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| - Well...I'll give ya this much. The beef is good and the fries arent too bad either. If I were basing my review solely on this, it would be a 4 and a half. But sadly, this "One dollar sign" price logo is incorrect. If you saw a fast food place that showed two dollar signs you would wonder why, so they surely arent going to let that happen...but this is no cheap lunch, and if overpaying for a beef combo is "Chicago style", than I will stop telling people where I am from.
There isnt a person wearing a Bears jersey out there that isnt going to tell you that a beef needs sweet and hot peppers and needs to be extra juicy. I know people that will laugh at you if you dont do any of these things. But here, your base lunch sandwich is $6.85! Then any one of those three things (sweet peppers, hot peppers or au jus) will cost you an extra .65! So you are looking at over 8 bucks for a standard size beef sandwich before you add on fries and I really dont know anybody who doesnt order fries with their lunch. By the time I was done with the smallest fries and the smallest drink available, I was staring at a $13 bill for lunch. If I had brought a date with me I would be looking at a $26, 10 minute lunch. And my credit card receipt at the counter where I order and go back to get my order when its done shows a line for a tip. Are you guys nuts?
The place does good business though it seems, so I may be the minority in feeling the pain in the pricing. Its just that a fellow really should have some idea that this is no cheap lunch before he walks in this place...thats why I am writing this.
If money is no object and you are craving a real Chicago beef...I think you will be happy with Lukes. But I truly need to draw the line at their "Chicago style" mentality when a working class guy in Chicago couldnt afford to come here for lunch. If you want a suggestion guys... In Chicago, what I paid for the sandwich (once again, over $8), would have been a combo having a fries and a coke too. The average Joe cannot drop $13 for an average lunch. Either change your dollar signs to two $$ or do your best to offer a fair deal to a lunchtime crowd. At least I wish you would! It was a good sandwich! But not a $13 lunch.
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