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It's interesting to hear how prices are so different in other parts of the world.
Where I live, which is considered low cost of living for the USA, $10USD is about what it would cost to buy a pound (roughly 0.5 kg) of the lowest grade hamburger and a pack of generic potato buns at the lowest cost store around. That wouldn't be enough to make a bunch of burgers unless they were slider size and it wouldn't cover the cost of all the other extras (veggies, cheese, condiments) that I'd need to be able to approximate a burger from a place like Five Guys.
Granted, I could do much better for myself for much less than $80 (assuming we're talking about $80USD for a family of 3 - 5). But there are some advantages to not having to do the shopping, the prep work, and the clean-up. I could see doing this every once in a while as a special occasion thing, but then I haven't eaten at Five Guys in over a decade, and I don't know if their food has declined in quality as much as pretty much all the other fast food places.