Dec 18, 2024 - Food and Drink

This Des Moines restaurant serves $1 burgers

Linh Ta

A burger on a tray next to a side of fries — A $1 burger from Chelsie's Courtyard Diner. Photo: Courtesy of Eric Burson

Even McDonald's doesn't have a deal as good as this local restaurant now serving a "buck burger" every Thursday evening.

Driving the news: Chelsie's Courtyard Diner opened in the 300mlk building earlier this year after its owner, Chelsie Lyons, was forced to close Players Sports Bar & Grill in Beaverdale.

The city is realigning the intersection at Beaver Avenue and 41st Street and used eminent domain to acquire the 14-year-old sports bar to be able to do it.

State of play: Lyons brought her weekly specialties to her new downtown spot, including the original "buck burger," which hasn't increased in price since she first opened Players.

What it is: A quarter-pound hamburger for $1. You can add lettuce, tomato, onion and pickles for 50 cents, and cheese for 50 cents.

A side of fries is $3.25.

What they're saying: "They actually cost me more than $1 to do, but I say it's one of the cheapest forms of advertisement I've ever found," Lyons tells Axios.

"With it being a new location and everything, definitely people still need to find out that I'm here."

If you go: The burger deal is on Thursdays, dine-in only, from 4-9pm; 300 W. Martin Luther King Jr. Pkwy., #170, Des Moines

Open 11am-10pm, Sunday-Thursday; 11am-midnight, Friday-Saturday

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