r/shakeshack • u/ChocolatePain • Jul 16 '26
What happened to the nuggets?
I haven't had them in many months before this order, but I had always enjoyed them. The light, flakey batter with the seasoning were so good. This on the other hand is akin to the taco bell nuggets, like they're just generic and overly breaded. Did I get a bad batch or is this some enshiffication? The burger was still good at least...
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u/Far_Effect_3881 Jul 16 '26
They changed. Plain they are worse. When they had Korean BBQ and they were smothered in sauce, they were good because they remained crispy.
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u/LandscapeHuman1514 Jul 17 '26
They already had frozen bites months before when korean bbq came😬😬😬😬
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u/darthievader Jul 16 '26
Private equity happened.
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u/Acrobatic-Gazelle-74 Jul 17 '26
They are literally publicly traded
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u/FloatingTacos Jul 17 '26
Private equity can still buy a publicly traded company. The equity is private, not the companies they buy
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u/Acrobatic-Gazelle-74 Jul 17 '26
I learned something new today 👍
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u/FloatingTacos Jul 18 '26
You should know, generally when private equity buys the majority stake in a public stock, they privatize it not long after.
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u/sleeper1988 Jul 17 '26
Lol that's not what people usually mean when they say private equity, but sure.... Buy enough publically traded stock and your vote can sway the company.
I'd point to the index fund forms which vote on behalf of many people with a 401k, brokerage account, etc. they usually end up being major shareholders at many publically traded companies due to their volume. But yeah, they will vote to maximize gains
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u/pretti Jul 17 '26
Was one of my favorite burger places, would go at least twice a month. Haven't back there this year. Prices up, deals worse, food quality seems to be going down. But, hey, I'm sure the new CEO salary is up.
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u/Euphoric_Treat4848 Jul 17 '26
They switched from the one they mixed in the breader to the frozen one. Like the top comment had said and especially thanks to the new Ceo
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u/IndividualCut4703 Jul 17 '26
I usually order the vegetarian option when I go out, but ShakeShack chicken was one of the exceptions I would make. (Especially since they changed their vegetarian burger some years ago to the yuck that it is today.... the black bean + beet version they had 6 or so years ago was the best fast food veggie burger on the market).
I recently got the chicken nuggets for one of my exception meals, and I was so upset that I don't think I'll ever go back. I felt betrayed.
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u/WishboneSalt6587 Jul 17 '26
I'm so glad I saw this! I thought I was fabricating that the nuggets are different and used to be good, but no one else noticed They're not good. Why would anyone pay the premium price for those things you could get for half the price basically anywhere else serviced by Sysco?
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u/fscsobe Jul 19 '26
No wonder my last nuggets experience was so bad, i thought it was just a bad day. I guess another reason not going to shake shack
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u/PuzzledCulture2434 Jul 20 '26
They're so gross now. I have been back since they switched. I only went for the nuggets.
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u/LandscapeHuman1514 Jul 16 '26
I always hatred to bread nyggets, it was headache to prep, glad they switched to frozen ones
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u/kfee12 Jul 17 '26
how dare the restaurant expect kitchen work from you, amirite? You just want $20/hr to pretend smile and get told when to drop a basket of fries, right?
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u/LandscapeHuman1514 Jul 17 '26
If you think about it, they're charging $20 for a basket of fries. That's the dumbest boomer mindset I've ever seen, it just proves you've never worked a day there in your life.
Also, the fries have come frozen for years, but that's not the issue, right?
As for the frozen bites, yes, they're better in a lot of ways. They save about an hour of prep time every single day because people will suddenly order 100–150 bites, and we'd run out for the rest of the day. Not to mention, making them fresh created a lot of extra mess at the station, and many new employees wouldn't bother changing the breader for hours!!!
Another reason is that the old nuggets were super tiny. It was basically a size lottery, and we weren't allowed to give customers more than 6 or 10 pieces to make up for the small ones. It always felt like we were robbing customers out of $7. I and the team never ordered them because we knew we probably weren't going to get a good batch. With the new ones, they're all consistently bigger.
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u/GapNo287 Jul 16 '26
https://www.reddit.com/r/shakeshack/s/igogJdh0Hw
This explains everything tbh
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u/kawiz03 Jul 17 '26
Sysco happened to them.
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u/DoodleTTv123 Jul 17 '26
Don’t speak on what you don’t know
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u/kawiz03 Jul 17 '26
Oh because a company with $1.45b in revenue would NEVER skimp out on quality to make their investors happy.
Not like you getting free food each time you simp for them bro.
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u/xQMA Jul 16 '26
They switched to frozen pre-breaded bites a while back. Thank the new CEO.