Photo: Hardee'sBacon Cheese Thickburger
The middle ground between the Original and the Monster: one thick Angus patty with bacon and melted cheese. It has enough indulgence to feel like a treat without the Monster’s sheer size. For most people this is the Thickburger that actually hits the spot.
The story
The Bacon Cheese Thickburger belongs to the family that rescued Hardee’s in the 2000s. In April 2003 the chain, run by CKE’s Andrew Puzder, scrapped its cheap, crowded burger menu and rebuilt it around thick Angus patties of up to two-thirds of a pound. The strategy was to sell indulgence openly rather than apologise for it, and it peaked in November 2004 with the Monster Thickburger and its 1,400-plus calories. The bacon cheeseburger was the everyday version of that idea, and it lives on in today’s charbroiled line.
What’s inside
Make it at home
There is no copycat of the Bacon Cheese Thickburger yet. Until there is, these recipes on the site come closest to it, judged by what goes into the bun.
- Shares beef, bacon and cheese
Peter’s Triple Bacon Burger - Shares beef, bacon and cheese
Cheeseburger Wellington - Shares beef, bacon and cheese
Jelly Doughnut Burger - Shares beef, bacon and cheese
Elvis Luther Burger
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About Hardee's
Wilber Hardee opened his first restaurant in Greenville, North Carolina, in 1960, and Hardee’s became a Southern institution largely thanks to something it started making in 1977: biscuits made from scratch every morning. In 1997 it was bought by the company behind Carl’s Jr., so the two chains share a star logo and several burgers, but Hardee’s has kept its own, more family-friendly personality.
Across the American Southeast and Midwest, plus hundreds of restaurants in the Middle East and Asia.
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