Steak 'n Shake

Steak 'n Shake recently opened up to much fanfare outside the Letterman studio in Midtown, offering free burgers for a year for the first 150 customers. David Letterman announced that his show staff would camp out early to ensure free burgers for the entire Letterman crew. When I first heard about this, I thought Letterman should have to camp out in the cold himself to get free burgers for a year. Instead, he was going to make some intern stand outside for hours on end in the 30 degree weather, only to hand over his hard-earned burgers-for-a-year golden ticket to Mr. Letterman. The injustice.

Later, my husband informed me that Steak 'n Shake was wisely handing out 52 weekly coupons for steakburger/fries/shake combos to each person, and these could be divided between people if was so desired. Still, if I ever see Letterman show up at Steak 'n Shake wielding one of those free coupons, I will have to continue my cries of injustice. Wait, Letterman would never have to show up in person and stand in line to wait for a burger; he would just send one of his pages to do that. The injustice!!

Here we are, the proletariat, standing in a long line in cramped quarters with no seating, waiting for our gruel.

Here is the amazing soda dispenser, where, for example, after you click on Diet Coke, another swirl of icons appears displaying another 10 different flavors of Diet Coke. Amazing.

And here is my long-awaited burger. You can see the beautifully crisped burger, along with nicely toasted buns, and generous amounts of pickles, onions, tomatoes and lettuce.

The husband and I got 2 burgers, 2 fries and 1 vanilla shake. One original steakburger plus fries = the lovely suburban price of $3.99! As you can see, we were greedy and super-sized one of our fries.

After devouring our delicious burgers, fries and shake, my husband asked why I hadn't super-sized both fries. To which I responded, "I wasn't thinking right!"