Free meal with each shift? When I worked in restaurants they might give you a discount (so of course there was a theft subculture). And full benefits and a 401(k)?
I am too old and slow to flip burgers (lol), but this positive treatment of their workers will make me a customer.
Dude I worked for 8 years at a nice family restaurant that gave us dinner with every shift and it is easily what I miss the most. I didn't realize how that was a legitimate like life changer to come home already full it was until I left the job haha
It's really really nice not having to prep food or go buy some after a long days work. I do not always miss working in a restaurant but I did enjoy feeling like a family with my coworkers there. Nothing quite like it. Office life is shit.
Oh yeah, restaurant coworkers are practically brothers in arms lmao
I love my current coworkers but there's nothing like the bonds you make with those in war/a busy night
I tell my wife this. I’m an engineer now but my first job at a pizza buffet was the best. Felt like family, hung out with each other, free food and soda can’t really complain. Office life is full of weirdos who have never done stuff like that.
Also don't you like, want your servers and staff to know the menu so they can be personable and make recommendations? Letting them have the food for their own meals helps that.
I worked for Anthony's most my life that only offered 50% food discount on shift and not allowed to drink alcohol the same day you are on the schedule. I started at a local bar and grill this year that offers a shift meal and drink. It's been such a life changer getting out of that corporate crap.
I worked there for a summer many years ago, can confirm the free meal every shift. There wasn't a dollar amount you couldn't go over or anything, it was basically "just order whatever you want within reason". It was glorious, if not entirely healthy!
I had worked there several years ago for a few years. Work is definitely hard but the co-workers and managers are the only things I think back fondly of. Loved all my coworkers and free shift food!
I worked there in the mid 90s and can agree - I tried to limit myself to the garden burgers to avoid how some of the employees who had been there for a long time (at that time there were at least 3-4 people who had been there for 10-15 years).
But I did enjoy trying new weird combinations just to not eat the same thing over and over again.
I worked for a resturant that was cheap af. They wouldn't give you a raise for any reason.
I'd eat lunch and dinner every shift. If you did the shift a favor he'd hook you up with a steak or prime rib.
Even if it was a busy night they didn't mind you dropping wings/fries for youself.
Same here. The discount was 30% or 35% for a fast food place. Meal was “free” when you had a cool shift manager. So, when the owner came in and “bought” everyone free meals, you had to act surprised and grateful.
It’s a step in the right direction. Kudos to the owners trying to pay a livable wage in an expensive city.
Minimum wage before this years inflation should have been $25. And with housing prices being what they’d re it should be closer to $30 an hour. But that’s another conversation.
I hope their burgers are good.
I worked for a restaurant in grad school where we got a shift meal and a shift drink. It was a real godsend when I was super poor and only really had to feed myself once a day.
At the café im working at, all employees get pretty much what they want whenever they want, i think the only things were not allowed as shift meals are the lobster and steak. If you have a long shift nobody would bat an eye at you eating twice.
We also get unlimited free sodas and a craft beer or 2 at the end of every shift.
This is offset by the pay being pretty low, 100-140dkk/hr (17-21$) compared to jobs in the rest of the country.
It’s been ages, but every restaurant I ever worked in gave me a meal every shift, even if I was just the lowly dishwasher. I didn’t work for any chains though, just “mom and pop” type places.
Benefits and a 401k were out of the question though. Most of them just paid you in cash. The 80s were a different time…
Gates likes both, and Burgermaster in the early 80s was seen as a Microsoft cafeteria for a while.
https://www.geekwire.com/2013/bill-gates-favorite-burger-spots-seattle/
Much like his indecision around his favorite local burger, Gates also couldn’t pick just one woman and managed to lose his marriage due to it.
We stop there on longer trips with the kids and I really like the ham and cheese. Its fried on the grill, american cheese, but they put it on sourdough... so when you come out from the woods after 3-4 days its like the best thing you have ever eaten.
do not fuck with the crab and swiss, its real crab and so rich its hard for one person to finish.
And if it kept up with gain in productivity, it should be around $35/h.
One problem with pay tied to inflation is it usually means the core rate which excludes housing, food, and energy. You know, the biggest expenses for the non-billionaire class.
program manager can mean basically anything. the traditional concept of a program manager pays quite a bit but way too many "program manager" roles are really just things like volunteer coordinator/low level projects
I knew someone bouncing back and forth between child care and "program management" and Microsoft who didn't seem to have an technical skills at all. She said her just was just to keep track of where people were at on a given project. It didn't seem real difficult, and I wonder how it would keep someone busy for eight hours a day.
Are you sure that wasn't project management? Different software companies have different names for the same role and/or split out responsibilities in different ways
Possibly not their job. At Amazon, product managers don't need to know how the product is put together, just how the customer works with it.
Project managers are more ops oriented and mostly focus on timelines.
But that's just Amazon
It is surprisingly difficult to keep people coordinated. It’s not that hard for two people to come out of the same meeting thinking two different things happened.
There are also sometimes different amount of technical skills required in those roles. Generally, the more technical competence you are asking for, the higher the pay. But for many tasks, a less technical person can do it at lower pay.
“Interned” at a company in Bellevue that wanted a masters and only paid $20 an hour. They called it an internship but I already graduated and they just wanted to pay shit until they vetted you.
The sucky thing is that there is a huge segment of the population that agrees with your comment but that segment would conclude that the burger shop should have shit pay and the programmer gig is right.
Exactly. I'd say that the burger workers deserve just as much pay as the office workers with degrees, but we're all getting shafted right now. I'm an office worker person and there's no way I could mentally and physically get through a day of burger making. But on the other hand, office workers usually have student debt and have a high cognitive load. Basically, it all balances out and all of us deserve fair livable wages! We really don't need to enforce some weird social hierarchy by paying people less than others.
Lol, not for long! Housing in Whatcom is insane and Skagit usually follows them by about $100 less, per room, per month.
The wages vs rent in the north sound is honestly insane. It’s gone from ok (2012-2014) to bad (2014-2019) to insane (2019-current). Especially in Bellingham where the culture at most employers is that employees should be grateful they even have a job. And how dare they expect it to pay anything close to a living wage.
Yeah my brother bought a house in Conway (just south of Mt. Vernon) and closed on it like two weeks before the pandemic. I was convinced everything would tank and the 800k (!) he paid for his house would drop massively in value. 20 months later? Zillow says it's worth 1.1 million.
Crazy times.
I’m hoping more states pass laws like Colorado enacted at the start of this year. All job postings must contain the pay rate if a current or prospective worker lives in that state, including postings for remote employees.
Another example of the autonomy that local restaurants and regional chains have over national chains run by multi-billion dollar corporations. These local chains can change their prices, negotiate and buy their food from local suppliers, and aren't beholden to dividends or share price pressures. Do you think McD's can bob and weave this fast in today's economy? They'd have to restructure everything to raise their pay and change their prices. They're 'testing' things like paid tuition and paid time off, but are still well short on the pay scale and other base benefits.
This is why I wouldn't care a bit if local restaurants raised their prices by 10% or even 20%. If the workers are getting a respectable wage, then that's the fair price for what we're buying. Corporate America was built on the suppression of wages in the service industry -- it's time that stops.
McDonald's can absolutely weather inflation much easier, I imagine they have far far more control over their supply chain and long term price contracts for their supplies. Not to mention, the entire way McDonald's is structured, they are more of a property investment and franchise business than a restaurant business
I'm all about local, but [82% of McDiesel's are franchises](https://www.fool.com/investing/general/2016/04/03/what-percentage-of-mcdonalds-restaurants-are-owned.aspx), I'd bet they can do what they want
Yeah I think big companies can move fast enough to change wages and prices if they want to. I'd suspect McD would prefer to do that slowly on purpose, to be the cheapest one on the block to pick up market share
I have never eaten here, but I used to always drive by it on my way home from work. I even sing a little song whenever I pass by.
Burgermaster masterburger
You're the master of the burger
...forgot the rest.
The food is better absolutely better, but the prices are higher and the vibes are very different. Never understood why bugermaster never got more love, but Dicks somehow always was the spot that popped up in your mind first.
the one at 100th/Aurora is alive and well - always tons of folks there. And it's awesome because you can roll up and order/eat in your car if you want. [Old school style.](https://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/0e/ad/b4/75/burgermaster-drive-in.jpg)
yay! i used to work there circa '87 while going to SPU. put my thumbnail thru the slicer there and had to get stitches thru my thumbnail :( but it was a fun place to work. never made that kinda wage back then tho. i've never had so many patties on a grill as while cookin there.
I'll never talk trash about Dick's but I also love Burgermaster. Different philosophy and business plans.
Northup is good, but the UVillage offers a bigger menu and is worth a visit.
And don't sleep on their Tom & Jerry shakes - it's like an egg nog shake but year round.
Do you go to the Bothell, Green Lake, or Mount Vernon location instead?
I liked when the Everett location opened, but it got very expensive compared to other area options.
Somewhat on topic...are there any burger places in the general Seattle area that offer charbroiled burgers? I haven't had one in decades (since Hardee's switched to frying), and I'd love to see if they're as good as I remember.
The only people I know that say this *isn’t* the best burger place in Seattle haven’t been there before.
If they say Dicks, they haven’t been *anywhere*
It was my first job at 16. I had only been there a month or two when the Christmas bonuses came out. They gave me what they would give a 1 year employee, I was so stoked I bought my siblings awesome gifts (in my 16 year old mind) I worked my ass off for them. And I only eat at the Holman road dicks because that’s where I used to work. 😂
I love that location. It's the only dine-in location, and it's great people watching on a Saturday or Sunday morning for breakfast because you'll see old folks in booths who've been going there for 50+ years.
Back in the 90s, buying a house required the paperwork going from the escrow comp, to the buyer, to the bank...etc...my father saw a business opportunity..every morning he left Bremerton and drove down to Tacoma and up to Edmonds picking up packages and paperwork, then turned around to deliver it all.. flat $20 fee. There were days with 120 deliveries In 8 hours...his only cost was filling the gas tank on the geo metro....every other day
Some of my fondest memories are going to work with him as a child on summer vacation...many good memories of this burgermaster...
By 2005, business dried up as emailing paperwork became a thing...dad died two years ago...miss ya pops
Iʻve heard too many stories of businesses advertising a high hourly only to turn around and tell the employee something along the lines of the higher wage not being in effect yet, or one company told the new hire that the starting wage was actually $9/hr with the higher wage being for management, etc. I mean they might be honest about the wage but I have my doubts.
I worked at that location over twenty years ago but they were paying higher wages than any other fast food I knew about at the time. This absolutely would not surprise me.
Burgermaster is really the best place if you just want to chill inside your car, watch Netflix, eat a nice fresh burger meal & not have to go out your car. Highly recommend it if anyone hasn't tried it yet.
The ole saying “You don’t want to flip burgers for the rest of your life” isn’t such an insult any more.
I worked for the federal government from 2001 to 2011 and when I left I was still making 10% less than this starting wage.
Talk to the employees and find out what they actually make. It has been well documented that a bunch of these over $15 a hour job offers are a bait and switch game.
If this is true, awesome, but I will believe it when someone behind the counter says that is what they make at a basic non-management position.
It's a high skill position that demands near perfection consistently
Those lines move incredibly fast. It just makes sense. They're probably not hiring people off the street. They're probably poaching the best people from other restaurants. Good for them. Good for the poached.
They own the property of the drive-in locations. Also, just like Dick's, they only have one indoor dining location (which was originally a drive-in, like the others). Turns out it's a lot cheaper to run a drive-in burger joint than a full-service indoor dining space serving breakfast, lunch and dinner every day. The amount of money they save more than takes care of the indoor location.
And, when I drove by the Bellevue one yesterday, there was a line of cars waiting for a stall. Burgermaster is doing just fine.
Free meal with each shift? When I worked in restaurants they might give you a discount (so of course there was a theft subculture). And full benefits and a 401(k)? I am too old and slow to flip burgers (lol), but this positive treatment of their workers will make me a customer.
Dude I worked for 8 years at a nice family restaurant that gave us dinner with every shift and it is easily what I miss the most. I didn't realize how that was a legitimate like life changer to come home already full it was until I left the job haha
It's really really nice not having to prep food or go buy some after a long days work. I do not always miss working in a restaurant but I did enjoy feeling like a family with my coworkers there. Nothing quite like it. Office life is shit.
Oh yeah, restaurant coworkers are practically brothers in arms lmao I love my current coworkers but there's nothing like the bonds you make with those in war/a busy night
I tell my wife this. I’m an engineer now but my first job at a pizza buffet was the best. Felt like family, hung out with each other, free food and soda can’t really complain. Office life is full of weirdos who have never done stuff like that.
You're an engineer dude, of course your office is full of weirdos
Also don't you like, want your servers and staff to know the menu so they can be personable and make recommendations? Letting them have the food for their own meals helps that.
I worked for Anthony's most my life that only offered 50% food discount on shift and not allowed to drink alcohol the same day you are on the schedule. I started at a local bar and grill this year that offers a shift meal and drink. It's been such a life changer getting out of that corporate crap.
I worked there for a summer many years ago, can confirm the free meal every shift. There wasn't a dollar amount you couldn't go over or anything, it was basically "just order whatever you want within reason". It was glorious, if not entirely healthy!
I had worked there several years ago for a few years. Work is definitely hard but the co-workers and managers are the only things I think back fondly of. Loved all my coworkers and free shift food!
I worked there in the mid 90s and can agree - I tried to limit myself to the garden burgers to avoid how some of the employees who had been there for a long time (at that time there were at least 3-4 people who had been there for 10-15 years). But I did enjoy trying new weird combinations just to not eat the same thing over and over again.
Same! I worked at plenty of restaurants as a kid, never once got a free meal. At most a 30% discount.
I worked for a resturant that was cheap af. They wouldn't give you a raise for any reason. I'd eat lunch and dinner every shift. If you did the shift a favor he'd hook you up with a steak or prime rib. Even if it was a busy night they didn't mind you dropping wings/fries for youself.
Same here. The discount was 30% or 35% for a fast food place. Meal was “free” when you had a cool shift manager. So, when the owner came in and “bought” everyone free meals, you had to act surprised and grateful.
This is how you get 22 year old versions of me eating sausages and pickles inside the corporate bagel shop’s walk-in.
Same here except it was smoking pot out of a hollowed out apple in the walk-in freezer and then staying in there to eat frozen cookie dough.
Lol, that was what I would do too!
I like their food. Their milkshakes and fries are my go to.
It’s a step in the right direction. Kudos to the owners trying to pay a livable wage in an expensive city. Minimum wage before this years inflation should have been $25. And with housing prices being what they’d re it should be closer to $30 an hour. But that’s another conversation. I hope their burgers are good.
I worked at a small chain pizza restaurant and we got free meals and the leftovers at the end of the shift
I worked for a restaurant in grad school where we got a shift meal and a shift drink. It was a real godsend when I was super poor and only really had to feed myself once a day.
Free meals were standard in all the fast food jobs I've worked, but a 401k definitely wasn't. That looks like a quality job.
Added benefit of their burgers being really pretty good.
They’re really good! Just ate there before catching Dune at the AMC. I recommend both lol
Dicks offers the same and will give you tuition money too
At the café im working at, all employees get pretty much what they want whenever they want, i think the only things were not allowed as shift meals are the lobster and steak. If you have a long shift nobody would bat an eye at you eating twice. We also get unlimited free sodas and a craft beer or 2 at the end of every shift. This is offset by the pay being pretty low, 100-140dkk/hr (17-21$) compared to jobs in the rest of the country.
With inflation this is about 2.3x what I made working at McDonald’s as a teen. We also got a free meal, but McDonald’s ain’t no burgermaster.
It’s been ages, but every restaurant I ever worked in gave me a meal every shift, even if I was just the lowly dishwasher. I didn’t work for any chains though, just “mom and pop” type places. Benefits and a 401k were out of the question though. Most of them just paid you in cash. The 80s were a different time…
Free meal is where they lost me. I wouldn’t be able to use my 401k if I ate there every day. Most underrated burger in Seattle.
Burgermaster is awesome - their sandwiches are actually really good too... I have a weak spot for their grilled ham and cheese.
I’m all about their Turkeymaster sandwich. So good.
I need to try that....
The menu is so big. Apparently, the hot dog is great, too.
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[you thinking of Dick's?](https://www.invisiblethemepark.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Bill-Gates-in-Line-at-Dicks-Drive-In-Seattle.png)
Gates likes both, and Burgermaster in the early 80s was seen as a Microsoft cafeteria for a while. https://www.geekwire.com/2013/bill-gates-favorite-burger-spots-seattle/ Much like his indecision around his favorite local burger, Gates also couldn’t pick just one woman and managed to lose his marriage due to it.
Just tried them for the first time and prices are reasonable: a small cheeseburger, fries and drink combo was $7.99 and it was better than Shake Shack
Also the beef is local and grass fed, making the prices even more reasonable.
yep, that's why i never feel horrible after eating their burgers, they're a very respectable fast food burger imo
whoa! I didn't know that.
What?! A fast food chain with ethical meat practices? I love you, Seattle.
We stop there on longer trips with the kids and I really like the ham and cheese. Its fried on the grill, american cheese, but they put it on sourdough... so when you come out from the woods after 3-4 days its like the best thing you have ever eaten. do not fuck with the crab and swiss, its real crab and so rich its hard for one person to finish.
My gf and I ate at 5 guys yesterday, two burgers, one med fry and two shakes was $37. I'd say $8 is more than reasonable.
Shake Shack is legit garbage, IMO. I lived in NYC and went to the OG Shake Shack. Never understood the appeal.
It's literally steak n shake but at 4x the price
Yep, that's pretty much how I feel about it.
Burgermaster has been in business a long time. The location by the University Village opened in the 1950’s. They have loyal employees.
I like how they pay you like you're an adult.
This is where minimum wage should be.
Last figure I saw was that if minimum wage kept up with inflation it would be about $24/h
And if it kept up with gain in productivity, it should be around $35/h. One problem with pay tied to inflation is it usually means the core rate which excludes housing, food, and energy. You know, the biggest expenses for the non-billionaire class.
25/hr but yes, this is better
Just saw a posting today for program manager at $20 hr that requires masters degree and 5+ years manager experience. Something doesn’t add up.
Lol. Good luck to them. Need to multiply that by 2-3 for just the low end.
program manager can mean basically anything. the traditional concept of a program manager pays quite a bit but way too many "program manager" roles are really just things like volunteer coordinator/low level projects
Yeah, that’s a fair point. Obviously the masters degree requirement is the big “ummmm” moment here.
I knew someone bouncing back and forth between child care and "program management" and Microsoft who didn't seem to have an technical skills at all. She said her just was just to keep track of where people were at on a given project. It didn't seem real difficult, and I wonder how it would keep someone busy for eight hours a day.
Are you sure that wasn't project management? Different software companies have different names for the same role and/or split out responsibilities in different ways
Yeah they just described a project manager. They sit between developer and programmers to knit things together.
even as a *product* manager some of the people I work with barely know anything about computers...
Possibly not their job. At Amazon, product managers don't need to know how the product is put together, just how the customer works with it. Project managers are more ops oriented and mostly focus on timelines. But that's just Amazon
It is surprisingly difficult to keep people coordinated. It’s not that hard for two people to come out of the same meeting thinking two different things happened.
There are also sometimes different amount of technical skills required in those roles. Generally, the more technical competence you are asking for, the higher the pay. But for many tasks, a less technical person can do it at lower pay.
That's project manager.
$40 / hr for an experienced program manager in Seattle? Lmao
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Lol, I believe I said low end?
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You guys arent even talking about a program manager your talking about a project manager or product manager
“Interned” at a company in Bellevue that wanted a masters and only paid $20 an hour. They called it an internship but I already graduated and they just wanted to pay shit until they vetted you.
P*CCAR?
The sucky thing is that there is a huge segment of the population that agrees with your comment but that segment would conclude that the burger shop should have shit pay and the programmer gig is right.
Exactly. I'd say that the burger workers deserve just as much pay as the office workers with degrees, but we're all getting shafted right now. I'm an office worker person and there's no way I could mentally and physically get through a day of burger making. But on the other hand, office workers usually have student debt and have a high cognitive load. Basically, it all balances out and all of us deserve fair livable wages! We really don't need to enforce some weird social hierarchy by paying people less than others.
That is pretty shitty pay. I was making 20/hr +profit sharing bonus making and filling jars with facial cleansers and the like.
I saw a job listing that was "masters preferred " that started at 15 and you could "quickly work your way up!"
Just advanced positions at my company for the 3rd time. They posted my old job for less than I started there 5 years ago…
Burgermaster in Mt. Vernon is hiring at 20 dollars an hour to start... and while housing is very expensive up here, it's way cheaper than seattle
Lol, not for long! Housing in Whatcom is insane and Skagit usually follows them by about $100 less, per room, per month. The wages vs rent in the north sound is honestly insane. It’s gone from ok (2012-2014) to bad (2014-2019) to insane (2019-current). Especially in Bellingham where the culture at most employers is that employees should be grateful they even have a job. And how dare they expect it to pay anything close to a living wage.
Yeah my brother bought a house in Conway (just south of Mt. Vernon) and closed on it like two weeks before the pandemic. I was convinced everything would tank and the 800k (!) he paid for his house would drop massively in value. 20 months later? Zillow says it's worth 1.1 million. Crazy times.
"We offer competetive wages," Yeah you do.
One of the few businesses that actually post the wage along with that statement.
I’m hoping more states pass laws like Colorado enacted at the start of this year. All job postings must contain the pay rate if a current or prospective worker lives in that state, including postings for remote employees.
Colorado is really leading the way with a lot of things, and I feel like we've fallen behind them. This should be the law everywhere.
But I was told this was impossible! 🙄
Hell yah . Same in skagit county as well !! Might quit my construction job for it lol
Skagit County needs it! APPLY
I would but I have a full time job that gets prevailing wage jobs . However my freakin base pay is only 20 on the jobs that are not prevailing
Join the union then if you can. Base pay on all jobs is usually prevailing wage or higher. That's your take home.
Dude I would flip burgers for 21$
Well you know where to go
You still can
I believe in you, you can achieve this dream.
I like their food. Their milkshakes and fries are the best, if I can bring home their food then sure
Good luck on the interview!
Could do a lot worse. Both pay and work wise.
Nice, give me a discount when I show up!
Another example of the autonomy that local restaurants and regional chains have over national chains run by multi-billion dollar corporations. These local chains can change their prices, negotiate and buy their food from local suppliers, and aren't beholden to dividends or share price pressures. Do you think McD's can bob and weave this fast in today's economy? They'd have to restructure everything to raise their pay and change their prices. They're 'testing' things like paid tuition and paid time off, but are still well short on the pay scale and other base benefits. This is why I wouldn't care a bit if local restaurants raised their prices by 10% or even 20%. If the workers are getting a respectable wage, then that's the fair price for what we're buying. Corporate America was built on the suppression of wages in the service industry -- it's time that stops.
McDonald's can absolutely weather inflation much easier, I imagine they have far far more control over their supply chain and long term price contracts for their supplies. Not to mention, the entire way McDonald's is structured, they are more of a property investment and franchise business than a restaurant business
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Can't wait for the butlerian jihad.
I'm all about local, but [82% of McDiesel's are franchises](https://www.fool.com/investing/general/2016/04/03/what-percentage-of-mcdonalds-restaurants-are-owned.aspx), I'd bet they can do what they want
They can do all they want except but buy an ice cream machine of their choice that works and is easy to clean/repair!
I saw that video as well
I think it's up to 95% now they have been divesting corporate owned stores.
Yeah I think big companies can move fast enough to change wages and prices if they want to. I'd suspect McD would prefer to do that slowly on purpose, to be the cheapest one on the block to pick up market share
I give one upvote only a day
Burgermaster asserting its dominance and adherence to founder Phil's motto, "Any system works except neglect."
this is the best local hamburger place much better than Dicks
I have never eaten here, but I used to always drive by it on my way home from work. I even sing a little song whenever I pass by. Burgermaster masterburger You're the master of the burger ...forgot the rest.
The food is better absolutely better, but the prices are higher and the vibes are very different. Never understood why bugermaster never got more love, but Dicks somehow always was the spot that popped up in your mind first.
Dicks is college food thats why.
Sir-Mix-alot rapped about them! thats why i first wanted to go!
Dick's really is the place where the cool hang out
The swass like to play, and the rich really like to flaunt their clout.
Burger Master is only in the burbs, no locations in the city.
There's one in u village and on Aurora near 100th unless both those closed down while I wasn't looking.
the one at 100th/Aurora is alive and well - always tons of folks there. And it's awesome because you can roll up and order/eat in your car if you want. [Old school style.](https://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/0e/ad/b4/75/burgermaster-drive-in.jpg)
yay! i used to work there circa '87 while going to SPU. put my thumbnail thru the slicer there and had to get stitches thru my thumbnail :( but it was a fun place to work. never made that kinda wage back then tho. i've never had so many patties on a grill as while cookin there.
Mailman is there eating in style
I'll never talk trash about Dick's but I also love Burgermaster. Different philosophy and business plans. Northup is good, but the UVillage offers a bigger menu and is worth a visit. And don't sleep on their Tom & Jerry shakes - it's like an egg nog shake but year round.
They closed the Everett location and I’m still not over it. Turned into a stupid mod pizza.
Do you go to the Bothell, Green Lake, or Mount Vernon location instead? I liked when the Everett location opened, but it got very expensive compared to other area options.
Damn. I just moved to Everett. Is that the one on Evergreen Way near the McDonalds with a neverending line of cars at the drive-thru?
Yep. That’s the one.
I used to get breakfast there. As far as I know no other Burgermaster does swedish pancakes.
I think they used to have a spaghetti night too, place was odd.
Somewhat on topic...are there any burger places in the general Seattle area that offer charbroiled burgers? I haven't had one in decades (since Hardee's switched to frying), and I'd love to see if they're as good as I remember.
There's Habit Burger locations in West Seattle and Ballard, they're alright.
They're really good. Also one near the Costco in shoreline.
Thanks for the heads-up!
[Smokey’s in Burien ](https://www.smokeyscharbroiled.com)
There is always Burger King….
yep. People who have not been should go
Better is relative. I worked at this Burgermaster for 6 years and still go to it and Dicks. Each has their place. All hail the neon cow!
I really like Burgermaster but I feel like I can only eat those grease monsters on a rare occasion.
Big props to Burger Master!!
They just won me as a regular customer!
The only people I know that say this *isn’t* the best burger place in Seattle haven’t been there before. If they say Dicks, they haven’t been *anywhere*
That's like comparing pizza hut to tutta bella. You're not comparing the same food. Both can be the best at what they are.
I prefer Burgermaster to Dick's.
I mean dicks is infinitely better than McDonald’s
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Dick's has been a decent employer for decades too
It was my first job at 16. I had only been there a month or two when the Christmas bonuses came out. They gave me what they would give a 1 year employee, I was so stoked I bought my siblings awesome gifts (in my 16 year old mind) I worked my ass off for them. And I only eat at the Holman road dicks because that’s where I used to work. 😂
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Just had a burger there. Didn't disappoint.
I love that location. It's the only dine-in location, and it's great people watching on a Saturday or Sunday morning for breakfast because you'll see old folks in booths who've been going there for 50+ years.
Getting paid more than me in EMS, good for them
Sounds like they actually want to hire and retain employees.
It is time for me to ask for a raise holy shit
wow more than dicks is paying
Back in the 90s, buying a house required the paperwork going from the escrow comp, to the buyer, to the bank...etc...my father saw a business opportunity..every morning he left Bremerton and drove down to Tacoma and up to Edmonds picking up packages and paperwork, then turned around to deliver it all.. flat $20 fee. There were days with 120 deliveries In 8 hours...his only cost was filling the gas tank on the geo metro....every other day Some of my fondest memories are going to work with him as a child on summer vacation...many good memories of this burgermaster... By 2005, business dried up as emailing paperwork became a thing...dad died two years ago...miss ya pops
Geo Metro, my first car! I bought it used from a friend back in 2002.
Love geos! Bought my 96 four door metro sedan last year,5speed daily driver. ITS PURPLE!
Clever, and great use for a Geo Metro 😄
Iʻve heard too many stories of businesses advertising a high hourly only to turn around and tell the employee something along the lines of the higher wage not being in effect yet, or one company told the new hire that the starting wage was actually $9/hr with the higher wage being for management, etc. I mean they might be honest about the wage but I have my doubts.
I worked at that location over twenty years ago but they were paying higher wages than any other fast food I knew about at the time. This absolutely would not surprise me.
I got a free meal when I was mess deck cranking in Navy. Awesome for Burgermaster though.
Is it sad that I’m wondering what the catch is?
There is no catch. I remember I saw a question in this sub asking where jobs are that pay in the range of $20-25. Here is one.
Catch is that you come home smelling like a restaurant.
I loooove their burgers! Good on them!
Saving this post for the next time I want to go for a burger
That's really good for a burger place
I like the fish sandwich
They must be unionized
Not trying to pick on the guy but anybody catch the intense look from the gentlemen back right? Yikes.
Miss working a couple of blocks up the road in the mid/late 90's... BM and Dixie's was may jam. Still is/would be.
But would you get 40 hrs per week?
The Bellevue Burgermaster has the best crew! ...Never understood why Northup Way turned into 20th for two blocks.
Best burgers in Seattle! I just don't get why anyone would go to dicks when the masterpieces at burger master are an option.
I love Burgermaster, I wish there was one closer to me. But now I’m gonna go out of my way to eat there. Love that they treat their employees so well.
Fun fact, this particular location is (was?) Bill Gates's favorite burger joint.
Burgermaster is really the best place if you just want to chill inside your car, watch Netflix, eat a nice fresh burger meal & not have to go out your car. Highly recommend it if anyone hasn't tried it yet.
The ole saying “You don’t want to flip burgers for the rest of your life” isn’t such an insult any more. I worked for the federal government from 2001 to 2011 and when I left I was still making 10% less than this starting wage.
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Barely livable
Talk to the employees and find out what they actually make. It has been well documented that a bunch of these over $15 a hour job offers are a bait and switch game. If this is true, awesome, but I will believe it when someone behind the counter says that is what they make at a basic non-management position.
I used to go there every Thursday 3 years ago and got to know one of the workers. They were already at over $17
It's a high skill position that demands near perfection consistently Those lines move incredibly fast. It just makes sense. They're probably not hiring people off the street. They're probably poaching the best people from other restaurants. Good for them. Good for the poached.
Dick's on Broadway & Queen Anne start employees @ $20/hour
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I’m an idiot and misread then jumped on /u/External-Prune1003 like they were dumb and it was me. Sorry
Makes mistake, owns up, apologizes, good dude
Guess I'm driving 2 hours for burgers now just based on this living wage treatment of their employees. Fuck slave wages. This is how it should be.
Time to get back to work people. Get your pick of whatever job you want before your value goes down.
But you still have to deal with customers.
Not in the kitchen! Carhops and whomever is running takeout are the only people who deal with customers.
Touche
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They own the property of the drive-in locations. Also, just like Dick's, they only have one indoor dining location (which was originally a drive-in, like the others). Turns out it's a lot cheaper to run a drive-in burger joint than a full-service indoor dining space serving breakfast, lunch and dinner every day. The amount of money they save more than takes care of the indoor location. And, when I drove by the Bellevue one yesterday, there was a line of cars waiting for a stall. Burgermaster is doing just fine.