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# American B Burger at Lola's Chicken Shack
- URL: https://onesandwich.com/alameda-lola-s-chicken-shack-american-b-burger/
- Published: 2026-10-03T05:05:06.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-03T05:05:06.000Z
- Description: Grilled chicken patty, special sauce, cheddar cheese, honey cured bacon, red onion, lettuce, tomato on toasted bun. Sandwich Score 84, excellent. At Lola's Chicken Shack, Alameda.
- Author: Andrew Lekashman
- Tags: USA, California, #shop-sandwich, #auto-imported

A burger at [Lola's Chicken Shack](https://onesandwich.com/alameda-lola-s-chicken-shack/), a sandwich shop in Alameda, California.

Burger BunTomatoLettuceOnionBaconCheddar CheeseChickenBurger Bun

**84**

Sandwich Score  
out of 100 · excellent

Excellent. Small moves left on the board.

Reads as a club, five of six roles on the board.

**Holding the summit:** better ingredients (quality 0.80 or better)

Balance

87

Harmony

96

Contrast

100

Structure

98

Focus

100

Composition

99

Quality

78

Envelope

100

Each bar is one pillar of the score, 0 to 100\. The tick marks what a sandwich at the summit needs; an amber bar is the one holding this sandwich back.

**toasted bun**, toasted: grilled chicken patty; special sauce; cheddar cheese; honey cured bacon; red onion; lettuce; tomato.

## Balance

salt1.8 · 81stacid0.5 · 48thfat2.4 · 59thsweet0.5 · 63rdumami2.3 · 85thheat0.1 · 50thbitter0.1 · 55th

__Flavor axes__
| Axis   | Value | Catalog percentile |
| ------ | ----- | ------------------ |
| salt   | 1.8   | 81st               |
| acid   | 0.5   | 48th               |
| fat    | 2.4   | 59th               |
| sweet  | 0.5   | 63rd               |
| umami  | 2.3   | 85th               |
| heat   | 0.1   | 50th               |
| bitter | 0.1   | 55th               |

**88** Balance, out of 100

The seven flavor axes of the whole sandwich, each summed across its layers. The shaded ring is the catalog's middle 80%; the small number under each axis is where this sandwich falls in the catalog. A shape that sits inside the ring is in the range most sandwiches live in; a spike past it is where this one stands apart.

## What each layer brings

| Layer                                      | Role    | Flavor and texture                      | Points     |
| ------------------------------------------ | ------- | --------------------------------------- | ---------- |
| toasted bun (low tier)scored as Burger Bun | bread   | sweet 2 soft springy                    | the frame  |
| grilled chicken pattyscored as Chicken     | protein | umami 3 fat 2 juicy chewy tender        | **−1**     |
| special sauce                              |         |                                         | not scored |
| cheddar cheese                             | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 3 soft gooey melty   | **+1**     |
| honey cured baconscored as Bacon           | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 3 crispy chewy       | **+1**     |
| red onionscored as Onion                   | texture | sweet 2 crunchy juicy fresh             | **+2**     |
| lettuce                                    | texture | crunchy juicy fresh                     | **+1**     |
| tomato                                     | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh | **+16**    |

Points: what the Sandwich Score would lose if that one layer were left out, everything else the same. A negative number means the sandwich scores higher without it. Flavor runs 0 to 5 on each axis.

## Pairings

- **Chicken + Bacon**: chicken club logic: smoke on a lean bird
- **Cheddar Cheese + Bacon**: bacon cheddar: smoke and sharp, burger law
- **Cheddar Cheese + Onion**: cheddar and onion, the ploughman's pair
- **Cheddar Cheese + Tomato**: grilled cheese and tomato, the lunch pair
- **Bacon + Lettuce**: cool crunch against hot smoke
- **Bacon + Tomato**: smoke against sweet acid, the blt core

## How to raise it

Commodity bread (burger bun): nothing on the board changes that, and 90 is closed.

[All the sandwiches at Lola's Chicken Shack](https://onesandwich.com/alameda-lola-s-chicken-shack/) · [The menu this was read from](https://lolaschickenshack.com/menu?ref=onesandwich.com) · [Build your own in the Sandwich Builder](https://onesandwich.com/builder/)

Menu read 2026-09; items and prices change. The score is the site's opinion of the recipe as listed, not a review of the shop; tiers and house-made marks follow the menu's own wording.