(Long story of betrayaland disappointment)

So what in the world is up with MrBeast Burger??????

Labor Day 2025, I decide to treat my 11 year old grandson to something he has BEGGING me for all Summer.

A visit to MrBeast Burger.

My grandson is a great fan of Mr. Beast. He watches the YouTube videos and the Beast Games. While at Walmart, he pops up with a half dozen Feastable Chocolate Easter Eggs. He wants the Lunchly prepackaged lunch meals because it comes with a Feastable Chocolate Bar. He wants to go to MrBeast Burger.

I do my homework (apparently not well enough). I find one a hour and half away. Its in a little town. Kinda odd but somebody eanted to buy the franchise. I sign up for the site online. I get the directions. We depart Monday morning with him clueless as to surprise him.

We get to the address and I'm more surprised then him. It's a Huddle House.

I sit on the parking lot checking everything. I'm in the right place. I go inside wondering if Google Maps is wrong. No, I am in the right place.

The Huddle House has Mr Beast Burger burgers and fries in stock along with standard Huddle House food. You online order the food, they prepare it and you pick it up.

The sad confused look on my grandson's face when I explain why we drove 1.5 hours to a Huddle House said it all.

What is the difference between Huddle House burgers and MrBeast Burgers? The cost. You are paying Huddle House for the MrBeast Burger experience.

The kicker. They need 30 minutes head time to prepare the food. I'll wait. O, you can only sit down in Huddle House if you are eating their food. I have to wait in the car while it is prepared then "Leave the Property" to eat it. The manager was nice enough to point out a nice park in town.

I drove 1.5 hours to then be told I would have to wait in my car 30 more minutes to then drive to somewhere else to eat.

My grandson looked at me. "It's okay Grandpa. We have Huddle House at home. We don't need to order here."

I felt bad that he didn't get his Burger. We ate at a local diner with Excellent food, stooped by an arcade on the way home of a 1.5 hr drive.

I got online to dig deeper. Most MrBeast Burger locations on the website are partnered restaurant that stick the Mr Beast Burger items for online ordering. The nearest actual MrBeast Burger restaurant that I could identify is 5.5 hrs away.

This is something that needs to me made clear online. Actually, MrBeast Burger should just sell the products in frozen foods at the local grocery stores like White Castle and TGIF.

by desert33fox

9 Comments

  1. FreshlySkweezd

    It’s a ghost kitchen. They got really popular during covid, you can see them all over stuff like doordash. The applebees the next town over from me has 4-5 that run out of it

  2. StrayWalnut

    Hey man! So what you just experienced is something called a Ghost Kitchen. Ghost Kitchens are fake restaurants that only exist on online order apps like Uber Eats and DoorDash. Mr. Beast Burger is probably the most high profile of all the ghost kitchens. They did have a couple popup physical locations when they first launched, but they were only in like, major cities.

    I like to google the address of restaurants now just to see if the google results match before I waste my time.

    I’m sorry your grandson was disappointed that really sucks for little man, but it sounds like you made a great day out of it anyways!!

  3. I’m 47 so I don’t get the appeal of Mr Beast. Ive never understood the virtual restaurants either. He’s very popular though so I’m not knocking him by any means. But this whole experience sounds pretty rough. And if the burgers aren’t good either then what a debacle.

  4. TheDevil-YouKnow

    This is the new dystopia of branding. It’s just ghost kitchens. I run a restaurant that pushes our stuff, then two ghost kitchen brands as well.
    It’s just an easy way to make stuff that is delivery only, so the margins are favorable for the ghost kitchen.

    There’s no overhead for serving staff, there’s no complaints against your brand, it’s massively overpriced compared to the local stuff because of the delivery fees, additional base 3%GP up charge on whatever it is you’re ordering, etc.

    For the consumer that wants to enjoy the experience, atmosphere, and overall vibe, ghost kitchens are everything that’s wrong with the culinary world currently.

    For the eat at home via app delivery services, it’s a godsend, albeit a wildly overpriced one.

  5. chugItTwice

    This IS something everybody already knows. They’ve never been a standalone brick and mortar… always been a ghost kitchen. Great burgers IMO.

  6. Csharp27

    Consider yourself lucky you actually got to get a good meal out of the ordeal. MrBeast burgers usually range from just okay to completely inedible depending on what restaurant is actually making them, and they have essentially nothing to do with MrBeast himself at this point.
    The whole thing has really gone disastrously wrong for him, with the company running it just going wild across the world cashing in and banking on kids like your grandson begging their parents to buy it for them and serving up cheaply made expensive to buy garbage.

  7. Own-Efficiency-8597

    They have always been a ghost kitchen, and they have always sucked

  8. DrPolarBearMD

    And to this day I still don’t know what a MrBeast is. Really makes a 30something year old feel like a boomer.