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Twitter Poll Results: Who Waits an Hour for First-Day Tastes at Shake Shack?

February 24, 2017, 6:13 PM by  Alan Stamm

The salted vanilla toffee shake must be tasty, we figure. Likewise the Shack Stack double burger.

We assume they're dee-lish because we don't wait in around-the-block lines just to be an opening day patron, whether it's at Shake Shack, Wahlburgers, Calexico or Nike. The wares will taste, fit and cost the same after the Day 1 crowds.

But that's crazy talk to lots of people, as Thursday's jammed Shake Shake debut confirms. The day-long line makes us wonder who's so eager to wait nearly an hour, maybe more, to buy grub from a national chain's newest store during its first hours.

So we posted a playful Twitter poll inviting theories guesses cheap shots about who lined up. (Yes, it's garnished with house-made snarky sauce, including a swipe at our country's tweeter-in-chief.)

Thanks to the more than 120 readers who voted. May all your fast-food burgers be large on flavor and small on waiting time just to get inside.

Here's the outcome, with millennials -- an always-popular target -- being the most popular guess about who stood behind the crowd-control barriers at the First National Building on Woodward Avenue downtown:

A couple of readers think our four whimsical choices are too narrow:



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