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Seattle Loves a Brand That Treats Its Workers Well
Seattle loves a brand that treats its workers well. It’s how Dick’s Drive-In, Costco, and Patagonia earned the kind of loyalty no marketing budget can buy. A new name deserves a spot in that club: Great State Burger.
With locations near the Amazon Spheres, T-Mobile Park, and now inside SeaTac’s newly renovated C Concourse, Great State has grown fast without losing what makes it worth the trip. Walk into any of them, and you notice it before you order: real smiles behind the counter and a room that lets you actually sit down and relax.
The last few years have been brutal on small businesses, and restaurants have taken the worst of it. Most have had to choose: raise prices, cut quality, or cut people. Great State Burger has sidestepped the trade-off, paying fair wages while refusing to compromise on ingredients.
We’ve all seen the mandatory service charge stacked onto a big bill, and in too many cases, that money never reaches the people who served you. Great State passes every tip through to its employees, and goes further with health insurance and paid vacation.
The food lives up to the same standard. Nearly everything is sourced locally, with beef from 100% pasture-raised, grass-fed Washington cattle, ground and patted in-house. That’s a $20 burger almost anywhere else in this city. Here, traditional burgers run $10 to $12.
Seattle has always rewarded the businesses that do right by their people. Dick’s built that allegiance over decades. Costco built an empire on it. Great State Burger is making the same bet, one location at a time, and doing it under some major economic obstacles for a small restaurant. That’s worth more than a good review; it’s worth your business.
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