The sky's the limit when it comes to new venues for your favorite restaurants.
24.12.2024 - 00:57 / thepointsguy.com
Can a cheeseburger on an airplane ever be as good as one on the ground? Or will it only ever be "pretty good, for something on an airplane"?
Even as inflight meals have largely vanished from domestic coach, they've remained fixtures up in first class (at least, on longer flights). While the menus have varied over the years, there are a few frequent standbys, including a surprising one: the humble hamburger.
While you might think a burger would get soggy or gross, it actually works fairly well on a plane, as long as you don't expect to get it medium-rare.
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Most of the prep and cooking for inflight meals is done on the ground, while dishes are heated on the plane in specialized convection ovens before they're served. It's easy to heat a burger patty in those ovens, and even if they get a little more thoroughly cooked than one would prefer on the ground, a well-done burger works better than an overcooked steak.
That's especially true for "smash burger"-style burgers like Shake Shack's, in which the patty is pressed down on a very hot griddle, searing the outside and keeping the inside juicy while making the burger thinner and fully cooked through.
That's probably what Delta Air Lines had in mind when it decided to offer Shake Shake's famous burgers as a meal option on board. In what the airline dubbed a "first-of-its-kind" collaboration, the airline began offering Shake Shack-branded entrees in first class this month on flights over 900 miles departing from Boston Logan International Airport (BOS). It plans to expand the partnership to other airports throughout 2025.
As TPG's resident "beef in the sky" beat reporter (seriously — it's sort of my thing) who happens to be based in Boston, I was assigned to hop on a flight to see whether Delta and Shake Shack can actually pull this off, or whether the marketing push is all filler with no meat.
I booked a one-way ticket to Denver International Airport (DEN) via Minneapolis–St. Paul International Airport (MSP), since I had to get to a United hub for a different assignment. I made sure that the flight was long enough to have the full meal service in first class — BOS-MSP comes in at 1,124 miles, according to Great Circle Mapper — late enough in the day that I could be sure that lunch would be offered, rather than breakfast.
There's one crucial detail to keep in mind if you're hoping to get the Shake Shack burger on your next flight: It's only available if you order it in advance. This was a detail that I'd seen in the press release but forgotten about. I was checking my reservation in the Delta app when I noticed the option to order my meal and decided to do that,
The sky's the limit when it comes to new venues for your favorite restaurants.
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