{"id":8933,"date":"2013-03-10T11:01:03","date_gmt":"2013-03-10T18:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/?p=8933"},"modified":"2013-03-10T11:01:03","modified_gmt":"2013-03-10T18:01:03","slug":"nationwide-smashburger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=8933","title":{"rendered":"Nationwide &#8211; Smashburger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rolled into Smashburger, my first visit.\u00a0\u00a0 The Smash started in 2007 in Denver, by fast food vet\u00a0 Tom Ryan, who did stints at Pizza Hut, Quiznos, and McDonalds.\u00a0\u00a0 His wiki bio gives him credit for introducing the thin crust pizza at the \u2018Hut, and for McGriddles and McFlurry at the golden arches.<\/p>\n<p>Named for the cooking process, whereby a ball of ground beef is placed on the griddle and smashed to \u2018seal in the juices\u2019,\u00a0 the Smash\u00a0 had over 100 locations in 2011, aided by a heavy infusion of venture capital.<\/p>\n<p>The menu offers burgers, chicken, hot dogs, and salads, with a wide variety of toppings to compliment your burger, some gratis, others at a small charge.<\/p>\n<p>There are different types of fries and sides available as well.<\/p>\n<p>I went with the medium (1\/3 pound) burger, on a pretzel roll, with mustard, pickle, blue cheese, and onion straws.\u00a0 Took a side of rosemary\/garlic fries on the side.<\/p>\n<p>The burger truly is excellent for fast food, and the toppings are premium quality.\u00a0 The fries are crispy shoestrings, and the additional flavoring was fairly subtle.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/smashburger.com\/locations\/\">Locator<\/a> for your nearest \u00a0Smashburger.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s\u00a0the \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/smashburger.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Updated-Menu-For-Website.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">their menu<\/a>\u00a0.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8934\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8934\" style=\"width: 267px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/smash2.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8934\" src=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/smash2.png\" alt=\"Smashburger on Pretzel\" width=\"267\" height=\"448\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8934\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Smash w\/ Blue Cheese<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rolled into Smashburger, my first visit.\u00a0\u00a0 The Smash started in 2007 in Denver, by fast food vet\u00a0 Tom Ryan, who did stints at Pizza Hut, Quiznos, and McDonalds.\u00a0\u00a0 His wiki bio gives him credit for introducing the thin crust pizza at the \u2018Hut, and for McGriddles and McFlurry at the golden arches. Named for the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=8933\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nationwide &#8211; Smashburger<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,16],"tags":[900,1343,1685,3233],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8933"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}