like
their signature burger it's a cheeseburger it comes with lettuce tomato cheese and what
they call shack sauce so uh the price for that it's a little pricey nine dollars for a double
five dollars for a single i also just got some regular french fries and then i got a vanilla
shake so we've got the burger we've got the side we've got the drink and um i'll just you
know try out a little bit of each and we'll go from there here's the bag that it came in
i'll just hold this up in case i want to do anything with this
you can see the moped is still very very popular that's what the little caesars thing wrote in on
too and you could see this is interesting right we have i guess a sideways crescent moon a wave
of the ocean a hot dog and then a log so i don't know what that's supposed to symbolize but there's
just an interesting looking hieroglyphic so to speak inside my burger i would imagine is in there
and i imagine the cup with these protrusions emanating there from must be the fries
got some ketchup for the fries
and then my drink i've already i already have it on the side there
what i'm going to do just before i start well let me show you the burger first and
then i'll take a thumbnail i'll just show you everything real quick all right here's the fries
there we go it says it's go time and there's a good sideways view of the fries they look like
your crinkle cut fries i don't know how well the camera is picking it up but to me anyway
i can discern um that they that they appear to be salted pretty decently salted so there's the fries
and i know the camera is out of focus but that's all right
because i'm just going to be holding up a burger
momentarily
so that's the burger you can see that leafy lettuce
right there and we'll get a closer view of it it's like in its own little living quarters
you can see you know it looks like a standard you know like greasy cheeseburger so to speak
so to speak i guess that's my catchphrase these days
i know it it used to be you know but now i guess it's so to speak
all right what i'm just gonna do for the sake of a thumbnail you know the way it goes right
i'm just gonna set this stuff up and like this like i'm well that's gonna be actually a little
tougher than you think because it's you have these protrusions here i'll just hold up the burger
i'll even take it out of this and then we'll just try it out and
you know then we'll try out the fries and all of that stuff so i'll take it out of its wrapping
now here's a better view of it anyway there's the tomato there's the beef patty
and let's there's that sauce the shack sauce so that's what it looks like anyway i think
you're able to get a pretty clear view of it and you can see what it looks like
um what i'll do is i'll take a couple thumbnails here you know this will be the first one
holding it up and then this will be another one you know what i'll do i'll do one holding
both of them up i know you might say stop fussing over all this stuff but
you have to understand that the thumbnails are the most important part of the video really
i mean in terms of you know getting any sort of interest
wait this is yeah you're just getting it
right there and we'll just get one last one with me with the burger
so there you go i'll make something of it either way all right enough of this playing
around with it all let's just try it out the shack burger from shake shack going in
i should note that i got two patties on it
i will take one more bite
like i said i got the doubles this was a nine dollar burger
i must say it's enjoyable i i like it i really do it's a uh it's one of those burgers that you
know you get different types of fast food burgers some of them i think are more complex than others
um this is not necessarily a very complicated sandwich you know to the extent that
oh it's got this and this and this and this and this and you know it's served flaming or
some weird gimmick or something like that right you're just getting a basic burger you're getting
the patties lettuce tomato and the sauce and um of course you can customize it they're from but
this is just yeah i want to get the basic i like it obviously the the cornerstone of this um is the
meat itself that's the most important thing and i like it um one thing that really stands out to me
here is how juicy the patties are and i think that's really nice you know it's not like they're
raw or anything but they're just really juicy flavorful it's really teeming with flavor and i
like it um i you know the two patties are good but i think even if you got it with one patty
it would not be lacking in flavor any or anything it's like you're getting these you know dried out
little um you know tiny patties that just don't really taste like anything these are you know
you can see they have a decent thickness to them they're juicy very flavorful and um good quality
i would definitely say this is of the fast food burgers this is definitely one of the better ones
that i've had one interesting observation that i think some might like some might not you know
you could see that the bread is not very thick in terms of its size right but one thing that i do
notice is that it's dense in that even though there's not a lot of bread um you know you kind
of notice you're chewing it a little bit some of it kind of gets stuck to your teeth afterward um
but there's not so much to the point that it gets in the way of anything you get a nice leafy piece
of lettuce real crisp um you could definitely taste the freshness on it and the tomato the same
applies to that it's not the thickest tomato in the world but i think what's there um it's still
pretty flavorful so overall now you might notice i'm not really talking about the shack sauce
so forgetting about that i would just say it's a pretty decent burger overall but in regards to the
shack sauce or they give it a fancy name you know like it's the shack sauce it's the signature sauce
of the establishment i didn't really notice it all that much it's kind of like a glorified
mayonnaise not quite but it just doesn't really have too much flavor of its own
i think it just adds a little bit of moisture to you know an already juicy burger
but it doesn't really get in the way of things it's not like that you know the hero from arby's
that i tried in the last video where it was just disgusting with how much moisture there was
it's not like that at all it's fine but just don't expect like the the shack sauce to have everything
so out of 10 what am i going to rate the shack burger from shake shack out
of 10 i'm going to give it a 9 out of 10. um i enjoy it again a little pricey but honestly
i think it's good quality tastes good and i really i don't have any complaints about it
it's definitely a 9. um again one of the better burgers i've had
um it is reminiscent a little bit of this one regional chain called muya um but truth be told
i think it's better than that but it's just it's just a good quality burger i would say and uh
i have a feeling most folks who get it would enjoy it again here's those fries we already uh
showed you so i'll just try one out real quick there it is kind of like an accordion you know
a little musical accompaniment for the feast so i'll try it out real quick
they're unremarkable
not really too much needs to be said about them just basic french fries basic
you know crinkle cut fries they're not overly flavorful it's not like they're underly
flavorful either but they're just absolutely basic and unremarkable it's like one of those
things that you can get as a side it's not the main attraction it's not the main course
get it if you want and i think if you omit them it's not really like you're going to lose anything
of value like some places it's like oh you know you got to get the fries etc um i wouldn't say so
in this case they're just average um i wouldn't say they're necessarily worth the three bucks
um decent for what they are but nothing to nothing to really you know rave about so out of ten um
you know i would give these like a 6.5 out of 10. they're okay not the best and not the worst kind
of somewhere in the middle there finally the vanilla shake um this was a six dollar shake
and um if you can kind of see in the top right there
well actually you can't so let's try to avert disaster
you can see enough of it looks pretty creamy and um
we'll just try it out so let's take a couple sips real quick very malty i would say
goes down easy it's real smooth very sweet the vanilla has more of like a synthetic
um characteristic to it but again it's sweet uh creamy and it goes down smooth again it's
not overly it's more of you know more liquid than it is viscous or anything it's just you
know it's more like you're just drinking it down it's not like it's glorified ice cream or anything
um i don't really have a problem with it again some people might say the vanilla in it just
tastes a little bit artificial but again it doesn't bother me um you know the cup isn't
that big but it's wide you know it's a pretty wide cup so it still has a decent serving size i'd say
and again similar to how the fries are i think it's okay for what it is definitely nothing to
rave about um but if you want a shake you know i think you know you might enjoy it
um despite the name calling this shake shack i'd say the burger is the main star here
the shake again it's okay nothing crazy about it but decent overall um so again i think i'd rate it
a little higher than the fries i'd give it around a seven out of ten um pretty decent again the
whole meal is decent burger is the best followed by the shake followed by the fries a friend got um
was it the strawberry shake they said they couldn't really taste the strawberries as much but
in the vanilla one i mean i could i could make out that vanilla again a little synthetic but it
was definitely there you know you could tell what you were drinking so all things considered shake
shack burger i really enjoyed it i'll probably be back again for more of the the burgers definitely
i don't know if i'll get it with the fries but you know maybe a shake too and maybe some
fries we'll see but i'm glad i was able to try this out i was really looking forward to this
and especially that burger i was not let down by it so uh now i'm gonna i'm gonna feast on it
some more and that's the assessment of shake shack now thumbs up i'd say i enjoyed it and i hope you
enjoyed the review thank you for watching everyone take care i'm your host the report of the week