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This assumes that Five Guys is in direct competition with those other chains and that people are directly comparing prices when choosing where to eat. People are not the perfect rational actors economists like to pretend they are, and they tend to make assumptions about prices and have personal preferences (e.g. the last time I went to BK it was so bad you would have to pay me to go back).


I'm just saying, there's generally fast-food competition in burgers pretty much everywhere in the US.

The fact that a bunch of McD's franchises in Arizona are owned by the same person doesn't explain a lack of competition.




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